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Google Contacts issue

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Hello,

I have a problem with my contacts and the ideal thing would be to disable the Samsung contacts on my Samsung phone and only use Google Contacts but I don't know how to do it!

I have far too many contacts and only want a fraction of them to appear on my phone and it used to be wonderful because I had a Google group called "phone". I used to click on that and only those would come into view.

Now they have altered it all and I can choose "all contacts" only. That means I get Skype/WhatsApp/Facebook and everyone I have ever sent an email to in my whole life!

I have an A6 phone.

Can anyone help me?

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  • Neil49
    Neil49 Posts: 3,360 Forumite
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    If you go into Contacts and select Groups you should find your Gmail and Samsung groups listed separately. My Samsung list is empty so I don't know what you do after that. Hopefully this may be of some help.

    To merge the same people into one contact you select one of them, select i (Details) and then select Manage Linked Contacts. This allows you to link a number of similar contacts down to 1.

    As a last resort just Google, Merging duplicate phone contacts on Samsung galaxy A6 and watch the videos.

    Best of luck.
  • I have sorted it out now! I went into the systems apps and found contacts storage (different from contacts) and played around with that - could not tell you what I did but it worked.
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