Contacts Reviews

by 1Samurai

🤯 Low rate for Missing too many basic features for over a decade 🔴 Add age automatically next to birthday data and to any other dates in contact cards 🔴 Permanently show emoji flags next to each international phone numbers inside each contact card 🔴 Permanently show emoji flags next to each country name addresses inside each contact card 🔴 Show this app in CoverFlow when iPhone is horizontal (Show Photos in this app List) 🔴 Create, manage, edit and permanently show GROUPS in every contact card 🔴 Create, manage, edit and show SMART GROUPS in Contact app and synchronize SMART groups (criterias) to iCloud 🔴 Let me set different Ringtones for each Group (individual contact ringtone override the group ringtone) 🔴 Bigger this app Photos 🔴 Up-to-Date this app (show me when one of my contact change phone number same as WhatsApp of course only available to iCloud users) 🔴 Open a contact’s card from another related contact’s card by clicking on a related name 🔴 Suggest City names in this app’ addresses editing as we type. (Sourced from  Map) 🔴 STATE/PROVINCE and COUNTRY names from a menu in this app’ addresses editing. (Sourced from  Map) 🔴 Option route specific this app or unknown this app calls directly to voicemail without ringing the iPhone 🔴 NFC contact sharing to any OS or platform brand

by ConcernedAmericanMama

There are too many points of access to this app just to use an iPhone. Glad Apple decided to be more transparent, IF you know where to look. No wonder the government wants to cut the lines underground for 2/3/4G going forward. Why is privacy so public?! I’d rather never save any this app. The New World Order only works for conglomerates that already allow the individual to be stalked, harassed, and everything identifiable to be mimicked and stolen… Waiting to see how they like it when it happens to them. #causeandaffect #5Gisdeath to humanity and living.

by Tobyharriman

For the past year my this app have started showing duplicates and now I have close to 7 duplicates per contact. I’ve googled and tried every trick. You are able to merge them on MacOS this app but that doesn’t sync correctly to iPhone this app and iCloud. Both iPhone and iCloud this app do not have any merge features either. And all three don’t seem to sync correctly if you make big changes.

I even went as far as trying to export all from iCloud and upload to gmail to merge there then re export and import to iCloud. Still with no luck, iCloud hated that and the everything came back, argg.

this app just seems like a mess across all the platforms. Really needs a huge update. This has become the worst Apple App ever.

Please fix.

by Game Nut666

The last update is awful. I do a search, it finds the contact, but when I touch cancel, the name in the list (on the left part of the screen) reverts to wherever it was before the search, instead of staying on the name I searched for.

Also, when I want to add or change the notes in a contact, it’s very hard to put my cursor where I want it. If I’m able to put my cursor where I want to type, it sometimes automatically scrolls up and out of the area I need to adjust. Very annoying.

by Stuke

ITools, dotMac, MobileMe…if you recognize these names chances are you raised an Apple family and now you’ve tried to figure out Family Sharing since independent Apple IDs are the only way Apple wants you to live in their universe. So what? Ever try sharing the family this app with your partner? It does not work. I’m not talking about sending back and forth with AirPlay or similar. I’m talking about maintaining one synced database. OK, fine, give us the ability to have private lists but like calendars, allow the head of family sharing to share this database! Don’t give me “privacy” as the reason why. I can share calendars in our iCloud family space and load anything I want into an event so protection of birthdays, addresses, phone numbers, etc. in a Contact is not the reason to NOT provide Family Sharing! Get with it Apple. This is 2021 after all.

Really, no developer response? Shows you just how much Apple *really* cares about you versus what *they* want to do. At least the latest MacBook Pros brought back common ports, maybe there is a shred of hope the software teams care, too.

OR, simply tell me how to share this app in a Family Sharing environment!!

by Triboman72

Every since my iPad was upgraded to iOS 15, my this app has had problems. Usually, it goes blank after a few uses. I delete Contacts and reinstall it. No help - it looks blank. I change the default gmail account. No help, that goes blank. I delete various gmail accounts, reinstall Contact. After a day or two, it goes blank. What to do? Wait for iOS 16?
I downgraded my previous two star to one star. Not only does Contacts freeze (as stated above), but the ‘notes’ feature is unstable. When I’m in edit mode and add text, if I forget to save, the text disappears when I return. To copy text from it, sometimes I have to go into edit, sometimes not. And when there’s lots of text — and isn’t that what the note section is for — when I scroll down reading the text, it often jumps to the top. Anyone got a better recommendation?
I will also mention that I’ve had an I touch, 2 iPhones and 3 iPads. This is the only device that this app stopped working.

by Beach146

This this app app is usable if you only use your phone for personal use. Wait, actually it’s still mediocre even for personal use.

