[Q] How to remove multiple "Not assigned" contacts? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Since importing my contacts from Google, I have 500+ "Not assigned" (to groups) contacts.
When looking at other groups, I can "Remove Member" and tick multiple members, but I cannot seem to do this with the "Not assigned" group.
Any idea how I can remove them without having to do each one individually?

shaggydabbydo said:
Since importing my contacts from Google, I have 500+ "Not assigned" (to groups) contacts.
When looking at other groups, I can "Remove Member" and tick multiple members, but I cannot seem to do this with the "Not assigned" group.
Any idea how I can remove them without having to do each one individually?
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Why not block-add them to a new group first, and then remove them from there?

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it's not there. the problem is that the S6 or maybe Gmail itself has decided to move all contacts to My Contacts and even if you attempt to edit those contacts into a different group, it won't let you. going into an individual contact on the phone, the My Contact field is grayed out and it won't even let you deselect it so you can filter another group etc.
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daylondeon said:
it's not there. the problem is that the S6 or maybe Gmail itself has decided to move all contacts to My Contacts and even if you attempt to edit those contacts into a different group, it won't let you. going into an individual contact on the phone, the My Contact field is grayed out and it won't even let you deselect it so you can filter another group etc.
i was going to move all the email only contacts to a different group but that won't even work now because every contact is now defaulted to My Contacts and even in Gmail contact settings itself you can no longer change that. even if you move email only to a different group, they will remain listed under My Contacts (or All Contacts) as it's called now.
pretty stupid. hopefully there's a fix coming. i'd hate to use a separate Contacts app.
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You can use the web version to that.
h t t p :/ / w w w .google. com/contacts
There, you can remove contacts from the group "My Contacts" so they won't show up in the cellphone anymore (unless you search manually).
Also, I find this post very helpful:
http: / / forums.androidcentral.com/android-5-0-lollipop/465143-how-do-i-display-only-contacts-phone-numbers-lollipop.html#post4377999
The scripts keeps in your "My Contacts" group only the contacts with cellphone numbers.

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