By Default in Gmail, each time when you send, forward and reply to someone, it will automatically saves details of that person to your Address book or contact list. However most people like it because it can help recover forgotten addresses of former teachers, bosses, and people you contacted once but never thought you’d need to contact again.
But if you are a prolific email user who receive lots of email from different people, and if you diligently reply to them all, your contact book must have grown to unmanageable proportions.
How to Stop Gmail From Automatically Adding Contacts to your Address Book:
- Login to you Gmail Account.
- Select the settings page in your Gmail account.
- Under settings page, you can find the General tab.
- Scroll down the page until you come to the entry “Create contacts for auto-complete”, and switch from the default “When I send a message to a new person, add them to Other Contacts so that I can auto-complete to them next time” to “I’ll add contacts myself”.
- Click Save the changes before you leave the page.
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Irfan@RealTimeTricks
Jun 27. 2011
btw I don’t find any problem on Google suggest email ID automatically. I’m happy and feel so easy with this feature! Anyways great article for them who want it to remove!
-Irfan
Swamykant
Jul 01. 2011
As you grow online, you will find it is difficult. However thanks for your visit Irfan
Ahsan
Jun 28. 2011
The tips is very small but very effective. Thanks for share
Swamykant
Jul 01. 2011
Thanks for your visit Ahsan
Anonymous
Jul 26. 2011
I am unable to find this setting after following the directions above.
Swamykant
Jul 26. 2011
Just search for this text “Create contacts for auto-complete” under General tab. This option is available just above the signature field