Issues with "Groups" in Contacts after iOS 9 upgrade

I have the same issue. Reported to Applecare day after release of IOS9

After updating my iPhone 6 - iOS 9.1 I have a partial fix. Selected “Contact Groups” now stays selected after closing contacts and reopening. Groups are still not alphabetized though, equals half FIX.

Thanks for your personal updlate, myself I'm beyond frustrated. Why release a iOS that is broken ? I wish I could go back to pre 9.0. Ugggggh

The random order to the group listings has been reported back when iOS 9 was rolled out. I noted it in every beta version, I believe there were 5, before iOS 9.1 was rolled out. They are more than aware of it, but for some reason rolled out another update without fixing the alphabet issue. But hey, at least they figured out the long awaited middle finger emoji!! Geniuses are working hard to kill what Steve Jobs built. There hasn't been any substantial improvements to Apple products nor to operating systems in my opinion in a long time. I'm almost thinking of going to Windows products and possibly droid based. ****, I'd settle for my old Blackberry right now.

This morning I updated my iPhone 6 to iOS 9.1 expecting the sorting error of the contact groups to be solved. Even though the Apple Support promised a bugfix for the next iOS update they did not solve it with 9.1.

After the successful update to 9.1 I deleted all my nearly 1,000 contacts and re-synchronized with Microsoft Exchange. The error persists. My frustration continues.

I have the same problem with Groups in Contacts even after updating to iOS 9.1. There is an app called Groups in iTunes by QBix, Inc. I might see if that will work as a second option. It is possible to manually rearrange the groups just in that app.

hsrz wrote:

This morning I updated my iPhone 6 to iOS 9.1 expecting the sorting error of the contact groups to be solved. Even though the Apple Support promised a bugfix for the next iOS update they did not solve it with 9.1.

After the successful update to 9.1 I deleted all my nearly 1,000 contacts and re-synchronized with Microsoft Exchange. The error persists. My frustration continues.

I have only a few groups and after reviewing them I think I see a pattern. The groups appear to be sorted in the order you created them. One brute force solution would be to delete the groups and then recreate them in alpha order. A real pain for those with many contacts, but until Apple fixes this it could be a solution.

It is not guaranteed that this helps. I created two new groups in iCloud and they showed up in different order on my two iPhones (6 and 4S) which are both synced with the same iCloud account although according to your (and my) logic they should show up in the same sequence. So before going brute force you should better first test more thoroughly if it really helps on your phone.

rene-bigapple wrote:

It is not guaranteed that this helps. I created two new groups in iCloud and they showed up in different order on my two iPhones (6 and 4S) which are both synced with the same iCloud account although according to your (and my) logic they should show up in the same sequence. So before going brute force you should better first test more thoroughly if it really helps on your phone.

Did the new group show up last on either of the two phones?

My groups are also in different order in my iPad and iPhone.

Yes, they showed up at the end of the list but in reverse order on both phones. But I tried only with 2 groups. I also noticed that it took quite while before the new groups would show up on the phone while new contacts or changes to them show up nearly immediately after editing in iCloud. So there seems to be something deeply wrong with the groups. That's why I gave up testing further approaches.

I've got about 15 Contact lists from Outlook. Only 6 of them are set up for Outlook Adress books. Yet I have the same issue of all of them being selected at random times. I'm currently updating to ios 9.1, but, from what I read, the fix is not in there. Is Apple hiring MS code techs?

I Have the same problem and it is very enoing! This is serious bug and I don't know why Apple didn't solve it already!

I have a lot of contacts and couple of groups, so I need to have only one group selected, but this is not possible, when I do it, iOS automatically make all groups selected !?!?? How much time we need to wait that Apple fix this?

Well, I just updated to 9.1. Unfortunately, my groups are still a mess 😠. I am resisting upgrading my iPad until this is resolved.