How to clear ALL phone book entries in voice control?

Hey, all. New Prius owner here. It’s an ‘11 with the “Base 2” trim level, so no touchscreen. It does have the Bluetooth and voice commands. (I’m having trouble there, but that’ll be a separate thread)

Aside from getting a buddy with access to a tech stream to nuke it from orbit or sitting in the car for an hour deleting each one individually, how can I completely clear out the voice command phone book? Is there a “hidden” voice command, or reset in the menu somewhere?
Thanks in advance!

 

Thanks! Is that through the voice commands? I’ll give it a shot when I get a chance.

 

Yeah, the guy I bought “Ruby” from had quite a few stored numbers. I just want to clear the phone book stored in the car and start from zero.

There’s no menu option for this in the small display in the dash, nor in the radio “tune” button options that I can see. I think you might be thinking of a different trim level. I’ve attached a pic of Ruby’s panel for reference.

 

I get Bass, Mid, Treb, ASL, Fade, and Bal. No phone options at all in there.

On this one, and on my kids two Priuses from 2009 and 2010 the car actually saves its own phone book internally. The only interface I can find for the phone book is through the voice command menus at the moment.

I’ve got a diagnostic computer I’ll try hooking up to it. It can do most of the stuff a real Toyota Techstream can do. I’ll see if I can just do it from there.

 

The Zurich diagnostic computer shows no options for nuking the phone book. Guess I’ll be sitting in my car for a bit saying “DELETE ENTRY” and “CONFIRM” over and over. :-/

 

Yes, that gets you to the phone book, but there’s still no initialize or “delete all” option. You think they’d put that in the security menu in the voice command menu, but nope.

I just ended up sitting in my car for half an hour pressing the voice command button and repeatedly saying LIST NAMES, DELETE ENTRY and CONFIRM over and over. Resolved now for me, but if anyone else runs into this I guess there’s no easy way out. It’s like Toyota either never expected anyone to actually use the system, or never expected anyone to trade in or sell their car. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Well, I knew what I was getting into with it. The previous owner is a friend of mine, and he warned me that the voice control stuff was pretty terrible. I also kinda knew that before going into this, as my son and one of my daughters also have Prii, and I’ve had to dig into them before. I was just hoping that there was some secret cheat code to clear them that someone in this forum would know.

No, this is definitely stored in the car. Either that, or it has some AMAZING Bluetooth range, more than 60 miles!