Don't want my email contacts in my contact list

Question

My native iPhone Contacts show not only my contacts with phone numbers, but also any email address I’ve ever sent an email to or received an email from. I really would rather not have email contacts save into my contact list automatically. Is there a way to stop this from happening?

@SamGiddins I am and I want to solve this problem for that situation. Ay suggestions? — Dan Rosenstark, Jun 13 '12 at 21:21
gmail has an option to automatically add everyone you email to your contacts. turn that off and you should be golden. — segiddins, Jun 14 '12 at 02:12
I too was facing the same problem everyone in my address book I pulled the plug on the attempt. But now the email address I used to start the sign-up process is getting flooded with spam, and it started about a week after the sign-up debacle. It may only be a coincidence, but I doubt it. — , Nov 17 '12 at 10:33
Possible duplicate: http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/29118/8950 — Redandwhite, Mar 05 '13 at 17:31

score 3 · Answer 1 · 2015-11-25T16:48:20.403

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In Gmail Settings, under General, check the following option:

Then go to Contacts and delete all the Other Contacts that were previously added automatically. Performing this action in Gmail will be faster than on your iPhone because you can select all those contacts with a single click. Then, just wait for the deletions to propagate to your iPhone.

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answered Nov 25 '15 at 01:04

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 08 '17 at 15:43

I suspect you the see this behavior since upgrading to iOS 9. Go into Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars and deactivate Contacts Found in Mail. In iOS 10 it is found at Settings -> Contacts where you can deactivate Contacts Found in Apps. This option should be above the Import SIM Contacts option.

This option does not really write all the addresses into the contacts, it just sorts found mail addresses to your contacts (where you can explicitly add them to the contacts database if you want). This is not permanent unless you explicitly choose to import individual addresses, so maybe you can leave this on.

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 31 '13 at 03:06

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Go to settings

mail, contacts calendars select your email account you will see the tab contacts switch this to OFF. It will ask you to delete email content in your contact list. Delete it.

Et voila bye bye emails in contact list.

(just FYI - it will delete ALL contacts even the PHONE contacts you have added!)

edited Oct 31 '13 at 03:06

Community

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answered Dec 09 '12 at 12:57

Luc

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 19 '13 at 11:50

Tap on Phone icon. Then tap on contacts. In the contacts page on the upper left hand corner there is an icon named Group. Tap on that and then you come to a page where the heading is : Show all contacts and below that there is All iCloud, All Facebook and All Yahoo etc. Just click on All iCloud and press Done on the upper right hand top corner. You will find all the emails vanish from your contacts and only the phone contacts will remain.

Let me know if it helps.

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 09 '12 at 22:08

I had the same problem but what i have just done (pure trial and error) is to go into Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar and, on each of your accounts, unselect Contacts, then import SIM contacts.

Voilà! No more random email contacts and all the numbers from your SIM! (Not sure how this will effect your email contacts when emailing but you can always sync them again if needed, I guess!)

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 02 '13 at 21:59

I use my iPhone 5 for work and it syncs with my Outlook on my Windows PC/laptop. When I went to settings and turned off the Contacts switch for the email account it deleted all my contacts. Not a good thing. Instead, I went into Contacts and selected Groups at the top of the screen. I then deseleted Suggested Contacts. Now only the contacts that I input show up and all the random email addresses that I sent an email to once are hidden. They are still there in Suggested Contacts if I want to see them.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 24 '14 at 15:12

I was reading all of these and started to follow the path as I too had loads of email junk contacts. Once I opened the Contact page and clicked groups I noticed three choices... All exchanges: Contact: suggested contacts. I clicked the work contacts and the other options no longer have checks next to them. Voila all the junk is gone and only my outlook contacts remain.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 06 '14 at 16:46

Let's keep it simple, if you sync with your work Exchange outlook contacts, click on the "Phone" icon on your Iphone, in the upper left corner of the screen click on "Groups", under "EXCHANGE" make sure only "contacts" is checked. If you have "All Exchange" checked, it will load all the email addresses as contacts in your IPhone directory.

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 15 '14 at 11:51

Install 'Delete Contacts' App free from the app store > scroll down to smart filters > scroll down and find 'no phone' > click on this and all the contact with no phone numbers will show up > delete them all and > go back to contacts and sync... all done.

