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Lario22 Author

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10 points

Issues with "Groups" in Contacts after iOS 9 upgrade

Hello,

I am having two issues.

1. My groups in contacts are no longer in alphabetical order after upgrading to ios9. I have tried removing them via the iTunes sync and then adding them again and all it did was resort them in another random order - not alphabetical. Has anyone else had this issue? Do you have a fix?

2. Contacts used to remember which Group I had selected for viewing. Now, after ios9 upgrade, each time I go into contacts via direct or by "Phone", ALL my Groups are checked instead of the 1 group I had chosen, so ALL my contacts appear.

Any input is greatly appreciated.

iPhone 6, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 17, 2015 6:49 AM

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tiemo

Level 1

10 points

Posted on Sep 18, 2015 11:33 AM

I downgraded to iOS 8.4.1 due to this issue. Same on iPad, too.

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Dec 3, 2015 3:51 PM in response to Lario22

Does anyone have the new issue of contacts talking a looooooong time to sync (update) between the cloud devices???? I add new contacts on my computer and at times waiting 1-4hours for them to show up on my iphone or ipad. Before 9.0, I don't remember ANY delay.

TigerA

Level 1

4 points

Dec 3, 2015 8:50 PM in response to Stop the madness

Yes, I've also noticed the delay. But I am not sure if there was any delay in the previous version.

zornet

Level 1

0 points

Dec 8, 2015 10:40 AM in response to Stop the madness

With the release of iOS 9.2 this morning, this issue has finally now been resolved 🙂

e_rocs

Level 1

8 points

Dec 8, 2015 10:45 AM in response to zornet

Finally released to the public.... this has been in beta for several weeks.

Dec 8, 2015 12:03 PM in response to e_rocs

YES Finally, the issue is resolved... hope someone from Apple learned something from this, if nothing else at least put together a system for bugs like this one can be logged so others can easily know it's being addressed.

I've spent probably 2 hours in total trying to get a answer back in September, hopefully issues like this don't happen again in the future. I'm SO thrilled to have my groups back in Alphabetical order !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec 9, 2015 5:58 AM in response to Lario22

IOS version 9.2 (13C75) seems to have corrected the problems introduced by IOS version 9 which scrambled the sort order of contacts book groups.

dklapple

Level 1

4 points

Dec 13, 2015 6:38 PM in response to Lario22

Ditto--Exact problem when I got my iphone 6s in October which had the 9.0 installed. Hoping problem would be fixed soon. Just bought an iPad mini 4--same problem due to same iOS 9.0. My two other iPads have the iOS 8.4 with no problem. I hesitate to update until the problem is fixed.

Issues with "Groups" in Contacts after iOS 9 upgrade