Quite often, iPhone users face a seemingly simple task - to clean the contact book from unnecessary contacts. However, it is impossible to quickly and massively delete unnecessary contacts using standard iOS tools, which is why the task is no longer so easy.
Contacts on iPhone
It is not difficult to clear the number entry manually. The user needs:
- Go to "Contacts", find the entry "sentenced" to be deleted.
- At the top right, click the "Edit" button.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the next screen. There you can see the "Delete contact" button, click on it.
- Confirm again that the iPhone owner no longer needs the record.
In this way, it is good to "clean up" one or two contacts, but sometimes it is necessary to simultaneously erase the list of numbers at once. You cannot use the manual method here, since it will take a lot of time to "clean".
How to Delete All Contacts from iPhone
- Download the Smart Merge application from the App Store to the iPhone.
- Run the app and import all contacts.
- Open the "All Contacts" section.
- In the upper right corner, you will notice a pencil-shaped edit icon. Click on it.
- Now we individually tick the contacts that we want to delete. If you want to delete all contacts on the iPhone at once - click on the check mark in the circle in the upper right corner to select the entire list of contacts.
How to Delete Multiple Contacts from iPhone at the Same Time
- Go to iCloud.com from your computer.
- Log in with your iCloud account information.
- Select the Contacts app.
- Hold down Ctrl and select several contacts that you want to delete from iPhone.
- Press Del and confirm deleting contacts.
Another way:
- Connect the gadget to a PC or laptop using a standard USB cable.
- Launch the itunes program on your computer, go through authorization by entering your username and password in the login window.
- The device linked to the account should automatically appear in the upper right corner. If this did not happen, go to the "Devices" section and select the gadget you need to delete contacts. Click on the phone icon.
- A new page appears with device settings. In the list you need to select the item "Information" (Info).
- In the new window, check the box next to "Sync Contacts", then select the option of synchronization in the drop-down list - Windows Contacts or Outlook. Below in the same submenu, press the All Contacts button.
- Synchronization must be enabled with an empty program, where there are no contacts in the database, then the phone will be cleared. Otherwise, the list stored in the program on the PC will be added to the phone book.
- Scroll down the page even further, to the "Advanced" field, where you need to select the "Contacts" item.
- At the bottom right, click the Apply button.
- The system will automatically give a warning about the replacement of information from the phone book. To agree, you must again click the "Change information" (Apply) button.
- It takes a few minutes to complete the deletion - and the phone book is completely clean.
