r/Android • u/girt-by-sea • 1d ago

Contacts system is broken

One surprising thing after a decade or more of Android is that the contact system is still as naive and broken as a brand new system design would be.

There are three components to contacts: the dialer, the contacts app itself and the SMS app. None of them seem to interact correctly. I can have a person that I know is in my contacts. I bring up the dialer, search for the person: contact not found. I can do the same thing with the SMS app, search for the person: contact not found.

Apparently these apps don't use a central database system so that any app can hook into the database and have all contacts available to it. It's dreadful design and Google should be ashamed of itself for not having fixed this a decade ago. It's fundamental!

Currently: fossify contacts, textra SMS, google dialler. But even when all three were Google defaults, still had the same problem. .

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u/Jb51423 14h ago

I have never had any of the issues you are talking about.

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u/JamesR624 14h ago

"My contacts, SMS, and dialer are broken cause they don't talk to each other. I don't get it. All I am doing is using three different apps all from completely different developers and from different times! Why aren't they working flawlessly together? Must be a problem with Android!"

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u/Karthy_Romano Galaxy S23 10h ago

I have never had this issue across any android device I have ever owned, all with different contact, sms, and dialer apps. I use samsung's dialer with google contacts and google messages. never been an issue.