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Joining contacts
When you add an account, Contacts attempts to avoid duplication by joining any new
contact information with existing contacts under a single entry. You can also join
contacts manually.
Contacts on the web also offers a powerful tool for consolidating duplicate contacts,
with the
Find & merge duplicates
command in the
More actions
menu (see
Contacts on the web for more information).
Join contacts
1 Open your contacts or favorites.
2 Touch the contact entry to which you want to add information.
This is the contact you will see in Contacts after the join.
3 Press Menu and touch
Edit contact
.
4 Press Menu and touch
Join
.
Likely contacts are displayed at the top of the screen. You can touch Show all
contacts to pick a contact from your full list of contacts.
5 Touch the contact whose information you want to join with the first contact.
The information from the second contact is added to the first contact, and the
second contact is no longer displayed in the Contacts list.
See “Editing contact details” on page 117 for details about how to view where a
contact’s information came from, including automatic and manually joined
Touch the contact whose information
you want to join.