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iPhone XS Max Merge iPhone and Google Contacts Together?
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I've used the Groups app since iOS 6.
Lets you move contacts between groups. You could use it to move all your iPhone contacts into Google and then use the Google website to weed out duplicates. Or use the app.
Pretty useful app.
If you have iCloud contacts sync enabled, you can go to iCloud.com > Contacts, then select all contacts and export to a vCard. Upload that vCard into Google contacts via the website and manage duplicates from there. It’ll be much easier to merge them within the same account.
Edit: either turn off iCloud contacts or delete them once you’re done, so you’re only dealing with your Google account going forward.
The Groups app lets you move contacts between databases? I don't see that in the app description, I installed it and don't see the functionality. Not saying it's not there, but...
Usually if you want to move a contact or contacts to a different database, you need something like Contact Mover.
Go into the contact group you want to edit. Select the contact by tapping on the circle to the left. Up top it will say "Choose Action". Select the option that has you putting the contact in a different group and then have the app place it there. Either you will get the option to move it or have to do back and delete it from the previous group.
You can create new groups.
Sorry, I'd post pics but the app is choosing to be finicky right now on my phone and bombing out on me.
Does it have a different idea of "group" than the usual? iPhone doesn't expose groups created by the macOS Contacts app in the normal GUI, but they're there and it preserves them. Most third-party apps display them, let you work with them, etc. But "iCloud" and "GMail" wouldn't normally be a group, those are different contacts databases.