How to remove unnecessary numbers from iPhone. Remove contacts with iPhone in two ways

Greetings to you, dear user of the iPhone smartphone (4, 5, 6). Today we will touch on a simple and at the same time an interesting topic, I will tell you - like with the iPhone. It seemed that it could be difficult to remove contacts from your mobile phone iPhone (4, 5, 6)? You are right - there is nothing difficult about it, but still some have a similar question.

There are two options for removing phone numbers from the contact book of your iPhone (4, 5, 6):

  • Using phone. Here, everything is very simple. You do not need to install additional programs and connect your iPhone to a personal computer.
  • Using iTunes. With iTunes you can add contacts (synchronize with various programs installed on your personal computer) so delete them from the phone. If you need to delete all contacts with iPhone (4, 5, 6), then it is better to use iTunes.

So, go to the options for removing contacts.

Using phone

In order to make a contact removal process from your phone, follow these steps.:



Using the instructions described above, you can easily delete any contact with your iPhone. Below I will tell you how to quickly get rid of all contacts in your smartphone.

Using iTunes

As I mentioned above, you can delete all your contacts from the smartphone using the iTunes program. It's very simple:

  • iTunes and using a USB cable.
  • After starting the program, select your device in the side menu of the program (if the menu is not visible, press the Ctrl + S key combination).
  • Click the Information tab and check the box in front of the "Sync Contacts" item and select the desired program in the proposed field.
  • Press the "Replace Information" button.

The contact book of the new Apple iPhone contains only one standard contact if the phone has already been used to you, then most likely, in the memory of the phone book, there will be earlier or recorded other people's numbers. Such rooms are hardly needed by the new owner, so he will decide erase all contacts with iPhone. Stripping numbers, like others, it would seem, the simplest operations of this phone have their own characteristics.

There are two standard ways to remove numbers with iPhone - delete one and remove the entire phone book. The first method in question will help delete the selected separate contact:

How to delete a number with iPhone?
1. Run the phone application or "Contacts"
2. Choose unnecessary contact


3. In the upper right corner, click "Change"
4. Scroll to the bottom, click the "Delete Contact" button and confirm the removal

How to delete all iPhone contacts?
If you decide to get rid of all phone numbers, it will be easier to remove the entire phone book using iTunes:
1. Run iTunes and connect iPhone
2. In the "Devices" section, click on the connected device


3. Select the "Information" tab
4. We put the "Synchronize contacts C" checkbox and select Outlook or Windows Contact Book. You need to choose that program that is empty and does not contain contacts.


5. Let's go down below and in the section "Additions" put a tick "Contacts"


6. We click the "Apply" button and in the "Replace Information" window that appears

After completing the above, the iPhone action will synchronize, after which you make sure that all contacts are missing and the phone book is empty. Now you can start with a blank sheet. The instructions described in this material can be done on any iPhone (3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5)

Since the basic function of the iPhone is the reception and calls, then in it, of course, it is possible to conveniently create and storing contacts. Over time, the phone book has a function to fill, and, as a rule, most of the numbers will never be in demand. And then there is a need to clean the phone book.

As the owner of an apple gadget, you can be sure that there is not one way of cleaning unnecessary telephone numbers here. All methods we will look at the following.

Method 1: manual removal

The easiest method that implies the removal of each number separately.


Method 2: Full Reset

If you prepare a device, such as selling, then, in addition to the phone book, you will need to delete other data stored on the device. In this case, rationally use the full reset function that will delete the entire content and settings.

Earlier on the site we considered detail how you can erase data from the device, so we will not stop on this issue.

Method 3: ICloud

Using cloud storage icloud, you can quickly get rid of all the contacts available on the device.

Method 4: iTunes

It is thanks to the ITYUNS program you have the ability to manage an Apple gadget from a computer. It can also be cleaned with the phone book.

Method 5: ITOOLS

Since iTunes implemented not the most convenient principle of removal of numbers, in this method we turn to the help of the ITools program.

Please note that this method is suitable only if you are disabled to synchronize contacts in ICloud. Read more about its deactivation in the fourth method of the article from the first to the second paragraphs.

While this is all ways to remove numbers with iPhone. We hope this article was useful for you.

Each user smartphone iPhone should know absolutely everything about your phone. Unfortunately, it happens not always and sometimes it happens that, if necessary, perform the simplest operation of the user's problems because of ignorance, how to do it. In this article, we will look at one of these problems. The topic of our article: how to remove contacts from the iPhone.

There are several ways to remove contacts from the device. We will consider all possible ways so that you, dear readers, were able to choose the most convenient. So, proceed.

1. Deleting a specific contact with iPhone

It happens when you need to remove one particular contact from our phone, that's how to do it:

As you can see, even a child can even cope with the removal procedure.

For clarity, here is also a video in which this process is described:

Now consider another way to remove contacts directly from the phone.

2. Delete all contacts with iPhone

Note that using this method, you remove not only contacts, but also the entire content that is in the iPhone - therefore, it is extremely preferably to make a backup.

After these actions, all the information that was stored on the iPhone will be deleted. Once again we repeat: be extremely attentive if you plan to use this method, because after these actions, it will be possible to restore the data only through connection to iTunes with recovery from the backup.

Well, we looked at two ways to remove contacts from your smartphone, without resorting to iTunes help. Now we will consider another way, thanks to which you can delete all contacts without losing the rest of the information.

3. Deleting all contacts with iPhone through iTunes


We looked at all current ways to remove contacts with iPhone. Choose the way that will be most convenient for you. We hope that our article turned out to be useful for you.


Hello everyone, dear readers. Today, in this article, I will tell you how to remove contacts from your iPhone (4, 4S, 5, 5S, 6, 6+, 6S) in several ways. I will not guess why you need to delete contacts from the device, you may have bought an iPhone with hands and you need to get rid of data and clean contacts, perhaps for other reasons.

I will allocate several ways to remove contacts from your Mobile Apple Gadget:

  1. Deleting all contacts immediately using the iTunes program. I think from the title of this section everything is clear. The way will allow you to delete all the contacts on your iPhone immediately;
  2. Removing contacts from the iPhone itself. In this case, delete all the contacts immediately you will not work. Only one contact at a time.

All contacts through iTunes

So, in order to delete all the contacts you have from iPhone, you have to fulfill the following, simple, actions:

Through iPhone

When removing contact, the phone model does not play any role, be something iPhone: 4, 4s, 5, 5s, 6, 6+, 6s. Only version of the IOS operating system is important.

Erase any contact through the iPhone - it is very simple, you need to do the following steps:


As you can see, there is nothing complicated. If you have any questions or comments on this material, you can leave them using the comment form below.