Sony F3216 - Avoiding Duplicate Entries in the Contacts Application

To send a contact
1
From your Home screen, tap , then tap .
2
Tap the contact whose details you want to send.
3
Tap , then tap Share.
4
Select an available transfer method and follow the on-screen instructions.
To send several contacts at once
1
From your Home screen, tap , then tap .
2
Touch and hold a contact then mark or unmark the checkboxes beside the
contacts that you want to share.
3
Tap
, then tap Share.
4
Select an available transfer method and follow the on-screen instructions.
To send all contacts
1
From your Home screen, tap
, then tap .
2
Press
, then tap Import/export > Share all contacts to start exporting all your
contacts.
3
Drag the status bar downwards. When the export is complete, tap the
notification.
4
Select an available transfer method and follow the on-screen instructions.
Avoiding duplicate entries in the Contacts application
If you synchronise your contacts with a new account or import contact information in
other ways, you could end up with duplicate entries in the Contacts application. If this
happens, you can link such duplicates to create a single entry. If you link entries by
mistake, you can unlink them again later.
To link contacts
1
From your Home screen, tap
, then tap .
2
Tap and hold the contact that you want to link with another contact.
3
Tick the checkbox beside the contact that you want to link.
4
Tap
, then tap Link. The information from the first contact is merged with the
second contact, and the linked contacts are displayed as one contact in the
Contacts list.
5
Tap Link to confirm.
To separate linked contacts
1
From your Home screen, tap , then tap .
2
Tap the linked contact that you want to edit, then tap .
3
Tap , then tap Unlink.
4
Tap Unlink to confirm.
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