Recently purchased iPhone. Contact are listed numerous times. Anyway to easily delete duplicates?

Recently purchased iPhone. When contacts were transferred to my new phone they created duplicate/triplecate entries. Anyway to easily remove extra listings?
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Iphone 3G makes duplicate contact entries after syncing. I went from about 125 contacts to 1,965. Some contacts are duplicated 30 times! I tried deleting the info and resyncing it. Same problem. Not using mobile me. Syncing with google account.

Duplicate entries after syncing. My phone went from about 125 contacts to 1,965. Some contacts are duplicated 30 times! Tried deleting the contacts and resyncing- same thing. I don't use Mobile me. My contacts are synced through my google account. I tried syncing through outlook and there were 0 contacts on my phone. Its a 3G so some of the functions like making groups are not available. Please HELP!!!

and i guess i should mention i bought it at best buy and they ported my phone #'s from my google phone and when i got home i sync'ed it with itunes and it doubled my contacts.

Recently purchased iPhone 5. Tried to register and sync with iTines

I recently purchased iPhone 5. I have had iTunes for years and have many iPods and iPads connected to this iTunes account. I attempted to register and sync the iPhone 5 and though is shows I am logged into iTunes ALL my music, etc is GONE and it states the phone cannot be synced (assuming this is because there is no music, apps,listed). Please advise how to fix this issue,

are you syncing via the phone? or from desktop itunes? it could be worth connecting for the first time to the computer and doing it that way

I just traded in my iPhone 4S for Samsung Galaxy 4S, still have iPad. Some of my iPhone contacts are unable to send me a txt that I can receive. But NOT all of my iPhone contacts. I have had them change their settings for my ph number to NOT say iPhone.

I just traded in my iPhone 4S for Samsung Galaxy 4S, still have iPad. Some of my iPhone contacts are unable to send me a txt that I can receive. But NOT all of my iPhone contacts. I have had them change their settings for my ph number to NOT say iPhone. Txt msg is disabled on iPad. I have no idea what to do. I called the support line that I Pay $9.99 a month for. They told me to delete my iTunes account. Will I lose all my pics on my ipad? I have no music download. I'm getting ****** at this whole thing. And it allllllll started with apples update to the ios7.... I HATED IT. Help.

What your iPhone using friends label your phone number in their contacts is irrelevant. I don't know who you pay $9.99 a month to but it's not Apple. You can't disable text messaging on your iPad as it is not capable of SMS.
Do you still have the iPhone? If so, log out of iMessage on the iPhone.
Try this:
Go to: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
Log in if not already logged in.
Click on "Edit Products"
Click on the "X" to the right of the product.
Click "Unregister"
Also, try changing the password on your iTunes account.

I have ripped all of my Cds into iTune, now I cannot find where some of the artists have been filled, not all the artists are listed, yet others are listed multiple times as they play with other groups. How do I list all one artist under his name? I know

Sorry this will appear pretty basic stuff. I have ripped all my Cds into iTunes, but in starting to make playlists it is apparent that some artists are listed multiple times as they appear with different bands, and others do not appear at all. I have tried searching different categories, compilations etc, and Finder box does not bring them up.
My questions are:-
Do I need additional software to manipulate my tunes in iTunes?
If so what is suggested?
or if not:-
How can I re arrange the tunes so that they appear only under one artist?
How do I make my "lost" artists tunes appear?
Thanks for any advice.

I am not really following what the problem is here. Artists are listed in the Artist field. I guess you could stick individual artists in a band in a field such as comments, but then you would have to include searching the comments field in your search. In which fields are these names located?
How are you making these playlists? Are these smart playlists or are you just dragging tracks to a playlist?
Are you doing this search with Finder's find or with iTunes' search?
If I knew exactly what it was you were trying to do I could tell you if you need addditional software. In reality though there isn't "additional software" for iTunes. There's Applescript plugins but I don't see how the ones with which I am familiar would have anything to do with searching for artist names.
How can I re arrange the tunes so that they appear only under one artist?
Steve MacGuire aka turingtest2 - iTunes & iPod Hints & Tips - Grouping Tracks Into Albums - http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp (older post on Apple Discussions http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9910895)
Quick answer: Select all the tracks on the album, File > get info, and either give them all a single "album artist", or check the "compilation" flag (as in https://discussions.apple.com/message/17670085).
If these are from multiple-CD sets you may also need to enter the appropriate information in the disc number fields.

