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If you tap the Phone app on your iPhone, you can see your hide recent and favorite contacts. But if you read this article, you can also find out how to get to your recent and favorite contacts. You can get to that from the iPhone App switcher (the iPhone’s “multitasking” screen). So, do you want to know how to turn on recent and favorite contacts on the iPhone App switcher? Then carefully follow the steps at the bottom, and you’re done.
How to Hide Recent and Favorite contacts
- Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
- Tap on Show In App Switcher under the Contacts section.
- Toggle Off the options for Phone Favorites and/or Recents.
Is it Possible to Clear Recent?
You can get rid of recent calls from the Phone app, but this won’t get rid of them from the App Switcher. In the App Switcher, you can see recent contacts from more than just phone calls. They came from messages, too. The only way to get rid of contacts is to reset all settings, but this will get rid of all your user settings. It’s easier to get Recents out of the App Switcher view.
The Contacts app should ideally have a way to clear out recent contacts. we wouldn’t think that such a feature would be added to future versions of iOS. With the tools that are given, users can manage their contacts from the App Switcher view. Apple isn’t known for making their user interfaces too hard to use by giving users too many options. Most people like that they can turn off Recent and see only their favorites.
Where can you add someone to Favorites on iPhone?
On iOS, you can put anyone on your favorite list. If you talk to someone over the phone, you can add their number to your contacts just for phone calls. You can do the same thing if you want to talk to them through Messages, FaceTime, or any other app where both of you are available.
In the iOS Phone, Messages, Contacts, and FaceTime apps, you can mark people as favorites. But you can only see people you marked as favorites in the Phone app. This is true no matter which app you used to save their contact information.
FAQs
It’s the button with three vertical dots that appears to the right when you hover over a contact name. This displays the More menu. Click Hide from Contacts. It’s in the More menu.
Open the Phone app, and tap ‘Favorites’ at the bottom. Then, either swipe left on a contact — in order to remove it from the list — or you can tap ‘Edit’ and then the red circle next to the contact. This will not delete the contact from your phone.
Open the Phone app. Tap on Favorites in the lower left corner to access your favorites. Swipe from right the left across the favorite that you want to delete. You can also tap the Edit button at the tops right and tap the red circle next to the contact that you want to remove from favorites.