How to Delete Gmail Suggested Contacts? We have compiled the steps you need to follow to remove the ‘recommended contacts’ that appear when sending emails in Gmail. Here is how to manage Gmail recommended contacts!
The people you have saved and interacted with in your Google account are presented to you as suggested contacts for future actions. For example, when filling in the recipient field in Gmail, the app automatically presents you with user options associated with the characters you type.
If you wish, you can select one of these contacts and move on without the hassle of typing the email address again. If your contact list is crowded and you are sometimes annoyed by the suggested contact options, the solution is simple. You can easily remove the contacts you don’t want to be suggested from this list.
In this article, we have listed the steps you need to follow to delete the recommended contacts in your Google account.
How to Delete Suggested Contacts in Google Account?
Google does not want some of the contacts saved in your account to be presented to you as suggestions, how to delete saved contacts in mail? If you are wondering, you can solve this problem by following the steps below:
Sign in to Google Contacts from your computer or mobile device with your account details.
- On the screen that opens, you will see the phone number you have synchronized with your account and the contacts from other email addresses linked to your account listed.
- Contacts you have saved yourself are listed directly in the ‘contacts’ menu.
- You can delete the contacts you do not want to appear in the suggested contacts one by one from this menu.
- You can delete the contact completely by clicking on the button in the form of three dots on the right side of the name of the contact you want to remove and pressing ‘delete’.
- You can do the same in the Other contacts menu to clear your interaction history with this contact. This way, the app won’t suggest the contacts you have deleted in future e-mails.
- However, you should keep in mind that the data you delete in the ‘Contacts’ menu can also be deleted from the contacts on your mobile phone.
How to End Synchronization of Device Contacts with Google Account
- To back up device contacts to your Google account, log in to the ‘Settings’ menu on the device.
- From this menu, click on Google and select ‘Google contacts synchronization’ from the ‘Settings for Google apps’ tab.
- After pressing the ‘Sync device contacts too’ button, select ‘Automatically backup and sync device contacts’.
- Select the account where you want to save the contacts.
- To eliminate this synchronization, simply disable the ‘automatically backup and synchronize device contacts’ option in the same menu.
