How to disable contact linking feature?
In the iPhone Contacts app, if you edit a contact and scroll down, you can see a feature called "link contacts..." which lets you link one contact to another.
The problem is, iOS seems to do this automatically without the user's consent. This is very problematic as some contacts appear to be lost which, in fact, is linked to others. I have many accounts (iCloud, multiple Gmail accounts, work account, etc...). Sometimes, 2 entirely different contacts who share the same first name get linked together.
( In one instance, I had the first name and last name saved for my work contact, but only the first name saved for my personal contact. These are different people who just happen to have the same first name. But Apple decided that they belong together :p. I searched for Mr.Firstname and could see only Mr.Firstname Lastname in the search results. It's when in Whatsapp, Mr. Firstname's chat got titled as Mr. Firstname Lastname that I noticed that the 2 contacts were merged together.)
I could manually unlink the contacts. But is there a way to disable this annoying "feature"?
