How do I create a contact group?

Thanks Lawrence Finch but.....I would like comment .....

Still not able to create “GROUPS” on iPhone phone contacts

Oh, Apple. This capability has existed since PalmPilot days since beginning of their time and on Andriods & Samsung and since beginning of their time.

How has something so basic has been excluded on iOS for so long? even on iOS8.3 (2015) without having to download Groups App from iTunes, adding yet another app on our iPhones which we don’t want to.

Apple has been the leader in the gadget markets yet the most basic of features are still absent! I find most business users find it useful and important to have a categories or group area i.e.: business, personal, friends, family, etc so you can text email at once or look up a certain group. I KNOW there are some apps but it needs to be native. The phone part is definitely a place that Apple can pick up some tidbits from Palm or Google.

I find that the call log is as short as it is .On my old Palm phone I use to be able to have all my missed incoming outgoing calls for like years at a time and even on Android a large call log. I wish they Apple would tweak this as we need this added features please.

We would really appreciate we you could actually create groups on the iPhone. I am surprised this hasn't been addressed yet by the Apple team especially after all the improvements even now at iOS8.3 (June 2015) that reduced dependence on a Mac computer or on PC’s .

Would appreciate if we can have this feature on the next iOS release please . Thank you Apple Team.

You are not addressing Apple. All your repeating, copying, pasting of the same message over and over is just wasting space here. This is a user to user support forum. If you want to tell Apple you would like to see something, then go to the feedback page HEREand click on the appropriate subject.

As far as call log, it will hold the last 100 calls. Why would you want to save your call log for years? If a call is that important, you would have saved it by the time it would have fallen off the recent call log. I submit that more than 100 calls would not really be "Recent", nor would calls from "years at a time".

Not to mention that my carrier's website and my bill lists calls "years at a time." And so does the NSA, GCHQ, and probably dozens of other spook agencies. You can actually have more than 100 recents, as multiple calls from or to the same number on the same day are contained in the same entry.

Thanks Lawrence.

My sincere apology to the Apple Team, I didn't mean to sound harsh, as I am a loyal apple user and all their product and wish for further their success.

So here below is what I wanted to ask…

Require GROUPS creation on iPhone>Phone>Contacts:

This capability has existed on all my previous smart phones. This is a much needed feature and absent on iOS for so long,dont want to download Groups Apps from iTunes.Apple has been the leader in the gadget markets. Consumers and most business users will find it useful,to have a categories or group area, business, personal, friends, family, etc or to text email at once or look up a certain group. Apple team please tweak this as we need this added features please.Would appreciate to able to create groups on the iPhone. especially after all the improvements even now at iOS8.3, that reduced dependence on the Mac or on PC’s . Would appreciate if we can have this feature on the next iOS release please.Thanks Apple team.

I agree that it would be a nice feature to have. If you sync with iCloud you can create groups in the iCloud web interface. And if you have a Mac, with the contacts app. That's how I've always done it. And for MS Exchange accounts, either OWA or Outlook.

In general, Apple-provided apps are really bare bones. I suspect this is partly to keep the memory footprint down, but primarily so Apple is not seen as competing with 3rd party developers. For almost every app that Apple provides there are far better 3rd party apps. This is especially true for calendars. Apple's is almost unusable. But there are dozens of calendar apps, some of them, like Pocket Informant or Week Calendar (both of which started on Palm OS, BTW), are truly outstanding. I use SpeedNames, which creates and manages groups, allows copying between groups, and supports mass operations.

But across the board, the app developer community has a lot of opportunity to be creative.

Do Apple really need 3rd party developers for almost every app that Apple provides ? Do we really need the 3rd party apps developers to provide us with a better than what apple has created and develop on these respective apps ? as you mentioned.

I am sure many of us really dont thinks so.

If Apple provide full-featured apps that did everything that every one of the 700 million users wanted, what incentive would there be for 3rd party app developers? You would like just one feature. But I'm sure that every iPhone user has at least one feature they would like Apple to provide. And there will be some overlap, but it will still be millions of features that the iPhone does not have out of the box. I'll bet that 90% of iPhone users don't even know they can have contact groups.

Yes-but what I have been saying is that there is no need to invent this wheel again , i.e in this case the need to have the simple ability to create "GROUPS" in contacts (or in an address book) on the iPhone.This capability has existed on the Palm (yes we know palm are not around any more) , on the Blackberry on Androids , Samsung etc.. etc... smart phones since beginning of their time and to date, but not on iPhones to date.

There are thousands of "simple abilities" that it would be nice to have. Why should this one stand out and get preference over all of the others? Because you want it? And even because I might want it? I just had a conversation with someone who wanted to be able to attach files to an email in the email app. Another "simple ability" that doesn't exist. And another "simple ability" would be to be able to mass delete emails. Or to undelete Messages. I can go on all day on "simple abilities" that one or more users have thought that the iPhone should have.

In the time we have taken to discuss it you could have downloaded the FREE Groups app and created all of the groups you want.

It's actually not that important to me, because I sync my contacts with iCloud, so I can create groups in Contacts on my Mac, or by logging in to icloud.com. But I have SpeedNames anyway, which isn't free, but is reasonable.

This is still not any where a good enough answer for me or would be to any one out there who understand my concern .

If apple thought of having this simple standard feature of their mac's or on thier iCloud , then they might as well had this on the iPhone as a standard.

It is on the phone where one enter create a new contact detail , usually when they out and about off line, when they receive a call to enter this to a new contact if needed and not a excersie to be carried out later when one is on thier mac's.....as to above my notes to say ...to reduce this dependency from the the Mac or iCloud or by a 3rd party.

Yes a 3rd party apps are useful for a totally new customers need (i.e like.... voice recorder app, or a pdf reader / writer, radio, medical app. whatsapp..etc.etc..so apple let leave these for the 3rd party apps to developers, and not use them to improve Apples' own apps , as i had mentioned.

( 3rd parties would not to need improve apples apps where Apple did not get it get it right in the 1st place or need to improve basis.

Lawrence , as I can see this discussion is not getting anywhere, and it wasted a lot of my time here, so having to say sorry and would like to end this discussion here and not carry this discussion any furhter.Thanks

As they they say customers are always right, (that's me and others like me) .We all they have a choice.... ....Thanks you Lawrence for our much Apple biased effort to convince me, it has not worked on me.

Its now down to Apple to make this change and the flaws other customers have highlighted on thier subject forum , and lets hope, i.e we all hope to see these improved soon on apples next upgrade.

Signing out.... The End !!!!!!

Correction.... I meant to say ...

Thanks you Lawrence for YOUR much Apple biased effort to convince me, it has not worked on me.

The End !!!!!

vpmm wrote:

As they they say customers are always right, (that's me and others like me) .We all they have a choice.... ....

The only "they" who say that are customers who are asking for something that is not forthcoming. I've spent 20 years working in retail and I can tell you retailers don't say that, vendors don't say that.

Apple provides basic apps. If you want more than basic, you get a third party app with the features you want. The nice thing about that is that I (and others like me) don't have to have all those features that you consider "basic" but I find to be annoying bloat. It's called choice.