Phone Number autoformat
I'm finding the phone number field to be very frustrating. I entered a Dubai number in the format +971 55 235 #### and it changed it to 55235####. This removes the Dubai international code and also removed the spacing. This feature should either a) leave my formatting as is, or b) allow us to enter a country code and then the number so at least that much is kept with proper formatting.
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NJ
Feb 15
Be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept
aka Postel’s Law
aka Robustness Principle
Sep 8, 2025
We're going to start working on this
Michael Hui
Mar 27, 2025
Having the same issue as Vittorio below. Even when I remove it from the field, it gets added back almost immediately.
Feb 20, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
David Stanley
Oct 1, 2024
For some reason, no matter what I enter in the UX, if I export my contacts, they are all over the place. This makes it difficult to work with the data without a bunch of processing.
Perhaps the exports should be normalized in exports and the API responses and have display/formatting in the ux.
Ideally in Google contacts, this is stored as a standard country formatting, so when I view it share a contact in my phone, it matches my local number formatting
E.g
+1 (122) 243-1146
+11233014602
1225528087
(122) 282 1234
2213456758
pendolino
Oct 1, 2024
haven't tried this but sounds annoying!’
Cem Ozsahin
Oct 1, 2024
Totally agree.