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Oct 25 '14 at 01:29

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Tap Contacts, Groups , then un-tick 'All yahoo'. that's all

answered Oct 25 '14 at 01:29

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jan 07 '15 at 15:45

Happened when I started using gmail. This worked (pasted from above):

Tap on Phone icon. Then tap on contacts. In the contacts page on the upper left hand corner there is an icon named Group. Tap on that and then you come to a page where the heading is : Show all contacts and below that there is All iCloud, All Facebook and All Yahoo etc. Just click on All iCloud and press Done on the upper right hand top corner. You will find all the emails vanish from your contacts and only the phone contacts will remain.

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks,

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Apr 27 '15 at 17:51

I actually solved the problem on my iPhone 5s by going to Contacts, Groups, then I clicked on my email address only. It removed all my email addresses from the contacts, but kept the rest, so I didn't have to import contacts from my SIM or do anything else for that matter.

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 03 '15 at 22:01

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Contacts > Groups > uncheck any email servers (make sure there's still a check by your icloud settings). Only contacts you would have entered manually to your phone and backed up via icloud will be there.

answered Dec 03 '15 at 22:01

Candy Lee

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score 0 · Answer 14 · edited Apr 23 '12 at 02:43

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The iOS email contacts are saved into the Contacts app; so, the only way to remove the email addresses from your Contacts app would cause the email addresses not show up in the Mail app. If you are using Gmail, the official Gmail app could be the solution, but I have not used the Gmail app so I cannot be sure.

edited Apr 23 '12 at 02:43

ruddfawcett

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answered Apr 23 '12 at 01:22

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score 0 · Answer 15 · edited Mar 05 '13 at 18:27

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You need to go into your Outlook to your Contact tab and create a folder for business contacts and for personal contacts and separate them accordingly. Then on your iPhone go into your Contacts and hit groups and you can select either folder or both and this should fix your problem.

edited Mar 05 '13 at 18:27

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answered Mar 05 '13 at 17:25

Brent

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And if the user is not using Outlook at all? Does this still apply? – Lætitia Mar 05 '13 at 18:20

score 0 · Answer 16 · edited Jun 05 '13 at 00:30

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Go to Phone then select Contacts, or select the Contacts app directly. In the upper left corner select Groups, then remove Suggested Contacts from the list of synced contacts.

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answered Jun 04 '13 at 18:55

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jun 24 '13 at 20:48

1) Go to 'settings' --> 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars". Scroll down till you see "import SIM contacts". Click on that to import your phone contacts to your iPhone.

4) On your homepage, click on the Phone icon. On the contacts page, click on the 'Groups' button on the top left. Uncheck all (your email accounts), except for 'All on my iPhone'. Now click 'done', and you're all set! Go to your Contacts app directly and do the same (uncheck all email mailboxes).

If that doesn't work, try doing this:

1) Go to 'settings' --> 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars". Under 'Accounts', access each mailbox and toggle the 'contacts' option to 'off'.

2) On the same page (Mail, Contacts, Calendar), scroll down till you see "import SIM contacts". Click on that to import your phone contacts to your iPhone.

3) Now, scroll back up to 'Accounts' and toggle the 'contacts' option of all the mailboxes back to "on".

4) Go back to your homepage and click on the Phone icon. On the contacts page, click on the 'Groups' button on the top left. Uncheck all (your email accounts), except for 'All on my iPhone'. Now click 'done', and you're all set! Go to your contacts app directly and do the same (uncheck all email mailboxes).

score -1 · Answer 18 · edited Dec 06 '14 at 12:20

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Just done it, contacts, groups and check the ones you want to hide so in my case Outlook contacts, click done and they disappeared.

edited Dec 06 '14 at 12:20

grg

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answered Dec 06 '14 at 12:02

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score -1 · Answer 19 · answered Mar 24 '15 at 20:03

Its correct that you can click on Groups and then uncheck suggested contacts and it fixes the problem. However, in 15 or 20 min (Im assuming this is when the phone syncs back to exchange server) the suggested contracts gets checked again and the problem is back. Im not sure how to stop it from checking itself back on.

score -3 · Answer 20 · edited Mar 23 '16 at 18:10

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Go to Contacts app. On the left side at the top you will find Groups. If you select ‘Show all contacts’ you will have all the accounts of contacts, whereas if you select only the iCloud option you will only have phone contacts.

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grg

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answered Mar 23 '16 at 06:04

Bhanu prakash

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