{"id":22259,"date":"2017-05-22T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=22259"},"modified":"2017-05-22T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:51:09","slug":"how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-from-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-from-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Multiple Contacts from iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iOS\u00a0known for its\u00a0simple to utilize, basic user experience. iPhones are\u00a0generally aimed at individuals who need their phones\u00a0to\u00a0simply<em> work<\/em>, which makes it even weirder\u00a0that you can\u2019t erase various contacts off your iPhone in one go. You need to delete them all one-by-one. So, what if you expected to delete, say, 50 contacts off your iPhone? Well, don\u2019t worry, because we have got your back.\u00a0Read on to discover<strong><em> how you can delete numerous contacts from iPhone using iCloud, and third party apps:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"delete-multiple-contacts-from-iphone-icloud\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Delete Multiple Contacts from\u00a0iPhone: iCloud<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason why Apple needs you to link your iPhone, Mac, and each other Apple gadget to\u00a0iCloud. It just creates it very\u00a0easy to\u00a0keep the gadgets in synchronize, and manage a lot of things about them. One such feature that iCloud offers, is the capability to delete multiple contacts easily;\u00a0<em>provided\u00a0<\/em>you have synchronized your contacts with iCloud. If you haven\u2019t, you ought to skip this section, and read the next one to learn how you can delete numerous contacts utilizing a third party app.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to utilize iCloud, however, this is how you can do it:<\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li>On a desktop browser,<strong>log in to the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/icloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iCloud website<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. Once you have logged in, simply click on \u201c<strong>Contacts<\/strong>\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/icloud-contacts.png\" alt=\"icloud-contacts\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/icloud-contacts.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/icloud-contacts-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here, you will see a list of all the contacts that are synced with your iCloud account.<strong>Choose the contacts that you want to delete<\/strong>. You can select multiple accounts by pressing and holding<strong>\u201ccommand\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0while you select them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/multiple-contacts-selected.png\" alt=\"multiple-contacts-selected\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/multiple-contacts-selected.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/multiple-contacts-selected-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/multiple-contacts-selected-470x264.png 470w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/multiple-contacts-selected-215x120.png 215w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/multiple-contacts-selected-414x232.png 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once\u00a0you have selected all the contacts that you want to delete, simply press \u201c<strong>command + delete<\/strong>\u201d on\u00a0the keyboard. Alternatively, you can click on the<strong>settings cog<\/strong>in the bottom left corner, and select\u00a0<strong>\u201cdelete\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/settings-cog-delete-300x249.png\" alt=\"settings-cog-delete-300x249\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will see an alert box,\u00a0asking for confirmation\u00a0to delete your contacts. Click on<strong>\u201cDelete\u201d,<\/strong>and the selected contacts will be deleted from iCloud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/confirm-deletion.png\" alt=\"confirm-deletion\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/confirm-deletion.png 500w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/confirm-deletion-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can now check in your iPhone\u2019s contacts app; all the contacts that you selected, and deleted from iCloud, will now be gone from your iPhone, too. This is\u00a0by far the easiest, and safest method to delete contacts from your\u00a0iPhone.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"delete-multiple-contacts-from-iphone-third-party-app\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Delete Multiple Contacts from iPhone: Third Party App<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>While the iCloud strategy is the technique I would generally recommend to everybody who is looking to delete\u00a0various contacts off their iPhones; if you don\u2019t have your iPhone contacts synchronized with iCloud, then the\u00a0previous method won\u2019t work for you. In such a case, you can utilize a third party application, called \u201cGroups\u201d, to delete multiple contacts off your iPhone.\u00a0Here is how you do it:<\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/in\/app\/groups\/id407855546?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Install<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Groups\u00a0from the iTunes store (Free). Once you have installed it, launch the app, and\u00a0allow it to\u00a0access your contacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/allow-access-to-contacts.png\" alt=\"allow-access-to-contacts\" width=\"317\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/allow-access-to-contacts.png 317w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/allow-access-to-contacts-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will see all of your contacts in the Groups app.\u00a0Just select the ones that you want to delete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/select-contacts.png\" alt=\"select-contacts\" width=\"317\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/select-contacts.png 317w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/select-contacts-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tap on \u201cChoose Action\u201c, and select \u201cDelete Contacts\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/delete.png\" alt=\"delete\" width=\"317\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/delete.png 317w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/delete-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will see an alert dialog asking you to confirm. Tap on \u201cRemove from my iPhone!\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/confirm-deletion-1.png\" alt=\"confirm-deletion\" width=\"317\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/confirm-deletion-1.png 317w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/confirm-deletion-1-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all, the contacts you selected will now be deleted from your iPhone.\u00a0The Groups application has a lot of\u00a0<strong>other choices to organize contacts<\/strong>, but we\u2019re not concerned with those at the moment. The application ought to work well sufficient to delete numerous contacts off your\u00a0iPhone, if you don\u2019t want to utilize iCloud.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"easily-remove-multiple-contacts-off-your-iphone-with-these-methods\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Easily Remove\u00a0Multiple Contacts off your iPhone With These Methods<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<p>So, these were the two methods that you can use to easily delete multiple contacts off your iPhone. I would recommend that you use the iCloud method, as it doesn\u2019t involve giving\u00a0a third party app access to your contacts. However, if you can\u2019t use iCloud, or if you\u00a0don\u2019t have\u00a0your\u00a0iPhone contacts synced with iCloud, you can definitely\u00a0use the Groups app, to delete multiple\u00a0contacts, as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Delete Multiple Contacts from iPhone &#8211; Mobile &#8211; these were the two methods that you can use to easily delete multiple contacts off your iPhone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51208,30044,46018],"tags":[64994,64990,64981,64975,64979,64991,64983,64988,64970,64989,64987,64980,64976,64977,64978,64992,64982,64984,64986,64974,64985,64971,64993,64973,64968,55849,64969,64972,55818,64966,64967,55807],"class_list":["post-22259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-ios","category-mobile","tag-all-contacts","tag-contact-delete","tag-delete-all-contact","tag-delete-all-contacts","tag-delete-all-contacts-from-iphone","tag-delete-contacts-app","tag-delete-contacts-from-iphone","tag-delete-contacts-in-iphone","tag-delete-multiple-contacts-in-iphone","tag-deleted-contacts","tag-how-to-delete-a-contact-in-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-all-contacts","tag-how-to-delete-all-contacts-from-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-all-contacts-in-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-all-contacts-on-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-contacts","tag-how-to-delete-contacts-from-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-contacts-in-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-contacts-on-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-duplicate-contacts-in-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-iphone-contacts","tag-how-to-delete-multiple-contacts","tag-how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-from-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-in-android","tag-how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-in-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-on-android","tag-how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-on-iphone","tag-how-to-delete-multiple-contacts-on-iphone-6s","tag-how-to-remove-duplicate-contacts-in-iphone","tag-keyword-delete-multiple-contacts","tag-multiple-contact-delete-app","tag-remove-duplicate-contacts-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}