Silly bug in Contacts-least expected of iPhone

guess what!?
I've installed iOS 7 on my dads iphone5.
and after he inserted his old sim that he used to use with nokia E 72, he saw the contacts all jumbled. first name replaced with last. last with first. I mena they were all interchanged. That's ok. I get that, that's due to the format difference.
But, when he strated to exchange first name with last name.
example: there was this particular contact called
contact in H
hari chinatadepalli
he changes the name to
chinatadepalli hari
so whats supposed to happen now?
the contact has to be transportes to alphabet 'C'. isn't it?
it stays in the same **** 'H' alphabet.
My father found it so inconvenient. You least expect such an inconvenience using an iPhone.
The worst of the lowest end phones are effective at dealing such contact name changes.. what's wrong with iPhone?

Have you tried the settings.
Goto settings>mail, contacts, calendars and under contacts, there is a setting for sort order and display order, change those and see if it works.

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I have installed iOS7 on my iPhone4. I am able to add/edit contacts by clicking the "contact" icon. But when I am trying to do the same after clicking the "phone" icon, it is not displaying the keypad. I believe it is a bug in iOS7.
Please confirm.
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Hello jayanand,
You may need to force close all open apps, then restart the phone. If necessary, you may need to reset the phone after that.
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5137
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
Cheers,
Allen

I found My iPhone contacts on my friends Iphone we both have 4s! But we use the same apple ID and ICloud ID! How can undo what happened? all my private stuff is now on his phone!!! help me plz!!?

I found My iPhone contacts on my friends Iphone we both have 4s! But we use the same apple ID and ICloud ID! How can undo what happened? all my private stuff is now on his phone!!! help me plz!!?

Of course if you are both connected to the same iCloud account you have the same contacts - what did you expect?. The contacts live on the server and are read from there by the devices; so as you've both managed to sync your contacts up to iCloud they are now inextricably mixed. You can only delete your contacts by deleting individual ones, and doing that will delete them from your phone as well.
You can only unravel this by
1. In the iCloud contacts page at http://icloud.com, select all the contacts, click on the cogwheel icon at bottom left and choose 'Export vCard'.
2. Sign out of System Preferences>iCloud
3. Create a new Apple ID and open a new iCloud account with it for your own use.
4. Import the vCard back into the iCloud contacts page.
5. Go to http://icloud.com and sign in with the original ID. This is now his ID. Work through the contacts individually deleting the ones you don't want him to have. When done sign out and advise him to change his password.
6. Go to the new iCloud account and delete his contacts individually.
Of course if you have also been syncing calendars and using the same email address there are problems with doing this.

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Use the contact us link at the bottom of the page and tell Apple.

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I'm sorry for the delay in my response but I was away for the weekend. I went through and tried all of above and still not working. To answer the question about connecting to another router ie Starbucks was not tried as I haven't had a chance to get over there yet, BUT I do have hot spot on my iPhone and I don't see that either. Currently I connected to the internet through the hot spot using Bluetooth, so I am able to use it but only if my phone is around. It is the only way that I can get the iPad online currently.
As for the answer regarding SSID/router changes, I am not very technologically sauvy but I do know that it was working perfectly for several months and just suddenly stopped connecting, but as I mentioned above every other device connects to the router in my house and nothing has been changed or added. It does seem weird that it won't find my iPhone when the hot spot is on and every other device will.
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I have read many posts about contacts being duplicated on the iPhone. I have not used iCloud, but there were contacts in there. I deleted them and turned contacts off in iCloud on my phone, which deleted all the contacts on my phone.
I have recently deleted many contacts from Outlook, so wanted ONLY those on my phone. When I sync via computer cable connection to iPhone, even the deleted contacts still show up, and many, many contacts are duplicated, even though there is only one contact in Outlook.
In addition, many contacts have dupicate fields. If i delete the duplicate contacts or the duplicate fields, they disappear from Outlook altogether.
This is driving me seriously crazy!!!
Please, someone help!

