If you have recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S20 or Galaxy S20+ Plus, and then imported your SIM card with contact information, duplicate numbers may exist. It’s easy to delete duplicate contacts from both the Samsung Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20+ Plus. You don’t need to spend money on expensive apps to remove duplicate Galaxy S20 contacts. The whole process of deleting Galaxy S20 duplicate contacts takes only a few seconds. Here’s a guide to help you find, merge and delete duplicate contact on Samsung Galaxy S20 or Galaxy S20+ Plus.
Your Samsung Galaxy’s duplicate contacts are caused by multiple email accounts being connected to it. All contacts get saved on your phone and this results in duplicate contacts. To fix the problem you can merge them both. This will keep the contact in your personal and work email addresses.
How To Remove Duplicate Contacts
Without the need for a computer, you can search, merge and delete contacts from your Galaxy S20/S20+ Plus. You can edit your contacts in Gmail if your contacts are badly damaged. This is how to delete duplicate contacts from the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20+ Plus.
- Turn on the Galaxy S20 or Galaxy S20+.
- Go to the Contacts App
- You can browse your contacts until the contacts that you are looking for merge or link with appear.
- Choose the contact that you want to merge.
- Look for the area that says Connected via. Click on the link icon to your right.
- Next, select Link another Contact.
- Click on the contact you wish to link, then tap again.
Clean Up Galaxy S20 & Galaxy S20+ Plus Contacts Faster
The built-in clean-up contacts tool can be used on the Samsung Galaxy S20 or Galaxy S20+ Plus. This is how you can identify similar contacts on these phones to merge or clean up your contacts.
- Turn on the Galaxy S20 or Galaxy S20+.
- Go to the Contacts App.
- Click on the three menu icons in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Click on Link Contacts.
Once you’ve selected Link Contacts, a list will appear where you can sort the contacts by name, email address, or phone number. To link contacts, you can tap on them. Once you’ve selected the contacts you wish to merge, click on Done. You will then be able to remove duplicate contacts from Galaxy S20 or Galaxy S20+ Plus.