Deleting Old Email Addresses From Cache?

The easier way is to simply select remove from recents. See the procedure above.

I'll repeat it here.

Start an email

Select the annoying address you want removed

Select info blue circle at right

Select remove

Select remove from recents down at bottom

Done

That is not the easier way, that is the only way unfortunately and also very tedious one if you have hundreds of email contacts. The easier way would be one simple button "clear cache" to delete all at once.

The only alternative to going and deleting the unwanted email contact from recent list one by one is to bring the device to its original state by resetting it in iTunes.

Then if you do not want to mix business with private just use third party app for private email and ios mail app for business or vice versa. This is how I make sure that each message goes to the correct inbox.

Glad that works for you.

The posts are asking how to delete a single or few bad email addresses.

Deleting them as you find your mistakes is faster and easier that deleting all your auto fill addresses. Because now you have to reselect each one. You are suggesting a way to clear the cache which is good for other reasons but not the best way to remove one or two addresses you typed wrong.

I also wanted to remove one of the email addresses from my prevoius email addresses which automaticaly suggested in the list. I often mixed up the names and send email to the wrong person. So I found this thread. While reading it I went back to my mac mail and found Previous Recipients Under Window in the main menu bar. clicked on it and it opened all the emails I recieved in cache. So I found the one I wanted to remove and removed it from the list.

Now that address doesn't appear automatically when I put the first letters of my other recipient. Mystery solved for me. If this solution doesn't relate to this thread, hope it at least helps those who have the same problem as me.

I just tested this. You only see a lower case letter i inside a circle if the email address is cached ie not in your current Contacts. To test this, try deleting a Contact then emailing the same Contact. Their name will appear or auto fill because its cached. At this point you should see the lower case letter i inside a circle mentioned earlier.

I'm sure the original poster was referring to iOS 5. Similarly all posts resolving the problem are on later versions of iOS. Unfortunately the original iPad is not supported on iOS 6 or above which leaves all users of iPad 1 in the same position. The answer is not to buy a new iPad as this is just absurd.

My option will be to try mymail app as suggested in the later posts. If anyone knows an app that can clean up spotlight then I'd happily use that to keep the use consistent.

ELvisisdog

i know how frustrating it is when you could have literally thousands of unwanted email in duplicate in cache.

I got rid of the problem, but you need to reset your iPad and start afresh. I then installed Mymai from google (SeeMy letter on the 12th January) this is tthe only way possible you will rid the problem for good.

There is no little button or circles on the iPad. There may be on the iPhone, but on the iPad mail goes through spotlight and there is absolutely no other way to get rid of these mails. My friend was in New York and went to the

Apple shop, and they could not get rid off them. Some people don't seem to mind, but I think it could be a security risk when Banks or other organisations send you mail.

MYmail is is absolutely free, and you can have several email addresses, when you delete your mail it is gone for good. I can now enjoy using my IPad because I am in charge of what I want to keep or get rid of.

if the problem is annoying you as much as it annoyed me, then go ahead and give it a try. But you need to reset your IPad, but you can always save anything like music or pictures through your computer, then put them back after you reset your IPad. This is the only way possible because I have rung Apple but no Joy.

I'm annoyed there isn't a way to delete old contacted emails. I no longer want to see them as an option. How do i get rid of them? On newer iPhones you have a blue arrow next to each contact in the Dropbox as you type an address, that's where you can choose what to do with that contact. On the older one, like I have, I don't have that option. They're stuck there. How do I get rid of them? Please help me apple!

I also want to delete ALL of the cached email addresses, not just one at a time. The reason is in my case I had my wife signed in on her iPad to my iCloud account at first. Then she created her own iCloud account and signed into that, but the email app still has all of my email addresses in the cache. There must be a thousand of them, so deleting them one at a time is just not practical. And I really don't want to reset and rstore the iPad to get rid of the cache. I hope this gets fixed in iOS 8.

Thanks helpful even if it is one address at once. To emphasise Crash2Plan the old email address must not be in the contacts otherwise no i blue circle appears. The blue circle indicates it is in recent but not in contacts. Does mean you need two step procedure remove old email from contacts and then remove from recent. Would be good if when email removed from contacts it was also removed from recents and this would mean users did not have to get into this complexity. No good suggesting to apple though as suggestions seem to go into a black hole.

Jumping in late I know but I've had this same issue for a long time. I have a MBP, iPad, iPhone, and iCloud. I sync all devices via the cloud.

I've reset all devices, reformatted the MBP. Also deleted ALL backup files for the iOS devices... started fresh with the exception of my Apple ID. Once the devices sync, all my old recent email addresses return... Some for years ago return.

So I started a totally new Apple ID and account. I had exported my contacts from my mac so I wouldn't have to retire them all. All was well until I imported my contacts.. All the recent email addresses returned again. I tried deleting all the address book files on my mac which didn't

To test that this was my contact import, I cleared all devices, setup another Apple ID and manually entered some of my contacts. Seemed to work... but then I lost all my apps from my original Apple ID.

So I started over and but did not turn on iCloud for contacts. That worked too but then it became a pain to make sure I sync'd so... I turned on iCloud and now had all my recent addresses back..

I then went and deleted each one of the recent addresses and will wait for apple to fix this..

Very frustrating

This is ABSOLUTELY the way to do it, at least on my laptop. All other suggestions assume that you're trying to delete an address that you have in Contacts that is no longer valid. Window --> Previous Recipients will list those addresses you misspelled and the darn things keep showing up after you've corrected your mistake. Thank you for making this so simple!

Agreed, it's really annoying. What's even worse is that when I type in someone's name to email from iPhone, it suggests all the combinations of people I've previously cc'd with that person, so finding the person in isolation is time consuming, This is in addition to deleting unwanted previous recipients. There should be a simple delete all previous recipients as there is in OSX Mail. Inspectorgg is typical of some arrogant people who don't like to admit Apple has any faults and probably only uses his kit for gaming and doesn't understand practical issues.

I'm having the same problem with iOS9 on both an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 5. Annoying obsolete addresses keep popping up and there's no longer a way to get rid of them. How ridiculous!

I'm really disappointed that iOS9 would remove such a needed feature. It's one thing to add useful features but quite another to eliminate useful features!

I'm certainly going to warn my friends of this problem in iOS9 and suggest they stay FAR AWAY!

Once you go into window and see "Previous Recipients", you can use the Shift key to select a range using the mouse. I opened up that window and was surprised that I had email addresses from 2011 in the list...so I deleted them all.