Open Radar

 
23-Sep-2012 09:46 PM Martin Kopischke:
Summary:
The hierarchy of groups in the iCloud-ified Contacts application (née AddressBook) makes the “any group” smart groups criterion unusable.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable Facebook contacts integration and remove local and / or Exchange contacts accounts
2. Enable iCloud contacts
3. Create a contact in iCloud, making sure it is not assigned to any contact group
4. Create a smart group, A, “card is not a member of any group”
5. Create a smart group, B, “card is a member of any group”

Expected Results:
Group A contains the newly created card; group B does not.

Actual Results:
Group A is empty; group B contains the newly created card.

Notes:
“All iCloud” is a master group of all cards in the iCloud account. As a result, all iCloud cards are always members of a group (easily testable by Opt-highlighting the card). Though this means the smart groups return the correct result formally spoken, that result is both non-intuitive (a user would expect “groups” in this context to mean “user created groups”, and the selection popup suggests so, with a list of user created groups followed by a list of accounts – not a hierarchy) and useless (if iCloud contacts are always in a group, what is the point of having the filter criterion “any group”?).