Contacts - where are the groups?

[gquiring]

I'm coming from a Galaxy S3, so this is my first Nexus phone. I used to have groups on my phone contacts. Was that a touch-wiz feature?

 

[B. Diddy]

It's not well-implemented in stock Android. In the Contacts app, tap Menu>Contacts to Display. You can select there which groups to display. There is unfortunately no way to sort all contacts via contact group in the app.

 

[gquiring]

Wow you are not kidding, that's just about useless.

 

[B. Diddy]

I use Group Share for Gmail to send an email to a group using the Gmail app.

You could try some 3rd party contact apps. Maybe Contacts+, although I've never used it before.

 

[gquiring]

It's kinda weird that Google offers groups on the web and they don't extend the features to Android. It's not something I use daily but I found it handy when searching for a Dr and could not remember their name, I would select my "Medical" group for example.

 

[B. Diddy]

The mobile apps are usually going to have fewer functions--there are numerous examples, for example with Google Calendar or Google Drive. But I agree, this omission is a bit of a headscratcher.

 

[vzwuser76]

I'm coming from a Galaxy S3, so this is my first Nexus phone. I used to have groups on my phone contacts. Was that a touch-wiz feature?

Since Lollipop, they changed the contacts (at least it changed on my Droid Turbo). It used to have three different pages, all contacts, favorites, and groups. Since Lollipop, there is only all and favorites. I downloaded an app called Contact Groups from the Playstore. However, it ONLY shows the contact groups, no all or favorites. So if you want the same functionality as pre-Lollipop, you need to make a folder and place both the Contact Groups and Contacts apps in it. Don't know why they did it, as it limits functionality.

 

[gquiring]

I installed Contacts+. It looks like a nice app for first impressions. The groups work perfectly.

I have a support ticket in for the question but what I can see it does not continue to use Google's Contacts. It copies them over to their database so I cannot continue to maintain my contacts on my PC which is a deal breaker.

 

[gquiring]

From Contacts+ Google+ support page they use the Google Contacts data, they don't use their own copy. It supposed to sync the data over. I found that some data that I change gets synced but important fields like phone number changes are not getting synced.

 

[Crashdamage]

It's not well-implemented in stock Android. In the Contacts app, tap Menu>Contacts to Display. You can select there which groups to display. There is unfortunately no way to sort all contacts via contact group in the app.

Do: Menu > Contacts to display > Customize. There you can set a custom view of selected contact groups for each account. Not a perfect solution, but close enough for what I need.

I use AquaMail for email and it will do email to a group, .multiple groups or selected people in a group or groups.