[General] Delete contact from phone but NOT Gmail contacts

You could go to Settings/Accounts-Google/, tap your Google account, then uncheck Contacts. This will unsync your Contacts, so if you delete a contact on your phone, it won't delete from your main Google account. HOWEVER, if you check the Contacts box again, it will sync and then you will delete the contact from your Google account. So it's kind of a one-time deal.

Another option would be to import all of your Google Contacts into your Phone account, not your Google account, using the Import function in the People app. Then you could unsync Google Contacts to remove all of the contacts that sync with your Google Account. You would then have all of your Google Contacts in your Phone account, which does NOT sync with your Google account, and so if you delete an contact on your phone, it won't delete in your Google Account.

Sorry, that sounded pretty confusing, didn't it?

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