Clean up your contacts list to prioritize the people you actually want to talk to.

It's easy for your phone's contact list to get out of control, especially if you've carried the same (growing) list over to every new phone for a decade or more. If you haven't cleaned these up in a while, or ever, a decluttering is in order.

Getting rid of old contacts you never speak to and and improving the entries for the ones you do makes your contact list an asset instead of a big, messy pile of unhelpful info. Plus, it improves other apps and features your contacts interact with, like maps and voice assistants. Following a few steps makes it a manageable process.

Before you begin, you should understand how contact saving works on Android and iPhone. Unlike the "dumbphone" days, where contacts were stored on the SIM card or your phone's internal storage, iOS and most Android phones keep your contacts synced to your email account by default. On iPhone, this is your iCloud account, while on Android it's your Google account. And when you add your other email accounts (like Yahoo or Outlook) to your device, you have the option to pull and sync contacts from there too.

Some Android phones let you save contacts on the device itself, but this isn't recommended since you'll have to back them up manually and will lose them if your phone breaks.

First, you should put all your contacts in the same service. Depending on how many email accounts you have synced to your phone, your contacts might be scattered across them.

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