Q&A for How to Delete Contacts on an iPhone

The only way this would happen would be if you sync with iCloud and the contact is still in your iCloud account.

You should be able to open the phone app, click on contacts, and at the very top it should say "my number" with your phone number and possibly your name. Click that to open it, and there should be a spot to click "use as my contact card." You may have to click edit in there first.

Go to your phone settings. Scroll to Facebook. Look for "Allow These Apps to Use Your Account." Tap the slider off. Go back to your contacts list, and the ones that were merged from Facebook will be gone.

What you do is name them. Make sure the contact has a name, then go to the group, press details, and swipe to your left - then you can remove normally from the group, but you'll still have the contact listed under their name in your contacts.

Go into the Contacts app. Hit the plus button. Enter the information about the person you want to be in your contacts. Once you are done, hit 'done'.

Click on the person's name, then edit, then scroll down to delete.

Log onto iCloud on desktop or laptop, go to Contacts, and create a new group. Then drop contacts in the new group. For it appear in your Apple device, you need to make sure you have iCloud contacts enabled. Go to Settings> iCloud> Contacts> On.

There are two possible reasons: these contacts were cached inside those apps so they still have access to them, or these contacts are still synced with some cloud service.

Make sure you hit "Edit" first. If you don't hit "Edit," then you'll just be viewing the contact's information.

You will have to go to contacts and click on the name that you want to delete. Then, click "information" and then "delete." You will have to repeat this process for each contact that you want to delete.