Display both company AND name in contacts, incoming calls, messages, etc

Is there no way to have both a person's full name, AND company appear on the display of contacts and incoming calls??


I have over 2,000 contacts in my address book, many from the same company, and many with the same (or similar) names.


When someone with a very common name calls or texts, it's impossible for me to remember who they are without listing their company as well. If I have both Sam Michaels and Samantha Mitchells in my address book, sometimes the only way to distinguish between the two is knowing that Sam works for Viacom and Samantha works for Universal.


I've heard that the only way to do this is to include the company name in the person's main "name" field. This is problematic because A) it would take me a million years to go through and personally edit all of my 2k+ contacts, and B) this is completely counter-intuitive of having the company/office/job title lines available as fields in the address book in the first place.


Does anyone know a way around this at all?? Apple really needs to find a way to fix this, as it's super inconvenient for business professionals. This is just another one of my many frustrations with Apple products being not intuitive for workers in the corporate world.

iPhone 5

Posted on Feb 2, 2015 8:08 PM

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Feb 2, 2015 8:13 PM in response to mus1cLuvR

I'm not aware of a way to do this, however I'm certain that when my phone rings, it shows the person's name and company information that I have written in contacts. I've not taken time to check lately, but that seems to be the case for contacts that have a company name in them. Ones that do not have a company name show the person's name and then the label for the phone number they are using, such as home, work, mobile, etc.


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