How to delete Read-only Contact on iPhone

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Not sure if this will work for everyone, but I was having the same issue. I didn't want to remove the cloud sync as I have contacts from gmail, yahoo and iCloud that will have to be re-merged.

I went to the contacts app on my MacBook Pro and was able to delete them there. I changed each sync on the contacts app on my Mac from automatic to every minute. Waited a minute and refreshed contacts on my iPhone by pulling down and all the "read only" ones were gone from my phone. I wasn't able to delete them directly from the iPhone, but they are at least gone now!

"...Wouldn't the process above delete all contacts from my iPhone? I'm just trying to get rid of one. Thanks...."

The purpose of un-syncing snd removing the sync'd contacts is to see if any un-sync'd contacts remain on the phone.

By definition they could be the duplicates.

Try renaming the one duplicate as suggested later.

But I only want to delete duplicate contacts. One of my friends is listed 7 times for some strange reason. Every time I try to delete all but 1, I get that message. I tried the Settings, etc process. Was wondering when I turn on “ Allow changes”, do I then turn Off the Setting choices? Very confused. Was wondering if anyone had othis same problem. Thanks!!

I just did this and now SO MANY of my contacts are gone. Very important ones. Am I screwed? They’re gone forever? I thought they were to all come back and then I could try deleting the one I was trying to originally.

I actually fixed it this morning! I have an iPad so I checked the contacts on there and all of them were still there so I went to the iCloud settings, turned of the contacts (chose the keep option), turned it back on (chose the merge option), checked my phone and they were all back. I have no reasoning as to how or why that worked but it did. It’s frustrating you can’t just simply delete a contact from your phone. Definitely not worth all the trouble. I should’ve just blocked the contact instead.

You do not need to worry.

what I think it is is if you save a contact, a copy of that contact is saved on whatsapp, you have to manually delete that contact on whatsapp and then you can delete same from your contacts without getting the error message. Although the name would still appear, then turn siri suggestions off for that name. Sorted!!

I worked it out.

click on the contact which won’t delete, then press social profile (in my case it was suggesting they were on whatsapp) then add contact, then you can delete the normal contact as normal.

the social profile is causing the issue as it’s reading it from another app I think. I may have added these contacts from WhatsApp directly too.

I had the same problem so after following all the advice here, with no success, I logged into my iCloud on my laptop and accessed my contacts via the Contacts tile, clicked Edit (top LH corner) then Delete (bottom LH corner) . The two contacts I’ve been trying to delete since March are now gone, thanks to crowd sourcing! 😁

I don’t want to delete all my contacts only ones I may have added random a day before or week before.. same screen message I get. Only associated with iCloud. No other apps has access other than Whatsap. How can I delete like normal, never faced his issue before

I’ll tell you how I delete it.

so I go on any other app that has his/her number and delete them from there. Idk if you have WhatsApp or not but I delete their number from WhatsApp and then I go in contact and remove their digit from under their name and then it gets saved as a vacant contact. Then I ask Siri not to suggest this contact and done!

Just set the contact you want to delete as yourself:

Settings > Contacts > Info about me

Then go to Contacts app, at the very top click your card (the contact you've just set) then

Edit > Delete

It worked for me, I'm not telling that it will work for everyone

I had this same issue and absolutely none of the above helped. Luckily I was able to work it out for myself though!

The contact I was trying to delete had a chat archived in WhatsApp, once I deleted the WhatsApp chat my phone allowed me to delete the contact.

I had this issue with a contact . I tried all that was stated but I went into the contact, press edit then delete the actual phone number and saved the contact without a number. After that I went back in and pressed edit then I was able to delete the entire contact. It disappeared out of my contact list after that . Hope this helps!

What if the contacts still appear on the contacts app after restarting the device