A few years ago I noticed that Apple had added "Gender" and other fields to my contacts. How can I disable these across my 250+ contacts? I am concerned because these fields just take up additonal storage and these fields are totally useless. I know what gender my contact "John" is.
iPhone 13 mini, iOS 18
The gender does not show up in your 250+ contacts unless there is one assigned to it, so no worries about extra storage required. The only time you would ever see a gender option is when you Edit or Add a new contact and you certainly do not need to use it. There is no storage space taken for a field that is not used in a Contact.
Hello!
Afaik, there’s no way to turn this off. I cannot confirm this, but I have a feeling even if you could turn it off, you wouldn’t see a difference. The storage space this consumes is probably very small.
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