Question How do I stop Autofill in Gmail App on Android 13 suggesting incorrect emails

LarsPorsena

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My Gmail app keeps suggesting incorrect email addresses for some recipients. These are people in my Contacts, and the suggestion from Autofill is not the address in my contacts. If I type in 'Tim', I have three suggestions for one contact, the first two are wrong and the third one is correct. In between these three autofill suggestions are one person I know (so that is a useful suggestion) and two that I don't know (so that is not a useful suggestion).

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How do I get rid of the suggestions that are simply wrong, and also the ones I don't want?

I also had this problem in Gmail on my Windows laptop, but I have been able to delete them from there. I deleted them by hovering the mouse over the circle with the letter in it, waiting for a pop up and then adding the suggestion to my Contacts. Then I deleted it from my Contacts and it is not longer suggested. But I don't seem to be able to do this in Android.

Thanks in advance
 

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LarsPorsena

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I have made some progress with this. Some of the suggestions seem to come my 'other contacts' in
contacts.google.com/other?hl=en

I have edited this in my google account and deleted all of the unnecessary contacts, and also switched off
Create contacts for auto-complete

I can see that every email I have ever sent creates an entry for this list and there were a couple of the auto suggested Tim's I posted above. However the incorrect email addresses I have found troublesome were not there. Also the suggestions are still being made in Android. So there seems to be a sync issue.
 
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