How Do You Hide Contacts on Your iPhone
iOS doesn’t have a default one-touch feature to hide a specific contact or all your contacts. Though, there are some workarounds you can employ. The methods to hide contacts on your iPhone depend on how private you want them to be. Here are three approaches.
Use iCloud to Create Contact Groups
You can create contact groups on macOS or iCloud. Then, you can opt to hide all your contacts or display a selected group. The steps are illustrated on iCloud.
Use Nicknames to Hide Real Contact Names
You can hide any name by using a nickname in the Contact app’s first and last name fields. But iOS also supports Short Names or Nicknames from Settings. Nicknames aren’t foolproof, but they can help you camouflage specific contact names from the call screen or the Contacts list.
Drag and drop names from the contacts column to the group. Select non-contiguous contacts together by pressing the Ctrl key on Windows (Command key on macOS)Select multiple contiguous contacts with the Shift key.
Turn Off Spotlight Search Settings
Someone can bring up specific contacts with a Spotlight search. Spotlight can display contacts even when the screen is locked unless you disable the Spotlight Search settings.
How Do I Find Hidden Contacts on My iPhone?
You may have hidden some contacts in a Group and forgotten about them. To uncover them, return to Groups. Select Show All Contacts to bring back your compete contact list.
How Do You Hide a Contact on iMessage?
Again, there are no default methods to completely hide contacts on iMessage. But these two methods can give you a sense of privacy.
Hide Message Alerts
The most secure way to hide a contact on iMessage is to delete the conversation or use a private messaging app. But you can have partial privacy by hiding messaging alerts.
Use Message Filtering
You can also hide a contact by deleting their number from Contacts. iOS then filters messages from unknown senders into a separate list. It also turns off iMessage notifications from senders who aren’t in your contacts. Then, use the Unknown Senders list to view their messages.