Its really missing the basic ability to group this app. I should be able to create a contact group for family, for close friends, and I should be able to have this app from my work account automatically get put into a work group. This functionality has been missing for a while, but it’s really become a headache when it comes to setting up focus modes, since I need to select individual this app and then remember to add new ones to each focus mode. MacOS this app app has the ability to group this app, why is this missing on my iOS devices?

by Fekcwa

Contacts has “lost” or deleted most of my this app! And I just tried adding a contact, but after I typed in all of the info, the contact doesn’t show up in Contacts !! Contacts USED to work beautifully! But several months ago (after an iPhone OS update (before 15.0), I noticed most of my this app missing when I click on Contacts . Oddly, if I click on the info icon next to a phone number in my Phone app, it will show a “missing” contact (if it’s not a NEW contact). But that contact WILL NOT SHOW UP when I click on the this app app!!

PLEASE FIX Contacts!!

by BikerBunnyD

Contacts stinks, I have several Apple devices that all share the this app in the cloud and the stupid up can’t delete duplicate without me going through 7000 this app and doing it myself. Also there’s no way to separate the this app into groups. Like work group. Friend group. Family group. Being able to divide the contact list would help a lot during focus. If I didn’t want work to call me I could just hit the only allow friends and family to call me.

Apple this app; it’s a dinosaur!

by Onewil

Often opening Contacts on a Mac finds it out of sync.

Often the Mac app totally freezes while it pulls iCloud data. To reproduce click “Edit” on a contact, change one item and then click to another and try to edit. Contacts will beachball briefly.

Why? this app can be a text file! This should be lightning fast and responsive but instead it’s terrible and slow to edit. Please please pay attention to performance of system apps, especially foundational ones that other apps (Mail, Messages) rely on.

by Zzzzz Ddxdrrrssfbji

I’ve noticed that I have to ask Siri for a contact name that is in my this app it seems the number of this app are limited in Contacts itself. I can’t search for the persons name it’s not there but when I ask Siri to call that person it will automatically call that name and number
Why is that?

by Canuck85

This is your basic contact app with honestly no frills. Base functionality if great, add a contact, look up a contact.

I would love to see some more basic features added to Contacts. I don’t understand why we are now on the 15th iteration of software and creating a contact group in iOS is still not possible?

by JaidePentar1

Every time I try to edit information, it glitches multiple times before it will save the information I have just entered. This is pretty annoying, especially when you are trying to quickly write down someone’s info. However, the concept is a good one

by Godmombreezy

Overall I’m impressed with the iPhone this app app! It’s easy to put in this app, they’re sorted properly, you can add information such as birthdays or workplaces, which is all great and sorted by each contact.

The one thing that I would request (and has been requested by many others) is an update to this app where there is a place to insert pronouns.

We are in a world where everyone sharing their pronouns regardless of what gender they identify as is becoming a regular thing, and there is no reason why people should feel uncomfortable having to express their pronouns out of the blue just because they aren’t cisgender.

This is an update that should have gone out long ago, when it first reached mass America that asking for pronouns and introducing yourself with pronouns needed to become a regular thing.

by Prescious18g

It would be nice to be able to put ppl in groups and classifications. For example, putting people in as family, friends, work, projects, etc. I don’t know why this feature hasn’t been added.

I would like to classify my relationship to people without having to connect them to someone. For example, siblings, cousins, friends, etc.

