Don't want my email contacts in my contact list

Question

So in my contact list (the native iPhone app for contacts), it has not only my contacts with phone numbers, but also any email address I've ever sent or received an email from. I'd really rather not have the email contacts automatically save into my contact list. Is there a way to stop this from happening?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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!)

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.