Deleting Read Only Contacts on Android Device can be frustrating and sometimes can seem like an unachievable task. I understand and know how devastating it could be, that's why I have come up with proven working methods to easily and completely Delete Read only contacts on your Android Device without rooting or clearing your phone book cache.
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| Delete Read Only Contacts on Android |
One of the primary purpose of a mobile phone device is for communication either through calls or messages, so in other to use this feature user often have some contacts (numbers) saved and stored in their phone contact list or phone book.
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Occasionally you might want to delete some old or duplicate numbers from your address list so as to have a clean and easy to sort phone book, only to discover that you don't have the right permission to delete some of these contacts in the sense that any attempt to delete such contact you will receive this notification "This contact is read-only. It can't be deleted, but you can hide it."
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Don't panic that's why TechBrainaic is here, providing Solution is what we do. We will show you the easy method to delete read-only contacts on Android, just ensure to read this tutorial to the end and follow each of the steps mentioned.
What are Read-Only Contacts and How to Deal With Them?
Simply put, read only contacts are series of contacts saved or added to your phone book by an external app such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook and lot more, that has been granted right permission to access, write and edit information in your phone book.
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How to Delete Read-Only Contacts on Android
There are many methods to completely delete read only contacts on Android without clearing your phone book cache or formatting your Android device. All these methods has been proven working perfectly on several Android devices.
1. Using Google Contact
- To start with login to
- contacts.google.com from any of your browser.
- Next, sign in with the particular Google account you've already synchronized with your phone book.
- At this point, you will see all the contacts that are saved on your Google Contact.
- Now scroll down and select the particular read only contact you want to delete from your contact list.
- Next, click on the ‘More tab’ icon that looks like ‘three dots’ on the right side of the contact.
- After this, a drop down menu will appear. Next click on delete from the drop down menu.
- From the popup page click on delete to confirm you really want to delete the contact, and you're done.
- Finally, sync the contacts on your phone book, and you will see that the read-only contacts you just deleted are not there anymore.
2. Unlinking the Contact.
- To begin with, open your phone contact address book.
- Then, scroll down and locate the particular contact you want to delete.
- Next, click on the ‘menu’ or ‘more’ icon from the screen.
- After that, click on ‘View Linked Contacts’ option from the drop down menu.
- Next click Unlink from the popup window.
- Now, You've successfully unlinked the contact from that particular app.
- Now go back to the contact you just unlinked, then click on the ‘More’ or ‘Menu’ button.
- Next click on Delete to proceed.
- Finally, click on the Delete button from the popup menu to confirm it.
Conclusion
With the simple guides given above, I believe by now you should be able to delete read only contacts from your contact list on Android device without any hassle. For questions and additions kindly engage us in the comment section below!
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