I have noticed many contact cards in my Contacts that I didn't add. They are people I sent emails to using Apple Mail on my Mac. How do I stop this from happening? Running the new iOS17 on a new iPhone 15 plus.
iPhone 15 Plus, iOS 17
I had this happen and found out how to fix it, for me at least.
On your Apple device where they appear, go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts > Choose the account that is causing this issue. In my case, it was Gmail. Choose Gmail, then disable Contacts. It will show:
Turn off Contacts
Are you sure you want to continue? All Gmail contacts will be removed from your phone.
Delete from My iPhone
Cancel.
I chose Delete from My iPhone and it removed all of the new ones that were added.
I am having the same issue with outlook. So I believe this is an iOS issue. What I have going on is, when work sends me an email, with contact information for someone else (phone numbers are the issue I am having) it is adding that phone number from the email I receive to that persons contact record in my phone. That phone number belongs to someone else. So person A, (who is in my contacts) sends me an email to call person B (who is ALSO in my contacts) my iphone see's that email and adds person B's phone number to person A's contact record. I found this out by mistake, when I sent a text message to person A and the text went to person B!! (which created quite a problem...as you can imagine) so how do I turn this off? I can not find any option other than turning off my contact sync in the outlook part under the settings/mail in my phone.
The issue is with iOS and new phones. All contacts been added saves as Gmail contacts rather than iCloud contacts. When trying to switch off Gmail account all contacts get deleted. There's no sync either.
Check your settings under siri make sure suggestions is toggled off
I'm going to try this fix and will post again after a while to see if it has stopped. Thank you!
Any luck? Im having the same issue
It's Google. Go to Cortex21's post and follow the steps laid out. If you have more than one Google account, do it for all of them.
Using iphone 13 Pro and it is happening with Apple Mail on my iphone! Please help!
My contact list is now unmanageable!
Has anyone found a solution for this yet? This is so annoying.
This is not a solution to the root problem. If gmail is where your contacts are stored(as is my case) with this solution, you no longer have contacts.
This has been irritating me so badly for a while now.
thank you so much for the fix!
This resolved it all for me. As for "deleting and turning off contacts" on the "best" reply that is suggested on this topic is incorrect. The issue will only continue.
Yes, see Siddesh_Marula's suggestion IF you are using Google Contacts.
Super easy solution! Thank you.
I, too, am having this issue using Outlook on a Mac with every email address being added to the contact list in my iPhone.
Have you found a resolution for stopping it?
exactly. even though I create and save contacts in iCloud still shows as Gmail contacts. this is clearly iOS issue.
Contacts being added automatically on iPhone
