How come every time I delete a contact on my phone it deletes the contact in my Google account contacts? At some point my email contacts were linked to my phone. I don't want that. The only contacts that should be on my phone are the ones I manually enter on my phone.
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iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 12
It sounds like you have Contacts enabled and syncing from Google on your iPhone. Go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts > select your Google account > disable Contacts here. Keep in mind this means your contacts will no longer appear on the phone.
It sounds like you have Contacts enabled and syncing from Google on your iPhone. Go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts > select your Google account > disable Contacts here. Keep in mind this means your contacts will no longer appear on the phone.
Then, unfortunately because you did sync, you’ll likely have some manual steps to take, too. First, Go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts > select each account listed one by one and disable Contacts.
Now they are all off if any contacts you don’t want are still on the phone, delete them one by one. If any are missing, add them back one by one.
That's to be expected because they are all, even the new ones, being synced to your Google account, so if the Google account is turned off it will no longer sync the info anymore. You'll need to decide what account you want to sync the contacts thru instead, export the contacts from Google into a CSV(VCard) file and import them to the other account.
Exporting contacts per Google's instructions can be found at Export, back up, or restore contacts - Computer - Contacts Help (google.com)
If you want them to be thru your iCloud account, you can then import them to iCloud following Import, export, or print contacts on iCloud.com - Apple Support
I never had this problem before. Then Google started prompting me to sign in. I did and then it brought in all these email contacts I don't need on my phone. Then when I turned off the annoying iCloud thing, it decided to remove all my contacts too. I don't want to be creating accounts. How come I can't just turn off iCloud, manually delete all those email contacts and then be able to just work off contacts on my phone, always manually entered? This seems way too complicated.
Thanks. But why is it that ever since I logged into gmail after being constantly harassed by the notifications, it sticks like glue? Now I have these two contacts accounts: iCloud (which is useless to me) and Gmail (which is not for phones!). When I turn off the Gmail one it wipes every contact out! This never used to be an issue. I would manually input contacts and there was no interference from anything else. What happened???
That's the problem. It wipes out everyone, including all the ones I manually entered.
Can someone please help?
appleneeds1 wrote:
Can someone please help?
You've been given the solution.
Nobody responded to my follow-up question.
Please help
Let’s start over, then I can reexplain you the solution already provided, but specific to your answers. What account do you want to use as the sole account you sync your contacts to?
Thanks. I don't want any syncing. It's useless. My phone contacts and email contacts should have nothing to do with one another. It's a dumb idea in the first place.
I’m not going to answer those questions/comments yet again. I’ve explained the solution three times, now it’s up to you to take it or leave it.
I'm looking for reasons so I understand it.
Every time I delete a contact on my iPhone the contact gets deleted in my Google account
