Adding custom labels in phone numbers

What happened to custom labeling on the phone?

Sometimes it is missing. A friend just brought me her iPhone 6 Verizon iOS 6.0. She was trying to find the iPhone label. It was missing from the list as was the "Add Custom Label" and the "Edit" button on the top right. I did go into her "iPhone Owner" contact and if I clicked on her existing phone number, the labels were missing. When I clicked on a new phone number label, all was OK. I could not duplicate this on any of the other contacts that I tried it on. I instructed her to "turn it off and turn it back on again". If that fixes it, I'll post it here.

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I noticed that after upgrading to iOS 8.0 on my iPhone 5s, adding custom labels for contact numbers got removed. It still exists on iOS 8.1 as well. Is there someone who is facing a similar issue or can someone help me how to get that back. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Hi Yugendra,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I have good news. You can still choose a custom label in Contacts on iOS 8. The option should be below "Other" in the list of labels when editing a contact. This information is found in the iOS 8 user guide:
Contacts at a glance - iPhone
Change a label. If a field has the wrong label, such as Home instead of Work, tap Edit. Then tap the label and choose one from the list, or tap Add Custom Label to create one of your own.
Best Regards,
Jeremy

Globally adding "custom" labels to Address Book

Any way to do it?
I understand how labels work now (I think); that a custom label is only saved with the contact itself.
What I want to do is to add a label (e.g.: "Skype" to the phone numbers) that I can choose in existing contacts without having to retype it every time. For new contacts, I can change the template to help a bit, but for existing contacts, it seems there is no way but to type it every time.

you add add it to the AB template in AB preferences->template. then it will automatically appear in all new vcards you create. but for some reason it won't be automatically added to existing contacts. that seems a bug to me.

IPhone overrides custom label for phone number.

I use gmail as my main contacts manager, and I have a multiple phone numbers (for multiple countries that I frequent).
I label each number according to which country their for (e.g My 3UK number is labeled "3UK", my AT&T is labeled "ATT USA").
The problem arises when the iPhone overrides these labels whenever the respective sim cards are used.
When I use my 3UK sim card, the 3UK label gets overridden and labelled as "mobile". Then whenever I swap sims in the US, the ATT label gets overridden.
I really don't need the iPhone to be relabelling numbers for me.

Well, I cannot verify that behavior, as I do not use Google Contacts. Unfortunately, I do not do SIM swaps either, however I can say that when creating a contact, that the iPhone does not default to mobile, and I cannot recall that it did when I created my contact either.
I understand your frustration, but some of this could be controlled by information in the SIM, plus any carrier profile that could be in the phone. I would also say that it could be something done with Google Contacts, and this change occurs after a sync and/or refresh via Google.
You can provide feedback to Apple about your concerns. They do not provide answers from the feedback link, however they do read them. www.apple.com/feedback and click on the appropriate link.

Problem Adding Custom Labels to Address Book

I add custom labels to the Template in Address Book Preferences. There's no problem at this stage, the custom labels appear along with the preset labels in the Template. But when I leave Preferences, go back to Address Book and add a new card, the custom labels disappear.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help would be appreciated. And thank you in advance.

Barney-15E: Thanks for your previous reply!
Would you check this work-around for me? I think I found a way to compose a master list of custom labels and have them available for multiple cards (new and old) in Address Book on a MacBookPro and in the Contacts directory on an iPhone. I have tried compiling a master list of custom labels using Address Book Preferences/Template and I find there's a limit to the number of custom labels I can add as a label for each field.
Here's my workaround.
1) Go to the iPhone Contacts directory.
2) Add a new card.
2) Enter data in these fields: address, date, email, and phone. The standard label will appear on the screen below the data.
3) Tap the standard label and you will go to a screen with 2 windows. The top window has the standard or preset labels for that field but below it in a second window is a button "Add Custom Label". Tap on this button and you will be able to add the text for a Custom Label for each of these fields. This will then become a master list of Custom Labels that can be used in most labels in the iPhone Contacts Directory.
4) If you have your IPhone set up to synch with your MacBookPro or iMac, the entry in the iPhone Contacts directory will be transferred to your other Mac, with the Custom Labels.
Barney - 15E: Can you find a glitch??? To me it seems to make a master list of custom labels available for all card, new and old. The only problem is that the input has to be done on the iPhone.

How can i delete added custom label

i have added too many custom lables to my contacts that i would to delete?

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply.
I am using the native iOS reminders app. I have tried closing the app and powering my phone off and on, but to no avail. I was under the impression that one can set custom reminders using siri? I have friend with a toddler who was playing with my phone. I figured maybe she set off Siri and a custom reminder was set by mistake?

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See above question.

