How do you permanently delete contacts in iOS 6?

schwartz914 · Dec 11, 2012, 10:26 AM

How do you permantly delete contacts on iphone 5. So if at one time you had someone stored and you go to compose a new text they come up (Like how if you emailed someone before it auto populates them). Does anyone know how to delete that?

Xenomorph · Dec 11, 2012, 01:44 PM

Contact Name -> Edit -> Delete

schwartz914 · Dec 11, 2012, 02:20 PM

i know that!! After you delete them and then compose a new text it is still there. Basically you know when you send an email to someone and do not store them it still auto popualtes their name. This is what happens with my phone. Any ideas?

ECUpirate44 · Dec 11, 2012, 02:25 PM

Is iCloud replacing it?

Stuke00 · Dec 11, 2012, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by schwartz914

i know that!! After you delete them and then compose a new text it is still there. Basically you know when you send an email to someone and do not store them it still auto popualtes their name. This is what happens with my phone. Any ideas?

Are you syncing with facebook and it is coming from there? Can't delete a facebook synced contact.

schwartz914 · Dec 11, 2012, 03:12 PM

i do not sync with FB. It could be from the icloud. not too sure how to check. maybe ill run to the apple store and see if someone there knows. if not its not the end of the world

elistan · Dec 11, 2012, 03:13 PM

Somewhere, iOS stores recently referenced addresses. I forwarded some SMS to SPAM (7726) and even though I don't have a contact entry for 7726, it shows up as a suggestions as soon as I type "7" in the To field. I have no idea where iOS stores this information however, or how to get rid of it.

C DM · Dec 11, 2012, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by elistan

Somewhere, iOS stores recently referenced addresses. I forwarded some SMS to SPAM (7726) and even though I don't have a contact entry for 7726, it shows up as a suggestions as soon as I type "7" in the To field. I have no idea where iOS stores this information however, or how to get rid of it.

And this is what's underneath it all--it's not really about contacts or deleting them, it's about recently used numbers/emails/etc. which are actually different and separate from contacts.

webbuzz · Dec 20, 2012, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by schwartz914

i do not sync with FB. It could be from the icloud. not too sure how to check. maybe ill run to the apple store and see if someone there knows. if not its not the end of the world

Are you syncing iCloud with Outlook?

yeah · Dec 24, 2012, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by elistan

Somewhere, iOS stores recently referenced addresses. I forwarded some SMS to SPAM (7726) and even though I don't have a contact entry for 7726, it shows up as a suggestions as soon as I type "7" in the To field. I have no idea where iOS stores this information however, or how to get rid of it.

Reset the dictionary?

Ding.Dong · Dec 26, 2012, 04:18 PM

When you start typing and the autocomplete list comes up, click on the blue greater than sign (>) next to the name. Then, click on the "Remove From Recents" button.

JoeyCloverfield · Dec 26, 2012, 06:01 PM

The same thing happens to me, but it doesn't require deleting a contact. When I delete/replace a contact's number, the Messages.app still autocompletes the number with the contact's name and references it as "other".

jutte64 · Dec 27, 2012, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JoeyCloverfield

The same thing happens to me, but it doesn't require deleting a contact. When I delete/replace a contact's number, the Messages.app still autocompletes the number with the contact's name and references it as "other".

Yes this is what mine is doing here. My brother changed his number, I updated the number, and when I go to send him a text his old number shows up at "Other". Actually have a few contacts it does this with.

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schwartz914 macrumors newbie Join Date: Dec 2012	How do you permanently delete contacts in iOS 6? How do you permantly delete contacts on iphone 5. So if at one time you had someone stored and you go to compose a new text they come up (Like how if you emailed someone before it auto populates them). Does anyone know how to delete that?
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Dec 11, 2012, 01:44 PM	#2
Xenomorph macrumors 6502a Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: St. Louis	Contact Name -> Edit -> Delete
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Dec 11, 2012, 03:13 PM	#7
elistan macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Denver/Boulder, CO	Somewhere, iOS stores recently referenced addresses. I forwarded some SMS to SPAM (7726) and even though I don't have a contact entry for 7726, it shows up as a suggestions as soon as I type "7" in the To field. I have no idea where iOS stores this information however, or how to get rid of it.
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Dec 26, 2012, 04:18 PM	#11
Ding.Dong macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Los Angeles	When you start typing and the autocomplete list comes up, click on the blue greater than sign (>) next to the name. Then, click on the "Remove From Recents" button.
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Dec 26, 2012, 06:01 PM	#12
JoeyCloverfield macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2012	The same thing happens to me, but it doesn't require deleting a contact. When I delete/replace a contact's number, the Messages.app still autocompletes the number with the contact's name and references it as "other".
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