How to Clear Contacts on iPhone All at Once

Two ways to clear contacts on iPhone all at once. The two ways introduced in this article apply to deleting both all contacts and multiple contacts on iPhone at once.

Updated May 07,2018 | by Niko

Do you also find there are so many unwanted contacts on your iPhone and want to remove them all at once? But there is nothing you can do except suffering from deleting the contacts one by one on iPhone since iPhone does not support directly delete multiple or all contacts at once.

So how to clear contacts on iPhone all at once? To achieve this, you can use a third-party software which can provide you with an easy and fast way to delete contacts on iPhone all at once. IOTransfer is the tool like this.

How to Clear Contacts on iPhone All at Once via IOTransfer

IOTransfer, as an easy-to-use transfer tool between iOS devices and (Windows) computer, is fully capable of helping to clear contacts on iPhone all at once. First you may Free download IOTransfer.

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How does IOTransfer help to clear contacts on iPhone all at once? Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Run IOTransfer and connect your iPhone to PC via a USB cable. Tap on ‘Trust’ if it asks for permission.

Step 2: Go to MANAGE window > Click Contacts tab.

Step 3: Check the box before Select All or choose the contacts you want to clear > click Delete

Step 4: Click Yes to clear all selected contacts at once.

Besides clearing all unwanted contacts easily, IOTransfer can also help you create new contacts, export your contacts to PC, and import contacts from PC to your iPhone without much effort.

How to Clear Contacts on iPhone All at Once via iCloud

If you don’t want to use any third-party tool, iCloud.com will be your good choice to delete contacts all at once.

WARNING: When you delete contacts via iCloud, it’s deleted on every device that has iCloud Contacts turned on.

The detailed steps to clear contacts on iPhone all at once via iCloud are as below:

Step 1: Sign in to iCloud with your Apple ID.

Step 2: Find and click Contacts

Step 3: On Windows PC, please click on each contact while pressing the Ctrl key to select multiple contacts.

If you want to clear all contacts instead of multiple contacts at once, you can click on Show Actions Menu (gear icon) located on the bottom left, and click Select All.

Step 4: Now, either press Delete button on keyboard or click on Show Actions Menu (gear icon) located on the bottom left and choose Delete to clear all selected at once.

Step 5: Click Delete in the pop-up window.

iCloud can be used to clear the contacts on iPhone all at once, but the related steps are more complicated than using IOTransfer. Moreover, it probably will affect other devices that have iCloud Contacts turned on under the same Apple ID.

Thus, we strongly recommend you IOTransfer which is much simpler and safer to clear all contacts or multiple contacts on your iPhone at once.

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