I had tried that several times with no luck. Late last night I was finally able to get through to the Verizon technical support who then called in Apple technical support. It took 1 1/2 hours for them to figure it out and guide me through a fix. So here's the deal .......... I use Yahoo mail and had left the "contacts" button in the on position. Apparently Yahoo likes to go into your contacts and gather information and can leave it in shambles. My advice is, go to settings, then mail, contacts, calendars. Select any and all of your email accounts and go in and turn off their access to your information. Leave it on for Icloud but none of the others.

Getting rid of custom labels in contacts

I installed the TrueCaller app, but decided it wasn't for me, so I deleted it again. Now I have a lot of custom labels for phone numbers in the contacts app. I would like to get rid of them again.

When in an individual contact entry, tap the Edit button in the upper right. Then, tap on the custom label you want to change. Select the label you prefer.
No, there's no way of doing them all at once.
You may want to try doing it through whatever program you sync your contacts to. That might be faster.
Best of luck.

Editing Custom Labels

How do you delete custom labels for phone numbers?

Sure.
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How do I sort my phone numbers inside a contact? (using custom labels)

Alright, since I've converted to iCloud, I'm now adding new contacts in there. However... before I was adding phone numbers through Address Book on my Macbook (that ended up creating a conflict with iCloud so I'm now using iCloud). What I want to know is... in address book you can set up a "default template" for your contacts (to include spouses, children, multiple addresses, phone numbers etc) I have created several labels for phone numbers, so I know which carrier they are since most of my contacts have 2-4 cell phones (all different carriers). Anyways, in address book I have for example ATT as the primary one on the list and then example: Verizon, Sprint, Tmobile & last the home phone). I have it set in that way, so even if someone only has ATT & Sprint, ATT will be at the top. Since I switched to iCloud (the carriers are all jumbled around in the contact and the reason I had placed them in a specific order is because I have one or two of those first carriers). Please let me know if you know how to change this in iCloud? Thanks!!!

Fair enough.
I started doing this before unlimited data and emails on phones was a common commodity, on my Samsung Blackjack.
I then continued it due to its convenience. My only counter argument is this:
Even when emails are set to immediately push, I am always notified earlier by this forwarding message (sometimes by several minutes/hours due to the fact that it is not dependent on my being connected to 4G or wifi to receive it.
Also, to contradict snozdop's point that both methods use data and battery, I say this - when I use the forwarding method, the information comes in a pure text format and therefore uses considerably less information than an HTML and CSS rich email, with embedded images and such -also, unlimited text messages aids curve costs.
I will, however, give this method a go. In any case, a solution to my original question would still be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys.

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Could anybody help me how to disable this function?
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I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS5 but now I cannot add custom labels to telephone numbers in my contacts app. This is only the case for newly created contacts as I can still add custom labels for old contacts.
Also, when adding new fields (i.e. Related people) to old contacts, the label list is much longer than when trying to create a new contact and adding the field.
Has anyone been able to solve this problem?

Hi Vinayd,
I have not tried this since the iOS 5 update so I thought I would check my phone out. First I tested on an old contact and then created a new contact and I do not have that problem. I am still able to add customer fields for both old and NEW contacts. I did notice to get out of the screen you need to press cancel but it keeps the new label.
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This is stil a feature in iOS 5 and works the same on my phone as it did prior to the update, so you should have no problem getting it to work, if all was operating correctly.
Like they say, Rebot, Reset, and Restore. Hope this helps.

Truncated custom labels in Address Book problem

When I create a custom label for telephone numbers in Address Book, for eg I change "mobile" to "work mobile", only the first eight or nine characters of this are displayed. The remainder of the label is truncated to ... regardless of the size of the window.
With acres of empty white space to the right of the telephone number, it would be nice to be able to see the entire label. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Tim - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Ryan - xxx-xxx-xxxx
James - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Main: xxx-xxx-xxxx
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I have lost all the information on my personal calendar on my phone as well as selected contact names and phone numbers. Can they be recovered?

I seem to have lost all info on my personal calendar that I keyed in myself whether they were single appointments or recurring meetings or events. As well, I had added quite a few phone numbers with corresponding names that have mysteriously vanished.Iam in a panic as I can't seem to find them and do not know if they are lost forever.CAn anyone help?

Icloud provides for backups AND for contacts and calendars being stored. You are not forced to do a icloud restoration to recover calendar and contacts from icloud.
Please read this article about recovering contacts and calendars from icloud.
Please understand this only works with the idea that you have initially used icloud for your contacts and calendar entry storage.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4108
good luck!

Deleting or Editing Custom Labels used to identify phone numbers

I want to delete or edit "custom labels" that I set up to better describe phone numbers in my contacts. How do I do this?

Sure.
In "Edit" mode in the Contacts App, for any Contact, just tap on a label, scroll to the bottom where you will see "Add Custom Label"

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