Hello Brian, I just realized that I have never stored Contacts on just my phone, alone. That is to say, I have always synced my Contacts with either Outlook, the Mac Addressbook, or iCloud.
Why is this significant, because if you are currently syncing your Contacts with iCloud (recommended), then to quickly erase all of your Contacts from the phone at once, you would merely go into the Settings area of your iOS device, then to Mail Contacts Calendar area, then turn off the Contact Sync. Doing this will cause the iOS device to ask if you want to remove all of the Contacts on the device, itself. In your case you would say yes to that question. Then of course you could logon to iCloud and delete all of the Contacts there. Conversely, you could log onto iCloud via a web browser and simply delete the Contacts which would remove them from the phone. Of course, if you synced your iOS device to a computer, you could simply delete the Contacts from the computer and then sync the device. But, if you only have Contacts on your iOS device, the thinking is that you don't want to easily delete them all; thus, I do not know of a way to simultaneously delete them all without an external source as I have described above. Perhaps someone else knows a way. Personally, I recommend that you turn on iCloud Contact syncing on your iOS device, sync, then turn off syncing to get the prompt as described above, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brian Albriton Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:35 PM To: [email protected] Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Erase all contacts Hi mark I don't have any contacts on my computer. These were transferred from another phone. It was a person from a t&t Who did the transfer I simply to nuke them and start over All the best On May 25, 2012, at 5:57 PM, "M. Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Brian, > > The answer to your question depends upon several factors. > > First, are you syncing your contacts with an external source such as a > computer or iCloud? > > Mark > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of brian Albriton > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 4:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Erase all contacts > > My contacts are a mess. I'd like to erase the mall. How can I do that? > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
