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Deleting Contacts

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Permanently Deleting Contacts

Are you impatient to rid your Yahoo! Contacts of your deleted contacts? We’ll remove them from Deleted Contacts within a month, but you can permanently delete them as soon as you want.

 

Here’s How

  1. Click the View button above the list of contact names, then select Deleted Contacts.

    Select Deleted Contacts from the View button.

    A list of deleted contacts displays.

  2. Check the box to the left of each contact you want to permanently delete, then click Delete Permanently.

    Check the box to the left of each contact, then click Delete Permanently.

    The contacts are permanently removed from Yahoo! Contacts and are no longer available to be restored.

 

What’s Next

If you decide to add a person back to Yahoo! Contacts, you’ll need to do a new addition. For guidance, take a look at the Adding Contacts tutorial.

 
 
 

Words to Know

  • Deleted Contacts: a system category that temporarily holds contacts deleted from Yahoo! Contacts.