How to delete a contact from whatsapp

Most of the time, our list of phone or email contacts WhatsApp does not accurately reflect reality. In it we come to accumulate phone numbers that we no longer use (or that have only been used occasionally) or contacts of people that we do not even remember. In this post we are going to see how to delete a contact on whatsapp in order to have an updated, lighter and more useful agenda.

It can also happen that the contact we want to delete belongs to someone with whom, for whatever reason, we are not interested in interacting. The best thing about the contact deletion system of this instant messaging application is that we can delete contacts without them knowing. Maximum discretion.

As you probably already know, when you install WhatsApp on your phone, the app will take the entire list of contacts from your phone book. Similarly, every time we register a new number, it is automatically added to the application's contact list.

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Instead, delete a WhatsApp contact It does not imply deleting it from the phone book as well.. If our idea is to forget about him forever, it will also be necessary to remove him from this list.

Delete a contact in WhatsApp

Let's see below how to delete a contact in WhatsApp from both an Android device and an iPhone:

On an Android phone

These are the steps to follow:

1. First of all, we open our WhatsApp and go to the tab Cat.
2. Then click on the option New chat.
3. Now we search and select the contact we want to delete from the list.
4. Click on the name of the contact, at the top.
5. We access More options and from there we go See in the contact book.
6. Then we press More options and click on the icon Remove.

For the removal to be complete, after the previous steps it will be necessary update our contact list on WhatsApp. The way to do it is very simple, just start a new chat, access the More options tab and from there choose the update option.

On an iPhone

On an iPhone the removal process is easier. It is done in the following way:

1. First you have to start WhatsApp and go to the tab Cat.
2. Then we started a New chat.
3. We search and select the contact we want to delete.
4. Next, we press the name of the contact at the top.
5. Finally, we press Edit and we slide the screen to the bottom until we find the option Delete contact.

Block a contact on WhatsApp

Deleting a contact does not mean that we stop receiving calls or messages from this number. So, if we don't want to completely forget about it, we will always be able to block it.

The option to block contacts was implemented by WhatsApp with the idea that its users could protect yourself from spam and cyberbullying. If we are tired of receiving unwanted advertising messages or calls from numbers that do not interest us, we can block them. By doing so, we will stop receiving your messages, calls and status updates. It is, in any case, a reversible process, so that if we want we can unblock the contact again in the future.

In the most serious cases (where there have been threats or fraud attempts) you can even proceed to report the number from which they come. This is how you can block WhatsApp:

On an Android phone

1. We open WhatsApp and press the icon More options.
2. Let Adjustments
3. select Privacy and then we're going to Contacts blocked.
4. Then click on the icon Add.
5. Finally, we search or select the contact we want to block.

On an iPhone

1. We open WhatsApp and go to the menu Configuration.
2. There we select Account and access the options Privacy.
3. Then we select Blocked and click on Add new.
4. Finally, we search and select the contact we want to block.

Delete blocked contacts

It is the last step. In addition to blocking, there is the possibility of getting rid of a contact forever. To do so, you simply have to do the following:

1. The first thing to do is Delete the contact from our agenda.
2. Once this is done, we go to the WhatsApp application and there we open the list of blocked contacts
3. Then click on the icon Settings (can also be done from the Account tab) to display the user information on the screen.
4. Next, click on Privacy.
5. To finish, we slide the screen until we reach the section Blocked contacts, where we choose the option Remove.

report contacts

In the case of having blocked a contact because we have received offensive content or a scam attempt or similar from him, it is also recommended to report the contact so that WhatsApp can take action on the matter and warn other users. We can do it like this:

1. First, we open the chat with the contact we want to report.
2. Then we press the name of the contact.
3. Select the option report contact.
4. Finally, we click on Report and block.