In the list of contacts on my iPhone, there is a padlock to the right of some of the names. What does that mean?
In the list of contacts on my iPhone, there is a padlock to the right of some of the names. What does that mean?
Hello 7608916,
We are making some changes to how system contacts (with the lock icons) appear in the Messenger app. We appreciate your patience and will contact you when we have more details to share.…
Your Garmin Messenger app is taking from your iPhone contacts those which have either a phone number or email registered with Garmin. Thus they are automatically adding them as system contacts in your app…
There are several forum posts about this. None of them seems to have a definitive solution. The padlock MEANS that you cannot delete the contact. As to why? That's the part that's fuzzy.
It's just…
We are making some changes to how system contacts (with the lock icons) appear in the Messenger app. We appreciate your patience and will contact you when we have more details to share. If you wish to try removing the locked contact in the meantime, please try the following steps for a workaround.
- In Messenger app, go to the Device page
- Select Contacts
- Select Add Contact
- Select Import Contact
- Choose the contact for the same person showing as "read only" elsewhere in the app
- Make any desired edits to the contact
- Save the contact
- Force close the Messenger app and reopen to check the Contact list - the "read only" contact should be gone
Any updates to the old issue??? I follow these instructions and they do allow one to remove the Read Only contact. But after power cycles of the device/phone, the contact re-appears.
Update:
The 1st line of Chris' instructions in the following link did the trick...