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How can I stop Microsoft outlook contacts showing/merging into my icloud contacts? I delete them and then they come back. Very frustrating and time wasting to have them just re-appear again after I've deleted them.
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Original Title: iCoud and Microsoft contacts
iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 26
To ensure that Outlook for iOS has no ability to interact with other contacts on the phone:
Settings > Apps > Outlook > Contacts > None
If you have your Microsoft email account configured to display in Contacts, disable that:
Settings > Apps > Contacts > Contacts Accounts > touch your Microsoft account > Disable Contacts
Then, clean up any contacts that you don't want and they should not re-appear.
To ensure that Outlook for iOS has no ability to interact with other contacts on the phone:
Settings > Apps > Outlook > Contacts > None
If you have your Microsoft email account configured to display in Contacts, disable that:
Settings > Apps > Contacts > Contacts Accounts > touch your Microsoft account > Disable Contacts
Then, clean up any contacts that you don't want and they should not re-appear.
How do I prevent Microsoft Outlook contacts from merging with iCloud contacts?
