We have our own contacts in each messenger. These contacts are displayed in the contact list of the application depending on whether they use that application or not. So, we will not be able to see in the Telegram contacts list, the names of people who do not use the Telegram messenger. However, we might want to remove the names of people from this list and not see any other profiles or ID’s. For this purpose, we have to delete contacts in Telegram , which is explained in what follows.
Delete Contacts in Telegram
The note that should be mentioned in the Telegram contact list, is that we can only see the contacts that have their phone numbers. in other words, the names that we have them in the phone contacts list. Of course, if we do not have a Telegram user phone number, but he has our number, his name will also be displayed in our Telegram contacts list and his mobile phone number will also be displayed for us. In this way, we may not have an individual number in the phone’s contact list, but we can find that number in the Telegram contacts list.
With this account, we need to consider two things:
- To delete contacts in Telegram whose name is only in the Telegram contacts list, it is only necessary to remove it from the Telegram contacts list.
- To delete contacts in Telegram , whose name is in the Telegram contacts list and in the phone contacts list, it is necessary that his information be removed from both lists.
After knowing these tips, we will go to the tutorial on how to remove a contacts in the Telegram contacts list. To do this, you need to first enter to the user profile section and then delete the contact from the list of contacts using the Delete Contact option.
- Open the Telegram application and go to your contacts list.
- Select the contact you want to remove it from the list.
- You will be entered in to the chat page after selecting the person. Touch on his/her profile picture at the top of the chat page to enter to his/her user profile.
- From the top of the screen, touch the three dot in top and select “Delete contact” from the options.
- In the popup window, select “OK” to delete the contact.
Delete contacts in Telegram screenshots
By doing these five steps, which are displayed in image above, you can easily delete contacts in Telegram . Of course, as mentioned above, to delete the contacts whose numbers are stored on your phone or SIM card memory, it is necessary to delete its information from the phone contacts list too, in order to remove the person’s name from the Telegram contacts list.
It’s also worth mentioning that if the person who removed his number from our Telegram contacts list has our phone number, he can send us a message. In order to block the sending of a message, it is necessary to block the target audience in the Telegram. Also, if deleted or blocked contacts, delete their Telegram account and create a new account again, they can send us messages and their names will be displayed again in our Telegram contacts list.