Merge Contact Information - HTC U11 User Manual

Merge Contact Information

If you have the same contacts on your phone, Google Account, and social network accounts such as
Facebook and Twitter, your phone will try to combine them automatically or let you decide which contacts
to combine. Combining the same contacts avoids duplicated entries in your contacts list.
Accept Contact Link Suggestions
When your phone finds contacts that can be merged, you'll see a link notification when you open the
People app.
1. Tap >
2. On the People tab, tap the Contact link suggestion notification when available. You'll see a list
of suggested contacts to merge.
3. Navigate to the contact you want to merge.
4. Tap to merge. Otherwise, tap
Note: If you don't want to receive contact link suggestions, on the People tab, tap > Settings. Clear the
Suggest contact link option.
Manually Merge Contacts
You can merge your entries manually and choose the accounts to link the contact.
1. Tap >
2. On the People tab, tap the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) you want to link.
3. Tap > Link.
4. You can:

Under Suggest links, tap

Under Add contact, tap one of the options to link to another contact.
5. Tap Done to save the change.
Break the Link
When contact information has changed, you can choose to break the contact's link from another account.
1. Tap >
2. On the People tab, tap the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) whose link you want to
break.
3. Tap > Link.
Contacts
> People.
to dismiss the link suggestion.
> People.
to link the contact to an account.
> People.
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