How to Stop Syncing Google Contacts to iPhone

Google Contacts is a great alternative to iCloud Contacts to sync contacts between iPhones or iPhone and Android. However, you might get confused if you use both on your iPhone. If you only want to sync Google Contacts with your iCloud account, you can remove them from your iPhone.

There are multiple ways to remove Google Contacts from iPhone. To get started, you need to turn off sync for Google Contacts in Settings. This will stop syncing contacts from Google Contacts to iPhone and will be changed to iCloud if you have chosen Google Contacts as the default contact save location.

If you want to avoid syncing new contacts with Google Contacts, you will have to change your iPhone’s default account. Also, if you only want to view iPhone contacts and hide Google Contacts, you can do that without deleting your Google Contacts from your iPhone. This article covers it all.

Let’s see how to stop syncing Google Contacts to iPhone.

Note: The following methods will also work on Apple iPad.

How to Turn Off Google Contacts Sync on iPhone

This method will remove all Google Contacts from your iPhone. To do this, follow these steps:

Stage 1: Open Settings on your iPhone.

Step 2: Go to Contacts. Tap Accounts.

Stage 3: Tap Gmail.

Step 4: Turn off the switch next to Contacts for your Google account. iOS will remind you that your Google Contacts will be removed from your phone. Confirm when prompted.

When you turn off sync for Google Contacts on iPhone, Google Contacts will only be removed from your iPhone. That means they will disappear from the Contacts app and you won’t be able to access them from your iPhone.

However, this does not mean that contacts will be deleted from all devices. You can still access them at contact.google.com on the web or on other devices to which your Google account has been added. Disabling Google Contacts on iPhone will allow you to keep notes, calendar, etc. It does not affect other data in your Google account, such as

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How to Remove or Hide Select Google Contacts from iPhone

If you only want to remove a few Google Contacts from iPhone, you need to delete them. Deleting them on iPhone also deletes them from all devices. So be careful before using this method.

Fly: Learn how to restore accidentally deleted Google Contacts.

You can use this method if you want Google Contacts to stay on iPhone only in incognito mode. That is, you should only be able to view them when you need them. In other words, hide Google Contacts on iPhone without deleting or turning off sync.

Here is how to hide or remove a few selected Google Contacts from iPhone.

Stage 1: Open the Apple Contacts app on your iPhone.

step 2: Tap the Group option at the top.

Stage 3: Here you will see various contact groups. Basically, your contacts from different services are divided into various groups, including one from Gmail.

So, uncheck the box next to All Gmail in case you want to hide Google Contacts from the Contacts app.

If you want to delete several Google Contacts, uncheck the boxes next to all other groups except Gmail so that only Google Contacts will appear. When this happens, go to the Home screen of the Contacts app and delete the contacts as you normally would. So open the contact you want to delete. Tap Edit. Scroll down and hit Delete Contact. Repeat the step for other people.

Note: Deleting or stopping syncing for Google Contacts does not affect iCloud contacts.

How to Stop Syncing Contacts from iPhone to Google Contacts

To save new contacts to a different service than Google Contacts, you need to change the default account in settings.

For this, follow these steps:

Stage 1: Open Settings on your iPhone. Go to Contacts.

Step 2: Tap Default Account. Check the box next to iCloud or a service other than Gmail.

If you just change the default account without turning off Google Contacts sync as shown above, existing contacts in Google Contacts will still appear on your iPhone.

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We hope you were able to remove Google Contacts from your iPhone. Removing Google Contacts puts all focus on iCloud Contacts if no other services are added. This should also fix issues with iCloud Contacts. To be more secure, we recommend regularly backing up your contacts to Google Drive.