Go to Settings, select the email account, and turn the Save Contacts slider to the Off position. Exported contacts (from iCloud or saved locally/directly) will be removed from your device's Contacts app.

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Synchronization of contacts between your Outlook account and your Apple iPhone or iPod touch requires Apple iTunes. You can configure which items are synchronized during a one-time set up process.

The Outlook mobile app can sync email, contacts, calendar and files from Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, Exchange Server (2007 SP2, 2010, 2013, and 2016), Outlook.com (including Hotmail, Live, and MSN), Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. Outlook for iOS and Android also connects to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Dropbox, Google Drive & Box.

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Want to add a padlock to your email messages? You can use encryption and digital signatures in new Outlook, classic Outlook, and Outlook on the web for work or school accounts to increase the security of messages. Encrypting an email message in Outlook means it's converted from readable plain text into scrambled cipher text. Only the recipient who has the private key that matches the public ...

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Messages that have the encrypt-only policy applied can be read directly in new Outlook, Outlook on the web, Outlook for iOS and Android, Outlook for Windows versions 2019 and newer, and Microsoft 365.

Add a recipient's digital ID to your Contacts in classic Outlook To send and receive encrypted email messages, both the sender and the receiver must share their digital ID certificates with each other. Open a message that is digitally signed as indicated in the message list by a Signature icon.

This article explains how to get your vCard (.vcf file) into CSV format so you can import your contacts into Outlook. IMPORTANT: Make sure you've exported all of your contacts from iCloud!