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How do I create a contact group?

I recently upgraded my iPhone 4 to IOS 6, then bought an iPhone 5. I wanted to make use of the do-not-disturb feature, but create a group of callers who would be exempt and could ring my phone at any time. Did lots of searching and see lots of complaints about how groups in the contacts app works differently in IOS 6, but I never used groups before and I can't see how to create one. So how do you create a group?

Mac Mini, iMac, MBP, iPhone, iOS 4, none

Posted on Sep 26, 2012 8:32 PM

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Sep 27, 2012 11:46 AM in response to lll

I don't have an "Address Book" app in my IOS 6 iPhone 5. Did you mean the "Contacts" app? There is no menubar in that app.


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Ah, just figured it out from some other threads! Apparently you can't do this on the iPhone! Has to be done on your PC or Mac or wherever you have the iTunes that you sync with. Geez, I sure was on a wild goose chase with this one.

Oct 12, 2012 3:27 PM in response to BamaboyinUT

The Do Not Disturb rules will not apply to them *if* you have "Favorites" checked in settings/notifications/do-not-disturb/allow-calls-from/ . If you want to allow only a subset or superset of your "Favorites" to override the do-not-disturb rule, then you'll need to create a new contact group for that purpose and check that group. But note that you can cannot create your special contact group on your iPhone. You'll have to create it on your PC or Mac.

Sep 13, 2013 2:56 PM in response to Alexzafish

Alexzafish wrote:


Thank you! I got it on icloud.com. You can do what ever you desire with your contacts there!

Yes, but you'll soon discover that there isn't a simple way to use the groups in iOS for sending mail. It is not intuitive or very elegant, but you can do it:


When you reply, forward, or start a new message, tap the + sign to add members. In the next window, tap "Groups" to see all your sources of contacts and contact groups. Now unselect all groups except the one you want to send the message to. Tap Done and then the list of names you see will be just the members of the selected group(s). Then select them one-by-one. Oh, and remember to re-select all the other groups when you're done for the next message you want to send.


It would be so much simpler to just be able to select the group name directly as a single contact, without having to fiddle with all these other steps. I think there are other mail apps that will do this, but iOS should handle this better IMO.

May 28, 2015 10:47 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

iPhone-No Groups - Still unable 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.

It boggles my mind that Apple is 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 . Come on Appple team. We weill appreciate to see Groups on by the next version of iOS release.

How do I create a contact group?

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