How to Delete Autocomplete Email Addresses in Gmail

Gmail is one of the largest free email services in use today. It’s provided by Google and is one of their many free Google Apps that you can use such as Docs, Drive and Photos. You can access Gmail from any device with an internet connection and web browser.

Just like many other email apps, Gmail will suggest email addresses for you as you type in the To box. These addresses will be taken from your contacts and history, and it gives you an easy way to select an email address by clicking on it from the suggestions.

One thing you might notice is that there are email addresses in the suggestions that you don’t recognize or do not want to even be there at all. You may also find that these extra email addresses make it harder to find the person you are looking for. In this article, we will be showing you how to delete autocomplete email addresses in Gmail.

As you can see in the image below, as we type the letter E, Gmail suggests email addresses that match what we are typing. Then as we type more characters, the list of suggested addresses will shrink to match what we are typing.

Let’s say we do not want EaseUS Sales Department to show up in our suggested autocomplete email addresses since we don’t plan on ever contacting them again.

If we click on the EaseUS Sales Department contact, we can get some information about it but there is no delete option. Since there is a Save Contact button, that tells us that this email address is not even in our contacts so you would think it wouldn’t show up at all in the autocomplete suggestions. Even if we were to click on the edit pencil icon, there is still no option to delete the address.

To delete this autocomplete email address entry, we will need to go to the Google Contacts webpage. This can be accessed by clicking on the waffle icon at the upper right corner next to your profile picture and then by clicking on Contacts.

Since this email address is not a regular contact that we added, we will need to go to Other contacts and find it there. Then we can click on the three vertical dots for More actions and then click on Delete.

You will then be notified that the contact will be permanently deleted from your account after 30 days. You can then click on Delete to finish removing the email address from your account.

Now when we go back to Gmail and compose a new message and type the letter E, the EaseUS Sales Department address no longer shows up in the autocomplete suggestions.

If you want to remove autocomplete suggestions for addresses that are in your regular contacts, you will need to delete the contact itself which might not be what you want to do. Unless of course you no longer have a need for that particular contact.

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