Remove autocomplete email address from compose screen

Hi,

Launch Address Book on your Mac. You can delete an email address from there. Then connect your iPad to your Mac. Select the Info tab. Select: Sync Address Book Contacts

Click the Sync button bottom right corner of the iTunes window.

And open the Mac Mail app. From the menu bar click Window / Previous Recipients. You can delete data there also.









Carolyn 🙂

I wonder if resetting the dictionary would work? Settings>General>Reset>reset keyboard dictionary.

To manage addresses in your Previous Recipients list:

Choose Window > Previous Recipients.

In the Previous Recipients window, do any of the following:

To sort the list by name, email address, or the date the address was last used, click a column header.

To search for a name in the list, enter the name in the search field.

To view the card for a recipient who is already in your address book (a card icon precedes the recipient’s name), double-click the name.

To add one or more selected recipients to your address book, click “Add to Address Book.”

To remove one or more selected recipients from the list, click Remove From List.

Morgan,
Thanks for the response. This seems to work on my I Mac, but how would I do the same for my I Pad, which continues to store unwanted email addresses? Thanks for the help!

I too would love to know how to remove autocomplete mail addresses that show up when entering an address in the iPad's mail app, but which are not in the iPad Contacts app.

This solution is needed for my elderly mum's iPad -- she has some error-laden, non-functioning addresses that show up as suggested email addresses along with the correct address (located in her Contacts app) whenever she attempts to address an email to her friend. She often inadvertently selects one of the non-functioning addresses instead of the correct address (located in her Contacts app).

Scott R and Ben, I have the same problem with my mother-in-law's iPad. I can't delete all the faulty addresses she has mistakenly put in, and which show up all the time in autofill. She too frequently inadvertently selects one of the non-functioning addresses suggested by autofill, causing her much grief.

I tried creating new contacts from these faulty addresses, and then deleting them, but that doesn't work. There appears to be no way to delete them. Of course it's very easy on a Mac. But I sure would like to know how to on an iPad.

As there seems to be no local fix foe this annoying fault, your best approach is to use the iPad Feedback route and let Apple know you'd like them to address this.

Hi

I too have this issue

This will work but not suggested. Simply restore your ipad through iTunes. Use the restore option, but you have to setup your iPad again.

Next thing is, report this as a bug with apple. The more of us reporting this then it will be resolved. I plan on reporting.

Lastly, use that + sign instead of autocomplete with the contacts. If not in contacts then add to it first. So train in-laws and parents to do so.

Thought I would chime in from my new iPad.

Oh yeah forgot to mention two things.

1. When you restore remember to reset to the factory default. A restore from backup will not resolve this.

2. https://bugreport.apple.com is where you can report this bug. (I just did)

There is a way to fix this without jailbreaking, but it requires having at least some access to a Windows PC. See the following thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13164988#13164988

Good Luck!