Searching Contacts on iPhone

Is there an easier way to search contacts other than scorlling through my whole contact list?

Use the search feature at the top of the contacts list.
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  • Search contacts on iPhone

    Hi,
    When I'm using Contacts on my Mac OsX, I'm able to find contacts by typing a nickname, parts of an adress or telephone number ...
    Is it correct that the search funktion on the iPhone is less powerfull ?

    You are unfortunately correct. The advantage of searching by number may be questionable, but the nickname absolutely should be searchable. However, as of firmware v2.1 you cannot. It is unfortunate, because I have entries like "Thomas" with nickname "Tom" or "Alejandro" nickname "Alex" which it doesn't find. You can change the name, but I need to leave it as the official name for when I need to send them documents.

  • Searching Contacts Freezes iPhone 5 ios 7

    Everytime I try to search for a contact the phone loads the first letter, but then the keyboard freezes for about 10 seconds.  Then whatever letters I typed while it was frozen appear all at once and it completes the search. 
    This has happened since ios 7.0.1 or so.  I'm currently on ios 7.1.1
    I've looked around other forums and haven't found any cases of this.  Any advice?  I hate calling Apple, and the nearest store is an hour away, and only open while I'm at work. 

    HootAppleUser wrote:
    Similar problem with mine.  Once I tried the iTunes Restore procedure, it erased everything and now it says that it cannot be activated at this time--which is really any time because I have tried it over and over and get the same message.
    The worst thing is that it is 4 months past the one year warranty.
    What can I do now?
    HootAppleUser: I had the same problem with activation after the restore, i sent my iphone to the Seller and he told me that they will send it to Apple to get a new one instead. I think it is a Hardware issue like a problem with the IC and Apple didn't find a solution till now.

  • Having an issue with Searching Contacts -IOS8 iPhone 5S - MS Exchange

    When I search for a certain Contact by name EX: John Smith, I would get Jon Smith about 10 names down and others appear before him at the top of the list. When I click on the other contacts you can see his name in the contact notes which I guess is why the others show up. EX: Jon Smith Referral in contact notes of Jane Doe.
    I only want the contact search to show the the specific person I am searching for. I do not want other names to show up along with the search. Is it possible to have the contact search ONLY look at the First/Last Name and no other info?
    Hope that makes sense to someone out there..... Cant find an answer ANYWHERE.
    Thanks so much!

    Thats exactly what I want it to do. Say for example I search Smith I will get about 25 people, and Smith is somewhere linked to it in an email thread, contact details, or something like that, no relevance in the First Last or Email. I do not understand how the contact search is even coming up with this many results. I can confirm this is only using the contact search and not Spotlight or anything like that. I seem to be the only person in the universe which is having this problem, I deleted my MS exchange account and re-added it, factory reset the phone. No clue where to go from here. Lol my only work around that I have found for now is if I just say the First name and last name to Siri she will come up with the contact details I need for that specific person. Driving me crazy!
    PS - Thank you for trying, much appreciated that you gave it a shot to see if you could make it happen for you!

  • How do I get search typing for Contacts Search function on Iphone with 2.0?

    An ad for 2.0 iphone update says:
    "Contacts Search
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    Now I have 2.0 and can't find a way to get into the Contacts search field. Anyone having better luck with that? Please help.

    Did you just install 2.0? Is your contact list showing you your first entry when you open it? Try scrolling up to the top of your list.

  • Search Botton on iPhone Contacts

    When I am trying to find a phone number in my contacts, the search button is so tiny that I miss it most of the times.
    Is there any alternative application or any other solution?
    Thanks,
    Amnon

    If spotlight search (settings / general / spotlight search) is activated for contacts, on the home screen swipe left as much as you can and you wil get to the spotlight search screen. You can search contacts from there.

  • How can I organize contacts in iphone into categories?, How can I organize contacts in iphone into categories?

    How can I organize contacts in iphone into categories? I have over 4000 contacts and need to organize them as clients, personal, etc. I used to be able to do this in Blackberry but have not found a way to do it with the iPhone.

    I don't think that function is possible with IOS.   The only thing I see is you can put the company that the contact is with for clients. 
    there maybe an app that can do that, try doing a search.

  • How to search contacts using Yahoo Address Book

    I'm sure this is nothing new to many of you, but it was a great discovery for me today. I struggle with not having a contact search on my iPhone -- often remembering the company name but not the person's name. With my Treo, I could search the entire device including contacts, emails, etc. and find what I needed but we're not there yet with the iPhone.
    One way I found around this is to sync your contacts in iTunes with Yahoo Address Book. I then went to address.yahoo.com on the iPhone, logged in and up comes my contacts with a search field at the top of the page. The search engine always found what I wanted and when I go back to the bookmarked site, I don't have to re-login. I also can click on a phone number in a contact on the web page and dial the number.
    So effectively this is a one click for safari, one click for bookmarks and one click for Yahoo Address book and you have a contact search engine. This will be a good workaround for me until Apple hopefully does an update to include contact search.

