iOS10 Problem - Can not edit a contact found using spotlight search

Please consider submitting complaints about this issue via Apple's feedback form (http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html). I also have an iPhone 6 (no 3D Touch) and was just surprised to find out that I could no longer do something as simple as search for a contact via Spotlight and edit the contact card. This is dumb, Windows type design when you use one app to search if you need to do X and another app if you need to do Y. Completely non intuitive.

Tom is right. Total fail on Apple's part. Yet another reason to consider another SMART phone platform. I don't need to spend any more time than I already do trying to administrate my life.

But thank you Kor. Reco is perfect fix for now.

With devices without 3D Touch, i.e iPhone 6 and earlier, there is a simple workaround. When seeing a contact found in spotlight, go to "send message" and it opens up the messeges app. There, in upper-right corner of the screen, you can see "i" icon. Push that and you are redirected to contacts app with your contact open. There you can start editing your contact info.

Thank you!

I've been angry about losing the edit option in the search results for some time now, and your answer solved it for me!

Now there's just the problem of the lack of 3D touch on our iPhone SE...

i have just reliased the same problem this morning and its a complete pain in the arse, why would you take a feature away, i use it everyday for work adding in customer emails etc and now i have to go through contacts!! :-(

You can do it in 2 ways:

1. Search using Spotlight:

Use 3D Touch on the contact (example on contact photo)

The Contacts app will open with the selected contact and tap Edit and make your changes.

2 Search using Siri:

Tap on the contact photo, see above.

i have an iphone 6 with no 3D touch, searching a contact with spotlight search gives no option to edit, i have to go to directly to contacts !

Bodsfunk wrote:

i have an iphone 6 with no 3D touch, searching a contact with spotlight search gives no option to edit, i have to go to directly to contacts !

Well it was address to the OP with iPhone 6s.

The tips were not meant to work on iPhone 6,

oh ok, thanks anyway :-)

You can search directly in Contacts app. Right at the top.

I was fine with ios 10 until I discovered this problem. I use spotlight to access my contacts all the time and edit them. I am so frustrated by this. Why remove an edit option?!?!?!

These 2 options do work, however it requires twice the amount of action than previously in ios9 (also force touch is more than a simple "click" with your finger.. so really it takes 3 times the action/time to process this, so this process is now much less efficient, that does not seem to be the goal of new software- to make something less efficient). Siri option is no good, many contacts have names that siri doesn't recognize and it just takes way too long in general.

I agree with complaints and this is obviously and error in ios10. I have been using contacts "app" for this now, put it on my home screen because I also need to search contacts many, many times during the work day for my business. Maybe apple is desperate to try to use force touch more or something in it's software... total fail.

Here's how you edit a contact from spotlight:

-enter contact name in spotlight search

-once contact appears, press-and-hold the name (ie 3D Touch)

-then double-tap the name (which appears absolve a list of options like Message, Call, Mail)

What you are missing is that we don't all have 3D touch. This is ANOTHER Apple failure to care about it's customers. To me we are now dealing with a Microsoft type of company, with no ears, no caring, pitiful execution, and sorry product limitations. I agree with a lot of other posters that Apple is dropping the ball. I have been faithful since the beginning, and remain so today, because of slick ease of use functions. To me it's all about ease of use, and not having to read a manual. As they continue to make their products less user friendly, I am considering trying something else more and more every day. I was not tied to apple, but to its genius in it's products that caused them to be so easy and helpful to use. When that is no longer the case, I am gone. I'm trying to hang on Apple. Are you listening?

I totally agree. Very frustrating when a feature one actually find useful is arbitrarily taken away for no logical reason. No doubt it's due to some arcane rejiggering of how Spotlight Search interacts with data from an app like 'Contacts'. There was probably millions of dollars spent shoring up some obscure security flaw that would allow unauthorized access to Contact data, and Apple did it in a way to satisfy security architects while compromising the customer experience.

Following that logic, Apple could have made things even safer by removing contacts completely from iOS .There. All fixed. Much better!

This company has really lost its way and making it more and more difficult to justify sticking with this secret garden where the walls keep closing in.