Hi - When I go into Contacts and type a letter in the search bar to get to last names that begin with that letter I get a list of random names that don't correlate to the letter. My settings are fine. Help ?

The search bar is not designed to take you to names beginning with the letter you put in. If you want to do that, use the letters down the side. In the search bar, the device will return results for all contacts that have that have that letter in them. If you type a couple of letters of the name, you'll find what you want faster. Once you get used to how it works, it's quite efficient.

Best of luck.

Yes. It looks at the whole contact card. If that letter appears anywhere in that contact (address, note, etc...) it will show in the search. If you want to look for contacts by the first letter of the last name, change your Sort Order (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Sort Order) to Last, First then slide your finger along the letters along the right side of the Contacts app