    Unfortunately I do not believe this will work for me.
    But it is still a "Rube Goldberg" approach to a function that should be included with the contact list.
    I sometimes remember the last name, sometimes the first name, and sometimes I remember the company, when I do not remember the name, and...
    sometimes I remember what town the company is in if I can't remember anything else.
    mikeab

  • I tried to update my nephew iphone 4 version 4.3.4 (8k2), I did back-up everything before attempting to update and the result when I click down-load and update, it does not update instead it says,  itunes could not contact the iphone software update etc.

    Hi to all,
    I tried to update my nephew iphone 4 version 4.3.4 (8k2), I did back-up everything before attempting to update and the result when I click down-load and update, it does not update instead it says,  itunes could not contact the iphone software update server because you are not connected to the internet. I did check my wire-less connections and the connection from my PC to wire-less is hundred percent okay. I did search using google.com to confirm and my connections is good. Is there any problem regardings my firewalls or any help will be appreciated. Thanks

    Hi bosefire,
    Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
    You can use the steps in this article to troubleshoot your iTunes connection:
    Can't connect to the iTunes Store
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1368
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  • Search contacts by date of entry

    Hello all,
    Is there any way to search contacts entered into an iphone & synced into the system by date of entry ? This is very practical when you forgot the name of someone you need to find but you know when you entered the information.
    Thank you,
    Alexandre

    no. but you can suggest it to apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

  • No Keyboard For Search Contact and Create Contact

    When I try to search contact in contact list, there is no keyboard pop-up. And when I try to create contact, I place cursor in First Name but how much I try, no keyboard is appeared.
    Have you faced this issue? How can I solve it?
    My phone is iphone 4 and OS 7.1.
    Thank you.

    Have you tried a restart? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430

  • Search contacts from phone num block

    When I am start to make a call I start the phone app. Then activate the num block.
    At the number keys there is letters.
    I would find it natural to start typing the letters that my contacts name starts with. But it do not work that way. Even when I know that the app is looking in the cantactlist after each number i press.

    There is no search function available with the Keypad.
    Whichever function is selected when leaving the Phone app - Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Keypad, or Voicemail, that function will be available when returning to the Phone app. If you want to search contacts before dialing a number, have Contacts selected for the Phone app, or have Favorites selected which is a speed dial for the iPhone.

  • Syncing Outlook Calendars and Contacts with iPhone - There is NO SOLUTION

    I have searched the Apple support forums, Mac Forums, MS forums, spoken to Microsoft Support and iCloud support. Everybody says that there is no way to directly sync Outlook Calendars and Contacts with iPhone and other remote devices and nobody has a work around. I see 100s of forum threads started with this issue, most have no answer and the few that do are not offering solutions. I post this as a final effort to seek a solution! Who will be my savior? Or should I just admit defeat and allow myself to be cast aside in the battle between two giant corporate babies who don't like to play in the same sandbox?
    Is my knight in shining armor out there?!

    The information is correct, MS do not support the Dav standard in Outlook for Mac (but they do in Outlook for Windows), until they add support for it Calendars and Contacts will not work with Outlook for Mac.

  • Can I search contacts while talking on the phone?

    Can I search contacts while talking on the iPhone?

    Assuming you have a 3G connection, put them on speakerphone then tap Contacts.
    Message was edited by: deggie

  • How can i copy my contacts from iphone 5 to my ipad air2

    I'M having troubles transfering my contacts from my iphone to my ipad so that facetime and i messages work perfectly
    any advices of how to transfer my contacts from iphone 5 to ipad air 2?

    An alternate way to transfer contacts (if the contacts you need are already on an existing device) is to use one of many apps (both free and paid are available) from the App Store. Note that you'll need to setup the same email account, accessible by/on both devices.
    Search the App Store for an app called My Contacts Backup (free, and available in the US App Store, I don't know about other countries)...it's the one that I personally use for backing up my contacts both online and offline as well as archiving them on my Mac/PC). Install the app on both devices. Run the app on the iPad 2 and have it backup your contacts. It will compile them into a vCard format and allow you to email the file to yourself. On the iPhone 5s, access the email that you sent the vCard file to, find the message and tap on the vCard attachment. Follow the directions and your contacts will now be transferred to the iPhone.
    You can simply reverse the procedure to copy in the other direction.
    An advantage of this method is that you will have a hardcopy vCard file in your email that you can then download & archive/store anywhere, not just in some unknown location somewhere in the cloud. When you want to restore your contacts anytime in the future, email the file as an attachment to yourself, access that email from your iDevice, click on the attachment and follow the directions to import the contacts.

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