The right way to delete contacts from iPhone or iPad

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 on iPhone depend on whether the contacts are literally saved on your gadget or synced from different sources.

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

1. Delete contacts on iPhone

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

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

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

3. On the next screen, scroll back and choose the option Delete the contact to choose.

4. In the affirmation pop-up window, click Delete the contact to affirm.

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

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

The only way to delete a set of contacts directly from your iPhone is to go to 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.

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.

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

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

3. Delete Gmail or Outlook contacts from your iPhone.

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

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

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

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 number from Gmail or Outlook contacts on your iPhone

As mentioned above, you will only be able to 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 way to delete a set of contacts from Gmail or Outlook on iPhone is to delete those contacts from the backup account (Gmail, Outlook, and many others) and let the changes sync to your device.

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