How To Add New Contact To a Group Using iPhone

Question

I use a Business and Personal Group. When I add a new contact using my iPhone, there is no way I can assign it to a Group. Then when I sync, the new contact shows only in Group "All". Further, in Address Book you cannot tell which contacts are not in a Group. I can see the total number of contacts in Group All, and the total in Group Personal, and the total in Group Business, so I can tell the sum of Personal and Business is less than the number in All. But I cannot tell which contacts are in All and not assigned to either Business or Personal. This makes it difficult to then locate the contact on my iPhone (I tend to always look in the appropriate Group).
So how can I either a) assign a new contact to a Group using my iPhone or b) identify in Address Book which contacts are not assigned to any Group?

Answer 1

RJOBoston wrote:
So how can I either a) assign a new contact to a Group using my iPhone or b) identify in Address Book which contacts are not assigned to any Group?
a) In Phone, Contacts, enter the group you want, THEN add the new contact (you can't add a new contact to a group from Recents, but you can add a number to an existing contact, which will remain in its original group).
b) In Address Book, select group All, then click File, Export Group vCard... and view the exported file with your favorite text file viewing method (TextEdit, cat | more, vi, etc.); look for entries without a CATEGORIES: line.
Unchecking Hide Extension and changing it from .vcf to .txt might allow you to open it easier in TextEdit; I opened Terminal and used "cat Documents/vCards.vcf | grep : | more" to view them ("grep :" filters out the photos).
(Note to others: The above procedure is for Mac OS; Windows users could probably export their Outlook Address Book and use Notepad to view it.)