How to delete restored contacts in iCloud?

Question

I've encountered an issue that's a 180 from the typical inquiry:  how to delete restored contacts.
Several months ago I deleted many of my iCloud Contacts as the list was becoming unwieldy.  (Used as a contact management database for business, it was numbering in the thousands and slow to search, load, etc.)  All of my devices were synced and the process was smooth.
Until yesterday, when out of the blue, all of the deleted contacts returned to iCloud, iPhone and Address Book.  No settings from the day prior had been changed.
So, is there a way to re-delete all of the unwanted contacts?  Yes, I can go back and manually delete all of them, but that's time consuming, and what's to prevent them from magically returning?

Answer 1

Hey mzhill78
Remove you icloud contact information on all your IOS devices, go to the icloud setting on you ios device and turn off the addressbook syncing, when it asks you "do you want to remove keep the address on your ips device you say NO...  So now your MacBook is the only thing syncing too the icloud.
Go to Addresbook and look for the menu option find duplicates.
After that wait for your laptop to sync this too icloud.  to check give it about 2 min depending on how many changes log into your icloud account at www.icloud.com and check too see if the syncing has updated whats in the cloud.
If it has then urn on your addressbook syncing in iclouud settings on your IOS devices and all should be back too normal.
Hope it helps,
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