Q: Purge email recent recipients list - iCloud.com web
Hi-
When I send an email to anyone from iCloud.com web site, that address gets "stored" in the recent recipients list, then in turn it pops back up to auto-populate the "To: " field letting me auto-complete email addresses when typing a few characters. This is normal behaviour and it's fine.
The problem is that I'd like to review and delete some addresses from that list so they no longer come up in the auto-complete suggested list.
The reason I want to do this is in the following example:
1) I send an email to my "Fred" -> fred@some.thing gets stored
2) I send another email, but this time is to Fred and Dave -> fred@some.thing + dave@some.thing gets stored (together)
3) I want to send a third email to Fred and start typing f-r-e... and I get presented with two options:
a- fred@some.thing
b- fred@some.thing & dave@some.thing
Now, say I never email Dave any more. I want to get rid of "choice b", so when I type Fred I don't have to choose, but just accept the default choice.
I realize this might look a little trivial, but it gets very cumbersome when dealing with many combinations of Fred, Dave, John, Paul, etc., plus, my addressbook stored contacts, plus the "recents" list and then the groups in contacts.
I guess if I could purge the list + prevent it from "auto-saving" recents, so I only get presented with my stored contacts + groups will do. Is there such an option?
TIA
Rick.
Posted on Jul 17, 2014 8:25 AM
You can't remove a previous recipient on iCloud.com, but if you have a Mac that is signed into your iCloud account you can open Mail and go to Window>Previous Recipients and delete them there. Or, from an iOS device you can start addressing a message and when the previous recipient that you want to delete appears, tap the "i" to the right of it, then tap Remove From Recipients. These changes will sync to iCloud and be reflected on iCloud.com as well.
Posted on Jul 17, 2014 11:18 AM