Merging Duplicate Contacts in iOS 16.1

Hi there Mosscreek,

We're happy to provide some guidance. If you're seeing duplicate contacts on your iPhone, you'll want to be sure you followed these steps to initially merge all the duplicates:

If you have more than one contact card with the same first and last name, you can merge the duplicate contacts.

1. Below My Card, tap Duplicates Found.

2. Tap individual contacts to review and merge them, or tap Merge All to merge all duplicate contacts.

If you're still seeing some duplicate contacts afterwards, you can follow the steps below to link them manually:

If two entries for the same person aren’t linked automatically, you can unify them manually.

1. Tap one of the contacts, tap Edit, then tap Link Contacts.

2. Choose the other contact entry to link to, then tap Link.

When you link contacts with different first or last names, the names on the individual cards don’t change, but only one name appears on the unified card. To choose which name appears on the unified card, tap one of the linked cards, tap the contact’s name on that card, then tap Use This Name For Unified Card.

Note: When you link contacts, those contacts aren’t merged. If you change or add information in a unified contact, the changes are copied to each source account where that information already exists.

You'll find these steps in this link: Get rid of duplicate contacts on iPhone - Apple Support

Take care.