Deleting contact groups -

Does anyone know how to delete unwanted, empty contact groups from an Iphone 3GS? They are appearing on my phone, but are not in my contacts list in outlook (Windows 7). I think they were downloaded from my husband's computer.

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How to delete contact groups from iPhone

I have a peculiar problem. While buying iPhone 4 - the vendor helped me transferrng my contacts from Nokia to iPhone 4. I have noticed that some unwanted groups exist without any contact nos.
I am unable to delete them now.
I have transferred all the contacts ( or synchronised) with outlook 2002 installed in my PC.
Can you please guide me how to delete these unwanted groups and only keep my contacts.

Sorry, I don't use Outlook, but the requirements for syncing contacts with outlook are at least version 2003. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
Did you use the build in help feature in outlook to find out how to delete a group?

How to delete contact groups in iphone

I am trying to delete the groups in my contacts but i didnot know, so can you please help me how to delete them

Sorry, I don't use Outlook, but the requirements for syncing contacts with outlook are at least version 2003. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
Did you use the build in help feature in outlook to find out how to delete a group?

Deleted contact groups still in iPod sync pane?

This issue recently showed up..
When I sync my iPod Touch with iTunes, in the sync pane (the place where you choose what you want to sync), in the contacts section there is a group "Family", even though it isn't in my Address Book - I deleted it. There isn't any way to get rid of it. So when I sync, an empty group shows up on my iPod.
Does anyone else have this problem??
Message was edited by: heytaxi

I am th only person to come accross this problem???

Deleting Stubborn Contact Group from iPhone

I created a new Group in my contacts on MobileMe and it was synced to my iPhone 3G just fine and it also appeared in my contacts on the Mac. I then deleted the Group on MobileMe and (there were no contact in it) and it was also deleted from my Mac. However, no matter what I do, I can not get that Group name to delete itself from the iPhone for some reason. Everything else is syncing just fine.
Is there a way to delete contact groups directly from the iPhone? The group does not exist anymore on MobileMe or in my contacts on the Mac.

Hi prosumer,
One thing to try that might help out.
Go to settings > mail, contacts, calendars > your mobile me account.
Here you will be able to turn off contact syncing.
This will remove the contacts and groups from your iphone.
Wait for a few minutes, then turn contact syncing back on.
It will take a few minutes to sync back, based on the amount of contacts you have.
Hope this helps.

Syncing to selected contact group wants to delete files outside of it

Hello -
I am trying to sync my iPhone contacts to my address book in a specific way. In my address book, I have my personal contacts - friends and family. I also have mailing list subscribers (which gets into the 1,000s - people with whom I am not personally connected). I copied all of my personal contacts into a separate group and selected that group under the iPhone sync options in iTunes. I also checked the box marked "add contacts created outside of groups in this iPhone to" and again chose the special "personal contacts only" group.
However, when I go to actually sync, I get a pop-up box saying that so many contacts will be added (to my laptop), so many contacts will be modified, and so many contacts will be deleted. Which ones are getting deleted? All the ones that are not on my phone, so basically all of my mailing list, non-personal contacts.
Isn't the point of syncing specific contact groups so that you can have your phone dialogue with that particular folder and nothing else - leaving anything outside of that folder alone?
Just to test it out though, I changed the sync setting to "all contacts" to see what would happen, and I get the same message (it's basically going to delete anything that's on my laptop, but not currently on my phone). Why does this happen? Isn't the whole idea of synchronization that the two devices end up having the same file lists? How can I get the iPhone to populate any contacts I added on it to a specific group on my laptop, and vice versa. Seems like they should populate each others lists with missing pieces, rather than one taking the other one over and deleting, well, anything (unless I tell it to).
And no, I do not have any of the advanced overwrite functions enabled.
Does anybody have a solution to this problem? I'd like to sync my contacts, but obviously don't need 2,000 names of people I don't personally know taking up space on my phone.
Thanks for any advice you all can provide!

I think MobileMe is all or nothing--I asked a chat agent a few months back, and that was the case, haven't seen any reports or UI changes.
Send them feedback--it would be great to select Groups and Calendars.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/mobileme.html

How do I delete a contact group from my iphone

How do I delete a contact group from my iphone?

Download Easy Group. It is totally free. Lauch it. Click on Edit. Click on red-cross next to your unwanted group. That's all. http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/easy-group/id461469079?mt=8
Rémi
Note: As I am Easy Group developper, I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise,from my recommendation or link.

On my I phone how do I transfer contacts from one group to another then delete that group

On the Iphone how do you transfer a contact from one group to another group the delete that group from your list of groups? I am on outlook, i know thats the first problem.
John

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How do I fix? Outlook contacts are scrambled/missing and all my contact groups in Outlook have been deleted.

