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01-23-2021
01:14 PM
@bulldog2001can you confirm this also stops Whatsapp from syncing contacts back into your Phone App contact list? Or does Whatsapp automatically reactivate the contact syncing as soon as you add new contacts on the phone that also have whatsapp? You can test that by 1. deactivating whatsapp contacts sync in settings as explained by SamsungJace 2. deleting a contact who also has a Whatsapp chat from your phone contacts (it is enough to just delete that persons phone number from the contact) 3. confirming that the chat with that person is no longer showing the name but only that person's phone number as chat name 4. adding that contact back to your phone contacts 5. confirm Whatsapp comntact syncing is still deactivated in settings (which I expect will be reactivated without your permission) This is the problem many people in forums are struggling with. Thanks in advance for checking!
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01-23-2021
02:28 AM
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Problem: Phone App contacts list shows duplicate entries for same contact in other apps' address books such as Skype, Whatsapp etc.pp.. Not acceptable "solutions": 1. Contacts App filter: Yes, the Contacts App does have a filter and custom list feature. But those filters have zero effect on the contacts listed ín Phone App. Would be great to have Contacts App featuers available in the Phone App and discard the Contacts App altogether but that is not (yet) the case. 2. Turn off contact syncinc in phone accounts settings: Settings ->- Accounts and backup -> Accounts will alow us to turn off contact syncing with the phone and this will prevent duplicates from being synced back from those apps into the phone contacts list. HOWEVER: At least WhatsApp and possible other apps ignore that setting by swithing it back on automatically after any contact was changed or added on the phone. 3. Merging contacs Merging is a buggy process and will not flawlessly detect duplicates as well as merge contacts that are supppsed to be separated. Any solutions to this issue or how to permanently stop WhatsApp from switching syncing back on?
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01-23-2021
01:50 AM
This works to a certain extend with (at least) one notable exception: Whtasapp! Whatsapp will turn contact syncing on by itself after a while and if any contact in the phone book is added or changed - and I have not found a way to prevent that from happening. As a result I now have all whatsapp contacts as duplicates in my phone contacts (somtimes triplicates, if contacts have two whatsapp numbers). Plus they are out of order because Whatsapp dos not properly detect first, last and middle names messing up the phone book completely. I suspect this is an Android/Whatsapp problem. But it could easily be solved, if the phone app would allow filtering just as the contacts app does. Why not include the contact app features (such as filtering and custom lists) into the phone app and do away wiht the contacs app altogether??
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01-23-2021
01:33 AM
My new separate thread was re-merged to here. I disagree. This thread was marked as solved but the solution to this thread does not solve my issue. Hence the separate thread is justified. Will raise it again. Here the message I had reveiced: The post Phone App contacts showing all adress books resulting in duplicates was moved by SamsungAdam. Reason: merging threads due to similar topics of discussion
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01-17-2021
03:38 PM
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I opened a new thread for this specific issue: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Samsung-Apps-and-Services/Phone-App-contacts-showing-all-adress-books-resulting-in/td-p/1650821#.YATJgzDHGo8.mailto @ungern- follow there, if this is still a problem for you too. Hope someone has an idea...
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01-17-2021
03:33 PM
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The Contacts App allows to select address books for display, e.g. show phone internal address book and google contacts but not skype and whatsapp contacts. The Phone App (the dialer) also has a contacts section but that does not seem to be linked to the filter in the Contacts App. As a result I see all address books and one entry for Goolge contact, one for the same persons Skype Contact and another one for his Whatsapp. That is extremely annoying especially since I cannot edit the otehr people's skype contact entries and they sometime suse messed up names etc. pp. Question: How to tell the Phone App what contacts to show in the contacts section???!!
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09-20-2020
06:51 AM
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@Big-Bad-Brad Thanks for your advice! This is potentially a solution, if your Contacts App shows less contacts than the Phone App. Your phone App my show less contacts than the Contacts app, if you have the "only show contats with phone number"option active in the Phone App settings. BUT: What if I have a filter in the Contacts App (e.g. only show Google account contacts but not Skype, SIM card, Whatsapp etc.) and the Phone App keeps showing all addressbooks resulting in duplicates (one entry for the Google Contact and one for the same person on Whatsapp, for example)? How to apply that filter also to the Phone App?? Note: I don NOT want to - stop synching Whatsapp - link contacts I only want to hide none Google Contacts form my contacts list in Phone and Contacts App - as it can already be done in the Contacts App.
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