Macbook Pro 13 (Win7), iPhone 4 32GB (iOS4)
harv55 wrote:
The only thing I can think to do in this scenario, which I have done for my company main number, is to make the company name the contact name. i.e. First Name is blank and last name is "Company".
Got the same issue, on occasion l simply leave calls go to answer phone rather than run the risk of answering a call when only the name shows up!! I too have started adding images to identify the company name, this however is very time consuming. Can't apple simply add this during one of their many 'useless' updates.
I have recently added contactsABC which is a much nicer display for viewing contacts as its shows name, company info, and role on 2 lines, rather than viewing the contact.
Must say the Blackberry contacts book was much better than the iPhone
Some time ago (ie, about 5 years), I spent a few days with Outlook merging all my contact details into just the Company field.
eg, Steve Jobs, Apple
I have used Nokia, BB, Motorola, etc and they all had different formats. To keep it simple, I used the above approach.
That way, the caller details (name and company) come up when the person rings.
Mr 12,000 contacts, maybe you could export to XL, combine the three fields (first name, surname and company) into one field (company) and then reimport ?
Yep, its a tedious process, but once you have the uniformity, it works well.
My biggest criticism is that you cant search the notes field within the contact as that is what I use for unique identifiers.
I dont have as many business contacts as some of you have mentioned but even for me who a third of contacts thereabouts are business with the business details there. Its crazy that Apple havent sorted it. I truley thought there would be an easy solution at the end of the thread. All the other phones can get it right. You would think this was a priority! I find it frustrating for another reason not mentioned - sometime I cant remember the contacts name at the business I need to phone which makes the process of finding the contact in the phone a very long drawn out process. You shouldnt have to go to the trouble of reorganising a address book when all the titles are there and should work accordingly. Get programming APPLE!
I think you still don't get both the persons name and their organization / company name.
I have a solution that's a little cumbersome but it works, edit contact, add field, enter the company name in the suffix, precede with a - or | for a nice touch, incoming calls will look like this
Steve Jobs - Apple
Or
Steve Jobs | Apple
Hope this helps
Che tristezza, vedo che il mio problema a distanza di un anno è ancora aperto, proprio oggi ho contatto il supporto APPLE per lo stesso problema ...la soluzione è di rinominare tutto ...ribadisco che TRISTEZZA !! operazioni a dir poco banali con il BLACKBERRY sono imprese titaniche con iPhone; il tecnicno mi ha detto che avrebbero interessato R&D per risolvere ..ahahah... è passato un anno e non è cambiato nulla, senza pensare che iPhone trasferische i contatti al mio sistema viva voce sempre e comunque con NOME e COGNOME fregandosene di come è impostato il telefono, ma se mi serviva una consolle per giocare avrei acquistato un nitendo non un telefono !!! possibile che non c'è rimedio?
This worked for me:
Go to the contact in your iPhone, click "Edit," delete the contact's name (leaving company name there), then click "Done."
Then click "Edit" again and re-enter the contact's name. Click "Done" again.
After that, even thought the contact's name is still there, it now shows up in Contacts as the business name.
I also went into my Mac's Address Book (synced with my iPhone via iCloud), found the contact there and made sure the "Company" box is checked, as others here have already mentioned.
Either way should work.
The only way I found to do this in a useful way is using an extension, which is the thing that currently most justifies my need for a jailbr3ak on my iPhone.
You get an additional field from your contact database on the incoming call screen.
You can find it on C*dia, it's called Call InfoFields
screens here:
show company name on incoming call
