and you call one of them, it doesn't tell you which one you called. If you want to go back and identify which is which, unless you have them specifically labeled in detail you are guessing every time. Very irritating and a huge and sloppy oversight.
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Huge flaw in iOS - when you have multiple numbers under one contact
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All these years and and it has not caused me a problem.
We I dial it says: calling work or calling mobile on the screen.
We I dial it says: calling work or calling mobile on the screen.
I'm talking about going through your call list to see which number you called
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Multipel??
Yeah, even if they're all labeled the same, if you hit the (I)nformation button, it marks the actual number called with a "Recent" tag. To call it a "huge" flaw is just hysteria.
I'm not sure what the issue is. I have contacts with 6 numbers and I have created custom labels for many. And when I look at my recent calls they are labeled as such.
^^^ Yes, indeed. I don't see what the problem is, other than the OP doesn't know to click "i" for full details.
My recents shows both incoming and outgoing calls with contacts and label, such as iPhone, home, work and so on.
All my contacts have one number except dad who happens to have landline and mobile. That's the "multiple" numbers I'm talking about.
Do you have contacts with like 5 numbers and all labeled as mobile or something? I can see a problem then and it's not with iOS..
Sounds like the OP has just switched from Android. Yeah, although I prefer Apple and iOS, dialer (keypad), recents and favourites have not been really thought well. We have mobile numbers with my wife in different countries and the only way to differentiate them on iOS were to label them different to "mobile", so I put the short codes for each country. It works but it's not perfect. I want to add my wife to favourite as a single contact not each of her number and have her listed multiple times. I don't mind iOS asking me which number to dial each time or to remember the default one set for this contact.
Also there is no simple way to edit a number of your contact before dialing, something that on Android have been one click operation. The good thing is that they have finally allowed to edit number that you have copied / paste on the keypad, which was not possible before iOS 10. I will never understand why it took them ages to implement this.
I would personally like to see some improvements in this area, as this is or at least should be a primary focus for using the phone and not adding some apple store to iMessage for kids to play.
Also there is no simple way to edit a number of your contact before dialing, something that on Android have been one click operation. The good thing is that they have finally allowed to edit number that you have copied / paste on the keypad, which was not possible before iOS 10. I will never understand why it took them ages to implement this.
I would personally like to see some improvements in this area, as this is or at least should be a primary focus for using the phone and not adding some apple store to iMessage for kids to play.
I ran two phones (work and personal) on the same iCloud ID for years and never suffered any confusion.
If you look at the history of the poster the poster has been with iOS for quite a while. In any case, the issue that was brought up doesn't really seem to be one after all.
Actually I second OP. I first noticed this issue because I have a colleague with two mobile numbers, and in his contract card they're listed as such, "mobile".
I found out that it's pretty much impossible to tell which number I have called or received call from because they both only get that label, not the number. Pressing "i" next to the entry doesn't help, I think it used to highlight the actual number in the contact card but not in iOS 9/10
[doublepost=1479613303][/doublepost]ofc you can "solve" it by assigning different labels, e.g. "mobile 1", "mobile 2".
I found out that it's pretty much impossible to tell which number I have called or received call from because they both only get that label, not the number. Pressing "i" next to the entry doesn't help, I think it used to highlight the actual number in the contact card but not in iOS 9/10
[doublepost=1479613303][/doublepost]ofc you can "solve" it by assigning different labels, e.g. "mobile 1", "mobile 2".
Right, if the labels are the same then it would show the same thing. What else would it be expected to show?
Tapping "i" shows all numbers with their labels associated with the contact and the one that is in question is marked with "Recent" next to it.
Not always the case with "Recent" label. Only shows if it really happened recently. I am now looking at my call history, entry from November 3, same dude with two "mobile"s, no Recent label next to any of his numbers.
Btw before anyone calls me stupid for not changing the labels, he has an iPhone and a third number for a few months now, that's why I couldn't be bothered, I always call "iPhone". Except for that time on Nov 3. I called one of his "mobile"s but now there's no telling which.
It's not a huge flaw, e.g. I discovered it several months ago but didn't bother to do anything about it, I'm just pointing out that OP has the point. Also given that in previous versions of iOS it used to be like someone above described, press "I" and the actual number would be highlighted on the contact card.
Just checked on a few entries from November 7th (my call history only goes that far at the moment) and the "Recent" identifier is correctly present for all of them.
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The only difference is that instead of being highlighted the number has the "Recent" identifier now. Seems like the logic is the same just different way to display it to the user.
I can confirm this issue has been present in all iOS versions since the iPhone 3GS. When you have multiple phone numbers for work, home etc it seems to get very confused. This usually means you have to manually update the contact details for every contact. All these years later and its still occurring - not acceptable.
What is it that is expected aside from displaying the label that is associated with the number that is associated with the contact?