After I installed iOS7 to my iPod 2 and signed up for iCloud, my Outlook contacts are scrambled/missing and all my contact groups in Outlook have been deleted.

if you don't want your yahoo contacts, go to settings - mail - yahoo - then turn off the contacts

Deleting Empty Contact Group? iCloud contact syncing issues.

I have two contact groups on my iPhone with no contacts in them. How do I delete them from my iPhone? They are annoying. I have read multiple threads on this topic and still can't figure it out.
Also, after backing up to iCloud - not one of my 84 contacts actually backed up? Is there some setting I am missing? Only one contact showed up and it was my own name and email address?
Any help would be great.
Thanks.

Best way is to use a 3rd party app managing groups. Easy Group is a free one I have developped.
Launch it, all your groups will automatically appear
Tap on "Edit"
Tap on red cross next to the groups you want to delete
http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/easy-group/id461469079?mt=8
Rémi
Note: As I am Easy Group developper, I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise,from my recommendation or link.

Can't modify/delete Outlook 2010 Contact Group

I've got a user who created a new Contact Group in Outlook 2010 and now can't modify or delete the group. Other groups she's created before or since do not exhibit this behavior. Also, when you bring up the properties of the group, the window
looks different than the other groups and the icon in the top left of the window just has the card with no people in front of it.
Thanks

Hi,
A Contact Group, known in previous Outlook versions as a distribution list, is a grouping of e-mail addresses collected under one name. A message sent to a Contact Group goes to all recipients listed in the
group. You can include Contact Groups in messages, task requests, meeting requests, and in other Contact Groups.
Refer to the link below that about
How to Create and Manage Contact Groups in Outlook 2010
Sincerely,
Harry

Delete duplicate Contacts Groups

Previously I sync'd Contacts from My Mac, but recently starting using Mobile.me on my iPhone 3GS. Now under Contacts/Groups I have the old data from My Mac syncs and the new Groups coming from Mobile.me. How can I purge the old My Mac groups off the phone without loosing other valuable stuff like Notes, etc.

Select the title you want to delete on your left,
go to Edit in the Menubar
and choose
Delete Group
Done !

Deleting Duplicate Contact Group

So... I sync'd my contacts "from my mac" while I was already syncing with MobileMe, and now I have duplicates of all my contacts, and as such I would like to delete the "All from My Mac" group.
In searching for a solution, I found various older posts all of which basically said that you cannot delete an entire contact group on an iPhone. But as the most recent post I found was 6 months old, I am wondering if anybody out there has any new insight they can provide to solve this mildly annoying situation?
Lance.

To get rid of the duplicate contacts caused by syncing with both MobileMe and your computer:
1. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > MobileMe account > Contacts > "OFF"
2. You will be asked what you want to do with previously synced contacts - select "Delete from my iPhone".
3. Connect your phone to iTunes, go to device page, info tab and disable sync contacts.
4. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > MobileMe acct > Contacts > "ON"
5. You will then get message: "There are existing contacts synced with your Mac. Would you like to merge them with your MobileMe account?" Choose "Do not merge."
6. You will then be asked: "What would you like to do with the existing contacts on your iPhone?" Choose "Delete."
7. In a couple of minutes your phone will sync back your contacts from MobliMe, without the duplicate copy from your computer.
If you also have duplicate Calendar entries, do the same process with calendars - can be done at the same time.

How to delete empty contact groups on iPhone 4

Hi,
I am using iCloud to store all of my contacts, calendars, etc. About a week ago I had to restore my iPhone and when it was done resetting, I found that I had duplicate contacts in groups that fell under the 'On my iPhone' group. Since I have all the contacts I want in my iCloud folders, I don't need these groups, especially after I deleted all of the contacts within them, leaving them empty.
My question is how do I delete these unwanted and empty 'All on my iPhone', 'Family', 'Friends', 'School', and 'Work' groups from my phone so that they don't appear in my contacts app at all.
Thanks!

Hi, I have a similar problem:
There are groups that remain in my iTunes "Info" that won't go away even after resetting the iPhone and resetting via software update.
I cleared out all my contacts in the address book; went into finder - applications support - address book - metadata and deleted 4 items that have a *.abcdp extention. (except the apple address)
I even tried syncing with iCloud and using the empty iCloud database to overwrite what I have in iPhone then to my iTunes,
I tried downloading an app called Easy groups to delete the groups on the iPhone 4s ...
Still there are 4 empty Groups in iTunes.

Cannot modify or delete an address book contact group

I created an Outlook 2010 contact group in my address book, saved it to my local contacts folder and then copied it to our firm's public Exchange based
folder so all in our company can access it for mailings. However, once I copied it over it seemed to lock the group, I can't add or remove contacts and it won't let me delete the entire group either. This was never a problem before and I
can't find squat as to how to fix it. Please help! When I try to double click the group in contacts it says "Cannot open this item" and when i try to delete it says "operation failed".

By "public Exchange based folder" you mean public folder, right? Do you have rights on that folder?
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