The right way to delete contacts from iPhone or iPad

Last update: 04/10/2024
Delete Contacts From iPhone

If you are looking for a strategy to delete or erase contacts from iPhone, below you will discover the steps to delete one or more contacts on the iPhone.

Your contacts folder on iPhone contains all the contacts you created and saved on your iPhone, plus contacts synced from different sources like Gmail, Outlook, or social media accounts.

Therefore, the exact steps to delete contacts from iPhone depend on whether the contacts are actually saved on your gadget or are actually from other sources.

Below you will find the steps to delete native contacts from iPhone, as well as contacts saved from Gmail, Outlook, and other email services.

1. Delete contacts on iPhone

If the contacts you want to delete are literally stored on your iPhone, you can follow these steps to remove those contacts from your gadget.

1. Refuge Application contacts and choose the Contact that you just want to remove.

Contacts in the Contacts app for iPhone

2. On the contact information screen, select the Edit located in the upper right corner of your screen.

Edit a contact on iPhone

3. On the next screen, click the down arrow and select the option Delete the contact to choose.

Delete a contact on iPhone

4. In the declaration pop-up window, click Delete the contact to confirm.

If there are more contacts to delete, you can remove them from your gadget by repeating the steps above.

2. Restore a series of contacts on the iPhone with iCloud

The only way to delete a set of contacts directly from your iPhone is to log into your iCloud account on a computer.

1. In your Mac or PC, go to icloud.com and sign in to your iCloud account. Once you're signed in, click the button Contact file.

Contacts archive in iCloud

2. On the next screen, select Contacts that you just want to delete > click on Trained team icon located in the lower left corner and choose the Delete choice.

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Restore Multiple Contacts from iPhone with iCloud

Advice : To select a contact number, click the button Ctrl and choose Contact that you simply want to remove from your iPhone.

The selected contacts will be removed from your device as soon as your iCloud account changes are synced to your iPhone.

3. Delete Gmail or Outlook contacts from your iPhone.

If your contacts are pulled from Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo Mail, you can follow these steps to delete email contacts from your iPhone.

1. Ir a Settings > Contact > Accounts and choose your Email account (Gmail, Outlook and many others).

Select the Gmail account on the iPhone

2. On the next screen, transfer the following change to Contacts à OFF place.

Disable contact syncing on iPhone

3. In the affirmation pop-up window, choose Delete from my iPhone choice.

This deletes contacts that have been synced to your iPhone from your email account.

4. Delete a contact number from Gmail or Outlook from your iPhone

As we said before, you can only choose and delete one contact at a time on your iPhone and there is no real option to delete multiple contacts on your iPhone.

The only strategy to delete a set of contacts from Gmail or Outlook on your iPhone is to delete those contacts from your email account (Gmail, Outlook, and many others) and have the changes reflected on your device.

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