Most contacts can be deleted with one click. However, before you delete a contact, be
aware of who can delete contacts and what happens to records that are associated with deleted
contacts.
Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning
Experience
Available in: all editions
You can delete a contact if you’re an administrator, the contact owner, or a user above
the contact owner in the organization role hierarchy, and if you have the Delete
permission on the Contact object. If you meet these requirements, you see
Delete as an option on the contact’s detail page and on
its row on the contact list page in.
If you delete a contact, these associated records are also deleted. You don’t need the
“Delete” permission on the associated records.
Assets (without cases)
Attachments
Campaign history
Events
Notes
Tasks
Accounts, entitlements, and opportunities that are associated with the contact
aren’t deleted.
To delete a contact related to an entitlement, delete the associated entitlement
contact records or remove the roll-up summary field from the Contact object.
The deleted contact is moved to the Recycle Bin. If you undelete the contact, any
associated records are restored, including any inactive Self-Service usernames.
If you delete or remove an activity’s primary contact, another contact becomes
the primary contact in its place. You can edit the activity to manually select another
primary contact.
You can’t delete contacts that have these records associated with them.
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