Seriously? I hope a solution comes very quick. I think this is the reason my Outlook app on Android ran so slow. I even bought a new phone (not that bad, because the battery of the old one was worn out).
Linking phone to PC creates duplicate contacts
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Why does linking my android phone to my PC create duplicate contacts?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Connect Phone and PC
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2023-04-25T17:32:21+00:00 I concur - we need someone from Microsoft monitoring this and reporting as a serious bug to correct this sprint cycle...
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Anonymous
2023-04-18T18:16:10+00:00 Microsoft should provide a simple solution for this "fatal" bug , for example in the ways I outlined above.
Users should not be the ones to clean up thousands of duplicate contacts, since the issue was most likely caused by a malfunction in Microsoft's Link to Windows app.
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Anonymous
2023-04-18T17:36:24+00:00 Did you check your Phone app...
I had the contacts but with Skype and not with synced by Link to Windows..(I had over 13000 contact and erase all it was a lots of clicks... in the phone app you mut erase one by one... I do that... a spend a lot of time to do that during meetings... ;) )
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Anonymous
2023-04-18T04:25:03+00:00 I only enabled contact sync in the Link to Windows settings on my Surface Duo 2, no where else.
It had been enabled for weeks without issue, then one day I noticed the repetitive contacts.