topic Re: Deleting Contacts in Apple

Deleting Contacts

gemz4the1 — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:46:56 GMT

I was setting up my friends iPhone - but she was using someone elses sim - and I accidentally selected to copy all entries from the sim.

Is there an easier way of removing contacts which have been copied from the sim apart from deleting them one by one?

Re: Deleting Contacts

MI5 — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:52:01 GMT

Unless it's changed in later releases of iOS, you can't bulk delete on the phone - You have to hook up to iTunes and select contacts then advanced then replace information on this iPhone....

Re: Deleting Contacts

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:13:26 GMT

If their is not a lot of entires you would be better off deleting them through the contacts app in the iPhone.

Re: Deleting Contacts

gemz4the1 — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:25:46 GMT

I think there's a little over 100 contacts.......

Re: Deleting Contacts

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:31:17 GMT

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/batch-delete-contacts/

Re: Deleting Contacts

gemz4the1 — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:36:54 GMT

Thank you for that link BOB

Re: Deleting Contacts

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:44:19 GMT

No problem.

As MI5 said iTunes is an option and perhaps theirs an app that achieves bulk delete.

Re: Deleting Contacts

davethorp — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:08:15 GMT

There is the nuclear option too. Which would be to erase all content and settings in the settings/general/reset menu. Depending on how far you have got in the set up process it may be easier to start again.

Unless the contacts have synced to iCloud already in which case the method in BOBs link should get through them pretty quick

Re: Deleting Contacts

gemz4the1 — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:36:38 GMT

Thanks - I'll try that later

Re: Deleting Contacts

gemz4the1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:05:01 GMT

It turns out that the contacts were in fact not from being copied from the sim.

I forgot to unselect the contacts sync tab when I added her email address so it copied over her contacts linked to her email address. I have unselected it now and all of the contacts have disappeared (which I what she wanted)

Re: Deleting Contacts

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:07:11 GMT

Good result.

Thanks for updating your thread.

Re: Deleting Contacts

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:17:38 GMT

Hi @gemz4the1 Remember to mark a post as your solution

Re: Deleting Contacts

gemz4the1 — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:22:40 GMT

Hi @Anonymous - I don't know which post to mark as a solution as I can't mark my own post as a solution

Re: Deleting Contacts

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:25:09 GMT

Done @gemz4the1