I have my contacts sorted and displayed by first name. If I add a phonetic last name to a contact, it changes the order of that person to the top of list. Why wouldn't it leave them in the first name alphabetic order?
iPhone 4, iOS 6
There are two settings for contacts - Sort Order and Display Order are both set to First, Last?
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calenders > Contacts section
Hope that helps
I have my contacts sorted and displayed by first name.
Sorry friend. I can't seem to duplicate your issue on my device. Have you gone through the normal steps to resolve software issues - Restart, Reset, Restore?
Yes I have. This also happens across all my iOS devices, so I just assumed that this is something embedded into iOS. Strange that you can't get it to do it on yours.
I'm thinking about what I may be doing wrong to not be albe to recreate the issue. Your changing only the last name? Does it contain symbols or numbers? I've attemted to use both and the contact stays where it should sorted by First name. What am I missing?
Ok this is what I'm doing...
My last name is spelled with "liter."
Siri pronounces that like "a 2 liter of soda."
So I've added the phonetic last name field on the contact card to help her pronounce it like "lighter."
On my contact info,
First name: Bill
Last name: Hinderliter
Phonetic last name: Hinderlighter
If I delete the phonetic last name field... It sorts the contact perfectly.
If I add it, the contact is placed on top of all the "B's" in the list.
On a side note... I found another website with a temporary fix to this problem. The person there says to use the nickname field instead of phonetic field when getting Siri to pronounce things.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/29210/how-do-i-get-siri-to-pronounce-my -name-correctly
Thanks again for your time.
Sort order changes when adding a phonetic last name?
