Step 1: Open the People app
To begin with, you’ll need to open your contacts list . On most phones and tablets — including stock Android — it has a name like “People” or “Contacts.” Alternatively, you could go into an individual contact (like Nick or Gary) and then tap his/her profile picture in order to access a more complete list of their contacts. This is our recommended strategy if you have only one person whose link(s) you wish to change (due to Facebook’s 200 contacts per page restrictions).
Step 2: Select a contact link
To begin with, you’ll want to select the contact link (the blue line) that links your two friends. His/her name will be at the top of both columns; select that row. If you’ve already chosen which account you wish to unlink, then click Delete . Otherwise, notice that there are two Facebook accounts right now (we don’t have a Google+ one yet). There’s no harm in deleting the first one (unless your friend really wants to be linked with you on Facebook, or vice versa).
Step 3: Delete the link
Once you’ve selected a contact link (or multiple links), start by tapping the top-right three-dot menu. In this case, we’re going to choose Delete Link . It’s just like uninstalling an application from Android. Yes, it will remove all of these connections; now both of our accounts are unlinked on our phone. We can add them later if we so desire. If you are using Facebook for authentication, then the People app might helpfully try to recover the connection for you (despite what we’ve done above). If it does, then click Ignore .
Step 4: Identify your Google account
Now that you’ve successfully unlinked two contacts on Android , go to one of them — in this case Gary — and again touch his/her contact photo. You’ll notice a new link at the bottom of their profile picture; it lets you view their Google+ profile. If you have more than one Google account enabled for your device, then there will be a drop-down menu where you can choose which one to go through.
To clean up your contacts, go to “People” tab and touch the options menu. Touch “Manage contacts”, then click on the bottommost entry called “Linked Contacts”. To remove a specific contact from all linked accounts (this applies to those who appear in more than one of your email services), use the second option on this page that says “Deselect All”. Thanks Julie!
Open the app and tap on Find Duplicates. The app will then scan your contacts list. Tap Delete Duplicates, and any duplicated or similar contacts in your contacts will be removed automatically.
To avoid duplicates, make sure your phone is syncing contacts from one account and set the contact app to only show contacts from that source.
Sometimes, when you factory reset a device and then sync your contacts, the phone will create two or more copies of each contact.
On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app. Select an option.A single contact: Tap the contact. At the top right, tap More Delete Contact.Multiple contacts: Touch and hold a contact and then tap the other contacts Selected Choose Deleted All from touch screen to delete selected email addresses or phone numbersAll contacts: At the top right, tap More Select all Delete Contact .
with the Google ” SyncG Cont”acts logo and Sync. Select ” Calendar. Sync Account”. Tap “Disable Sync Contacts and Calendar”, then tap both options labeled “Sync contacts and calendar”.
There are a few possible explanations for this. One possibility is that you and your husband are both using the same Google account to store your contacts. Another possibility is that you have enabled syncing of your contacts between your devices. To check if this is the case, open the Settings app on your iPhone and go to General > Contacts > Accounts.
If you have a contact that is set as “read-only,” you cannot edit the information for that contact. To change this, you will need to remove the “read-only” designation.To do this, open the contact and click on the “more” option. Then, select “edit.” You should now be able to make changes to the contact information.
If you have a contact that is set as “read-only,” you cannot edit the information for that contact. To change this, you will need to remove the “read-only” designation.To do this, open the contact and click on the “more” option. Then, select “edit.” You should now be able to make changes to the contact information.
A linked contact is a contact that has been imported into your address book from another source, such as a social networking site.
