How to hide contacts on iPhone

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Ever wanted to keep your iPhone contacts private without deleting them? iPhone doesn’t have the ability to hide contacts, which can put your important personal information at risk. In this article, I will explain some tips for hiding iPhone contacts.

Spotlight searches may be sufficient to avoid privacy and display sensitive contacts. When I’m searching for something else, my contacts are displayed incorrectly. Follow the steps below to hide iPhone contacts from Spotlight and LookUp.

  1. Open Setting..
  2. Tap Search with Siri..
  3. Scroll down to select contact address..
  4. Scroll through the list and uncheck all sliders.

    Hide contacts from Spotlight and search for search on iPhone

This will remove your contact list from Spotlight and LookUp. In addition, you can disable phones from the list so that recent calls don’t show up there either.

Did you know that you can hide the contact’s name? To mask a contact using a nickname, follow these simple steps: Note: This method cannot be done in bulk and must be done individually for each contact. This method does not permanently delete the contact, but it hides some names.

  1. Open contact address Select the contact you want to give your nickname to.
  2. Tap edit Located in the upper right corner.
  3. Scroll down and tap Add field..
  4. From the opened list, tap nickname Enter the desired nickname.

    Tap the nickname and enter the desired nickname on your iPhone

  5. Your contact will now see your nickname and no one else will know your real name. Read on to find out how to hide all your contacts completely.

Follow these steps to hide all your contacts on your iPhone so that they aren’t visible.

  1. Open contact address..
  2. Tap Group in the upper left corner → Hide all contacts → Done..

This will hide all your contacts and no one will be able to see them. If you want to call one of them, you still have to enter the number manually. Hiding a contact is different from deleting a contact.If you want to delete all contacts permanently, please read the article on how to delete multiple contacts on iPhone at once.

Google Contacts is another great tool you can use to hide certain contacts. It’s very effective when you don’t want to mix your personal and business contacts.

  1. Open Google Contacts on your iPhone.
  2. Select the contacts you want to hide.
  3. Tap Three dot icons Located in the upper right corner.
  4. select Hide from contacts..
  5. Hidden contacts will no longer appear in your iPhone’s contact list.
  6. Tap the small + icon in the upper right corner to redisplay your contacts.

    Hide iPhone contacts using Gmail on iPhone

The best part is that you can use this method to hide all your contacts at once. Mark your contacts and follow the steps above to hide them all at once.

This method is best if you want to show only a few contacts and hide all other contacts. However, you need a Mac to hide your contacts using this method. Very effective for hiding personal or business contacts from iPhone. Follow the steps below to hide iPhone contacts-

  1. Log on to iCloud.
  2. Open contact address..

    Click icloud contacts

  3. Tap the plus icon at the bottom left contact address pain.
  4. Tap New group Select a name for the group.

    On Mac[新しいグループ]Tap

  5. Select the contacts you want to view and drag them into a new group (in this case, a personal group).
  6. Then open the Contacts app on your iPhone.
  7. Tap Uncheck Group → Individual Group..
  8. When complete, the contacts in the group will no longer appear on your iPhone. You can redisplay your contacts at any time.

    Hide contacts on iPhone using Mac

Your iPhone will only show contacts that are part of that group, and hide other contacts. The great thing about this feature is that when you edit a member of that group, the contact list is automatically updated.

You can hide / mask iPhone contacts using any of the above methods. It’s time for Apple to add a native option to hide iPhone contacts. Perhaps they will add it in the near future. How to hide iPhone contacts? Please let us know in the comments below.

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