Customize Contacts

1Open Contacts .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3Set the following options:

List Order: Tap to select the criterion by which the contact list is sorted. If you select Last name to sort on, the names are alphabetized by last name, but they still appear in the Contacts list as first name followed by last name. If you select First name to sort on, names are alphabetized by first name.

1Contact list sorted by first name

2Contact list sorted by last name

You can also choose to sort by Company & first name or Company & last name. In these cases, the company name is alphabetized, and within the company, whichever you choose, the names are still listed as first name followed by last name.

Accounts: Tap an account to change login settings and sign in using the new settings.

Default account: Tap the current default account to change the default to another account. New contacts you create are assigned to this account unless you specify otherwise.

Sync Now: Tap to manually synchronize your online accounts (see Manually synchronize Contacts with your online accounts).

Add An Account: Tap, and then tap an account type. Enter the account information. Before you can set up an account on your smartphone, you must already have an account online with the provider.

Manually synchronize Contacts with your online accounts

If you want to get contacts from an online account on your smartphone immediately, or upload contacts from your smartphone to the online account, you can do a manual sync. This synchronizes Contacts with all the accounts you have set up on your smartphone, and it syncs all other apps associated with all online accounts that you selected for synchronization.

1Open Contacts .

2Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.

3Tap Sync Now.

Delete an online account from Contacts

If you synchronize contacts with an online account, deleting the account from Contacts stops synchronization of contacts only—if you also sync email or calendar events with that online account, those continue to synchronize.

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