iOS contact sync is wrong

[Olgsi]

Hello, everyone,

I like to use nextcloud and would like to sync my contacts with iOS here.
That works too, but nextcloud shows me wrong fields in iOS. Zb Work or Home, instead of work and private.
If I create a new contact under iOS, nextcloud doesn't recognize the fields either.

Do you have the same problem?

[Olgsi]

No it's not the same. In the past i don't see it like "WORK or that contacts don't show the adress but iOS does.

[skjnldsv]

Hello @Olgsi !
Thanks for your report. So if I understand, the name of the field si different for home and private?
Work is still properly displayed on both, right?

If so, this is just a difference of translations. Private and Home is the same.

[Olgsi]

Hi @skjnldsv,

in attach I send you an example. :)
I create a new contact in iOS and this is what I get in nextcloud.

[Olgsi]

And that I got, when I create a new contact in nextcloud (another bug: when I create a new field for work number, nextcloud will change all fields and insert a mail adress to the new work phone number field).

[Olgsi]

I think here is something strange. :D

[andreas51]

I noticed the same behaviour with my Nextcloud installation and iOS devices. Afair it started after the upgrade from Nextcloud 14 to 15 (and Contacts 2.x to 3.x). Could this be related to the way Apple groups vCard attributes by prefixing them with the string "item"? E.g.
ITEM1.EMAIL;TYPE=HOME:[email protected]
item1.TEL;type=pref:+49 40 1234567

[skjnldsv]

@Olgsi could you post the Test test 2 contact vcf file here?

For the ITEM.XXXX stuff this is a duplicate of #42

[Olgsi]

Of course.

Test Contact.zip

[skjnldsv]

Got it, this is because we need support for multiple TYPE.
See the issue: kewisch/ical.js#343

Let me check if this is a duplicate issue :)

[skjnldsv]

Created a dedicated ticket: #942

[Olgsi]

OK thanks. So I can't do anything and have to wait for an update right?

[skjnldsv]

@Olgsi Well, the issue is not on our side and iOS is not helping by choosing a way to store things that are basically almost never used anywhere else :(

I'm curious to see what we could do.
The best would be to at least have things properly displayed on nextcloud, but that would mean repairing the failing contacts and therefore making it looks like this screenshot 😕

Could you try 852DCBCF-A2F3-44ED-A91F-353D478CA3ED.txt ? See how it looks on iOS?

[Olgsi]

In the past it works well, but when you can't do anything and iOS can't work with this format..than i have to wait until it will work.

In the preview it looks the same as before. :(
Siri can't handle "WORK.

[Olgsi]

Now it's closed, but there is no solution right?

[skjnldsv]

@Olgsi no, the ticket for this issue is in #942 now :)
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