iOS 6 Group Contacts

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I checked out the link and it looks good. Will download and siwch tonight. Thanks.

Contacts do not disappear.

Yes, I too think this change is Ridiculous!!! Anybody that uses groups properly will be extremely disappointed with this useless change. I was a blackberry user for years and had groups in Outlook. When I went Mac and merged over my contacts I lost all my grouping... I have spent many hours putting them back and now Apple has screwed things up. I hope they fix this soon and don't make this change on Mountain Lion or I may Bail on them!!!

Thanks Phil.Thomas, that worked, I tried doing that, double tap on all contacts, holding on a group. Nothing worked. Read your post and tried again. Worked this time. It's not as efficient as the old way, but it still does what I need it to do.

I can stop loosing sleep now :)

Thanks!!

Yup. The more common case of looking up a single, selected list is a LOT more complicated. We've also lost meaningful titles. How do you know which contacts list you're looking at (or coming back to)

Submitted feedback on it.

The don't even really need change the new approach (it could be helpfull I suppose). Just add the old one back to it - with a colored (>) button instead.

The basic idea already exists on the phone apps 'Favorites' screen:

You tap the row to do one action, the blue (>) for a slide in screen of that row's info

- Return the old 'Group Name >' arrow as a blue (>) button

- IF tap (>): group list slides in from the right - titled with it's name

- IF tap 'Group Name' row: toggle the checkmark.

There, I fixed it.

This *****! This is a downgrade to Contacts!!

I was hoping for the ability to email to a Group

just like on the desktop Apple Mail. Hello Apple??

The other problem with it is if you want to add a contact under a group. Now, unless you're lucky enough to have THAT group (only) selected, you have to go back to groups, select all contacts (to tick all the boxes), deselect all contacts (to deselect them all) click the group you want, click done AND THEN you can add the contact!!! 5 clicks!!

Before I could just click the group I wanted and add the contact, maybe one click extra to get back to groups if I already had one displayed. 1 or 2 clicks at most. What bright spark thought that the new approach to contacts would be better? Even if I ever wanted to display more than one group (and I've never wished for the ability to do so yet) I'd prefer the contacts to be marked with what group they were in, or for the groups at least to appear in order with their contacts listed below each heading. Not this way.

Well at least I'm not alone in thinking this "upgrade" to contacts is terrible. I can't think of any time I ever wanted to look at multiple groups at once. Either All Contacts, or I knew the specific group, or Search. Apple should be ashamed of this change that came without warning.

Agreed, agreed, agreed!

Does anyone know how to delet a contact group? I have two of each group and i am not sure why.

thanks

Wow, what a stupid step back and an unnecessary change!!

As far as I have been able to find, there is no longer any management of the "Group"s lists on the iOS devices anymore. You can no longer add a group, delete a group, rename a group, or change the members of the groups.

Apple does not even mention groups in their iOS6 manual, other than to show that you can now look at more than one group at a time. Kinda defeats the purpose of lists (should just be a category field in the contact instead), and you can no longer manage the groups without access to a computer.

That is if you want to use only Apple software. I have found an app called: Groups: SMS, Mail and Manage Contacts

it has been doing the tasks that Apple felt we didn't want in a contacts app. At least for n

Me.

Thank you for sharing! Trying out Savi Contacts. What they did to contacts by far the new feature that I hate the most.

Terrible 'update' this IMHO. easy to fix I would think. Just add a user selectable behavious in Contacts so that selecting groups allows the app the way to work it used to or in the new way where multiple groups can be displayed at the same time.

For me the current method is a PITA such that I don't use groups anymore. Just search. It's too annoying to constantly select all, deselect al and then click on the group I want whereas before one click would do it.

I'm not sure a useful update is one that drives people to use a 3rd party ap that fixes it. Still, they did it with Maps I suppose 😟