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How to remove contacts from the Favorites list in your iPhone's Phone app

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It's easy to remove favorites from your iPhone's Phone app. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
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Most of your iOS devices come with a Favorites list for your contacts. 

Favoriting someone will allow you to quickly contact them by FaceTime, phone call, iMessage, or SMS text — instead of endlessly scrolling through your address book. 

Your Favorites list can be found in the Phone app on your iPhone, and removing contacts from that list is easy. 

Here's how to do it. 

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How to remove favorites from your iPhone 

1. Unlock your iPhone

2. Launch the Phone app from the homescreen. 

3. At the bottom of the screen, tap the Favorites icon on the far left — the star icon. 

4. To remove a favorite, first tap the Edit button in the top right-hand corner of the screen. 

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Tap Edit in the top right-hand corner.  Meira Gebel/Business Insider

5. Scroll to find the favorite you wish to remove, and tap the red circle with a minus symbol in the middle on the left-hand side. 

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Tap the red circle with a minus symbol in the middle.  Meira Gebel/Business Insider

6. Next, tap Delete on the far right of the contact's box.

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Tap Delete.  Meira Gebel/Business Insider

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Meira Gebel is a freelance reporter based in Portland, Oregon. She writes about business, culture, and technology for Insider. Her work has been featured in Digital Trends, Willamette Week, USA Today, and more. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and San Francisco State University.  Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter, where she can be found most of the time, @MeiraGebel.