Contacts duplicating and deletes automatically

[Tterram]

My contacts keep duplicating and deleting  automatically on my S22U, it is extremely frustrating! Doesn't matter how I restore and merge, it continues to happen! I've already logged an error report, not sure what Samsung is doing about it, but I realised that they have now deleted my Samsung account and other Google accounts from my contacts! That clearly did not solve the problem.

[Ventor]

@Tterram Hello, check the applications that have permission granted to Contacts. For a while, you could experiment with removing this permission from other apps and third-party apps and see if it is resolved. Greetings.

[Tourbillon De La Vie]

Do you have multiple contacts apps? Like Google and Samsung contact apps? If yes there is some conflict 

[Tterram]

Thank you for your reply, but I think going through all my apps to see which has access to contacts and experimenting with them is too time consuming and tedious.

[Tterram]

Thank yo for your reply. I do have my Samsung account and other Google signed into, like I always do on my previous devices. And from what I've seen, since logging an error report, Samsung has deleted all the other accounts and as I type this message, over 500 contacts have been duplicated and gone to the bin. So that clearly isn't the issue.

[BandOfBrothers]

If you haven't done already look to see what us syncing in relation to your contacts as this maybe the culprit.

[Tterram]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Since I had multiple accounts, I did turn all the sync off. But unfortunately, it didn't help.

[BandOfBrothers]

Oki doki.

As a process of elimination can you remove/ force stop one of the other contacts apps / accounts and then see what happens.

I use the Samsung Contacts app only to which I've had zero issues @Tterram 

[dsm83]

I feel your pain as have this problem on the S21 too! It's infuriating and has been going on for months now! I reported a ticket already but I'm not sure Samsung are bothered.

[h1ghland3r]

I am another victim of Samsung poor software. My S21 suffers from the same issue.