How to Remove Email Contacts from an iPhone

An easy guide to getting unwanted email contacts out of your contact list

Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

This wikiHow teaches you how to delete the contacts on your iPhone that synced from an email account.

Quick Steps

Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
Navigate to Contacts > Accounts and select the account you want to edit.
Switch "Contacts" to Off for that account, then Delete from My iPhone .

It’s an app on one of your home screens (possibly in a folder called “Utilities”) that has a gray cog icon.
It’s in the fifth group of settings.

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Select the account with unwanted contacts.
- For example, if you don’t want to see your Outlook Mail contacts on your iPhone, select “Outlook.”
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Tap Delete from My iPhone . The contacts from that account will no longer appear on your iPhone.
- You can re-sync these contacts at any time by moving the "Contacts" switch back to the On position.

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