By mistake, I merged the contacts on my Samsung A11 phone. How do I reverse that?

[Android Central Question]

When I merged my contacts, I now have the same phone number with two different names on it. When I try to go in & edit the one I want to remove, that name doesn't show up, but the one I want to keep does. How do I get the contacts to unmerge and I'll go through and individually delete the wrong ones.

 

[mustang7757]

It did this with all your contacts or some?

I'll leave a Link to register so you can communicate here as a guest account you can only post questions but can't reply

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Select one of the merged contacts in the Contacts app, then tap the Menu button. Do you see an option to Unmerge or Unjoin?

 

[sb1969]

Thanks, I found my old login info so I'm logged in now. It did it with some of my contacts. My phone contact list from my Samsung S6 transferred to my new phone, a Samsung A11e & I synced it with my tablet, which has some duplicate numbers, but different names listed. A merge option came up on my phone, so I thought merging would work, but now it won't let me go back in and edit the names to correct it. I can delete and re-enter them, but hoped I could unmerge them & clean them up on my own.

 

[sb1969]

No, that's not one of the options. It has 'link to another contact', but I hesitate to do that before I determine if I can unmerge them.

 

[mustang7757]

See if any these options can help in contact app settings, how we're contacts saved in Google account?