How To Delete My Number From Iphone

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   Open Contacts. It's an app with a person-shaped silhouette on a grey background and colored tabs along the right side.

   • Alternatively, you can access Contacts from the Phone app by tapping the Contacts icon at the bottom of the screen.

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   Tap a contact's name. Doing so will open their contact page.

   • To search for a specific contact, tap the Search bar at the top of the screen and type in their name.

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3. 3

   Tap Edit . It's in the upper-right corner of the screen. Doing so will allow you to make changes to this person's contact page, including deleting the contact altogether.

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   Scroll down and tap Delete Contact . It's at the bottom of the contact's page.

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   Tap Delete Contact again when prompted. You'll see this prompt at the bottom of the screen. After doing so, the contact will be deleted from your iPhone.

   • You won't see a "Delete" option for contacts added from other apps like Facebook.
   • If your iPhone is connected to your iCloud account, the contact will be deleted on all your connected devices.

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   Open Settings. It's a grey app containing gears (⚙️) that's typically located on the home screen.

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   Tap your Apple ID. It's the section at the top of the menu that contains your name and image if you've added one.

   • If you are not signed in, tap Sign in to (Your Device), enter your Apple ID and password, then tap Sign In.
   • If you are running an older version of iOS, you may not need to do this step.

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   Tap iCloud . It's in the second section of the menu.

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   Slide "Contacts" to the "Off" position. It will turn white, and you will be prompted to delete all of the iCloud contacts stored locally on your iPhone.

5. 5

   Tap Delete from My iPhone . All of the contacts that you had synced with your iCloud account will be deleted from your iPhone. These contacts include any locally saved information (e.g., manually added contacts).

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   Open Settings. It's a grey app containing gears (⚙️) that's typically located on the home screen.

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   Scroll down and tap Contacts . You'll find it about a third of the way down the Settings page.

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   Tap Accounts . It's at the top of the page.

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   Tap an email account. At the very least, you'll see iCloud on this page.

   • For example, you'd tap Gmail to open your Contacts settings for a Gmail account.

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   Slide the "Contacts" to the "Off" position. It will turn white, signifying that the contacts from your selected email account are no longer appearing in your iPhone's Contacts app.

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   Open your iPhone's Settings. It's the grey app containing gears (⚙️) that's typically located on the home screen.

2. 2

   Scroll down and tap Contacts . You'll find it about a third of the way down the Settings page.

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   Slide "Contacts Found in Apps" to the "Off" position. It's at the bottom of the screen; the button will turn white. You'll no longer see contact suggestions from apps in your iPhone's Contacts app or in the autocomplete field for Messages and Mail.

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   Separate your contacts into groups. You can create groups for your family, your business associates, your friends from the gym, etc. That way, you can hide entire categories of contacts from the list without having to remove them completely.

   • To manage groups, tap the Groups button at the top-left of the Contacts screen.

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   Tap the groups you want to hide. When they are checked, they are visible. When they're unchecked, they'll be hidden from your contact list.

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   Tap Done when finished. Your contact list will now only display the groups you have chosen.

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Add New Question

• Question

  Once a contact is deleted, can that contact reappear in your directory?

  

  The only way this would happen would be if you sync with iCloud and the contact is still in your iCloud account.

• Question

  Siri has added a contact as my card, but it's not me. How do I change it?

  

  You should be able to open the phone app, click on contacts, and at the very top it should say "my number" with your phone number and possibly your name. Click that to open it, and there should be a spot to click "use as my contact card." You may have to click edit in there first.

• Question

  Why can't I delete all my contacts? Some are from Facebook and cannot be removed.

  

  Go to your phone settings. Scroll to Facebook. Look for "Allow These Apps to Use Your Account." Tap the slider off. Go back to your contacts list, and the ones that were merged from Facebook will be gone.

• Question

  How do I delete a contact out of a group contact but still keep them as a contact?

  

  What you do is name them. Make sure the contact has a name, then go to the group, press details, and swipe to your left - then you can remove normally from the group, but you'll still have the contact listed under their name in your contacts.

• Question

  How do I add a person onto my contacts?

  

  Go into the Contacts app. Hit the plus button. Enter the information about the person you want to be in your contacts. Once you are done, hit 'done'.

• Question

  When I scroll down in my contacts app on my iPhone 5C, there is no "delete" option. What can I do?

  

  Click on the person's name, then edit, then scroll down to delete.

• Question

  How do I create groups of contacts?

  

  Log onto iCloud on desktop or laptop, go to Contacts, and create a new group. Then drop contacts in the new group. For it appear in your Apple device, you need to make sure you have iCloud contacts enabled. Go to Settings> iCloud> Contacts> On.

• Question

  What do I do if I have contacts I added manually and later deleted that still show up sometimes in some of my apps?

  

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  Community Answer

  There are two possible reasons: these contacts were cached inside those apps so they still have access to them, or these contacts are still synced with some cloud service.

• Question

  Why don't I see the delete option when I scroll down?

  

  Make sure you hit "Edit" first. If you don't hit "Edit," then you'll just be viewing the contact's information.

• Question

  How do I delete a lot of contacts on my iPhone?

  

  You will have to go to contacts and click on the name that you want to delete. Then, click "information" and then "delete." You will have to repeat this process for each contact that you want to delete.

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• If you've enabled Facebook syncing, you can quickly remove all Facebook contacts from your list by opening Settings, tapping Facebook, and sliding the Contacts button to the "Off" (white) position. Doing so hides the contacts from your Contacts app.

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• If you use iCloud to sync your contacts, do not check "Sync Address Book Contacts" in iTunes, or you will create duplicated data on your iPhone.

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1. Open the Contacts app.
2. Tap a contact.
3. Tap Edit.
4. Tap Delete Contact.
5. Tap Delete Contact to confirm.

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