Not all contacts were deleted bug on iPhone [Fixed]

When your iPhone is loaded with unwanted contacts, it consumes a lot of space and you may not be able to save any contacts or files on your iPhone. Therefore, it is always good to update your contact list by deleting contacts you no longer need.

Recently, many iPhone users have started receiving error messages when trying to delete contacts on their iPhone. The error message that occurs on your iPhone is shown below.

Not all contacts have been deleted

One or more contacts may be read-only.

This error may occur when there is a technical glitch in the iPhone or the iPhone is not updated to the latest version. Apart from this, if any contacts are stored on iPhone through third-party apps like WhatsApp, such issues may arise.

In this article, let us take a look at all the possible solutions to solve this problem so that iPhone users can delete their contacts effectively.

Initial Fix

Restart your iPhone

These types of errors can happen on your iPhone at any time due to technical issues on your iPhone. Therefore, the only way is to refresh your iPhone by simply restarting it, thus refreshing all the services and settings in it.

Therefore, we recommend our users to try restarting their iPhone once to see if this helps resolve this issue.

Update iPhone

Apple has released a new update after addressing feedback and bugs reported by iPhone/iPad users. When these updates are still pending and not installed by the user, the iPhone may be missing some of the best and improved features, which may be the reason for such errors.

So, try to update your iPhone by going to General > Software Update > Settings and wait for some time for the update to load if available. Click Download and Install if Apple releases any updates. After that, the issue may be resolved on your iPhone.

Fix 1 – Turn off iCloud Contacts

Some iPhone users correct this error by disabling iCloud Contacts on their iPhone. Let us also try to do the same and see if this helps us resolve this error.

Step 1: You first have to open the "Settings" app on your iPhone.

Step 2: Then go to the Apple ID page by clicking Profile Name at the top of the Settings page as shown below.

Step 3: Once the Apple ID page appears, look for the iCloud option and click on it as shown.

Step 4: Now, you have to click on the Show All option to see all the other options.

Step 5: Now search for "Contacts" option from the list and by clicking on its toggle button Disable it as shown below.

Fix 2 – Allow Contacts in Content and Privacy Restrictions

Many users are aware that they may have banned it in the Content and Privacy Restrictions section on their iPhone contact person. This results in contacts being restricted from deletion. So, let us try to allow contacts using the steps explained below.

Step 1: First, you need to go to the

"Settings" app on your iPhone.

Step 2: Once the Settings page opens, scroll down and select the

Screen Time option from the menu as shown below.

Step 3: Now click on the

“Content and Privacy Restrictions” option.

Step 4: Under the "

Privacy" section, find Contact Us from the list and click on it.

Step 5: On the Contacts page, click the

Allow changes option at the top as shown below.

# Step 6: You can then close the Settings app after making the above changes.

Fix 3 – Remove Contacts from Third-Party Apps like WhatsApp

This error usually occurs if the user has added the contact instead of through the default Phone app on the iPhone , but through certain third-party applications such as WhatsApp. This issue can be easily resolved by trying to delete the contact from the third-party application itself where you added this contact.

Step 1: First, you have to open the third-party app on your iPhone.

NOTE - We are showing examples of WhatsApp.

Step 2: After opening the application, click the "New Chat" icon in the upper right corner of the application window, as shown below.

Step 3: Now, this will display all the contacts present on WhatsApp.

Step 4: Scroll down the list and tap the contact you want to delete.

Step 5: Now click on the contact name at the top as shown below.

Step 6: After the "Contact Information" page appears, click the "Edit" option in the upper right corner of the page, as shown in the figure.

Step 7: On the Edit Contact page, you will find the Delete Contact option at the bottom.

Step 8: Tap it and then click "Delete Contact" to confirm deletion of Contact from iPhone.

Step 9: This will delete contacts from iPhone successfully.

Fix 4 – Try deleting contacts from other devices

If you are still facing this problem and cannot delete some contacts from your iPhone, you can try deleting them from other devices these contacts. You can only do this if you use the same Apple ID on another device.

If yes, you can try to search for these contacts on another device with the same Apple ID and delete them. Many iPhone users have been able to delete contacts using this method.

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