Also, the ability to send group messages by the same groups.

by Frank CF

I am a lover of all things Apple/Mac/iPhone but..... this one thing really torques me off..... For some reason the format of the content of note field looses new line characters and they get replaced by "\N" which really makes the note unreadable if you have anything significant there. I use the note field a lot and it literally hurts to see all my formatting ruined! Help please!

by LillyLeilaNola

This is a great apple app. I would like to suggest something small that will make a big difference. A select option!!! I would like you to add a select tool so you can manage/delete your this app! It’s would be very useful and i would give you 5 stars if you add the select tool. Thank you :D

by Mulan.Moriarty

Great app to manage all your this app. The convenient features at the top that allow me to Call, Message, Video chat, e-mail, and Apple Pay are one of my favorite things about this. I am however confused about two other things

1. The Groups tab
We can choose what groups to show in the main list. This is literally the only thing about this feature. We can’t customize each group. No custom names, no custom ringtones, no ability to ADD this app whether in this tab or when we edit a contact. HOW IS THIS NOT IMPLEMENTED? Instead of having set song play whenever a contact from Group A calls, I have to go through each contact in that group and individually set the same tone. That way, I would know what type of contact is calling just by the tone

2. Related Names
I’m still confused about this. We can choose from an extensive list of relationships for our contact, that’s great. So when we tap “Done”, we can view it on their card. I would like it so that it links the this app. That way if I tap on Aunt Jenny’s profile and see that Cousin Matt has been added as her son, I can tap on his name to pull up his contact card, instead of having to go back to the main list and frantically search for him

by Oatmealwomp

Deleted the this app app a while ago, but the functionality remained. I’m trying to reinstall Contacts so I can access it from the Home Screen, but the only option on Contacts Store is “open” rather than “get” or download.

by Anonymous~*

Hello

I don’t know where else to reach the developers, so here’s my suggestion: Have you ever considered adding a place for pronouns in Contacts ?

Around one in ten of the people I know go by different pronouns. So, somewhere to easily log them would be wonderful, said place being most obviously in their this app. There’s already a place for “Company” which I love. Perhaps “Pronouns” could operate similarly (open-ended response; drop-down also works but would probably be subject to frequent updates). It doesn’t have to be big, but it would be a wonderful and helpful way to show support for the LGBTQIA+ community.

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time now and never leave “Reviews” on apps. This is my sole exception because it’s important to me and the few I’ve mentioned it to thus far.

In any case, the this app app is great. It’s just that adding a place for pronouns would make it even better.

Best

by Barlosk1

Using iCloud is nice when maintaining this app mainly because you can add and maintain groups but this is completely lost in Contacts. It’s also missing a feature to have a group of uncategorized this app. If you add support for smart groups this could easily be fixed.

If Contacts gets the addition of adding and managing groups, including smart groups, similar to how it works on ICloud, Contacts would get 5 stars.

by F1point0

It’s ridiculous that we still can’t edit the group info for this app. Yes, if you sync to a Mac desktop, you can drag and drop this app to new groups BUT you can’t remove a contact from a group. Also, I don’t want to get a third party app like Groups just for this basic functionality. I don’t share my this app with ANY third party apps for privacy reasons.

by IMathew!

Would be nice if the contact sheet didn’t close when I’m editing it. Can’t count how many times and on how many devices it just closed before I saved everything new I just added and had to re-do it all.

by Nalcar87

The current state of this app is due to years of neglect. For many WWDCs I’ve hoped for this app to be featured with a plethora of revitalizing features.

First, the good:
-it’s stable
-it’s well integrated

What it so desperately needs:
-group editing
-group sharing
-smart groups
-activity entry/tracking
-interval outreach reminders
-additional sorting (date met, birthdate, last contacted, etc)
-label-based organization

Please give this app the love it deserves.

by Gombuchu

I wish there was a more photo centric UI.
I have so many Alexes in Contacts . They all looks the same, since it only shows text.
Have a look at Cardhop for what is a better UI.

by Create Nickname. Okay.

Contacts hasn’t had a meaningful update in years. At least give me an option to add photos to the list!

by Baldilocks73

Would be great to be able to have contact photos on the list - like iMessage.

Other than that it’s a great application.

by Anonymouse293018

It does its job. I personally use cardhop because it's just a more pleasant experience.

by Victor_Otange

We need to beat the bad reviews with good ones lol. For no reason at all.
At the time of writing, I am the 6th reviewer of Contacts.

Apple has been a very good with privacy. But recently they are doing a little shady things with iCloud photos. Issue is not the actual process but the potential dangers that this process can allow people of power to use and twist “for our safety”

With Peace and Love to all.

by Jtteague06

Not as many apples as I had expected but serves a purpose nonetheless

by Holy Bible Hi

I honestly dont see any problems with it and I’m bored so i wanted to write this😁👍

by Jvckvia Is My Roblox Username

Hey guys i just wanted to be the first person to comment on Contacts that basically everybody has ( ͡👁️ ω ͡👁️)✊