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Urgent Icloud Mail help please. autofill email addresses.

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IcloudingIssues · 02/04/2022 15:18

Help, so grateful for anyone who can.

I need to delete all of my autofill email addresses on icloud - they are not appearing on the icloud mail app on my phone, and these are addresses that are not saved in my contacts (have erased all of my contacts on Icloud)

They are addresses that I have not used in a very long time (disowned by half my family), yet they are still coming up when I type in from the web app and... it's fucking just sent an email to an ex family member that contains information that will be used against me in a court case.

I am beside myself. Is there a way to delete all the autofill addresses so this doesnt happen again???

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WeirdlyKind · 02/04/2022 15:21

Does this help at all?

discussions.apple.com/thread/2047433

Youcansaythatagainandagain · 02/04/2022 15:23

Someone will come along and tell you exactly how to do it but otherwise Google how to delete suggested contacts on whatever email you use.

I’m useless at tech but managed to do this when an ex kept being suggested whenever I typed the letter his name begins with.

IcloudingIssues · 02/04/2022 15:26

Ive tried googling and it's not working...

It's just on my macbook - it's fine on the phone - they aren't stored there.

I literally just got the icloud mail account last week and it looks like it's imported contacts from a gmail account into the icloud account (some of these contacts have never been on my phone / icloud contacts)...

Thanks for replies so far, thank you!

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picklemewalnuts · 02/04/2022 15:31

I hate these sorts of problems- and mine aren't serious like yours, OP. It's annoying when you can't get rid of an email address someone's since abandoned.

Is it too late to try and recall? That sometimes works on outlook.

Youcansaythatagainandagain · 02/04/2022 15:32

Is this any use? You may have tried it already?

Turn on iCloud contacts in Settings|Passwords and Accounts.

Now go to address book and search for the obsolete contact.
If it appears, click on the contact and then Edit (top right) when it opens.
Scroll down to the very bottom and hit “Delete Contact”, twice.
Then go back and turn off iCloud contacts in Settings again
(If the address does not appear this way, I have no other solution, except complain to Apple about their poorly designed mail app.)

I’ve found Apple very good at helping if you don’t have any success.

IcloudingIssues · 02/04/2022 15:34

Too late to recall - and unfortunately has given them my married name as well, I am absolutely bricking it...

I've tried the settings in apple... I have turned off the google settings to share contacts in autofill... (It's not just chorme though it's in Safari too) and there's no option to manually delete each autofill one by one like in microsoft.

Actually feeling sick.

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