conact.name.first contains the whole contact full name and contact.name.last is always null

[Valent1]

I just noticed that my contacts don't have any last name after import.
The first name contains the whole full name, and the last name is null.
I put a log on first and last and this is the output (note that in this method, firstName and lastName are passed as contact?.name.first and contact?.name.last.

  String _getInitials(String? firstName, String? lastName) {
    StringBuffer initials = StringBuffer();

    if (firstName != null && firstName.trim().isNotEmpty) {
      initials.write(firstName.trim()[0].toUpperCase());
    }

    if (lastName != null && lastName.trim().isNotEmpty) {
      initials.write(lastName.trim()[0].toUpperCase());
    }

    log.shout("FirstName: $firstName");
    log.shout("LastName: $lastName");

    return initials.toString();
  }

Sample of log output:
...
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:02.853410: SHOUT: LastName: null
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:02.911795: SHOUT: FirstName: Alessandra Stefanini
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:02.911894: SHOUT: LastName: null
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:14.073969: SHOUT: FirstName: Alessandra Stefanini
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:14.074276: SHOUT: LastName: null
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:14.098594: SHOUT: FirstName: Alessandro Alabastri
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:14.098744: SHOUT: LastName: null
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:14.136106: SHOUT: FirstName: Alessandro Bellan
[Log] 2024-04-02 22:28:14.136235: SHOUT: LastName: null
...

[Valent1]

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[joachim-quis]

Hi @Valent1

This is probably because that's how your contact was saved. Many contact apps don't automatically split first and last name when you add a contact. You can use an app like Quis (http://quis.co) to change that :)

If your contact shows as first name and last name properly separated on the default contact app, feel free to reopen this thread.

[Valent1]

if it was that trivial, I wouldn't have posted this.

All my contacts are saved with First name and Last name, they are saved in Google Contacts and I sync them with my iPhone. I access them via Google Contacts or the native Apple Contacts/Phone apps, no problem.

However, as I said in my original post, contacts are imported in my flutter app with a null last name via flutter_contacts.

Would you mind trying to replicate this on your physical iOS device? Just sync your contacts and then print some out, the ones that you know are saved correctly with first and last name.

[Valent1]

How do I reopen this?

[joachim-quis]

I have the same setup as you and never had this problem. So I'm not sure what's going on. You can see from this line that name.first is a straight copy of c.givenName from the native iOS contact, and there's not much else we can do if for some reason that one contains first+last.

Could you try logging the whole contact name? And can you also try logging what CNContact looks like at this point?

[joachim-quis]

With no additional info, it's difficult to help. Please re-open with more details (code, flutter doctor -v, etc).