Manage and delete contacts on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Acquire how to prepare and manage your contacts to change what shows up in the Contacts app, delete contacts, and more.

Prepare your contacts account

You can set up your email accounts to share contacts with the Contacts app. If y'all accept a contacts account, like a business or school directory, you can ready that upward too. Here's how:

  1. Go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts.
  2. Tap Add together Account.
  3. Tap the service that you have an business relationship with. Or tap Other to prepare a contacts account, similar an LDAP or CardDAV business relationship.
  4. Enter your information and countersign.
  5. Tap Adjacent.

If you lot accept multiple accounts set upwards in the Contacts app and want to see contacts for a specific i, open Contacts and tap Groups in the upper-left corner.

Turn Contacts on or off for an account

Want to add or remove all of the contacts from an business relationship that yous already set up upward? Just turn Contacts on or off for that account:

  1. Go to Settings > Contacts > Accounts.
  2. Tap the account that has contacts that y'all want to add or remove.
  3. To add together contacts, turn on Contacts. To remove contacts, turn off Contacts, then tap Delete from My iPhone.

Cull a default account to add new contacts

If you gear up multiple accounts in the Contacts app, y'all can choose a default account to add new contacts to. Just go to Settings > Contacts > Default Business relationship and choose an business relationship.

Change how you sort and display contacts

You can cull how to sort your contacts, like alphabetically by offset or terminal proper name. Just go to Settings > Contacts and choose from the following:

  • Sort Order: Sort your contacts alphabetically by first or concluding proper noun.
  • Brandish Order: Prove contacts' first names earlier or later concluding names.
  • Short Name: Choose how your contact'southward name appears in apps similar Mail, Messages, Phone, and more.

Delete a contact

When you delete a contact, information technology permanently deletes it from your device. And if you delete a contact from your e-mail account, you also permanently delete the contact from all devices signed into that email business relationship.

Here'due south how to delete a contact:

  1. Open Contacts and tap the contact that you want to delete.
  2. Tap Edit.
  3. Scroll Down and tap Delete Contact then tap Delete Contact again to confirm.

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