Email, Messaging, & Video Calls Texting & Messaging How to Delete Any WhatsApp Contact Manage your contacts more easily By Elise Moreau Freelance Contributor Elise Moreau is a writer that has covered social media, texting, messaging, and streaming for Lifewire. Her work has appeared on Techvibes, SlashGear, Lifehack and others. our editorial process Facebook Twitter Elise Moreau Updated March 27, 2020 Texting & Messaging Email Texting & Messaging Video Calls Tweet Share Email If you want to keep your WhatsApp contacts to a minimum, or you simply just want to delete a single contact for whatever reason, it's very easy to do so. You can delete as many contacts as you want and they'll never know you deleted them since no notifications are sent to the contact when deleted. You can also delete WhatsApp groups. It works a little differently, but it's not difficult once you know how to do it. How to Delete a WhatsApp Contact on iOS or Android If you delete a contact through WhatsApp, that contact will also be deleted from your device's contact list, so be sure you want to delete the contact from both places before you go ahead. Keep in mind the opposite is true as well—if you delete a contact from your device's contact list, they will also be deleted from your WhatsApp contacts. The process for deleting a WhatsApp contact differs just slightly between iOS and Android. Instructions are provided for both platforms, but screenshots are included for the iOS version only. Open the WhatsApp app on your iOS or Android device and tap Chats in the bottom menu. Tap the chat composer icon in the top right corner. Your contact list will be shown to you. On iOS, the chat composer looks like a pencil inside a square. On Android, it looks like a very small message icon inside a circle. Scroll through your contact list or use the search function at the top to find the contact you want to delete. Once found, tap the contact you want to delete to first open a chat. At the top of the chat screen, tap the contact's name to go to their profile. In the top right corner, tap Edit (iOS) or the three vertical dots (Android). On iOS, you can simply tap Delete Contact at the bottom of the Edit Contact tab to delete them both from WhatsApp and your device's contacts. Deleting a contact on iOS won't delete any chat history you had with them. You can delete your chat history from the Chats tab by swiping left on any particular chat, then tap More > Delete Chat > Delete Chat. On Android, tap View in address book > three vertical dots > Delete to delete them both from WhatsApp and your device's contacts. If you're deleting contacts on WhatsApp via the Android platform, you'll need to refresh your WhatsApp contacts to reflect the changes. Tap the chat composer icon > three vertical dots > Refresh. The deleted contact(s) should no longer appear in your contact list.