Share a shortcut instruction to solve the problem of address book sorting in an English system
by Poster
Apr 25, 2025
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Because of AI, many people have switched to the English system, but sorting the address book has become a problem. All contacts cannot be sorted by the initial alphabet of Pinyin and are ranked last.
I came across a shortcut command. The general method is to use Apple's own translation to convert the name into Pinyin, and then write the Pinyin into the address book to sort it by letters.
For specific details, please read the link (https://utgd.net/article/20111
), among which the workground, which avoids the name being translated and making jokes, is particularly unique.
I made modifications on the basis of this version, because by bringing its own translation, a period will be added at the end, resulting in a period after writing into the address book. I eliminated the above period.
In addition, the value rules have been changed. Every time the original version runs, it will traverse all address books and query contacts without pinyin for selection.
However, it is slow to traverse all address books. I changed it to take the first 10 directly according to the phonetic symbol of the last name. If there is no phonetic symbol, it will appear at the front, so that it can be maintained and used regularly after the address book is added in the future.
If there are many address books for the first time, it is recommended to operate through mac and cancel the limit on the number of address books obtained.
During subsequent regular maintenance, value limits can be increased as needed to improve efficiency.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/181e560a1f154115bb9906cf4d03213b
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Anonymous14354 Apr 25, 2025It started many years ago as the following process Create a new contact slip to the bottom add field-add Phonetic first/last name (the middle name does not exist in the Chinese name, so there is no need to add it) Then enter Chinese in First/last name, and Phonetic first/last name will automatically generate pinyin with tones --There may be a precondition that is to add Chinese, Simplified under Settings-General-Language & Region-Preferred Language (while keeping English as iPhone Language)--because I am lazy to test this and the above absolute relationship
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Anonymous14354 Apr 25, 2025After the above operation, your contacts are arranged according to Phonetic Name in the English interface-depending on whether you use First or Last name to sort them
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Poster Apr 25, 2025@ Anonymous14354 Yes, don't use this tool if you have developed the habit of add field. All contacts will have pinyin. This tool is mainly aimed at those who don't do this, and have hundreds of address books, and are too lazy to change them manually
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Anonymous9645 Apr 26, 2025@ Anonymous14354 I also started adding contacts ten years ago and added fields separately