The Recent call list on your iPhone is a handy place to go if you need to find a number that you called, or if someone called you and you wish to return it.
but that list can be overrun with spam or junk calls, so you might want to remove those so that only the important, real calls remain.
Our tutorial below discussed deleting calls from your iPhone 13 call log.
How to Clear a Call from Your iPhone 13 Call Log
- Open the Phone app.
- Select Recents.
- Swipe left on the call.
- Tap Delete.
Our guide continues below with additional information on deleting iPhone calls, including pictures of these steps.
When you receive a phone call on your iPhone 13, it will get stored on the Recents tab in the Phone app. Outgoing calls that you make will also be stored in that location.
But if someone else has access to your phone, then you may not want them to see a call that you made or received, so you may be looking for a way to delete that call from the device.
You can delete an iPhone 13 call from your call history by going to Phone > Recents > swiping left on the call > tapping the Delete button.
This removes the call from the device while leaving the rest of the call history intact.
Our tutorial below provides additional information on deleting calls from an iPhone, including a way that you can quickly clear the entire call log on the device.
Check out our how to block contact on iPhone 13 guide and learn how you can add a phone number or contact to your device’s block list.
How to Delete iPhone 13 Calls (Guide with Pictures)
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 13 in the iOS 15.4.1 operating system.
Step 1: Open the Phone app on your iPhone.
Step 2: Touch the Recents tab at the bottom of the screen.
Step 3: Swipe to the left on the phone call that you would like to delete.
Step 4: Touch the red Delete button to delete the call.
Our tutorial continues below with more information on managing the call log on your iPhone 13.
How to Delete Multiple Calls on an iPhone 13
The section above discussed deleting a single call on your iPhone, but what if you want to delete a few of them?
While you could simply use the steps above to swipe and delete them, you can also use the Edit tool in the call history as another way to remove calls from the device.
- Touch the Phone app icon.
- Choose the Recents tab.
- Tap the Edit button at the upper right corner of the screen.
- Touch the red circle with the minus icon to the left of a call.
- Tap the red Delete button.
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each other call to delete.
The next section discusses how to delete all of the calls in your Recent call list on an iPhone.
How to Clear Your Call History on an iPhone 13
If you don’t need to get rid of one or two calls, but would rather delete all of them, then there is another method you could take.
The iPhone call log also has a utility that lets you clear out all of the calls in the log at once.
- Open the Phone app.
- Select the Recents tab.
- Touch the Edit button at the top-right corner.
- Tap the Clear button at the upper left corner of the screen.
- Choose Clear All Recents.
Note that you can switch between the All and Missed tabs at the top of the screen if you want to separate your calls that way. This also allows you to delete all of your missed calls while keeping the calls you made and the calls you answered in the call history.
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