Universal How does Contacts sort my contacts?

[jsx97]

Does anybody know what is the logic of how the Contacts app sorts contacts?

Some of my contacts include only the first name and some both first name and last name. And here is how they are sorted:

Ilya
Nikita
Timofey
Yaroslav
Dmitriy A...
Aleksandr
Mikhail D...

This order doesn't make any sense to me.

What I have expected instead is either:

Aleksandr
Ilya
Nikita
Timofey
Yaroslav
Dmitriy A...
Mikhail D...

(fist all the contacts with first name only,
then all the contacts with both first and last names)

or maybe

Aleksandr
Dmitriy A...
Mikhail D...
Ilya
Nikita
Timofey
Yaroslav

(if only the first name is specified, the contact is listed
by the first letter of the first name;
otherwise, the first letter of the last name is used)

I don't have iPhone and I use Contacts on Mac, but I think there is no difference. Since most people use Contacts on iPhone, I think it is better to ask it here and not in the Mac section of the forum.

 

[hwojtek]

No, it works just like it is designed.
Most probably in some cases (Aleksandr) the first name is in the "last name" field.
You have sorting by last name and "show first name before last name". I have the same sorting and exactly the same behavior, apart from the fact all the first name-only contacts have the first name in the "first name" field, so I don't have this issue.

 

[jsx97]

> No, it works just like it is designed.

But *how* it is designed?

Ilya
Nikita
Timofey
Yaroslav
Dmitriy A...
Aleksandr
Mikhail D...

And no, "Aleksandr" is in the First Name field.