HTC Desire 530 (Open Mobile)‎

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Merging contact information

Avoid duplicate entries by merging contact information from different sources, such as your social network accounts, into one contact.

Accepting contact link suggestions

When HTC Desire 530 finds contacts that can be merged, you’ll see a link notification when you open the People app.

  1. From the Home screen, tap All apps button, and then find and tap People.
  2. On the People tab, tap the Contact link suggestion notification when available. You'll see a list of suggested contacts to merge.
  3. Tap Link button next to the contact you want to merge. Otherwise, tap Unlink button to dismiss the link suggestion.
Tip: If you don't want to receive contact link suggestions, on the People tab, tap Menu > Settings. Clear the Suggest contact link option.

Manually merging contact information

  1. On the People tab, tap the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) you want to link.
  2. Tap Menu > Link.
  3. You can:
    • Under Suggest links, link the contact to an account.
    • Under Add contact, tap one of the options to link to another contact.

Breaking the link

  1. On the People tab, tap the name of the contact (not the icon or photo) whose link you want to break.
  2. Tap Menu > Link.
  3. Under the Linked contacts section, tap Link button beside an account to break the link.
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