Mail names reversed

Thanks for your help. I submitted a Bug Report.

FYI Since this isn’t happening in the gMail mail app and is happening in the Apple mail app, my conclusion is that it’s an Apple bug.

Apple Store is not one of my contacts. This is unrelated to Contacts.

Another example: Apple Communities displays as “Communities Apple”.

Grrrrrr

Tried that. Doesn’t help. The problem names are not in Contacts.

I fixed the issue with the Mail names on my iPad Pro, but I’m not particularly pleased with the solution:

If on the iPad Pro I go to Settings/Contacts and set up the Sort Order as “Last Name then First Name” and the Display Order as “First Name then Last Name”, then names appear correctly in the Mail app EVEN THOUGH though the Senders’ names aren’t in my Contacts list.

(In the Contacts list I prefer to see BOTH the Sort order and the Display order as “Last Name the First Name”.)

More info...I have an iPhone 6 and due to its age it will only update to iOS 12.4.9. On it both the Contacts Sort Order and the Display order is “Last Name then First Name” and the problem in Mail with names that I experience on the iPad Pro doesn’t appear on the phone.

I continue to think this situation is a “feature” with the recent iOS. Guess I’ll just have to live with it or switch to using gMail on my iPad. I use gMail on my computer but prefer Mail on the iPad.

Thanks for trying to help.

It never happened until iOS 14.2 so I doubt it’s the email provider. I think it’s an Apple glitch.