How do you delete recent contacts in your text history
- First delete your ex from your phone book/contact list.
Then go to new text compose, when you see her name listed, you will notice a exclamation mark next to it, simply tap it and you will be able to delete it05-14-2014 12:13 PMLike 0 - Here is the answer you've been looking for , In your text message thread tap edit then remove numbers you no longer want, I like many of you wound up here because I was looking for the answer to this and had so much problem logging into site while trying to log into sight I received a text from a friend while text message screen was open I observed an edit feature and tapped on it, then had option to remove all that I did not want05-14-2014 04:33 PMLike 0
- Here is the answer you've been looking for , In your text message thread tap edit then remove numbers you no longer want, I like many of you wound up here because I was looking for the answer to this and had so much problem logging into site while trying to log into sight I received a text from a friend while text message screen was open I observed an edit feature and tapped on it, then had option to remove all that I did not want05-14-2014 04:43 PMLike 0
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- When you go to create message, you have to type in each single letter on your keyboard one at a time. For each letter people and or numbers will pop up as recents, there will be the little I next to it for information.. Click that. It'll say in red remove from recents. And if you do this for every single letter on your keyboard and remove all your recents, it'll work. I just did it.06-12-2014 11:03 PMLike 0
- You don't have to reset your iphone. It's very EASY!! When you enter a number and it drops down, there should be a letter "i" on the right side of it. Press it n it opens new contacts for you to add. Scroll down n press "delete contact"!
Too Easy! I got a pic but don't know how to attachTartarus likes this.06-17-2014 08:39 AMLike 1 - ok here is the long awaited answer and I cannot believe I figured it out. You want to get rid of that persons number or email so you deleted it yet when you type in a letter they show up as a number or email you've used before right......urgh. Open a new text put in the letter then scroll down and click on their name/email(it will appear light grey), it will appear in the text, click on it( the name or email) it will turn green, hit it again and it will bring up a contact, even though you deleted the original. Hit the edit button in the top right. hit the email or number below the name and the delete button on the right will appear delete the number or email then go to the top and backspace the name out, DO NOT CLOSE IT OUT, when the screen is blank of all info hit the done button, it should go back to say New MMS, click that, it will go back to the original screen with the green box, click cancel. Now go put that same letter in the new text box and guess what its, GONE.beareed likes this.07-01-2014 11:59 AMLike 1
- Don't know why people are having such trouble with this. It is so simple
click to create a new email. in the to dialog type in the name is if is a recent contact there is an arrow pointing to the right click on it, at the bottome you will see "Remove from Recents"i n RED click it voila recent contact no longer there. have to remove recents from mail app no imessage10-15-2014 12:08 PMLike 0 - Due to downloading a LOT on Bit Torrent, I have to completely reformat my Hard Drive about every 2 months. The pro's WAY outweigh the couple of hours reinstalling windows.
And since iTunes is the biggest piece of garbage application on the planet, and we are stuck with it if you have an iPhone, I have to reset my iPHone as new each time. Because when you re-install iTunes, it cannot read the iPhone, figure out what is on it, and set itself up so you can just continue using it.
I can assure you that this does not clear your text history. I moved from iphone 5 to Samsung Note 4 (for a month), now back to an iPHone 6 plus. The reason I found this thread is that this text history is causing me issues since it keeps old, invalid entries.07-19-2015 12:37 PMLike 0 - I have to reformat my computer hard drive ever 2-3 months, which includes re-installing iTunes each time.
Since iTunes is the biggest piece of garbage application in existence, I then must wipe my iPHone clean and setup as new each time.
I can assure you that this does NOT clear text history. I found this thread because that history is causing me issues with invalid contacts.
I tried setting the saved texts from Forever to 30 days, that did not do it either.07-19-2015 12:40 PMLike 0 - I have to reformat my computer hard drive ever 2-3 months, which includes re-installing iTunes each time.
Since iTunes is the biggest piece of garbage application in existence, I then must wipe my iPHone clean and setup as new each time.
I can assure you that this does NOT clear text history. I found this thread because that history is causing me issues with invalid contacts.
I tried setting the saved texts from Forever to 30 days, that did not do it either.07-19-2015 02:01 PMLike 0 - Yes you can delete it...if i understand you correctly, when you type the first initial of person you want to text, a drop down box comes down and the name is still there although you have removed it from your contact list. To remove do as follows:
Make sure the list is showing with all the names for that alphabetical letter.- Click the little information icon next to the name you want to remove from the list
- In red a line will say Remove from recents
- Tap the option
If this option does not show make sure you have upgraded. As the option may not appear on old versions, then try again. This should remove it from your drop down history list in messages.
