I’m trying to remove contacts from a contact list without luck. I’ve tried highlighting the contacts I want to remove from the list and hitting the delete button on the keyboard without luck. I’ve also tried highlighting the contact and going to the edit button both in the list and the top menu, again without luck. I have an Apple MacBook Air with the latest OS. Can anyone help?
MacBook Air 15″, macOS 26.6
Re: "How to remove a contact from a contact list"
Create and change lists in Contacts on Mac - Apple Support
Eg: says:
"Remove contacts from a list
Re: "How to remove a contact from a contact list"
Create and change lists in Contacts on Mac - Apple Support
Eg: says:
"Remove contacts from a list
Thank you for trying that ... sorry it didn't help.
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Re: "Under the edit menu at top of the screen,
both the delete and remove from list opens are greyed out"
This earlier discussion thread says that you cannot delete contacts from "Smart" lists" "Remove from Contact" option greyed out o… - Apple Community
Perhaps the list in question is a "Smart" list!
Apple support's article:
Create and change Smart Lists in Contacts on Mac - Apple Support
Eg: says:
"Edit a Smart List
You can’t add or remove contacts directly in a Smart List.
To change who’s included in the Smart List, you must change its criteria.
I worked out the problem. Closing the App did the trick. Thanks for your help
Delete contacts in Contacts on Mac - Apple Support
There are a variety of ways to delete a contact card.
Do any of them work?
Ok thanks. To confirm, you are attempting to remove a Contact that is not in a read-only account such as Google and Yahoo? That Support document explains "you must delete the contacts directly in Google or Yahoo, for example."
Other than that suggestion I'm out of ideas for now.
I did experience an odd Contacts behavior recently. In attempting to resolve it I used "Look for duplicates..." which found a number of duplicated Contacts. That fixed things. It seems unrelated to your concern though.
You may want to try restarting your Mac: ie: Apple menu > Restart
ie: Deletes temporary files, re-establishes connections, may update recent setting changes, and more. Often restores order if something is not working as expected.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work. When I hit the delete button, nothing happens
G’day John-doesn’t work. Under the edit menu at top of the screen, both the delete and remove from list opens are greyed out
The email I want to remove appear to have a variety of accounts and none allow me to remove them from the list.
I’ve re-started the Mac with no change. I’ve also tried to delete the whole list to start from fresh, again with the same results (can’t delete the list).
Good to know you found a way that worked for you! Cheers :-)
How to remove a contact from a contact list
