Contacts 4+

Contacts needs the ability to Adler coded & key worded TAGS just like the apple Notes and Files apps. We also need the ability to sort , group or search for contacts by such tags. Now the only alternative is adding a note or putting a company name or creating a custom field for each contact.
Imagine meeting a group of people at a networking event exchanging contact info and now they are lost in the mix of 100s or 1000s of contacts on your phone.
I meet new people at events and have to search to find those new contacts without any context if I’m quickly exchanging info especially now with the tap to share features of iOS 17+. Apple please fix this or add these much needed features Apple contacts needs this update searchable tags like notes reminders, files etc. most of the other Apple apps have this.

I just upgraded to IOS 17.1. The NEW Contacts feature is terrible. I don’t put that many pictures in my contacts, but I tried to do it today.
When you tap on the contact name, you wind up with a HUGE section at the top that has the contact name , a place for a HUGE poster, and a line of icons for if you want to message, call, etc. Again, this is half the screen. You have to scroll down, and scroll, and scroll to get to the rest of the info. Very annoying. If you stupidly decide to do a “poster” then you can select from a photo which of course needs cropping and never really fits right in the circle allowed. You can do letters in Colors with your choice of font. Wow! I’m underwhelmed. It too had to fit in the circle. Good luck. You can select from about 15 or so emojis, or you can draw your own comedic pic of some person, by going through a zillion choices to create the image. And if you don’t like any of it, I found no way to get back to the original screen that is blank but still takes up nearly half the page. . I had to take pictures of the entire contact info page, delete that contact , and then put it in new. IOW Apple did it again. They did a big change to a feature that really worked great as it was. Waste of time. It’s ugly and cumbersome now. I want the previous address book back. It was simple and worked just fine.

🤯 Low rate for Missing too many basic features for over a decade 🔴 Add age automatically next to birthday data and to any other dates in contact cards 🔴 Permanently show emoji flags next to each international phone numbers inside each contact card 🔴 Permanently show emoji flags next to each country name addresses inside each contact card 🔴 Show contacts in CoverFlow when iPhone is horizontal (Show Photos in Contacts List) 🔴 Create, manage, edit and permanently show GROUPS in every contact card 🔴 Create, manage, edit and show SMART GROUPS in Contact app and synchronize SMART groups (criterias) to iCloud 🔴 Let me set different Ringtones for each Group (individual contact ringtone override the group ringtone) 🔴 Bigger Contacts Photos 🔴 Up-to-Date Contacts (show me when one of my contact change phone number same as WhatsApp of course only available to iCloud users) 🔴 Open a contact’s card from another related contact’s card by clicking on a related name 🔴 Suggest City names in Contacts’ addresses editing as we type. (Sourced from  Map) 🔴 STATE/PROVINCE and COUNTRY names from a menu in Contacts’ addresses editing. (Sourced from  Map) 🔴 Option route specific contacts or unknown contacts calls directly to voicemail without ringing the iPhone 🔴 NFC contact sharing to any OS or platform brand