HT204053 Me and my daughter had been using the same apple id, she was triyng to change it now all of my iphone contact are gone, what can i do ti get it back , this is very important to me.

Me and my daughter had been using the same apple id, she was triyng to change it, now all of my iphone contact are gone, what can i do ti get it back , this is very important to me.

Your contacts are helpd on the server, so if you sign out from your iCloud account and sign into another one they will disappear. If you sign back into the original account they will reappear.

HT201269 My iphone contacts are not updating to Icloud, I can create a contact in Icloud and it will update to my phone but I cannot create a contact on my phone to have it update in the cloud, I am using Itunes as the bridge

My iphone contacts are not updating to Icloud or Outlook, I can create a contact in Icloud/Outlook and it will update to my Iphone but I cannot create a contact on my Iphone to have it update in the Cloud/Outlook, I am using Itunes as the bridge. I originally installed the Icloud manager to sync my contacts to Cloud/Outlook, but I did not like the functionality, when I uninstalled the Cloud manager and and installed Itunes I noticed that the none of my contacts in the phone updated to Outlook.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Cyclops12,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Contacts
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3998
Cheers,
- Judy

HT4623 My contacts are listed by telephone numbers instead of names in my messages since I upgraded to OS8? How can I change it to names?l,

My contacts are listed by telephone numbers instead of names in my messages since I upgraded to OS8? How can I change it to names?l,

Under Settings->Messages->Send & Receive
1) is your Apple ID listed there?
2) Under "You can be reached..." is your phone number appearing at the top of the list and does it have a checkmark next to it?
3) Under "Start New Conversation From" is the checkmark next to your phone number?

I've changed my phone number yet all my iPhone contacts are getting my old number why

I've changed my phone number yet all my iPhone contacts are getting my old number why

What do you mean by "my iPhone contacts are getting my old number "?

Hi, Im charan . I recently purchased iPhone 5 in Kuwait. And I live in India so I'm now in India. I'm facing some hardware problem in iPhone 5 Can I place it in INDIAN iStore for Warranty and they do it in warranty basis??

Hi, Im charan . I recently purchased iPhone 5 in Kuwait. And I live in India so I'm now in India. I'm facing some hardware problem in iPhone 5 Can I place it in INDIAN iStore for Warranty and they do it in warranty basis??

No, the warranty is not international and so will not be valid in India. You will have to take the iPhone back to Kuwait or send it to someone you know there who could take or send it for service and then ship it back to you. If you cannot do that, you will have to find an unauthorized repair shop in India and pay them to repair your iPhone, something which will void all future support from Apple.
Regards.

HT4872 My gmail contacts and my iphone contacts are synced. I want to un-sync them

My gmail contacts and my iphone contacts are synced. I want to disconnect this function from my phone and be able to edit and remove all those contacts that are just email addresses. How can I do this?

Settings > mail, contacts, calendars > Gmail > contacts > off > select "delete from my iPhone." This will delete all of them.
If you want to selectively edit out what you don't want, keep them and manually edit your contact.
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After inst iOS5 my contacts list has 3 separatelists 1All contacts,2all from my mac, 3 all (email address) all contacts are in 3 times.rate

After inst Ios5 on my iphone , under group, contacts,I have 3 sets of address book 1 all contacts 2 all from my mac 3all (myemail) how do I get rid of the duplication?

