Subject: Thousands of duplicate contacts on iPhone 16 Pro Max. Best way to clean up?
I am using an iPhone 16 Pro Max and recently updated to iOS 27. For more than 10 years, I have maintained contacts in both iCloud and Gmail, across multiple iPhones from iPhone 5 onwards.
My Contacts app is now heavily duplicated. The same contact appears 6-7 times in some cases.
Current counts:
- All Contacts: 12,507
- Gmail: 3,396
- iCloud: 9,164
I would like to remove all duplicate, triplicate and multiple entries and end up with one clean contact list.
What is the safest and most effective way to do this? Should I maintain only one master contact list in iCloud and stop syncing Gmail contacts to my iPhone?
Any guidance would be appreciated.