How to hide some contacts from Yahoo's address book?

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How to hide some contacts from Yahoo's address book?

I have recently acquired the iPhone 5 and am very impressed with it. I like the idea of using contacts from the iPhone, iCloud, GMail and Yahoo and linking them together in a unified contact, very cool idea!

The problem that I have is that I have some contacts in my address book in Yahoo that are there just so that messages from those email addresses are not bounced to the Junk folder. I want to keep them around but I do not want them clogging up my iPhone.

I can delete them from the iPhone but does this delete them from my yahoo account as well or is there a way of just hiding them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

//*eggbox

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 3:01 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 25, 2012 11:43 PM in response to eggbox23

I can tell you: Yahoo tools are mass. I have faced lot for troubles with it.

My suggestion: use Yahoo account to send/receive emails and that's it. If you try to sync contacts, calendars or something else, it will gives you headache for long time.

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eggbox23 Author

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Sep 26, 2012 5:22 PM in response to Kaka Dongguan

That is a cop out, there is obviously a need to have unified contacts otherwise Apple would not have gone to the trouble of providing the feature in the first place. The hole in the feature (in my opinion) is that it assumes that every contact in Yahoo, Facebook and GMail are equal when they are not.

I have a workaround but it is not pretty, I created a dummy entry and linked every email address that I am not interested in to this contact, so they are "hidden" as such in a single entry. The problem with this approach is that it takes a long time to get everything in the unified contact (lots of scrolling), also, there is no way of managing this through iTunes (on a PC in my instance).

Bottom line is that it is a pain (you said that it would be) but there is no real alternative unless anyone else knows otherwise.

//*eggbox23

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