HOW do i delete all contacts in my contact app befor later import new contacts?¿

Ingonimania

HOW do i delete all contacts in my contact app befor later import new contacts?¿
Thanks

Lilac6044

Ingonimania How many contacts do you have? You can just hold press on a contact and select each one and click delete. Not the most efficient way but works

Oggyo

Ingonimania

You can do this by clearing the app data of the Contacts Storage app (not the Contacts app).
Contacts Storage is a system app, so - three-dots menu >> Show system in All apps view.

Ingonimania

Lilac6044 thanks i know but i have >3000

Lilac6044

Oggyo did not realize this was a thing, learn something new and all that

Ingonimania

Oggyo is it contactskey storage? could post a screen shot? thanks

NoobsaiBot

Oggyo this was great advice thanks

Mogli

Oggyo

OK now that worked and all contacts are deleted. THANK YOU!
--> clearing the app data of the Contacts Storage app (in german Kontakte-Speicher) (not the Contacts app and not contactskey storage app - that don't help).

Lilac6044

Ingonimania Yeah, I appreciate why you did not want to select each one individually with that many. Another thing to note (unless other apps allow it), custom fields and labels do not seem to be saved when exporting and then importing from the default contacts app. You may already know this, or have a solution around it, just didn't want you to delete 3k contacts with custom labels and then import them without.

Mogli

Hello, I have the same problem.
Just want to delete all contacts because the import of the vcf file was not clean. (Version 2.1 - many properties are missing)
Why is there no function to delete all contacts?!

Delete storage of contact app and "contactskey storage" app don't work. All contacts are still there.
Deleting one by one is no option for me.
Can sombody explain please?

Silver

Mogli try deleting both Storage and Cache. It may be unnecessary, but after doing that, reboot the device.

Oggyo

Mogli
Scroll up and reread my previous comment.

de0u

Mogli Just want to delete all contacts because the import of the vcf file was not clean.

https://github.com/tmo1/sms-ie

luke3120

Mogli

That saved me!

So definitely look for this app in your own language.