Samsung S21 Cannot add contacts to Group

[rwbil]

I created a group on my Samsung S21; going to contacts --> Menu --> Create Groups and gave it a name, but when I select Add Member no contacts are shown. It says no contacts.

I thought maybe my contacts are not stored right, so I checked one of the ones I wanted to add and it says Phone Storage.

I cannot figure out why it will not show my contacts so I can add them to the group.

Some had say you can select contacts and hold for 3 seconds and then add to group, but that did not work either.

 

[ocnbrze]

under manage contacts within the contacts menus setting, under sync contacts, what accounts does it list? are your accounts sync'd?

 

[Hadron]

As far as I can tell the "Add Member" setting doesn't work on my s21 either. I'm afraid that it doesn't seem to be anything to do with how contacts are stored, since I have a mix of different accounts and phone storage contacts and none of them work with this. The most likely explanation is just that the default (Samsung) Contacts app has a bug and this particular dialogue just doesn't work.

You can however add contacts to a group by editing the contact, then selecting "groups" from the contact editing options. So it is possible, you just need to come at it from a different direction (this is why I think it's a bug in that particular bit of the app interface rather than in the functionality itself).

Another workaround is to use a different app for editing groups. For example Simple Contacts allows me to edit groups in a way more like what you tried, and as it's editing a common system contacts database the changes are visible to the Samsung Contacts app.

(This sort of thing is the reason I have duplicates of some key apps: there are always some things that one of them does better than another).

 

[ocnbrze]

As far as I can tell the "Add Member" setting doesn't work on my s21 either. I'm afraid that it doesn't seem to be anything to do with how contacts are stored, since I have a mix of different accounts and phone storage contacts and none of them work with this. The most likely explanation is just that the default (Samsung) Contacts app has a bug and this particular dialogue just doesn't work.

works fine on my z fold 3 so i don't think this is a samsung issue per se.

 

[olbriar]

I've always added a contact to a group when first adding the contact or by editing the contact. I guess it's not a problem for me. Works like I want it to. I did see that when first creating a group on my S21 that adding contacts to the group from my contact list is possible. I have a S21 Ultra