iOS 16 Contact Lists

This is a step back in functionality. Now I need to find a new solution for reducing the noise on my contact list which I sync with my email provider via CardDAV. Not being able to hide certain lists means what was once a selective/filtered view is now all-or-nothing.

There appears to be no release notes on this change. It happened without any notice. There is no mention of the change here - iOS 16 - New Features - Apple (CA) - which is where I would expect to find a material change like this. Has anyone else seen docs on this?

No, you are not missing out on anything. I just saw it and found it cooler than the one with "Groups" in the earlier Contacts App. Because the Groups was for accounts and not for Contacts as such so it was a misnomer.

Thanks, they corrected it.

Please refer to my Contacts App.

roba1967 wrote:

I agree with Alexktehichi and others, please restore old functionalities to be able to select more lists/groups of contacts.

It is pointless to post your request in this user-to-user forum that has minimal Apple participation. Here is the right place→Product Feedback - Apple

kib_670 wrote:

@APPLE please allow us to select any combination of LISTs.

This is a user-to-user forum, with minimal Apple participation. Alextkexichi has the right of it; let Apple know→Product Feedback - Apple.

FranconianX wrote:

Still nothing in iOS 16.3

This new 'feature' is horrible and made contacts absolutely useless for people that use iCloud and other accounts like Exchange. When I select All Contacts my contact list is crowded with hundreds suggested contacts from Outlook/Exchange. All the years I could filter.

Apple, what where you thinking? Please fix this mess!

Why are you just telling other users in this user-to-user forum that has minimal Apple involvement? Here is how to let Apple know your opinion→Product Feedback - Apple

I’ve just experienced this problem myself😠

Has anyone found a resolution to this yet? Filtering by Group/List is surely an essential in this online sharing world! I am mystified why Apple have dropped this useful feature

jeff

Being able hide certain groups of contacts as you could in pre-iOS16, while still keeping them synced and available, should be brought back in.

In addition, it would be great to be able to select different groups/list in Focus e.g. work, personal contact lists.

The management of contacts is quite a personal preference issue, however, Microsoft had this cracked at least 20 years ago. Why can’t Apple get it right? It’s not rocket science! When I was a software developer we designed optional features in a series of settings files, the old version of ⚙️. Sure it makes for extra code but back in the 80s I was writing programs to fit in 64Kb of memory 😀

if someone from Apple’s product research team reads this, come on give us what we want and need.

Jeff

Do you think there is anything we could do to encourage the Apple software developers to rectify this absurdity? I don’t program in Python or whatever language they use, but back in the day when I programmed IBM systems, this change would have been less than ten lines of code!

Completely disagree with SravanKra. They completely ruined Contacts - how can one find anything without being able to toggle on/off certain lists or groups. Complete disaster. My phone just became useless.

Adding a contact to multiple lists could be done (from the Mac) in older versions too. But it does not solve the issue at all: people need to be allowed to show/hide multiple lists at once to make the Contacts app useful. Example: hide three lists related to work on weekends. It’s that simple. They should bring back this functionality.

cortizsc is spot on. I used to be able to split out a list of Restaurants/Shopping, Work Vendors, New York Contacts, Seattle Contacts, Vegas Contacts, Old Coworkers, Local Coworkers, Old Contacts, and Friends/Family.

Day to day I. would only want to see Restaurants/Shopping, Local Coworkers, and Friends/Family to avoid having a massive list of contacts. Then on the rare/special occasion I needed to reach out to someone on another list I could simply add them into the view or custom the view based on a need at the time. For example, I fly to New York, I simply add in the New York list.

The way the app appears to work now, I'd have to switch to the dedicated New York list which removes everyone else I need to see.

This is another example of a step backwards in functionality in Apple apps. it's unrelated, but if you need another example of stepping backwards, I'm old enough to remember when the Music app had half and quarter speed scrubbing on the time bar - still bitter about that one.

Has anyone figured out a solution to this new change from groups to lists. You can only view all contacts OR one list at a time. NOT multiple lists. When we had groups you could select any combination of groups to populate your contact list. This is a step backwards in functionality and an absolute disaster for staying organized. @APPLE please allow us to select any combination of LISTs.

Still nothing in iOS 16.3

This new 'feature' is horrible and made contacts absolutely useless for people that use iCloud and other accounts like Exchange. When I select All Contacts my contact list is crowded with hundreds suggested contacts from Outlook/Exchange. All the years I could filter.

Apple, what where you thinking? Please fix this mess!

Likewise, I find this a major step backwards. The whole point of having groups is that you can display or hide them as needed.

As the previous poster noted, hiding noise is important. When I travel, I need a lot of contacts at a specific country that I can easily see, but I don't want all those hundred-plus foreign contacts displayed when I'm home, because it just increases the chances of an accidental butt-dial of a foreign (costly) number.

Please pass on my unhappiness with this "improvement."

Thanks

S