How do you permanent delete one email address for a contact that they no longer use?

Then see what I worked in my post above. I copied and listed it for you here.

If it is an address that appears when you start to type in the To: field when composing an email, tap the blue “I” next to the email address, then swipe down in the next window and tap Remove From Recents.

These are screenshots on my iPad, but the process works the same way on the iPhone.

azstorm wrote:

How do you permanent delete one email address for a contact that they no longer use?

The same way that you delete any contact information. Edit the contact and save it. Is that not working for you? If not, you need to explain in more detail.

If it is an address that appears when you start to type in the To: field when composing an email, tap the blue “I” next to the email address, then swipe down in the next window and tap Remove From Recents.

My wife is having exactly this problem which we have solved in the past as instructed above with the red “Remove From Recents”. However, now, she is not offered the “Remove From Recents” option. We both have iOS 14.6. Mine works, hers does not. Hers does not work on both her iPhone and iPad. Is this an iCloud thing?

I think I fixed it. This bogus email address keeps coming up in the TO: field. It had a blue “i”info tag, but pressing that no red “Remove From Recents” was an option. So I then sent a bogus email to this bogus address, which is sure to fail delivery.

Then when typing in the To: field in a new email, the blue “i “ and the red “Remove From Recents” both appear.

The bogus address seems to be gone now.

It’s not an iCloud thing as far as I know. This only works for contacts that are not in your contacts app.

Nope, it did not fix it. As soon as the delivery failure message arrived, back to the same scenario with no red “Remove From Recents”. Bummer.