Issue in Contacts
I’m following up on a Contacts issue in Routine.
There appear to be duplicate contact records in my workspace, and I need help with both the deletion problem and the underlying cause.
What I’m seeing:
- 2 separate contact records for admin@celebratemessiah.co.nz
- 7 separate contact records for Peter Whitcombe (peter@jesusfirst.org.nz)
Problems:
1. When I open a contact, go to Edit, and click Delete, nothing happens.
2. I cannot find a reliable way in the web app to remove these duplicate contacts.
3. More importantly, I want to understand how these contacts were created in the first place and why Routine failed to deduplicate them.
Important context:
- I do not currently see any active integrations connected in Routine.
- I use Apple Contacts, which has 100+ entries, but these duplicates in Routine are unexpected.
- The duplicated records appear to include email-only / partial contact entries.
Please investigate and clarify:
- What source or process created these contact records?
- Were they imported from Apple Contacts, generated from email/calendar activity, or created some other way?
- Why were identical email addresses not merged into a single contact?
- Is there a known bug in Routine’s contact deduplication or contact deletion flow?
- Can you remove or merge these duplicates for me, or provide a safe way to do so?
The key duplicate emails involved are:
- admin@celebratemessiah.co.nz
- peter@jesusfirst.org.nz
Please also advise whether there is any risk that more duplicate contacts will continue to be created automatically.
Thanks.
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Comments3
Peter Whitcombe
Aug 13
Bug on your side because I don’t use Google Contacts
Julien Quintard
Aug 14
You cannot have contacts in the Contacts screen if you’re not using Google Contacts. Those are only populated from Google Contacts. Note that you might not be using Google Contacts directly, but sending emails to people in Gmail automatically adds contacts, that’s what Google does.
Julien Quintard
Aug 13
Hi. The contacts are created through the Google Contacts and/or Google Workspace Directory integrations. See Settings / Integrations and the Contacts tab. There might be dupliates because you connected multiple accounts or there are duplicates in your Google Contacts account? If not, a bug on our side and we’ll need to investigate