{"id":39079,"date":"2023-04-18T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39079"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:55:48","slug":"creating-a-company-contact-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/creating-a-company-contact-on-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Company Contact on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve long wanted to be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/how-do-i-get-a-business-name-to-display-in-contacts.1798279\/\">create new<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/250336252\">business contacts<\/a> in the iOS Contacts app. On macOS, there&rsquo;s a checkbox to control whether the contact displays as a person or as a company. The value syncs to iOS, which respects it, but there&rsquo;s no switch on iOS to mark contacts created there. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@mlinzner@mastodon.nl\/110220471180955833\">Manfred Linzner-Scherf<\/a> has a great tip for how the value can be set implicitly. You create the contact on iOS but fill in only the <strong>Company<\/strong> field. Then click <strong>Done<\/strong>. This gets iOS to remember that it&rsquo;s a company contact. You can then go back and add the <strong>First name<\/strong> and <strong>Last name<\/strong>, and it will remain marked as a company.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve long wanted to be able to create new business contacts in the iOS Contacts app. On macOS, there&rsquo;s a checkbox to control whether the contact displays as a person or as a company. The value syncs to iOS, which respects it, but there&rsquo;s no switch on iOS to mark contacts created there. However, Manfred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-18T20:55:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"5360f6ce-9092-4c2f-a31d-2e459632fda5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-18T20:55:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AU2D2zpCSTC-jHS5FljL9pQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[176,31,2185],"class_list":["post-39079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-contacts","tag-ios","tag-ios-16"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39080,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39079\/revisions\/39080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}