JamesMB
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Did you copy the AddressBook.sqlitedb file to your computer per the instructions?
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Deleting a Single Email address on the iPhone?
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luckman212
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No, where would I find that file? I only saw 2 sections, looks like this.
I poked around endlessly in there but couldn't find any trace of the AddressBook.sqlitedb file.
I poked around endlessly in there but couldn't find any trace of the AddressBook.sqlitedb file.
another thought
what about adding the wrong name as a contact and then deleting it?
I'm searching for a friend.. So I'll suggest she try this as a solution.
what about adding the wrong name as a contact and then deleting it?
I'm searching for a friend.. So I'll suggest she try this as a solution.
re ibot
HI smallard im john im 71 years old and am trying to deleted unwanted wrongly typed emails from my iphone 3 .I used your link to download the ibot and have been told its for mac10.5 and above which mine is. although i can find telephone numbers and email contacts listed i cant find the wrongly typed ones have tried getting help from support they just replied saying that its suitable any suggestions please tried clicking on all items listed to no avail thanks for listening john
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Sorry to bother you again smallard but if you are willing and in uk i would be happy to phone you if you could give me some help on the phone John donovan my email is j.donovan1@btinternet.com thanks either way john
Sorry to bother you again smallard but if you are willing and in uk i would be happy to phone you if you could give me some help on the phone John donovan my email is j.donovan1@btinternet.com thanks either way john
It's easy, really easy
You just have to delete the cookies from your Iphone. You have all the instructions here: http://browsers.about.com/od/allaboutwebbrowsers/ss/iphonecookies.htm
You just have to delete the cookies from your Iphone. You have all the instructions here: http://browsers.about.com/od/allaboutwebbrowsers/ss/iphonecookies.htm
texasmccoy
macrumors member
That works for clearing the cache for Safari, but not email.
😕Has anyone found a solution to this problem yet? I am using iOS 5 on a phone that is NOT jailbroken. I do not wish to jailbreak it or restore it simply for this problem.
The problem is my boyfriend's first name begins with the same two letters as the last name of another guy I no longer have anything to do with. Hence, every time I compose an email on my phone to send to my bf, it also suggests the email address of this other guy who is nowhere in my contacts. I even erased all history of him as far as all old emails and IM's, and still this annoying problem persists 😡 Would be nice to forget him if only the damn phone would let me! Answers anyone?
texasmccoy
macrumors member
I tried that and it didn't work for me. In my case the person's last name whom I'm trying to get rid of started with Nov , which is the same as the first letters of my bf's first name - Nor . I sent five blank emails with subsequent recipients 'Non Noo Nop Noq Nor Nos' before 'Nov', but since they are not actual valid email addresses, they are simply stored in my outbox as pending, and show up below the name I am trying to get rid of. Correct me if I'm doing something wrong? This problem is quite irritating.
luckman212
macrumors regular
I had to do this recently for a customer, and I did not want to jailbreak his phone just to do it. I found a really neat solution that worked perfectly. The only problem -- it was NOT a free solution. Required me to purchase a program called iBackupBot (I am in no way connected to this company or supporting them, just passing along the info). Basically it works like this: you hook up your phone and launch iTunes. Right click on the phone and choose to make a FULL backup. Then you close iTunes, fire up iBackupBot and you're able to directly edit the email address history/autocomplete names and then save it back. Then you just go back in iTunes and restore from that backup and voila -- the bad entries are gone. It's a little pricey at $34US but it worked flawlessly. Maybe Apple will fix this shortcoming in iOS6, but until then...
texasmccoy
macrumors member
Somewhat Solution
Thanks for the quick reply, I will check out that program for potential future need. Before I saw your reply I actually found a round-about "fix" for this problem.
As the other suggestion from AlexRus above, this does not actually delete the unwanted person's name so as much as tricking the phone into not showing it to you at the beginning of the list every time you type the wanted person's name.
For anyone who wants to try:
What I did was enter the unwanted person's email into my iphone contacts, and changed their first and last names to something different than what it actually is. In my case I simply named the guy Zzz Zzz (I've found using the letter Z in front of anyone's name that you may need to keep but not want to talk to is a useful tool - such as unwanted people whose info you keep simply so that you know it's them trying to contact you. That way you don't have to look at their name every time you scroll through your contacts of others with the same letters in their names.)
Anyway, after that I composed an email using the newly created "contact" for the unwanted person. Since I have yahoo mail I had to actually send this person an email, since any message simply saved as a draft still did not solve the problem of their old (real) name showing up (I don't know if other email providers work the same or not) But again all my email content said was Zzz in the text, so hopefully if it doesn't go into his spam folder, he'll just see it and think it's a fluke or that I'm nuts, and not actually start trying to communicate with me again, haha. But at last, I no longer have to look at his damn name every time I try to email my bf 😀
After doing this I erased the unwanted contact, which doesn't affect the phone's memory of me sending the "Zzz" email. It's important to know that I also tried the above suggestion of sending blank emails to subsequent letters of the alphabet to bump the unwanted name down to the bottom of the list (which didn't work for me). I'm only mentioning this because the unwanted person's real name still does show up in the suggestions as I type the letters "No", it's just that the unwanted name is now down at the bottom past the "noo, nop, noq , etc" fake emails I tried to send, hence I can't see the unwanted name unless I scroll down to it.
So no, this solution doesn't actually eliminate the problem email address, so much as just getting it out of your face every time you type. But it is free nonetheless and doesn't require jailbreaking or fully restoring the phone from scratch.
Hopefully this makes sense and helps someone out there. 🙂
Thanks for the quick reply, I will check out that program for potential future need. Before I saw your reply I actually found a round-about "fix" for this problem.
As the other suggestion from AlexRus above, this does not actually delete the unwanted person's name so as much as tricking the phone into not showing it to you at the beginning of the list every time you type the wanted person's name.
For anyone who wants to try:
What I did was enter the unwanted person's email into my iphone contacts, and changed their first and last names to something different than what it actually is. In my case I simply named the guy Zzz Zzz (I've found using the letter Z in front of anyone's name that you may need to keep but not want to talk to is a useful tool - such as unwanted people whose info you keep simply so that you know it's them trying to contact you. That way you don't have to look at their name every time you scroll through your contacts of others with the same letters in their names.)
Anyway, after that I composed an email using the newly created "contact" for the unwanted person. Since I have yahoo mail I had to actually send this person an email, since any message simply saved as a draft still did not solve the problem of their old (real) name showing up (I don't know if other email providers work the same or not) But again all my email content said was Zzz in the text, so hopefully if it doesn't go into his spam folder, he'll just see it and think it's a fluke or that I'm nuts, and not actually start trying to communicate with me again, haha. But at last, I no longer have to look at his damn name every time I try to email my bf 😀
After doing this I erased the unwanted contact, which doesn't affect the phone's memory of me sending the "Zzz" email. It's important to know that I also tried the above suggestion of sending blank emails to subsequent letters of the alphabet to bump the unwanted name down to the bottom of the list (which didn't work for me). I'm only mentioning this because the unwanted person's real name still does show up in the suggestions as I type the letters "No", it's just that the unwanted name is now down at the bottom past the "noo, nop, noq , etc" fake emails I tried to send, hence I can't see the unwanted name unless I scroll down to it.
So no, this solution doesn't actually eliminate the problem email address, so much as just getting it out of your face every time you type. But it is free nonetheless and doesn't require jailbreaking or fully restoring the phone from scratch.
Hopefully this makes sense and helps someone out there. 🙂