How to delete duplicate contacts in Gmail

With the transition of users of regular mobile phones to smartphones, many now face a problem with duplicate contacts in the phonebook of the mobile, as part of the agenda with online services and care that were recorded in the chip. The purpose of this post is to explain how to delete duplicate contacts in Gmail, easily and quickly, and thus end the duplicity also on your smartphone.

Before we armazenávamos contacts on-chip cell phone, garantíamos as soon as the contacts book was migrated to another cell if we decide to change device. With the growth in sales of smartphone handsets and ease of hiring data packets to mobile Internet access, the natural evolution was to utilize online services contact management integrated into the unit.

Google already has an administration service Contact Directory, fully integrated with Gmail, what Google Contatos. With this service you can have the address book of all your acquaintances, with name, phone, e-mail, address, anniversary date, name and other information you want less orthodox, it lets you create custom fields and also has a generic field notes where you also put any information.

Step-by-step how to delete duplicate contacts in Gmail

There are two ways for you to remove duplicate contacts. The first is similar marking contacts and asking for Google Contacts merge the information. The second feature is using the automatically locate duplicate. Explain each one below:

Merging contacts manually

This tip is to be used when you already know what the contacts are duplicated. Do you have a friend named Fulando-so da Silva and he is registered with “Fulano da Silva” as well as “Fulano Sicrano”. That when they sign up to be “Fulano House”, “Fulano Cell”, “Bakery-so”. The people are creative!

1. First you must access the Google Contatos;
2. Search for the contact name that you know is duplicated;
3. Select the duplicate results;
4. In the middle of the screen has a button called “But”. Click on it and then on the option “Merge contacts”;
5. Soon, Now you will see a screen with all the information of the two merged contacts. If you want to delete any information that you know is no longer relevant, make at this time, but know that now there is only a single contact with all such information. Legal few!?

Finding and merging duplicate contacts

Now imagine if you have more than 300 contacts in your phonebook (my case) and do not know very well who is duplicated! Google thought of that and created a feature to facilitate this process.

1. First you must access the Google Contatos;
2. In the middle of the screen has a button called “But”. Click on it and then on the option “Find and merge duplicates…”;
3. You will see a list of possible duplicate contacts;
4. Select those that are duplicate and click “Mix”.

Always check that the contacts shown belong to the same people duplicate. It is always good to check before leaving without merging criteria.