Remove Contacts Without Phone numbers on Android Devices

When you save contacts to your Android smartphone, it automatically synchronizes with your Google account. If you have an associated Facebook account with your device, your Facebook contacts would also be synchronized with your phone book. We recently explained, how you can Remove Phone number from Facebook. Sometimes your Google account will synchronize the contacts to whom you have sent emails or contacted via your Google account. Those contacts would not have any phone numbers or empty contacts. Such contacts are of no use and you might want to remove such contacts. Here is how you can delete or remove such empty contacts from your phonebook.

The overall procedure is simple, if you want to display only contacts that have phone numbers, it can be done using the method provided here. I would not recommend you delete contacts because it would be helpful to you in any way. You can back up your phonebook contacts using the Gcloud android app.

How to Remove contacts without phone number from Phonebook :

• Go to your contacts using the contact menu or phonebook.
• Go to settings by tapping on the option
• Here you would see an option that will say you ” only display contacts that have phone numbers”
• That would Remove Contacts Without Phone numbers from your phonebook.

This option would automatically filter all your contacts from your device & show you only contacts that have phone numbers.  This option is particularly useful when you have synchronized too many contacts from social sites like LinkedIn, Google+, and Facebook to your phonebook.

Please note this screenshots are captured with Samsung devices and almost all Samsung devices would be the same. Almost all smartphones would have the same or similar option to filter contacts from phonebooks.

Related: How to Merge Duplicate Contacts on Android