Comments on: Delete contacts on iPhone

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:50:18 +0000

Funambol is an app thats not from cydia that deleltes apps.. just make up a name then go to settting and hit clean up.. simple as that

By: Ysaac

Ysaac — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:56:40 +0000

Two thumbs up for app: “ERASE CONTACTS” on CYDIA, was super quick and simple. Just download from Cydia and run. Whole process 1min.

By: Nev

Nev — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:43:48 +0000

You can mass delete by doing the following. 1. In outlook create a new contacts folder 2. in itunes sycn click “Info” and select only the new contacts folder. 3 Sync. Because the new contacts folder is empty it will remove all contacts on your iphone. 4. Sort your contacts out in Outlook then change the sync folder back to the one you want to sync with and run the sync again.

By: pkvv

pkvv — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:57:49 +0000

I ended up with almost 6000 contacts deleted when I repaced it with a Gmail synch

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:38:49 +0000

My iphone has started to autofill email addresses which it has taken somehow from a gmail account which I use. Previously when I deleted the account from settings>accounts>name@gmail.com>delete , then the email cache relating to that account would delete the account contacts which didn’t subsequently appear in autofill until I added the account back again. I phoned Apple support who weren’t very helpful and just told me that autofill is a good thing.
I’m not technically confident at all.
Is this a permanent change, or some sort of misbehaviour on the part of my phone?
I need to get rid of that cache as a matter of urgency as I share the phone with my child and the email addresses relate to a personal issue which I am not wanting to share with him right now… fortunately it’s not this particular issue, but for example help@cancer.org for example would be a bit of a giveaway. Also I need to keep the phone bug free and without support issues with Apple and O2.
As the need to use the email contacts is likely to be ongoing, I would appreciate any guidance sorting this out.

By: Gia

Gia — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:34:54 +0000

set up a new gmail account that has no contacts. Change the settings on your iTunes to synch with gmail contacts and provide empty account. select ‘replace information on this sync only’ under the advanced options. Sync it to the empty account. Your contacts are gone.

By: Bigbear

Bigbear — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:20:39 +0000

I have to add something here that I didn’t see addressed *specifically*. I use Outlook and Exchange through my office. At first, Exchange was taking too long to sync my contacts and calendar (as are options when using Exchange to connect to your Outlook) so I synced directly (using itunes) from my laptop as many have discussed in this thread. The problem arose when Exchange finally synced and I had double contacts and calendar events (still working on the dbld up calendar events). I wanted to delete JUST the contacts that I had directly synced and not my Exchange contacts. So for those of you out there in this situation/predicament, I did as many of these have suggested, I added a new group under contacts and made a bogus contact. I had previously turned off syncing my contacts and calendar since exchange was taking care of it now. So I again turned on syncing with Outlook contacts, chose the the NEW bogus group and it removed all of the duplicate contacts (keeping the Exchange contacts). I then turned off syncing contacts (and hit apply). Then I immediately deleted the bogus contact and then the bogus group. This took care of the problem with only ONE complaint: (and yes this is being finicky), I still have the group listed on my iPhone even though it’s gone/empty. I wish that could be deleted too (minor complaint). This probably was simple enough that it wasn’t mentioned but I thought it would be helpful.
Thanks to all of you for the options (and yes it worked quickly and simply).
B

By: sheryar

sheryar — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:56:14 +0000

HERE IS THE SOLUTION
http://manismani.blogspot.com/2008/03/delete-all-contacts-from-iphone-using.html

By: Nasir Vazir

Nasir Vazir — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:45:55 +0000

Most commonly you would want to clear all contacts in the iPhone and re-sync with contacts in Outlook.
In iTunes select your iPhone under DEVICES from the left column.
Click on Info tab. Go down to Advanced section and select Contacts under “Replace information on this iPhone”
Click on Apply and click on Sync. This will clear all contacts on your iPhone and replace with the contacts in Outlook.
Don’t forget to uncheck the above Advanced selection and click on Apply.

Good practice: In Outlook create a new sub-folder under Contacts by the name of IPHONE.
In iTunes, Info tab, under Contacts click on “Add contacts created outside of groups in this iPhone to”, select IPHONE from the drop down menu. This will capture any contacts that are stored in iPhone contacts that do not belong to any Group in the IPHONE folder in Outlook.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:12:20 +0000

Best way is go to info on itunes and give a fresh yahoo or google email id in “sync contacts with” and say sync. It will ask for merge or replace. Then choose replace. works!!!