How to Delete Contacts on Telegram

If you scroll through your contacts list on Telegram, you might find some unfamiliar contacts. Also, there are times when Telegram also sends notifications that one of your contacts has joined Telegram, but you don’t recognize the contact.

In such cases, you would like to delete the contact immediately and you don’t know how. This guide will walk you through deleting Telegram contacts on different platforms.

Telegram is available on all major platforms like Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. When you log into Telegram on any platform, all contacts from the platform will be synced to your Telegram account.

If you logged into your Telegram account on someone else’s computer or phone, you have most of their contacts in your account.

It’s not always user-friendly for Telegram to sync contacts from multiple devices, and that’s another reason why you might want to stop using Telegram.

You can delete a contact from your Telegram account on any platform. Even if you delete a contact on Telegram, you still have the contact on your phone but deleted it from your Telegram account. However, if you want to permanently delete a contact, you need to delete contacts from your iPhone, Android, Windows or Mac device.

How to delete a Telegram contact on Android

Deleting contacts in Telegram is pretty easy on Android. Follow these instructions to delete a single Telegram contact on Android.

1. open that telegram App on your Android phone.
2. Tap the Hamburger menu and select contacts.
3. Choose Contact You want to delete.
4. Tap theirs view photo or Surname.
5. Beat those Three point menu top right.
6. Choose delete contact from the list.
7. Choose Extinguish when you get a confirmation prompt.

Follow these steps if you want to delete all Telegram contacts on Android.

1. Tap the Hamburger menu on telegram.
2. Choose settings from the menu.
3. Choose privacy and security.
4. Scroll down and select the Delete synced contacts Possibility.

How to delete a Telegram contact on iOS, iPadOS and macOS

Deleting Telegram contacts on iOS, iPadOS and macOS is similar on these Apple platforms but different from Android. How to delete a single contact from Telegram on iOS, iPad or macOS.

1. open that telegram apartment
2. Choose contacts Tab.
3. Select the Contact you want to delete.
4. Tap theirs view photo or Surname.
5. Choose To edit option at top right.
6. Tap the delete contact Possibility.
7. Beat those Extinguish option in the confirmation prompt.

Unfortunately, you cannot delete multiple Telegram contacts on macOS. However, follow these steps if you want to delete all contacts from your Telegram account on iOS and iPadOS.

1. Choose settings Tab in the Telegram app.
2. Tap the privacy and security Possibility.
3. Scroll down and select data settings.
4. Beat Delete synced contacts.

How to delete a Telegram contact on Windows and the web

Deleting contacts on both is similar when accessing Telegram on a Windows PC or a web browser.

Follow these steps to delete a single Telegram contact from your Windows PC and web browser.

1. press the Hamburger menu in the telegram.
2. Choose contacts from the menu.

3. Select the Contact You want to delete.

4. Click theirs show image or Surname.

5. Choose delete contact if you are on a windows pc or Edit icon > Delete contact when you are on the internet.
6. press the Extinguish Option when you get the confirmation prompt.

You cannot delete multiple Telegram contacts on Windows or the latest web version. However, you can delete them using the legacy version of Telegram.

This is how you can switch to the old version and delete multiple contacts on Telegram web.

1. Open Telegram web by going to web.telegram.org
2. press the Hamburger menu.
3. Choose Switch to the old version option from the menu.

4. press the Hamburger menu in the old version.
5. Select the contacts option from the menu.

6. press the To edit Possibility.

7. Select the contacts you want to delete.
8. Choose Extinguish option and you will not get a confirmation prompt.

The Telegram contacts will disappear from all platforms if you delete them on one platform. You have to add them manually if you want to add them back to your Telegram account.

Having these unknown contacts in your Telegram might not be suitable for you, so luckily you can remove them.