Change view of favorite contacts in Android Nougat

[AC Question]

I updated my Samsung 7 to the newest operating system Nougat.
I used to be able to push the calling app and had 3 tabs:
Recent
Favorites - which was a Grid with contact photos and could be set in any order
Contacts.

Now they are only in the contract tab, stuck in list form and only in ABC order. It is so tedious now to go to Contacts and scroll DOWN to get to favorites and the pictures are so much smaller.

I would appreciate any advice on how to change the favorites back to grid and change their order.

 

[Tim1954]

Of you figure it out I'll be watching with interest! N is the most boring UI to date, everything is in list form and they have taken away some functions... I prefer marshmallow...

 

[xgman]

Go I hope there is a way to do this. Don't like the way this is now.

 

[hallux]

Sounds like a Samsung decision rather than an overall Nougat issue, the dialer on my Nexus 6P has a favorites tab that works as intended.

 

[Steven Parnaby]

If you go on a contact's details you will see a star, press that so it turns gold and that adds them to favourites