Comments on: Delete contacts on iPhone

By: Gurpreet

Gurpreet — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:58:45 +0000

What if I wanted to delete like 50 contacts out of my 300 total contacts and didn’t want to edit -> delete each and every one from the IPhone… Can I use ITunes to select those 50 and delete them all?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:39:22 +0000

There is actually a very easy way to do this from iTunes without deleting any of your other content, and without doing a restart. In that you can synch with either Yahoo or Google email accounts, all you have to do is start a new email - easiest with Yahoo and takes 2 minutes. Once you’ve done that, change your synch from Outlook to Yahoo and input that address & password. Tell iTunes to replace your current contacts rather than merge and since you won’t have any in the new email account your contact list will now be empty… The whole process took me 5 minutes.

By: LanceZ

LanceZ — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:47:56 +0000

TheTruth spoke the truth. But it acted a little funky at first. The sync to Yahoo made my iPhone empty, but loaded Yahoo with all the contacts from my iPhone. Weird. (I’m using iPhone OS 2.2.) After that I disabled sync to Yahoo, then imported my address book archive, which had the contacts and groups properly defined. Then I re-enabled MobileMe sync, and made sure that my Address Book was syncing with MobileMe. Finally, I used iTunes to sync the iPhone to my contacts. Bam! Five groups (and ONLY five), and all my contacts. Thanks!

By: tom

tom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:25 +0000

create a new profile in outlook, pop3 is easiest. tell oulook to ask for profile each time it opens. open your blank pop profile and sync. this will clear your contacts if you have the settings right in itunes

By: Chris Barnes

Chris Barnes — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:20:29 +0000

The answer provided by TheTruth (about using a dummy yahoo account) was perfect for me. Was able to wipe out 600+ contacts in seconds.

By: MS

MS — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:44:45 +0000

Thanks TheTruth! I had been looking for a solution to mass delete my iphone contacts, and your suggestion worked great! In itunes, I synced my iphone contacts with an empty Contacts Yahoo address book. Worked great!

By: dontask

dontask — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:11:31 +0000

I just opened a empty Outlook contact list (a new one). I named it “Kill_on_iPhone”.
Then I started the sync in iTunes using sync parameter “contacts sync”, “selected groups” and activate only the new Outlook contact list “Kill_on_iPhone”, press “sync” button….
….surprise: my iPhone contact list was empty

By: Mariafer

Mariafer — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:24:08 +0000

hahahaha it’s sO obviouusss!!!! :S I spent like 2 days thinking how.. I went 2 edit & change the persOn.. i said. if i can’t delete it.. i’ll make it someone else i really need.. i feel kind of stupid now! hahahaha thank U sooooo mucH!

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:17:03 +0000

I read all about mass deleting contacts…if we reset all contacts will be deleted but does they delete data in iphone (songs and photos etc)

By: karl

karl — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:16:01 +0000

here you go this is the only one that worked for me. did in less than a min
http://manismani.googlepages.com/outlook_contacts_delete_iphone_sync.PNG