Comments on: Delete contacts on iPhone

By: KcKr

KcKr — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:57:57 +0000

The ContactDel worked great. Thanks!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:34:29 +0000

Many thanks to The Truth. You are a wise and kind person.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:49:14 +0000

EASY!!!! just install the free app mass sms cantacts lite. and you will be able to delete your entire contact list with one click!

By: anna

anna — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:09:14 +0000

thanks @the truth!!!!

did the yahoo thingy and it works!!!! not more than 5 mins!!!

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:20:27 +0000

You need ContactDel iPhone app:
ContactDel provides many ways to delete your contacts in batch on iPhone and iPod Touch. Use ContactDel to save time when cleaning up your address book.

Features:
1. Delete All: The easiest way to delete all contacts on your iPhone and iPod Touch, just push the button, the App does the rest.
2. Delete by Name: list your contacts by names, check-mark in batch and delete in batch.
3. Restore: you can restore major information of previous deleted contacts at anytime.

By: Dr. Talal

Dr. Talal — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:36:53 +0000

Its possible to delete all contacts at once, one way is through itunes, incase u dont want to delete contacts from itunes, then i had a program windows contacts which had to contacts saved in it, so i just synced my i phone with windows contacts and it automatically deleted all the previous contacts

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