Search finds Contacts in Custom View - won't search All Contacts (s7, nougat)

[AC Question]

I have over 2,000 contacts in my phone (S7 Edge, AT&T, recent update to Nougat). The contacts are synced through my Google account and are sorted into Groups. Before the phone updated to Nougat, I was able to select only certain groups to display when opening the Contacts list, but the Search feature would still find contacts in any group.

After "upgrading" to Nougat, my choices are either:
1. Display all 2,000+ contacts if I want to be able to search them, or
2. Display only the groups that I want to see, and forget about being able to search in the "hidden" groups. Or I can manually switch to display all groups before searching.

 

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Forgot to post the question - is there a workaround or setting that I can change so that I can display only certain groups but still search all contacts? Thanks for any assistance.