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Android Contacts app & obsolete phone numbers
Sunday, August 11th, 2019 03:05 pmI would like it if my phone's Contacts app had an option for marking phone numbers as obsolete. Once a number is marked as obsolete, it should no longer be listed in the main area, or if still shown there, at least be positioned at the bottom of the list.
Obsolete numbers should not be deleted; they should remain associated with the Contact, so that the Contact's name would still be shown for the old phone number in the Call History and Messages pages.
Do any of you know of a Contacts app that has this functionality?
It would also be nice if each phone number had date attributes, like "date added" and "date marked obsolete", so you could list them by date
The work-around I'm using at the moment is to label the old phone numbers as "obsolete", and to label new phone numbers with the date I add them. But this way, the obsolete ones are displayed at the top of the list, and new ones at the bottom. I also have to tap an extra time, on "See all", for the newer ones to be displayed, as by default only the first 2 are displayed.
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I'm thinking I may be able to edit the numbers to display like I want by exporting the Contacts to my computer, manually editing the file, and re-importing them. I may try that. But then I'd have to do that each time the numbers change.
Obsolete numbers should not be deleted; they should remain associated with the Contact, so that the Contact's name would still be shown for the old phone number in the Call History and Messages pages.
Do any of you know of a Contacts app that has this functionality?
It would also be nice if each phone number had date attributes, like "date added" and "date marked obsolete", so you could list them by date
The work-around I'm using at the moment is to label the old phone numbers as "obsolete", and to label new phone numbers with the date I add them. But this way, the obsolete ones are displayed at the top of the list, and new ones at the bottom. I also have to tap an extra time, on "See all", for the newer ones to be displayed, as by default only the first 2 are displayed.
.
I'm thinking I may be able to edit the numbers to display like I want by exporting the Contacts to my computer, manually editing the file, and re-importing them. I may try that. But then I'd have to do that each time the numbers change.