I am not good at explaining my problem. on my phone opening contacts which shows across top "groups"
under that," All Contacts" is shown contains all my contacts, Next in small print "from my Mac" is shown. this has" all from my mac" Which is all my contacts again it then lists all my groups. Then there is a third group shown in small print '[email protected]' Under that then Is " All [email protected]" and the rest of my groups are listed again.
Tried to perform the reply you gave me, but could not findthe menu that allow me to choose those that I want to keep. thank you in advance for the help

Defective Song Tracks Since iTunes 10.5 (also, recently purchased songs/albums are not showing up in purchased area for redownload purposes)

Last night I purchased the new Coldplay album from the iTunes store on my PC (as opposed to the iPad or iPhone). 2 of the 14 song files are defective (my bad ones are tracks 2 and 3). Those two play music for about the first 20 or 30 seconds of the track and then skip immediately to the next track. I had the same problem last week with two other albums I purchased from the iTunes store (also on my PC like last night). In those cases, I simply went to the "Purchased" quick link area and found everything I had just purchased. I deleted the defective files and then redownloaded them without a hitch. The replaced files now play fine.
However, the Coldplay album does not show up in my "Purchased" section (not last night or this morning when I rechecked). I am unable to redownload the defective files. I am doubly disturbed by this. For one, I have never had defective music downloads up until iTunes 10.5 and now I've had them on the three albums I've downloaded since. Two, now the "redownload music from the iCloud" function is not working for the most recent purchases. Perhaps this is true of all music purchased from iTunes over the past few days for everybody? Most people are probably mentioning Coldplay here on the boards because it's the hot new album. Note that this apparently is not affecting iOS apps, because my recent (within 24 hours) apps do show up in the purchased area.
It's very frustrating, because I want to sync this new Coldplay album with my iPhone so I can listen to it and I hate to have to transfer an incomplete album to it. My OCD-like nature gets to me sometimes. Part of me wants to just repurchase the two defective song files and hope that Apple won't charge me twice.

LOL!!! I had checked iTunes before writing this and the music was not there. I check after writing and now it has shown up. It took iTunes about 12 hours to do it though.
Last week, the music I purchased showed up immediately.
I guess iTunes is just not working as effeciently as it did last week. Could still be a bug or maybe just swamped servers? However, the problem that is most annoying to me right now is that all the music I have downloaded since iTunes 10.5 has contained defective tracks that needed to be redownloaded. I do not recall that ever occuring before.

HT4528 My daughter got an iphone. She set up her phone using my apple ID. She deleted all contacts she did not recognize. Now, over 100 of my contacts are gone. Is it possible she deleted them from the cloud and they are gone forever?

My daughter got an iphone. She set up using my apple ID. She deleted all the contacts that appeared on her phone and now they seem to be gone completely. Is it possible that she deleted contacts from the cloud? Are they permanently gone?

The "system" performed as designed. All devices syncing to one iCloud account are kept in common sync. The idea is that all such devices belong to one user. Different users should have different iCloud accounts. Once your contacts were edited, all devices were updated as well and subsequent backups (from yours and her device) reflected the changed contacts (and any other data that may have been edited like calendars). Your first task is to change your daughter over to a new account before she makes other changes.
The only way I see for getting back contacts is to restore them from a time machine backup, assuming you also have a Mac included in the account which syncs the contacts. However, I'm not sure whether time machine includes contacts from iCloud along with those that are local, "on my Mac".
Otherwise the deleted contacts are gone.

My iPhone contacts are only showing email address and not telephone number

I have an iPhone 4S running OS6. For some reason of late my contacts are only displaying the email address and not the telephone number.
I have repowered the phone a number of times but the issue still persists.
Can any one tell me how to fix this ???

Hi Kimberly,
Try the following:
1. Go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive
2. Check where the Start New Conversation From is set to. If it's not your number, select your number.
If the above doesn't work...
1. In Settings > Messages, tap on iMessage to turn it off.
2. Reboot phone and after the phone restarts turn iMessage back on.
Hope those help!

Recently purchased iPhone. Contact are listed numerous times. Anyway to easily delete duplicates?

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