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Quentin Malgaud
Quentin Malgaud

Reputation: 415

phone number predicate on CNContactStore

I am building an app in Swift. I would like to make predicate using a phoneNumber (as String) and retrieve the name of that contact -if it exists- from the CNContactStore. I can make a name predicate fairly easily by :

let pred = CNContact.predicateForContactsMatchingName(name: String)

But is there a way to do the same for a PhoneNumber. I can of course fetch the entire CNContactStore, loop through it and retrieve the contact. But I was wondering if there was any better way.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4281

Answers (2)

iWill
iWill

Reputation: 145

For anyone who sees this post. In iOS11, Apple introduced this new method to fetch contact with phone number. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/cncontact/3020511-predicateforcontacts

See: https://nshipster.com/ios-12/

Upvotes: 6

David Vernon
David Vernon

Reputation: 316

In short: you can't create a predicate to filter based on phone number. You have to pull all of the contacts and iterate. NOTE: For any given phone number, it 1) may not exist in contacts, or 2) exist more than once.

Check out this post: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/19329

Upvotes: 2

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