I want a Contacts tab in iTunes

burniksapwet · 07-11-2007, 11:58 AM

Would it make sense for us iphone users to have a contacts tab in itunes? I know that we could easily sync our contacts from various address books but I don’t like the way they’re set up. You can’t edit field properties and you are basically stuck with the standard home, mobile, etc etc etc. Outlook only has one mobile field which really sucks

. I don’t label my phone numbers like that; I label it by the carrier they have. Steve: Cingular 1 (916) 555-7851, Bill: T-Mobile: 1 (916) 555-9111. It just makes sense for me to do it that way so that I know when I'm using my minutes. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hang up on people when they’re talking to me using a different provider. I'm not like that, like I said I would just like to know. I would love to have that feature in itunes where I could just type/customize all my contact information from there, or sync my outlook or any address book to itunes and edit/customize it the way I want it from THERE and THEN sync it to my iphone. Do you guys think this something that Apple might do in the near future?

TrippalHealicks · 07-11-2007, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by burniksapwet

Would it make sense for us iphone users to have a contacts tab in itunes? I know that we could easily sync our contacts from various address books but I don’t like the way they’re set up. You can’t edit field properties and you are basically stuck with the standard home, mobile, etc etc etc. Outlook only has one mobile field which really sucks. I don’t label my phone numbers like that; I label it by the carrier they have. Steve: Cingular 1 (916) 555-7851, Bill: T-Mobile: 1 (916) 555-9111. It just makes sense for me to do it that way so that I know when I'm using my minutes. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hang up on people when they’re talking to me using a different provider. I'm not like that, like I said I would just like to know. I would love to have that feature in itunes where I could just type/customize all my contact information from there, or sync my outlook or any address book to itunes and edit/customize it the way I want it from THERE and THEN sync it to my iphone. Do you guys think this something that Apple might do in the near future?

I was thinking the same thing, last night.

burniksapwet · 07-11-2007, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by TrippalHealicks

I was thinking the same thing, last night.

Good coz nobody has ever mentioned it yet in any threads. I'm glad that I'm not the only one thinking about this.

TrippalHealicks · 07-11-2007, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by burniksapwet

Good coz I nobody has ever mentioned it yet in any threads. I'm glad that I'm not the only one thinking about this.

I think it makes perfect sense....add a complete contract list interface screen to iTunes....although, they might as well come out with that Mac Mail program for Windows, if they're gonna do that.

Lips2000 · 07-11-2007, 12:27 PM

You can do what the original poster was looking for re: labels...it's easy!

1. While editing a contact, tap on the "Add new Phone" button

2. enter the phone number

3. Tap on "mobile" button and then scroll to the bottom of the list and tap "Add custom Label"

4. Enter your label ("Cingular", "Sprint", et.) and presto!

The nice thing is the label will now stay in the list so you can add it to other contacts as well.

Mark

burniksapwet · 07-11-2007, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Lips2000

You can do what the original poster was looking for re: labels...it's easy!

1. While editing a contact, tap on the "Add new Phone" button

2. enter the phone number

3. Tap on "mobile" button and then scroll to the bottom of the list and tap "Add custom Label"

4. Enter your label ("Cingular", "Sprint", et.) and presto!

The nice thing is the label will now stay in the list so you can add it to other contacts as well.

Mark

I know that you can do that THROUGH your iphone. That is what I've been doing. But what if you need to do a full reset on your phone? When you sync it to your address book it will put your numbers on random fields if the phone numbers in your iphone are not the standard home, mobile etc field. Now once you do the reset and want to sync your contacts back again it'll be on the home, mobile, business field which is what I dont want. That is why I want one in itunes so that when you need to do a master reset you can have all your contact information the way you want it to be when you sync it back to your iphone

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ATT*Mark · 07-11-2007, 12:50 PM

itunes already saves your contacts for the restore feature, wouldnt be too much harder to just add a tab in itunes to be able to edit and manage them as well...

burniksapwet · 07-11-2007, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by ATT*Mark

itunes already saves your contacts for the restore feature, wouldnt be too much harder to just add a tab in itunes to be able to edit and manage them as well...

Exactly

ATT*Mark · 07-11-2007, 01:02 PM

that was something the apple guys didnt know , yesterday when i had to exchange my iphone i asked if they could sync contacts to my new iphone , they told me no. so i was kinda bummed about that . but when i plugged the phone in and clicked restore it was like i never exchanged phones , awesome.

wjp09 · 07-11-2007, 01:06 PM

I dont htink so because they are adding support for mor and more things like outlook