Wanting to reorganize your Vivo Y16 is a good idea, you store more and more files there, so being a little rigorous doesn't hurt. Anyway, whether you want to sell your phone or just start on a good basis, sorting through your phonebook is not a very complex operation, however you are not necessarily aware of how it works.
We will precisely, in this article, explain to you how to delete all contacts from your Vivo Y16. We will first show you the situations in which it is useful to do so, then, how to erase all the contacts from your phone, first on the phone memory, then those synchronized by your google account.
In which cases is it interesting to delete all contacts from your Vivo Y16?
So we start this tutorial by quickly seeing the advantages of deleting all the contacts from a Vivo Y16. In the majority of cases it is when you are going to change your phone that you will have to clean it, if you have to sell your Vivo Y16, give it to someone close to you... We recommend that you delete all your data, whether to do kind of to preserve your privacy, or just to leave a clean phone for its next owner The last scenario in which you may need to erase all the numbers stored on your Vivo Y16 is if you have just acquired a phone in which there are still files from the previous owner.
How to delete all contacts from your Vivo Y16?
It's time to discover the different procedures for delete all contacts from your Vivo Y16. As we told you quickly just before, there may be several types of contacts saved on your smartphone. You can first have contacts that are stored either on your SIM card or in the phone memory. And these are in fact contacts stored directly physically on your Vivo Y16, or the second option is to have contacts that are synchronized through your Google account .
If you ever want to understand how to delete only one or more contacts from your Vivo Y16 do not hesitate to read our guide.
How to delete all the contacts from your Vivo Y16 saved on the smartphone?
So we start our tutorial by seeing the technique for delete all the contacts from your Vivo Y16 that are stored on your smartphone's memory. The technique is quite simple and you can empty the directory of your Vivo Y16 very simply. Follow the few instructions below to accomplish it:
- Open the "Phone" application of your Vivo Y16
- Slide the screen to the left to get to the tab "Contacts"
- Tap the three small vertical dots at the top right
- Then press "Delete"
- Check the button " All " to select all your contacts
- To confirm the process press the button at the bottom of the screen " Remove "
How to delete all contacts from your Vivo Y16 synchronized by Google?
Second possibility, you can desynchronize all the contacts from your Google account on your Vivo Y16. These are actually the contacts that you have saved from your previous smartphones to your Android account. These sync automatically when you link your Google account to your Vivo Y16. To erase them all at once, apply the following few instructions:
- Go to the "Settings" of your Vivo Y16
- Go to the "Accounts and backup" menu
- Then in the "Accounts" tab, find the email address linked to your Google account and click on it
- Go to "Account Sync" and deselect "Contacts" to delete all your Google contacts on your Vivo Y16
In the event that you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Vivo Y16, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Live Y16.
