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saeed.ayman Author

Level 1

113 points

How to delete Read-only Contact on iPhone

So, I recently have created an ordinary contact on my iPhone, then tried to delete it normally.

The thing is, I got a message saying "Not all contacts were deleted - One or more of the contact may be read-only".

I do not sync my contacts with any other email accounts unless my iCloud on my iPhone.

This is the first time I face such an error, and this happened the same day I have upgraded to the new iOS 15.4

Any ideas?

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iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 15

Posted on Mar 17, 2022 1:29 AM

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godgravity

Level 1

8 points

Posted on Apr 3, 2022 3:20 AM

So, I found a solution.

There’s several hundred “Me toos,” and more than this one thread containing complaints recently. Clearly this IS a new bug, and I concur it was introduced in 15

This is how I fixed it after observing the behavior:

open the affected contact, remove ALL fields so there’s no data left (no phone, no name, no email, etc. - clear EVERY field)
you will not be able to hit “Done,” until there’s at least some info somewhere, so I put three blank spaces in the field for “Notes” and then was able to hit “Done.”
close out Contacts, and reopen it - if you did like me, you’ll have a ton of “No names” at the bottom of your contacts
you should now be able to successfully remove these Contacts that you could not before

Sincerely,

Someone who works in software QA for decades…

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