Manage contact auto suggestions in AOL Mail

Auto suggest saves you time and hassle by filling in email addresses for you. Enter part of someone's name or email in the address fields and get a list of relevant contacts and suggestions to include, based on how often you interact. You can hide the suggestions as needed.

Order of auto suggestions

The contact auto suggestions that you receive are based on your interactions with those contacts and sorted in the following order.

  • At the top - Contacts that you've interacted with the most will be displayed first, followed by contacts with fewer interactions (sent emails). This is not in alphabetical order.
  • In Between - Contacts with no interactions will be displayed in alphabetical order.
  • At the bottom - Contact lists will be displayed in alphabetical order.

Hide contact auto suggestions

Hide unwanted suggestions in order to improve the accuracy of your suggestions. Hiding a contact suggestion will not remove the contact from your address book.

  1. Click Compose.
  2. Begin entering an email address or contact in the To field.
  3. When the unwanted contact appears, mouse over it and click X.

Restore auto suggestions

  1. Click Compose.
  2. Manually type the email address or contact you want to restore into the To field. (Do not select it from the address book).
  3. Click Send.