are contacts pushed or pulled?

[flyingninja]

I have an iPhone 6S, and I have contacts in gmail and iCloud and they both show on my phone.

I have a lot and want to clean them up - remove ones I don't call often and ones that have email address only without a number.

For the gmail ones, I can either do it from my laptop, in gmail.com, or on my iPhone direct.

What's the best way to do this? How do they get synced? Can I force a sync to occur?

 

[eyoungren]

For the gmail ones, I can either do it from my laptop, in gmail.com, or on my iPhone direct.

What's the best way to do this? How do they get synced? Can I force a sync to occur?

A sync occurs with Google contacts any time you make a change. So, I guess that would be a push. It will reflect to any device pretty much right after you change something provided that device is on and connected.

Can't really say about iCloud contacts. I tried it once under iOS 6 and it was a mess - which is why I use Google contacts.