Delete a Contact From iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

by Mitch

in iPhone, SmartPhone

Delete a contact from the Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with these steps.

1. Open the Contacts app.

iOS Contacts icon

2. Choose the contact you wish to get rid of.

3. Tap Edit. (If you don’t see an Edit button, view this post.)

iOS Contact Edit button

4. Scroll down and tap Delete Contact.

iOS Delete Contact button

The ability to delete multiple contacts is not available within the Apple iOS system. You will need a third-party app such as Cleanup for such capability.

Last modified April 1, 2012



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Jules April 5, 2013 at 1:53 am

I’ve deleted the contact but when I put in the first letter of that ontact in the ‘To…..’ on a new message it still brings up that contact!! Even though it has been deleted????

Alan March 21, 2013 at 11:17 am

I’d use a third party tool like this one if I were to delete multiple contacts at once from my iPhone:

http://www.copytrans.net/copytranscontacts.php

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