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Phone Number Order in Contact Detail???

3 replies · 2,485 views · Started 02 May 2003

Does anyone have any idea how Contacts determines the display order of phone numbers when you view a contact? It doesn't seem to have any relationship to the way I entered them when I created the contact.

To be precise:

Create a contact. Enter a bunch of phone numbers. To make it interesting, enter three different work ("Phone (w)"😉 numbers. Go back to the main Contacts screen and click on the contact name. You may find that the order is the same as you entered it, you may not.

Oddly, it doesn't seem to order the numbers numerically (although maybe I'm just not seeing the pattern?). It doesn't seem to care if you set one of the numbers as a "preferred number". And if you select Edit -> Edit contact you'll find that the order there is just as you entered it.

Anyone have any insights?

I agree. Hopefully the upgrade will fix this. I hate it when im in a hurry to call someone and when I view the details and to scroll down with JogDial to go to the preferred number 😞

very annoying.

I usually try people's cell number first, and the phone tends to put it at the end of the list...

I can't figure out the order either...