I just added a contact to my iPod Touch. It's a company, not an individual. How do I get the iOS Contacts to list it that way?
iPod touch, iOS 4.3.3, iOS 4.3.5
Did you place the company is the company box in Contacts? There are three possible entries, first, last and company. If you only fill in the company that will be listed.
If I'm understanding you correctly, if I'm creating a new contact for a business, I have to create the contact with no name, save it that way, then go back in and add the name afterwards. Is that correct?
I am having the same problem.
No. If it's a Company, put the Company's name in the Company line and leave the name lines blank.
That is not how it used to work, and it's also no good.
Oh come on....I just did it and it worked fine.
Skip the first and Last name lines,
tap on the company line,
type in company name.
Add phone, email, address whatever,
then tap Done to save.
Did you add a name as we'll.
Although it was not clearly explained upthread, Kenneth, what you have to do is this:
1) Create a new contact with the company name only, and SAVE
This will create a "business" card/record rather than an "person" card/record
2) After the card has been created, open it again, and now you can add a person's name to the card and it wll remain a "business" card.
Given that mobile-platform apps are going to be somewhat under-powered compared to their desktop equivelents, I guess this isn't too much of a burden. Just one extra step. But Apple sure doesn't go out of their way to make it clear, do they?
100 Watt Walrus, Nope if you add the name afterwards it just moves the business to a personal name contact. Not really helpful if you have more than one contact person in a large company.
Kenneth, try this:
If you want both, with business as primary, but a name of contact, set it up this way:
Fill Company name only
Add phone numbers
scroll down to add "related name", tap on +
now you can enter the job title as a custom label. You notice the circle with an i in the middle, this allows you to link any number of individual contacts to the business.
see if that does the job.
100 Watt Walrus,
That doesn't work! If you edit a Company contact by adding a name the name becomes the primary. Totally screws you up alphabetically. And, as often is the case, there may be multiple people under one company name....
I can duplicate the process I described.
In my iPod Touch 4G, running iOS 6.1.3, I just created a brand new entry in the native Contacts app called "Qqq Co." I entered just the name and an email address. The card was created as a Business.
I went out of that record to my general list, and the record is filed under Q.
I then tapped to get back into the record, tapped [Edit], then added first name "Bob" and last name "A," then tapped [Done].
RESULT:
In the card, I still see a generic Business icon, I see "Qqq Co" in bold at the top, and below that, "Bob A" in smaller gray type.
When I exit the record and go back to the list, "Qqq Co" is still listed in the Qs. And there is no "Bob A" in the As.
I have the iPod touch 5th gen, running IOS 7.
If I edit a company by adding a name it moves the contact and files it with the name, not company.
The new version works different I guess. Glad it does, I like being able to add multiple contacts to one company.
You can do Related Names in iOS 6 Contacts too.
At the time I started this thread, I was using iOS 5*. Apparently in 6 they fixed the problem on not being able to create a Business contact.
*unrelated grouse: iOS 5 behaved a lot better on my iPod Touch 4G, and sucked a LOT less battery, and I wish I'd never "upgraded"
This used to be the work-around solution to this common complaint, but it no longer works in iOS 7. I wish you could just create a business card from the start, but now I'm longing for the days where there was at least a work-around. The weird thing is, my contacts list still has remnants from the past, where I have company contacts with associated first and last names that still sort by company. It's only newly created contacts where this is impossible. So frustrating to not be able to achieve basic things like this.
Now, if you needed this functionality, Apple would have provided it. Don't you worry your pretty little head. Just do everything the way Apple tells you, and you'll be fine.
How do I make a new contact listed by company?
