Deleting Contacts

[gemz4the1]

I was setting up my friends iPhone - but she was using someone elses sim - and I accidentally selected to copy all entries from the sim.

Is there an easier way of removing contacts which have been copied from the sim apart from deleting them one by one?

[MI5]

Unless it's changed in later releases of iOS, you can't bulk delete on the phone - You have to hook up to iTunes and select contacts then advanced then replace information on this iPhone....

[Anonymous]

If their is not a lot of entires you would be better off deleting them through the contacts app in the iPhone.

[gemz4the1]

I think there's a little over 100 contacts.......

[Anonymous]

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/batch-delete-contacts/

[gemz4the1]

Thank you for that link BOB

[Anonymous]

No problem.

As MI5 said iTunes is an option and perhaps theirs an app that achieves bulk delete.

[davethorp]

There is the nuclear option too. Which would be to erase all content and settings in the settings/general/reset menu. Depending on how far you have got in the set up process it may be easier to start again.

Unless the contacts have synced to iCloud already in which case the method in BOBs link should get through them pretty quick

[gemz4the1]

Thanks - I'll try that later

[gemz4the1 · Accepted solution]

It turns out that the contacts were in fact not from being copied from the sim. 

I forgot to unselect the contacts sync tab when I added her email address so it copied over her contacts linked to her email address.  I have unselected it now and all of the contacts have disappeared (which I what she wanted)