How to Permanently Delete Contacts from iPhone

When you choose to give up your crashed or outdated iPhone, or you just want to resell the old one, the first thing you need to do is permanently delete all personal content on your phone. On the one hand, if you forget to do that, your private information is got and used illegally by someone, which may cause your money stolen. On the other hand, you delete that data but do no delete them permanently.


 
To avoid this trouble occurs, you need to wipe the data files thoroughly and permanently, so that you can ensure the security of your private information. So, I recommends a professional and safe eraser to you. It is Mobile Eraser.
 
Mobile Eraser is the ideal  erased application designed to permanently wipe all personal information from the Android & iOS devices using the US Military spec over-writing technology to render the data unrecoverable. In addition to wipe all data from your phones, the program also allows your selectively to delete some data you don't wanted on your iDevices. And when you are about to deleting your statistics, I think the first one you delete may be your contacts. Now, let’s learn how to delete contacts permanently from iPhone.

   
 
 
 

Steps to Permanently Delete Contacts from iPhone

 
 

Step 1. Manually Delete Contacts on Your iPhone

 
Although the deleted contacts can also being restored by some professional data recovery tool like iPhone Contacts Recovery, but deleting unwanted contacts on your iPhone manually is necessary. Just choose and delete on your phone first.

 
 

Step 2. Connect Your iPhone to the Computer

 
Download, install the Mobile Eraser well on the computer and launch it. Next, connect iPhone to computer via the USB cable. When your phone is recognized, you can see a pop-up window as below and your iPhone's name appear at the very top of the program.

 
 

Step 3. Select Flies that You Want to Delete to Scan

 
Now, you can see five options on the main interface, to scan more exactly and completely, please click on "Erase Deleted Files" to let the software scan the deleted contacts and more which you have been deleted on Step 1. By the way, the analyzing and scanning may cost your a few minutes, if you have seen the data what you want to delete, you can press "Stop" to suspend the scan.

 
 

Step 4. Permanently Delete the Selected Contacts on Your iPhone

 
Once the scanning is finish, all the found data will be listed according to the different classification. You can see the contacts by checking it, choose the contacts whose you want to permanently delete, then click on "Erase Now".

 
After that, you can see a pop-up dialog to ask you to enter "delete" in the text box to confirm the deletion, just do it and click on "Erase Now" once again.

 
After erasing, you will be told that the wiping is successful and all the selected content are permanently deleted. But pleaes remember not to disconnect your phone during the erasing process.
 
Hot Article List