Delete contacts on any platform
Pick your platform below for a step-by-step guide. Most contact-deletion paths involve the iPhone Contacts app at some point — we cover both the platform-specific steps and the iPhone-side cleanup.
Messaging apps
Delete contacts on WhatsApp
Remove unwanted WhatsApp contacts from your iPhone in a few taps.
Delete contacts on Telegram
Remove Telegram contacts that no longer belong in your address book.
Delete contacts on Messenger
Remove or hide unwanted Messenger contacts.
Delete contacts on Signal
Manage Signal contacts.
Delete contacts on Discord
Remove Discord friends and address-book contacts — including disabling Discord's address-book sync.
Delete contacts in Skype
Remove Skype contacts that you no longer call — plus clean the iPhone Contacts that Skype reads from.
Delete contacts on Viber
Remove Viber contacts and stop Viber from continuously syncing your iPhone address book.
Delete contacts on WeChat
Remove WeChat contacts.
Delete contacts from iMessage
Remove iMessage suggestions and stop iMessage from surfacing old contacts.
Email services
Delete contacts in Gmail
Remove duplicate or stale contacts from Gmail's address book — and from the iPhone Contacts app if they synced there.
Delete contacts in Outlook
Remove and merge duplicate Outlook contacts that are flooding your iPhone — and clean the iOS side once Outlook is tidy.
Delete contacts in Yahoo Mail
Clean up Yahoo Mail contacts and duplicate entries that propagated to your iPhone.
Delete contacts in Mailchimp
Remove or unsubscribe contacts from Mailchimp audiences.
Delete contacts in Hotmail
Clean up the Hotmail address book that's syncing to your iPhone.
Delete contacts in Proton Mail
Manage Proton Mail contacts (encrypted) and tidy what syncs to your iPhone if you've enabled the Proton Mail Bridge or iOS contact sync.
Delete contacts from Apple Mail
Remove contacts that Apple Mail keeps adding automatically.
Delete contacts in AOL Mail
Clean up your AOL Mail address book.
Delete contacts in iCloud Mail
iCloud Mail's contacts share the same backend as iCloud Contacts.
Social networks
Delete contacts on Instagram
Cleanly remove your iPhone contacts from Instagram's address-book upload — and clean the iPhone side too if you've never tidied it.
Delete contacts on Facebook
Remove your iPhone contacts from Facebook's continuous upload and stop the social graph leakage at the source.
Delete contacts on Snapchat
Remove Snapchat contacts and stop the app from continuing to read your iPhone address book — plus clean the iPhone Contacts list itself.
Delete contacts on LinkedIn
Remove LinkedIn connections and revoke LinkedIn's address-book import — plus clean the underlying iPhone Contacts.
Delete contacts on TikTok
Disconnect TikTok from your iPhone contacts and remove the contact data TikTok has stored.
Delete contacts on Twitter / X
Remove the contacts X (Twitter) has imported from your iPhone, and stop further address-book syncing.
Delete contacts on Tinder
Stop Tinder from showing your iPhone contacts in 'Block Contacts'.
Delete contacts on Bumble
Manage Bumble's access to your iPhone contacts — used for blocking friends and family from seeing your profile.
Delete contacts on Strava
Stop Strava from continuously syncing your iPhone contacts for 'Find athletes you know'.
Delete contacts on Hinge
Stop Hinge from using your iPhone contacts for 'Hide from contacts' — and clean the iPhone address book itself.
Delete contacts on Threads
Disconnect Threads (Meta's newer social app) from your iPhone contacts and delete uploaded contact data.
Work tools
Delete contacts in Microsoft Teams
Manage Microsoft Teams contacts: how to remove people from your speed dial, address book, and how the iPhone side relates.
Delete contacts in Salesforce
Delete or merge duplicate Salesforce contacts and tidy the iPhone address book afterwards if you sync Salesforce via the Salesforce mobile app.
Delete contacts in Slack
Remove inactive members from your Slack workspace, manage contact-import lists, and clean the iPhone Contacts side if Slack synced any.
Delete contacts on Zoom
Remove Zoom contacts from your account and stop Zoom from continuously matching iPhone Contacts.
Devices
Delete contacts on Mac
Bulk delete and merge duplicate contacts on Mac using the Contacts app — then keep the iPhone side tidy alongside.
Delete contacts from SIM card
Delete contacts saved on your iPhone SIM card.
Delete contacts from the iPhone Phone app
Remove contacts and recent-call entries from the iPhone Phone app.
Delete contacts on Apple Watch
Manage which contacts appear on your Apple Watch.
Delete contacts on iPad
iPad shares contacts with iPhone via iCloud.
Delete contacts from Truecaller
Remove your iPhone contacts from Truecaller's directory.
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Requires iOS 17 • 13.5 MB download