"Recent" contact groups, showing up in Messages as suggested contacts.

MissMyAndroid77 wrote:

It is just one more example of why iOS stands for inferior operating system

iPhones hold their value quite well. I'm sure if you sold yours, you'd have quite a bit of money to put toward a phone that better meets your needs.

leelewis wrote:

I really really dislike this recents thing. Apple please respond with solution. To clear them and stop keeping them.

Apple isn't reading this thread for suggestions. If you want them to know how you feel, use the feedback page:

Product Feedback - Apple

that is my biggest gripe also. I go to type my wife's name, and a huge list of recent contact "groups" appears. So I have to scroll WAY DOWN to find just her name alone.

You would think, by now, that Apple with its billions of dollars and testers and coders could do something as simple as put the contacts name that you type at the TOP of this list.

there are still so many bugs in the messaging, it just makes you wonder what is really going on at Apple.

s e e d wrote:

I can’t beleive this is considered a feature by Apple. It’s the most annoying thing I have encountered with the iPhone to date. I hope they fix it soon. It is broken.

I know! It's hard to believe that other people might have different preferences, isn't it?

Have you let Apple know that you don't like it? Use the feedback link given above.

Of course. As UI/UX designer this is a major flaw. Nothing to do with personal preference.

Tap the plus and click the input box. Now you can find your contact but what happens when you tap on the contact. The contact comes up and you have to tap AGAIN. 5 taps before you send a quick text.

Apple used to have great design but not in this case. There nothing simple about it.

The easy fix is for them to put the contacts that match your input at the top above the conversations.

It’s an easy fix.

Black and white. No preference necessary.

The problem is this “i” is no longer available to click on! That’s the problem! Apple took it away! It needs to be brought back. Why they keep messing things up? ... maybe some young engineer that wanted to “fix” some code for the fun of it. Yes, it is a first world problem but it is SO ANNOYING!!

Hello, I am having the same problem after updating my iOS on Iphone 6s. I have tried force starting as suggested and that did not work. I do not get the ℹ to 'edit' that I see on 'normal' recipient names, so it is impossible to remove the multiple recipients. Definitely something has happened during the iOS update. Please help and it is very annoying

Are there apple moderators or technicians reading this problem and when will they respond? I’ve had this issue since the recent iOS software update and it’s frustrating. Even when i search ‘software updates’ in Settings, i get two Software Updates’ to click on!! What is going on?

so you don't interpret this as a bug when it used to work differently and one had more control over being able to delete it within our iPhones and iPads?... I can't tell you how many times my siblings and I have deleted the whole thread (we've narrowed it down to one thread), created a new backup and then started up again only to have that little 'No Name' nuisance to rear it's ugly head again and again... this is more than a bug, seems like a virus!

anitafromdd5 wrote:

This has nothing to do with the interface design. Please go back and read the thread properly. I don’t think you understand what is happening.

Yes, I do understand. I've been reading this thread and several others like it since the started.

Best of luck.

It is a malfunction, now you are getting into semantics and you know quite well what we are discussing ... some idiot programmer decided it wasn't necessary to have this (Apple instructed or not) ... you don't know if this was done purposefully, you are only speculating ... interface or not, it is causing grief

sueilla wrote:

It is a malfunction, now you are getting into semantics and you know quite well what we are discussing ... some idiot programmer decided it wasn't necessary to have this (Apple instructed or not) ... you don't know if this was done purposefully, you are only speculating ... interface or not, it is causing grief

No, it's not semantics at all. One is an accident and the other is an intentional change in function. No single programmer could not have made a change this big and had it stay around this long unless Apple wished it so.

I understand you really, really, really hate the change. I have sympathy for the fact your phone doesn't work the way you would like. But, the bottom line is that only Apple can make a change. So, submit your feedback. Tell all your friends to submit feedback. Apple recently rolled back a change in the way dictation worked, I suspect because a lot of people complained. So, it could happen. But complaining here won't have any effect.

Best of luck.

Maybe you do have difficulty reading and I’m not going to repeat myself. Why did you even come into the conversation if it’s not affecting you. You seem rather annoying with a need to be right at all turns.