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Contacts

Is there a quick way to delete contacts instead of having to open each one, edit and delete?

iPhone 11, iOS 13

Posted on Dec 27, 2019 11:50 PM

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Posted on Dec 28, 2019 12:08 AM

Log into the iCloud website https://www.icloud.com, then click on Contacts. Select the contacts you want to delete, holding down the Control button to select more than one at a time. Then either hit the delete key on your keyboard, or click the settings button on the lower left and pick delete.


Axel F.

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Dec 28, 2019 12:02 AM in response to Freebird108

Use a web browser. It is the fastest and safest way.


Contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you had Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other


  1. How many Contacts account (email client server) you have?
  2. What is your default Contacts Account?
  3. Which email account you are using to store Contacts?


  • See the GIF below for Contacts and Default Account



  • Learn how to add an email account and make it default (Watch the GIF)
  • This example is for Gmail but the process remains same for all Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

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