Hope this helps...bless08-13-2015 06:17 PMLike 0 - Okay, so this issue has been going on for a while. (Years at least!) And the last reply to this thread was a few months ago so who knows when someone will see this
(This post isn't about a solution, but about why it may be happening. So if you are looking for a solution, I apologize in advance...I just had a theory and wanted to share
I'm obviously here because I'm having the same issue. And as I'm reading these, I'm seeing a common thread: the recent contacts that are "sticking" at the top or being suggested by iMessage (even after being deleted are ALL EXes it seems. Not old colleagues, neighbors etc. But exes. Why?? iMessage suggests certain contacts before others for a reason. Interaction.
Is it possible that our exes are reading through old conversations & photos on their end and iMessage perceives that as an interaction between the two numbers/accounts and therefore is putting it as a recent??
I have two different exes that I've watched this with and they're always near the top of the list (when I type the 1st letter of their name) even though I haven't talked to one in almost 2 years and the other in 8 months. One is deleted and one is not. One is an android user and one is also iPhone.
Anyway...it was just a theory. I'd be interested to hear anyone else's input.02-18-2016 08:10 AMLike 0 - Okay, so this issue has been going on for a while. (Years at least!) And the last reply to this thread was a few months ago so who knows when someone will see this
(This post isn't about a solution, but about why it may be happening. So if you are looking for a solution, I apologize in advance...I just had a theory and wanted to share
I'm obviously here because I'm having the same issue. And as I'm reading these, I'm seeing a common thread: the recent contacts that are "sticking" at the top or being suggested by iMessage (even after being deleted are ALL EXes it seems. Not old colleagues, neighbors etc. But exes. Why?? iMessage suggests certain contacts before others for a reason. Interaction.
Is it possible that our exes are reading through old conversations & photos on their end and iMessage perceives that as an interaction between the two numbers/accounts and therefore is putting it as a recent??
I have two different exes that I've watched this with and they're always near the top of the list (when I type the 1st letter of their name) even though I haven't talked to one in almost 2 years and the other in 8 months. One is deleted and one is not. One is an android user and one is also iPhone.
Anyway...it was just a theory. I'd be interested to hear anyone else's input.02-18-2016 10:41 AMLike 0 - Hi, I`m using P10 Lite and I found a way few days ago. Open your contacts (phonebook) and go to contact which trace you want to delete. Click on three dots "more" and then "erase trace". This will delete every trace of that specific contact (call and message records, recent...) This is for Huawei, android 7.0 and EMUI 5.109-24-2017 05:14 AMLike 0
- Hi, I`m using P10 Lite and I found a way few days ago. Open your contacts (phonebook) and go to contact which trace you want to delete. Click on three dots "more" and then "erase trace". This will delete every trace of that specific contact (call and message records, recent...) This is for Huawei, android 7.0 and EMUI 5.1
1. The date of the original post. In this instance, it was 5 years ago.
2. Things associated with Android should be posted at our sister site, the Android Central forum.09-24-2017 11:14 AMLike 0 - It’s annoying but there is a solution, however you’ll have to keep doing it periodically. In messaging, when you start to type the name and all these other previous names or group messages pop up, Tap the “i” symbol with a circle around it which is to the right. If this is a single person‘s contact, you’ll get the option to “remove from recent‘s“. If it’s a group message, you’ll get a list of everyone in the message individually listed, which allows you to select only one number to send your new message to, or scroll all the way to the bottom of the list and select “remove from recents“ to remove that entire group message from your recent list. The same procedure applies when typing someone’s name in an email “to:” field.
It would be great if you could turn this “recent“ feature off so that it doesn’t continue happening but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that. Nor is there a way to globally delete all your “recent” message/email history, you literally have to start typing a name to get recent results to show up. The only way to clear it out totally is to start typing each letter of the alphabet, and deleting all the results that pop up. And you have to do it separately for messaging and email to get it all. So it may take 20 or 30 minutes. The only other way to globally wipe the stuff out is to use iTunes on your computer to do a complete backup, restore of your phone as new, then restore your backup, which does not save restore “recent” history.
I had a similar complaint with the “spotlight“ search, but at least recent iOS updates made it possible to turn off spotlight search results for specific things; turning off spotlight search for email and messaging now means that swiping down and doing a spotlight search will no longer bring up results from my email or text messages. I wish they would do something similar for the “recents” feature in Email and Messaging.12-14-2017 08:19 AMLike 0
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