36 Responses to “Delete a Contact from iPhone 3G”

1. NEED HELP says:

   July 30, 2010 at 5:08 am

   How do i delete an email address that pops up when I am composing an email. (the email address that i want to delete is NOT in my contacts)!!! THANKS!!!!!

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2. Judy says:

   July 7, 2010 at 5:52 am

   Here’s How to delete phone favorites that are not in your contacts:
   1.Tap the phone icon from the iPhone’s home screen.
   2.Tap the Favorites icon at the bottom left.
   3.Tap the “Edit” button in the top left.
   4.A red icon will appear next to each favorite in the list. Tap the red icon.
   5.This will bring up a “remove” button to the right of the favorite you just selected. Tap the “remove” button.
   6.The favorite has been removed from the list and you’re looking at your newly updated favorites list.

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3. kelly says:

   May 12, 2010 at 5:44 am

   did anyone figure out a way to delete OLD EMAIL ADDRESS that are not in your contact list … help?

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4. Jeannie says:

   April 24, 2010 at 1:18 pm

   I really need to know how to delete an email contact from iPhone 3G. I know how to delete phone contacts, it’s these strange email addresses I have to scroll thru when I want to send an email. It’s a pain. Any help with this would be great. Thanks

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5. Logan says:

   April 20, 2010 at 2:13 am

   Hi Guys,

   Quick one (i hope)
   I’ve just upgraded from iPhone 3G to 3GS. Apple says that I need to:
   - Back up my old 3G onto iTunes
   - Re-sync my new 3GS onto iTunes. This restores my old phone settings (contacts, mail, preferences etc.) onto my new phone

   This all worked fine

   What I need now though is to essentially wipe my old phone (3G). The general consensus has been to use iTunes but if I do that I will mess up my iTunes account for my new phone (i.e. next time I sync 3GS I’ll lose everything).

   Any ideas how to do bulk delete without changing my existing account?

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6. jaqueline says:

   April 18, 2010 at 3:52 pm

   i have no idea how to erase contacts on an iphoneat once

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7. Zoe says:

   March 28, 2010 at 12:41 am

   Hi how do I delete from favourites list?? I’ve deleted it from contacts but not still there as a number with no name…. Starting to regret gettin a iPhone not very modern for the amount we pay!!!

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8. vernon says:

   February 25, 2010 at 12:18 pm

   thanx saves me going mad

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9. Dean says:

   February 23, 2010 at 2:46 am

   How do you delete a single email contact or edit an email address that
   has changed. It is not listed in the contacts when you tap the contacts
   icon. It’s not a phone number it’s an email address

   drivin me crazy!!!

   Dean

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10. Emrah says:

    February 11, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    if you want to delete all your contacts from your iPhone there is the simplest way.

    start>search>type in “contacts”> open folder> select all of them> delete.

    then go to your itunes and sync your iphone u will see no contacts

    thats so easy isnt it?

    if you want to keep your contact create a new folder on your desktop or whatever you want name it whatever you want. copy all your contacts from contacts folder, paste them to new folder you created.

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11. ned says:

    February 10, 2010 at 5:11 am

    #24 Dominic!
    Your Gmail solution worked a treat!!
    Many thanks!!!

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12. Jeannie says:

    January 30, 2010 at 6:51 am

    I need to delete an email contact. When I go to send an email all sorts of email addresses are popping up, making it a pain to scroll thru them to get to the one I want. Don’t want to delete any phone contacts. iPhone 3G

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13. Dominic says:

    January 27, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    There is a simple way to wipe out your contacts. you need to add a gmail account into your iphone. At the end of the process before your iphone sync with google, there’s an option to delete all contact in your iphone. Here is the detail process: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

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14. markIV says:

    January 26, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    This has been frustrating me as well. Apparently it’s not possible via software:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1957298

    But, I called Apple and was told that if I delete my mail account from the phone and then put it back on, the emails should be wiped. Any thoughts on that? I think I’m going to try it.

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15. Ric says:

    January 18, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    I’m not completely dumb when it comes
    to tech junk but for some reason these DM emails that can not be erased elude me as well. Please help me get them off my iPhone. Thank you.

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16. Franco says:

    January 2, 2010 at 10:33 am

    Thanks from Italy

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