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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

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  • by randers4,Solvedanswer

    randers4 randers4 Jul 17, 2014 11:18 AM in response to RAM
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    Jul 17, 2014 11:18 AM in response to RAM

    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.

  • by RAM,

    RAM RAM Jul 17, 2014 11:58 AM in response to randers4
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    Jul 17, 2014 11:58 AM in response to randers4

    Oh! I didn't realize the recents list was synched between devices + iCloud.com.  I'll use this method. Thanks!

  • by randers4,

    randers4 randers4 Jul 17, 2014 12:02 PM in response to RAM
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    Jul 17, 2014 12:02 PM in response to RAM

    You're welcome.

  • by Flak Jacket,

    Flak Jacket Flak Jacket Jul 7, 2015 5:58 AM in response to randers4
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    Jul 7, 2015 5:58 AM in response to randers4

    The problem is if you've got many combinations of addressee and cc's including a certain name. I have to go through several combinations before I find the person in isolation. These build up very quickly when you email lots and groups and cc's for business. You rarely email exactly the same people and should be able to disable if it's not appropriate for you, so it's bad design. It takes forever to delete them one by one in iOS. There should be delete all previous recipients as in OS X Mail. Plus disable storing previous recipient groups.

  • by AkPaparazzi,

    AkPaparazzi AkPaparazzi May 6, 2016 1:13 PM in response to randers4
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    May 6, 2016 1:13 PM in response to randers4

    This is no longer working and now icloud.com is bringing up recipients from years ago.  I have deleted them so many times.  I have even resulted in deleting every email received - sent - stored - trashed..... nothing works.  I logged out of every device I own and wiped them clean - icloud.com still comes up with these bogus "previous recipients".  It gets rid of them from the apple devise i am using but will not go away from the icloud.com.  I have even gone so far as to manually delete them one by one aa, ab, ac, ad... What a pain. Apple may not be able to get a virus - but what protects us from the hacking and hijacking from Apple?  Does anyone have a work-a-round?

  • by peterpib,

    peterpib peterpib Sep 26, 2016 8:14 PM in response to AkPaparazzi
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    Sep 26, 2016 8:14 PM in response to AkPaparazzi

    Yes, I have this problem also and it is very troubling.  Brings back bad memories!

  • by AkPaparazzi,

    AkPaparazzi AkPaparazzi Sep 27, 2016 11:05 AM in response to peterpib
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    Sep 27, 2016 11:05 AM in response to peterpib

    Mine are back again.  So tired of this being saved.  Wish Apple would stop with the spyware and get back to providing a quality product that helps us not drives us crazy.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Sep 27, 2016 4:15 PM in response to AkPaparazzi
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    Sep 27, 2016 4:15 PM in response to AkPaparazzi

    Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

     

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

     

     

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