Fix Mixed Up Numbers in the Android Contacts

Are you experiencing trouble accessing your contacts on Android Mobile and seeing a mixed up numbers issue? Are the Contacts mixed up completely? Many users may find an issue like this with their phone contact. The contacts on your phone may be mixed up and sometimes not showing correctly.

In most cases, the issue may arise due to some other application on the handset that may access your contacts, such as chatting or communication. So today, I will tell you how to access your contact’s account and solve this issue.

Fix Mixed Up Numbers in Android Contacts

The issue is mainly because of conflict with other applications with access to your contacts, resulting in problems with merging contacts. Hence, it will show the Contact differently, and one person’s phone number will be assigned to another.

It will show the mobile number of one person under different people etc. It will cause us a big headache. It’s because of the bug in the software and not like the issue we faced previously like the call settings option missing and unable to set the call forwarding option.

Now, I will tell you how we can solve this. First, ensure all your contacts are synced and updated in your Google account. To do the Google contacts sync, go to https://contacts.google.com/ from your email address which is used in your android mobile, and check all the contacts are synced and is available there.

If the contacts are available there, then you are good to go. We can make it. If contacts are available there, we cannot backup using this method. So one point I need to remind you is that it’s better to keep your contacts synced with your Google account for easy backup.

You have the contacts in Google, and we will proceed to the next step. Go to your phone settings and find the Accounts option. There you can see all the accounts on your phone like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. Now click on Google. On the next page, you can see the email address you are using on your mobile (the one we previously looked for in Google Backup).

Now click on that email address, and you will see all the sync options. At the top, you will see 3 dots (menu). Click on it, and now you may see 2 options Sync now and Remove account. Click on the Remove account, and while prompted for confirmation, click OK and remove it.

Afterward, return to your Contacts section and manually remove all the existing contacts. You can remove it by marking all and removing it all. After removing all, make sure that no contact exists on the phone. Now go to Phone settings, and like above, go to Accounts. Here, you have to select the Add account option, available at the bottom. Click on that, and select Google from the next page.

Now, add your email address (the same email address we removed earlier), then the password, and finish the step by entering details. After that, the sync will automatically start. Now, after a few seconds, go to contacts, and you may notice that your contact will start updating into your mobile. Again, wait for a few minutes; after that, it will sync all your contacts to your phone from Google.

You can see that the contacts mixed up are also sorted now. Because of the same contact mix-up issue, some users might have faced a problem with WhatsApp too. Their WhatsApp contacts will not be showing names on the Android device.

While doing all these things, ensure that you are connected to the internet since connecting to Google and syncing require the internet. Also, I recommend you take a backup of your contacts from your phone and keep it safe before doing all these steps. If you get any message saying ‘sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly. Please wait for some time and do the steps again.

Frequently Asked Questions Related to the Trouble Accessing your Contacts Account Issue

Following are some general questions about the Google contact mix-up issues

1. Why are My Contacts Showing up as Numbers?

It might be due to some sync error. First, ensure you haven’t saved the number without a name. If you accidentally save any number to your contact without a name, it will only be shown as a number. If that is not the case, try to delete the contact and add that again.

2. How to Show All My Contacts in the List?

If you wish to show all the contacts without any filter. Open the Contact app and click on the menu icon (3 horizontal bars at the top left), and select Contacts as the default selection. If Label is selected, only contacts under that label will be displayed. All the contacts saved in your account will be displayed if you select Contacts.

3. Why Contact Names Not Showing in Android?

It is the same as the 1st issue. You need to make sure the number is saved with a proper name. You can also delete and add that particular contact again.

4. How to Open the Contacts Easily – Show Me My Contacts Command

Google offers a quick and easy command to open the contact app on your Android mobile. You can use Google Assistance to open and see the contact list using a single command. Ask Google assistance to show me my contacts. All the contacts on your Android mobile will be shown within a few seconds.

5. How to Clear Mixed Up Numbers

Rather than manually deleting the mixed-up numbers one by one, the best and easiest way is to remove the Google account and add the same again. This process will clear all the stored contact and add new contacts again. Also, once the account is removed, ensure no more contacts are left in your phone book. If you still see contacts left over there, delete all contacts before adding the Google account again.

6. Why Android Update Screwed Up My Phone Contact?

Normally it won’t happen. But in rare cases, it can happen. All smartphones and other devices show a warning, reminding us to take a backup before any update. If some issue happens due to the update, we can restore it with the backup.

7. Why did the Contact Names Disappear on Android?

Contact Names can disappear due to the sync error and non-saving of Contact names. In this case, remove that contact and add them again. If you have many contacts whose names are not showing in the contact list, removing and adding the Google account is better.

8. How to Solve if Google Sync Experiencing Problems?

Sync issues can be due to some conflict that happens with third-party apps. In that case, try to figure out when the sync issue happened and list all the installed apps before that. So, most probably, the issue can occur due to that application. Try uninstalling the app in that case. Then restart the smartphone, and try syncing. If still, the problem exists, check for any pending Android updates. Additionally, try to remove and add the Google account again.

If all those steps are not solving the sync issue, try resetting the setting only. Then, if there Is any conflict with the setting, it will solve the problem. And finally, if nothing helped, do a complete reset of the handset.