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User profile for user: nomis1934
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Stop transfering email contacts to IPhone

How do I stop Gmail automatically sending my email contacts to my Iphone?


What and where do I have to go to shut off Gmail from automatically sending my email contacts to my phone?

Posted on Mar 24, 2023 2:17 PM

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User profile for user: faith185
faith185
User level: Community Specialist

Posted on Mar 26, 2023 8:05 AM

Hello nomis1934,


Welcome to Apple Support Communities. You can disable Contacts for your Gmail account by taking these steps from Manage and delete contacts on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support.


"Turn Contacts on or off for an account

Want to add or remove all of the contacts from an account that you already set up? Just turn Contacts on or off for that account:

  1. Go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts.
  2. Tap the account that has contacts that you want to add or remove.
  3. To add contacts, turn on Contacts. To remove contacts, turn off Contacts, then tap Delete from My iPhone."


All the best.

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User profile for user: faith185
faith185
User level: Community Specialist

Mar 26, 2023 8:05 AM in response to nomis1934

Hello nomis1934,


Welcome to Apple Support Communities. You can disable Contacts for your Gmail account by taking these steps from Manage and delete contacts on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support.


"Turn Contacts on or off for an account

Want to add or remove all of the contacts from an account that you already set up? Just turn Contacts on or off for that account:

  1. Go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts.
  2. Tap the account that has contacts that you want to add or remove.
  3. To add contacts, turn on Contacts. To remove contacts, turn off Contacts, then tap Delete from My iPhone."


All the best.

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nomis1934 Author
User level: Level 1
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Mar 26, 2023 7:56 PM in response to nomis1934

The reply was wonderful telling me there are people out there that truly assist others. Thank you. The issue was Google and Iphone. I just purchased a new IPhone 14. The switch was on to sync from my computer and from the Icloud. Ended up with over 700 contacts, some going back to 1995 from the cloud - a number of them no longer living. Every new email I got including spam and junk were sent to my Iphone. So instead of having one John Smith, I had ten or fifteen. Now each one has to be displayed because I have already deleted a few that had the phone number. Again, thank you for what you did send me.

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