You can use google sync to solve the issue about how to transfer contacts from Nokia to iPhone.
1 Launch Mail Exchange on your Nokia phone and setup using the settings mentioned here.
2 Now use your iPhone and navigate to Settings app and go to Mail,Contacts,Calendar tab.
3 Add an account and select Microsoft Exchange . Enter all your google account details as shown here .
4 Now your Google Sync is ready . Sync to transfer your contacts.
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Thanks, Nubz, but I'm wasn't willing to go through the conversion of my Contacts files into vCards (2200+ contacts, 40+ groups) without a more positive reason why. For a start, it seems to be the wrong end - my iMac (10.9.5) and Contacts app are not the problem - it is iCloud, iPhone, and iPad that do not recognise the groups on my iMac (including those set up post 8.0.2 release). I have poked around and found at least a workaround, but it seems that there might be serious changes at 10.9.5/8.0.2 that have come into play.
I did reset Sync Services but with no effect.
iTunes on the iMac, supposedly controlling sync, merely reports that the iPhone is being synced from iCloud - there are no controls available there, giving frinstance a choice between syncing to iCloud or not. Tellingly, it does not mention syncing with Contacts on the iMac.
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iCloud does allow creation of groups, and groups created in iCloud a r e visible in iPhone and iMac . This seems to be a big clue.
My Groups were set up over the years in Contacts on the iMac, and live under the "On my Mac" heading in the group pane. If I option-drag a group name to iCloud in the group pane, it is duplicated there; any new contacts are added to "All iCloud"; the group is synced onto the iPhone.
So, it seems to me that syncing, wherever it occurs now, does not include Groups in Contacts on iMac u n l e s s they are also in iCloud.
If there is indeed some way of syncing contacts without iCloud, I would like to see it documented. (The procedure for rebuilding the Contact database does not seem to be a sensible way to sync contacts on a daily basis!)
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How to delete a contact group on the iPhone?

Hello!
I've been searching for a way to delete a contact group on the iPhone, but I was not able to find one. The only answers I have found tried to tell me that it is not possible to do this on the iPhone. But I can hardly believe that the people at Apple would be so stupid not to include such a thing, as there are iPhone users who do not own a computer. How should they manage their contacts?
So, would someone please be so kind and tell me how to delete a contact group on the device?
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And, it's an even bigger shame that you let your customers do your work in the forum here. I expected to have an Apple employee read and answer the messages.
You should have read the terms of use for these discussions, which you were provided and had to agree with when registering here and you would not have expected this here.
http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#discuss
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If you want direct support from Apple, check this link for the phone number.
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IPhone contacts - Delete group from iphone?

How do i get rid of contact groups from the iPhone (this one is named "Group Name"), that i deleted in address book?
This stems from a sync bug. When i created a group in address book named "Family", it showed up on my phone as "Group Name" with no contacts inside. I had to rename "Family" to "Familyy" and create a new group named "Family". I then dragged the contacts into it and deleted "Familyy". I still have that dead group named "Group Name" on my iPhone.
How do i delete the group from my iPhone? It doesn't exist in address book.
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So should i assume that once something is on my phone, its there forever?
No, but as you provided with your original post, you are attributing this to a sync bug and if a bug, you must do something different from the norm to resolve it.
If you are syncing all Address Book Groups, not select Groups, all Address Book Groups should be available on your iPhone and be identical to the Groups in the Address Book on your Mac and should be kept synchronized. Something went wrong, due to a sync bug or due to something else.
How do i take something off?
If there is an address book group on your iPhone which is not available with the Address Book on your Mac, it should be removed via the iTunes sync process. If not, the instructions I provided should resolve it. If you are syncing direct with the Address Book on your Mac via the iTunes sync process, and Contacts is not available to select under the Advanced section below the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences for replace this info on your iPhone, something else is wrong.

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Download Easy Group. It is totally free. Lauch it. Click on Edit. Click on red-cross next to your unwanted group. That's all. http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/easy-group/id461469079?mt=8
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but wont restoring as new delete all my info on my phone
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Silly bug in Contacts-least expected of iPhone

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