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iCloud duplicates contacts and groups it's frustrating

how do I prevent this from happening. Duplicate contacts, sometime triplicates, and the same with groups.

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on May 25, 2019 12:35 AM

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tygb

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Posted on May 25, 2019 12:48 AM

If you have signed in with same Apple ID and password on the same network in Mac and iPhone or other apple devices the contacts on each device will get synced , if the same contacts are in devices they will be seen as duplicates ( as if you had already created contacts in Mac and the same are in iPhone ) .

To avoid it , disconnect the desired device by just signing out from Apple ID account , then delete the duplicate contacts in each device .

See this article also https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203565

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