In the People app, Settings -> 'Contacts to Display' -> Customize. Under your gmail account there will be a check box for 'All other contacts'. Turn that one off.
Hope that helps. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <[email protected]> wrote: > I just applied a system update to my Android, and now my contacts include > people I don't know. It appears, that people's email addresses > automatically create entries in the contact list - people for example on > mailing lists like this. > > > > I can go down the list and one by one, delete the contacts, but I think > there *must* be a checkbox somewhere that says to automatically add people > I've seen in email to my contacts list. Try as I might, I just can't find > such a checkbox, and my google-fu has failed me thus far. > > > > Anybody have a clue? > > > > The best answer I could find was here: > > http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-droid-incredible/16772-stop-auto-add-contacts.html > > which talks about HTC specifically (which I have), and says you can't undo. > Which, if they're right, would be infuriating. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- "Security" is now a catch-all excuse for all sorts of authoritarianism, as well as for boondoggles and corporate profiteering. Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
