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Hi @Richards1,
The automatic search for duplicates and suggestion for link candidates has been changes in the new Contacts app in Android 7 (Nougat). You can still link contacts manually by going to Contacts > Press and hold a contact to mark it > tap the contact you wish to link it with > Menu (3 dots in the top right) > Link.
If you happen to have your contacts synchronized towards an Online service such as Google, then you can use Googles automatic feature for linking contacts. Go to https://contacts.google.com/, then you can find a tab to the left called "Duplicates", here you may choose to "Merge all" if you want to merge all duplicates, or manually go through and merge the duplicates available.
Let me know if that helps! Feel free to kudo my post and mark it as the accepted solution if it helped, so that other users with the same concern may find it. 
Hi @Richards1,
The automatic search for duplicates and suggestion for link candidates has been changes in the new Contacts app in Android 7 (Nougat). You can still link contacts manually by going to Contacts > Press and hold a contact to mark it > tap the contact you wish to link it with > Menu (3 dots in the top right) > Link.
If you happen to have your contacts synchronized towards an Online service such as Google, then you can use Googles automatic feature for linking contacts. Go to https://contacts.google.com/, then you can find a tab to the left called "Duplicates", here you may choose to "Merge all" if you want to merge all duplicates, or manually go through and merge the duplicates available.
Let me know if that helps! Feel free to kudo my post and mark it as the accepted solution if it helped, so that other users with the same concern may find it.
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