List contacts by first name

I want my contacts to be listed by first name on my iphone but they are listed by last name. Is there a way to change this so all of my contacts are alphabetized by first name?

This is covered on page 153 of the manual:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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Contacts display first name, last name, except if there's email address then contact info is deleted (?) and email is displayed in contact list.

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My contacts should list first name last name, however any contact with an email has info phone numbers and addresses deleted and the email address is displayed in contact list. I know how to change to last name first name but that doesn't help... Any suggestions? Should I delete all contacts and reacquire all through icloud? How?

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View of Contacts surname, first name NOT first name, surname

Required is the view of contacts with surname, first name.
This is impossible to adjust and a No-Go for business.

While that is currently not possible in the contact listing view, it could be updated in a future upgrade. I hope it will be.
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ICloud Contacts duplicates first name

I list my family and close friends by their first names only in my Contacts, leaving the surname field blank.
Contacts has now started to duplicate their first names into the surname field, so that my wife's entry reads "Fiona Fiona" and my daughter's entry is "Sophie Sophie".
No matter how many times I change the entry, either on my iPhone or on my Air, the first name keeps appearing in the surname field too.
Is Contacts unable to deal with entries containing only a first name?
Has anyone else experienced this?

I fixed my problem with it. I went to my Mac and it was in the Mail app.
Open Mail
From the menu bar select Window
Select Previous Recipients
I found the culprit in there. I don't know how the name got to be the way it was in the first place but I took it out of there and it fixed it. It stopped messing up my contacts.
Hope this helps.

Sort Contacts by [First Name, Last Name] on Phone

I currently have all of my contacts in Outlook saved and "Filed As" First Name, Last Name. When I go to sync with the phone (through iTunes), the phone still shows all my contacts sorted as Last Name, First Name. I have tried deleting my contacts completely several times to no avail. I am so used to searching by first name first. Can someone please help?
BTW, I did try searching the forum first. Most threads discuss the use of Address Book, which seems to provide a solution. I have not found any solutions to this problem using Outlook though.
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Brian

On the iPhone, go into settings/Mail Contacts Calendar and choose sort order under "contacts" as "first, last".
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Search Contacts by First Name (Nokia 6124)

We have users with Nokia 6124 with contacts sorted in First Name order. Is there anyway of searching by first name rather than last name?

Hi Inekar,
I've bought the phone in replacement of my Blackberry. I was gone buy another BB but then had this N97 in my hands and i must say that this phone is amazing. When i see what this phone can do for our business. Exchange, office applications, pdf, gps, .... So for me it is a real must to have in business. To buy this phone as private person to play around is a waste of money. But of course you're right also that this phone is 100% multimedia.
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I'm able to sync my Nokia 8800 with my powerbook, but is the contact order in first name sequence only? Is there any way to arrange it in Last Name basis?
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i just noticed that of my 462 contacts, about 90% of them have the first name in the last name box and vice versa. i input each one of the contacts and have synced several times between my iphone, gmail and my 4 mac computers. i have seen that you can sort by first name or last name, but this is not a sorting issue. the first and last names have physically switched locations. i noticed this so i turned off mobile me and it did not sync with my iPhone. i think i will have to just reload the contacts on the one computer but i still don't understand what happened.

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Imported contacts have last name/first name reversed

When I had my old Samsung dumb phone, I listed all my contacts by last name. (There was a single name field in the old phone, so I listed everybody as "Smith, Bob.") But when I had my contacts list imported into my new iphone 5c, it read all the last names as first names and vice versa. (It put "Smith," in the first name field and "Bob" in the last name field.) I know I can choose to sort contacts by last name or first name. But when I choose "Last, First" it lists all my contacts by first name. So now when I enter a new contact directly into the iphone, it's backwards from everything else.
What am I supposed to do here? Am I just supposed to keep entering contacts backwards for as long as I have this phone? Or is there some sort of app or setting to fix this?

