No option to delete entries in the Contacts app

Did Apple remove the ability to delete contacts in macOS Big Sur? This is crazy! The delete option is not found in the right-click context menu OR can people be removed by tapping delete on the keyboard. What's going on?


iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on May 19, 2021 11:11 AM

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Posted on May 19, 2021 11:42 AM

As a clarification, it looks like this problem only applies when trying to delete a contact from within a group. If you go to "All Contacts", and then right click on any of them, the option to delete appears. This has been a recent change, because I have been deleting contacts from within groups for years with no problem until now. Perhaps this is another unwanted feature that Apple included in the Big Sur release?

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May 19, 2021 11:42 AM in response to Owl-53

As a clarification, it looks like this problem only applies when trying to delete a contact from within a group. If you go to "All Contacts", and then right click on any of them, the option to delete appears. This has been a recent change, because I have been deleting contacts from within groups for years with no problem until now. Perhaps this is another unwanted feature that Apple included in the Big Sur release?

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No option to delete entries in the Contacts app

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