Sometimes you’re trying to search for a contact on your iPhone and can’t find it. This is when you know it’s not in the order you want it to be. Honestly, it gets frustrating. So to put an end to this, we have prepared this comprehensive guide to help you organize your contacts on iPhone and iPad.
There are many ways to organize Contacts on your iPhone and iPad so you can organize them however you want. This makes scrolling through the list easier. As a bonus, we’ll also show you how to create a contact list on your iPhone. So let’s get started.
Tip: If you scroll to the bottom, you’ll learn how to find your latest contacts on iPhone.
2 ways to organize contacts on your iPhone and iPad
There are two ways you can organize your contacts on iPhone and iPad. These are called Sort Order and Display Order.
Sort order: Your contacts are sorted alphabetically in the Contacts app. You can choose to sort contacts by their first or last name.
Display order: Once your contacts are sorted, you can choose how each contact appears in the list. You can set the contact number, to begin with, first or last name or vice versa.
Now, let’s see how you can sort them out.
1. How to sort iPhone Contacts by First or Last Name
Here’s how you can rearrange the order of your contacts, by sorting them by first or last name.
Step 1: Open the Settings app.
Step 2: Select Contacts.
Step 3: Click Sort order.
Step 4: Select the order to sort contacts.
- First, Last: Selecting this will sort contacts based on name. This means that while sorting contacts alphabetically, the first letter of the name takes precedence.
- Last Name: Selecting this option will sort contacts based on last name. This means that while sorting contacts alphabetically, their first letter will take precedence.
If you want contact names to be displayed a certain way regardless of how they are arranged, you can adjust the Display Order. Here’s how you can do it.
2. Display Contacts by First or Last Name
Here’s how you can change the order in which first and last names are displayed on contact cards.
Step 1: Open Settings.
Step 2: Select Contacts.
Step 3: Click Display order.
Step 4: Choose your Display Order.
- First, Last: Selecting this will show contacts that start with a name.
- Last Name: Selecting this will display contacts that start with the last name.
Here are two ways you can organize your contacts on your iPhone or iPad. However, if you feel you have saved a lot of contacts and only visit a few of them frequently, you can create a contact list for your convenience.
How to organize contacts on iPhone into separate lists
Here’s how you can create a contact list and synchronize it with a specific account so you can quickly group or access a group of contacts quickly.
Step 1: Open the Contacts app.
Step 2: You will see a few existing contact lists synced with their respective accounts. To add a new list, tap the Add List option.
Step 3: Select the account where you want to save the list.
Step 4: A new list will pop up in the selected account. Give it a name, then tap done.
Step 5: Now tap on the newly created list.
Step 6: Select Add Contacts.
Step 7: Now, select all the contacts that you want to add to the list. All selected contacts are now part of the list.
So that’s how you can organize and organize contacts on iPhone. However, a lot of users have asked us if there is a way to sort iPhone contacts by date added or find recently added contacts. Unfortunately, there’s no way to do so in the Contacts app, but we have an alternative that should work just fine.
How to find recently added contacts on iPhone with keyboard shortcuts
You can use the Shortcuts app to create a quick shortcut that shows you a list of recently added contacts on your iPhone. Here’s how you can do it.
Step 1: Open the Shortcuts app.
Step 2: Click the + icon to create a new shortcut.
Step 3: Search for ‘Contacts’ in the search bar at the bottom and select the Contacts app.
Step 4: Next, locate ‘Find Contact’ and tap on it.
Step 5: To sort contacts by date, tap the Sort option.
Step 6: In the drop-down box, scroll down and select Date of Creation.
Step 7: Now select the Newest First option in the Order field.
Step 8: Turn on the switch for Limits. Setting a limit makes showing recently added contacts faster than sorting all contacts by date.
Step 9: Next, increase or decrease the limit. We wanted to see five recently added contacts, so we chose 5.
Step 10: Finally, tap the play icon at the bottom to run the shortcut.
Step 11: You will see your 5 recent contacts. The shortcut will be saved, so the next time you want to check your recent contacts, you can open it and run it again.
And those are all ways to organize contacts on your iPhone and iPad. However, if you have more related questions, you can check out our FAQs section.
FAQ about organizing contacts on your iPhone
1. How many contacts can you save on iPhone?
You can save up to 50,000 contacts on your iPhone.
2. How to delete duplicate contacts on your iPhone?
When you open a list on the contacts app, you’ll find an option to take action on duplicate contacts. You can merge or delete them.
3. How to delete a contact on your iPhone?
When you open a contact, tap the edit button and scroll down to find the delete option.
Manage your contacts efficiently by organizing them
We hope these techniques have helped you organize your contacts on iPhone and iPad. So the next time you open the contacts app, you can easily find the desired contact card. However, we still feel the Contacts app on iPhone needs improvement, and we can hope for this in the next iOS version.
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