Corvid Contacts Data Deletion
Last updated: October 6, 2026
This page explains how to delete the data Corvid Contacts handles. Corvid Contacts has no accounts, and the developer does not receive or store your contacts, so there is nothing on our side to delete. The data can be in up to four places, and you control each of them.
On your device
Your contacts, address books, settings, and any photos are stored in the app's private storage on your device. (If you chose to share an address book with your phone's contacts, there is also a copy there, covered in the next section.) To remove them:
- Delete individual contacts or address books inside the app, or
- Open Android Settings, go to Apps, choose Corvid Contacts, then Storage, and select Clear data, or
- Uninstall the app, which removes all of its local data, including any copy shared with your phone's contacts.
You can export your contacts first from Settings → Export Contacts if you want to keep a copy.
In your phone's contacts
From version 1.0.5, you can share an address book with your phone's contacts. If you did, a copy of it is also in Android's contacts storage, under a "Corvid Contacts" account, where other apps you have allowed to access contacts can read it. To remove it:
- Turn off sharing for that address book in the app (open the address book's page and switch off Share with phone contacts), or
- Take away the app's contacts permission in Android Settings.
Corvid then removes the copy from your phone's contacts. Uninstalling the app removes it too. If you only clear the app's data in Android Settings, the copy stays until the next time you open the app, which then removes it, so turn sharing off first if you want it gone right away. Deleting a contact from your phone's contacts does not delete it from Corvid: it only hides it from your phone's contacts on that device. To remove it everywhere, delete it in Corvid.
On your own server
If you sync with a Nextcloud or other CardDAV server, that server holds a copy of your contacts. We do not operate it and cannot access it. Delete the contacts, or the address book, on that server, or ask its administrator to do so.
Address lookup
The app sends data off your device only when you type an address, or ask it to fill in an address's details, and address lookup is turned on. In that case the text you have typed so far (or the address you asked it to look up) goes to the lookup service: Photon (run by Komoot) by default, or Google Places if you turned that on. With Photon, a country-level coordinate derived from your device's language and region setting is sent along with it. These requests are not tied to an account, and we do not receive or keep them. We do not control how those services handle requests, so any deletion request about them would go to Komoot or Google under their privacy policies.
To stop sending anything, set Address Lookup to Off in Settings. You can still type addresses manually.
Questions
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