How can i delete multiple address book contacts in iOS programmatically?

Question

Hi i have a requirement to show all address book contacts in tableview. if the user wants to select the multiple contacts delete those selected contacts.for this i didn't found any solution for that please help me.

Answer 1

You could try this:
You need #import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h>:

-(void) removeContactWithRecordsList:(CFArrayRef) selectedRecords_ {
    ABAddressBookRef addressbook = ABAddressBookCreate();
    if (selectedRecords_ != NULL)
    {
        int count = CFArrayGetCount(selectedRecords_);
        for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i)
        {
            ABRecordRef contact = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(selectedRecords_, i);
            ABAddressBookRemoveRecord(addressbook, contact, nil);
        }
    }
    ABAddressBookSave(addressbook, nil);
    CFRelease(addressbook);
}

EDIT:
Example: As my case I want to remove all contacts have name "Sample"

NSString *searchName = @"Sample";
ABAddressBookRef addressbook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFStringRef nameRef = (__bridge CFStringRef) searchName;
CFArrayRef  allSearchRecords = ABAddressBookCopyPeopleWithName(addressbook, nameRef);
[self removeContactWithRecordsList:allSearchRecords];