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Friend if possible also sort your comets.
Enter application Contacts
Slide your finger from the top down
Two options appear and Configuration Help
Enter settings
Sort contacts tab deployed by:
Here choose the method you want:
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LasName.
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Filing contacts, first name and last name

i am trying to file my contacts using first name and surname, is there any way to do that

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IOS changes contact from sorted by company to first name when edit is hit

Can anyone tell me how to stop iOS from changing to sort by name when edit is hit?
Scenario: Contact has first name, last name and company. In OSX I hit edit and check the company box. The contact now sorts by company name. I then go into iOS to that same contact and hit edit and then done. The contact now sorts by name and there is no way to undo this that I can find in iOS. There is no company check box and iOS defaults to sort by name automatically. Which means that any information I edit on my iphone or ipad will get miscatagorized by simply tapping the edit key.
Help!!!

I would ask, why are you going into the same contact in iOS if you have already edited it in OS X? But then, I digress.
True, there is only two settings for sorting contacts in iOS, Last Name or First name. The same as display. When you have a name and Company, it will only sort by name.
You can provide feedback to Apple if you would like to see this feature change by going to www.apple.com/feedback and click on the appropriate link.

How to put contact list in first name order

how to put contact list in first name order

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Contacts > Sort Order/Display Order 'First, Last'

First name and last name order in contact list

Actually, my contact list is displayed with the last name before the first name, but everything is fine in Address Book settings (I choosed "First name, Last name" option), and I checked that first name and last name has not been reversed for some reasons between two fields, the first name is right in place, as is the last name.
So changing this is AddressBook has no effect.
I tried disabling Chax, without success.
It could be possible this problem occured when I enabled Microsoft Exchange address book synchronization, (iSync reported 500+ changes in AB database, I did it anyway and noticed no problems in data after synchronization (I still have a backup :-))
One more thing , the displayed name in the iChat menu extra is correct.
So, what could possibly change this behavior I did not already check ?
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Hi Yann,
If you add details to the Address card in iChat as you add a Buddy then you need the first set of instructions I posted.
You nee this menu in iChat http://www.flickr.com/photos/90943061@N00/135575605/
In the second section of this menu you can sort the list.
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Ahhh. I see what you mean.
iChat does in fact always display First Name, Last Name as you say.
Adding a Buddy with the names in the reverse order to display as you want in iChat your Address book gets messed up as it is not consistent with those contacts that are not iChat Buddies.
The only work around I can see is to change all the Address Book entries to match a reverse entry in iChat and then use the Address Book option to display Last Name, First name to show them the 'correct' Fist name, Last name and have them in Last name, First name in iChat.
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Contacts - listed by first name, not last *!@

OSX 10.3.9
I have imported my contacts from my Address Book, but instead of listing alphabetically by last name, as they appear in the Address Book or when I import them into Palm, they show up Alphabetized by first name.
How do I change this?

In order to list the Contacts by Company Name as opposed to First/Last you have to save them as such on your Address Book on your computer first.
Under each contact that you wish to list under Company, select edit and check the box under the First & Last name that says "Company". This will save you that view both on your Address Book and on the iPhone once you sync it again.
Alternatively you can check the "This is a company" from the pull down menu under "Card". There may be a way to select all and do them all at once but I am not aware of it.
Hope it helps.

In ios7 now the message sender appears as his nickname (instead of the first name).my contacts list in my iphone was taken from my outlook (exchange), so for each contact there is several details as (first name, last name, phone number,fax,..... And nickn

In ios7 now the message sender appears as his nickname (instead of the first name).my contacts list in my iphone was taken from my outlook (exchange), so for each contact there is several details as (first name, last name, phone number,fax,..... And nickname) the problem is that now I see the sender identity in messages as a nick name while in the incoming calls I see the first name ( this problem appeared only in ios7
Please help

check in settings > mail contacts calendars, and in the contacts area you should be able to change how the names are viewed
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