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Remove Groups on iPhone

I keep running into dead ends when I search for this topic... most have something to do with MobileMe. So here is my specific situation:

All my contacts lived on my iMac. Girl meets iPhone. All contacts are sync'd with the iPhone. All is right with the world.

Girl has to get rid of iMac and moves to a Windows 7 machine with Outlook 2003 (the only legal copy she had). Contacts sync from iPhone to Outlook just beautifully.

All contacts are in Outlook but not in groups of any sort. They are there all combined from the 2 groups I had before (mine and my husband's). This is fine with me... no problem at all... except now I want the darn groups off the iPhone. I can't figure out how to completely remove them. I even tried setting iTunes to replace the iPhone contacts and yet the groups are still there. I just wanna go back to the days before there were groups! 🙂

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Posted on Sep 17, 2010 1:38 PM

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Sep 17, 2010 1:47 PM in response to HappyMommy

If you want to remove all the contacts from your phone, create an "empty" group in Outlook(make sure there are no entries in this group), select this group and only this group to sync to your phone, you should get a merge or replace prompt when you hit the sync button, select replace. All of the contacts on your phone should be deleted.

Nov 4, 2011 9:20 AM in response to HappyMommy

With the amount of views this post has I figured I'd post an update that I finally figured out how to do this.


In iTunes, I changed the contact sync to be my Windows Contacts instead of Outlook. After a sync, the groups I wanted to rid myself of appeared in my Windows Contacts. I deleted them, synched the phone again and they were gone from my phone. Then I just switched back to synching with Outlook and it's all good! 🙂

Remove Groups on iPhone

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