Guides

Untangling your contacts, step by step

Practical, tested guides from the project that became ContactAttic — how to get your contacts out of every phone and account, and fold them back into one clean set.

How to merge duplicate contacts into one clean address book

Why the same person ends up on three cards, what your phone's built-in merge can and can't fix, exporting to vCard from iPhone, Google and Outlook — and folding every copy into one complete entry.

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How to combine multiple vCard (.vcf) files into one

What a .vcf file actually is across vCard 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0, why you end up with several, the messy manual ways to join them — and the clean way that de-duplicates every person to a single card.

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How to export and merge contacts from CSV (Google & Outlook)

Exporting your contacts to CSV from Google and Outlook, why CSV files don't merge cleanly on their own, and how to fold every duplicate into one clean address book.

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How to export your contacts from an iPhone (vCard or CSV)

Every reliable way to get your contacts off an iPhone — via iCloud.com, a Mac, or a vCard — and how to fold them together with your other address books into one clean set.

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How to export your contacts from an Android phone (vCard or CSV)

Exporting your Android contacts as a vCard or Google CSV — from the Contacts app or Google Contacts — and merging them with your other address books into one clean set.

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How to clean up duplicate contacts after switching phones

Why moving to a new phone leaves you with doubled and tripled contacts, what the built-in fixes miss, and how to end up with one clean card per person.

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