Why are my contacts showing duplicates?

[Phani Pamarthi]

contacts showing duplication.one from whatsapp and other is my ordinary phone number

Hey hi,
I got a big problem. Among all contacts in my phone, the contacts which are related to whatsapp are getting displayed twice in my phone book. Its like two same phone numbers under a common name.
When I give edit to a specific contact with this issue., the contact shows one stored with phone storage and other under whatsapp. This shows each contact twice with same contact name. Im using Android 5.1.
Please help me on this.
Thanks.

 

[zulfi799]

Re: contacts showing duplication.one from whatsapp and other is my ordinary phone number

Same issue with me using lollipop in samsung galaxy j5.
:-\

 

[sharon harvey]

Re: contacts showing duplication.one from whatsapp and other is my ordinary phone number

Unfortunately, to be expected. To use the Whatsup app it obviously needs permission to your phone data (contacts) which will create duplicates due to necessary syncing. You could clean out duplicates with a cleaner and or turn off the apps sync.