ABPerson: How to get person's home and work phones (not the FAX ones)

Question

I want to know if it's possible to extract a contact's Home Phone Number and Work Phone Number, instead of their Home FAX or Work FAX. If not, why is this a restriction?

The reference only mentions the following constants:

const ABPropertyID kABPersonPhoneProperty;  
const CFStringRef kABPersonPhoneMobileLabel;  
const CFStringRef kABPersonPhoneIPhoneLabel;  
const CFStringRef kABPersonPhoneMainLabel;  
const CFStringRef kABPersonPhoneHomeFAXLabel;  
const CFStringRef kABPersonPhoneWorkFAXLabel;  
const CFStringRef kABPersonPhoneOtherFAXLabel;  
const CFStringRef kABPersonPhonePagerLabel;

But if you use your iPhone, you'll notice there's many more labels than that (not to mention the custom ones). How can I pick them?

Take a [look here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/10275572/312312) — Lefteris, Jan 09 '14 at 15:59
That helped a bit more. I still don't understand why we get a more direct way (const's above) for some phones but not for the Work or Home ones. Having to rely on a (non-mentioned in References) string comparation is weird, but it solved my problem, apparently. — Berbare, Jan 10 '14 at 15:09

Grzegorz Krukowski · Answer 1 · 2014-01-09T15:56:14.880

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//contactData is ABRecordRef
ABMultiValueRef phones = ABRecordCopyValue(contactData, kABPersonPhoneProperty);

for (CFIndex i=0; i < ABMultiValueGetCount(phones); i++) 
{
    NSString* phoneLabel = (NSString*) ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(phones, i);
    NSString* phoneNumber = (NSString*) ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phones, i);

    //for example
    if([phoneLabel isEqualToString:(NSString *)kABPersonPhoneMobileLabel])
    {
        //under phoneNumber you have a kABPersonPhoneMobileLabel value
    }
    .. add other standard labels
    else //custom label
    {

    }

    [phoneNumber release];
    [phoneLabel release];
}

CFRelease(phones);

edited Jan 09 '14 at 15:56

answered Jan 09 '14 at 13:33

Grzegorz Krukowski

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Thanks but I already have a code similar to that. My question was about something else. – Berbare Jan 09 '14 at 15:52
Hmm about what are you asking than ? :) For custom labels you just have "phoneLabel" different value. – Grzegorz Krukowski Jan 09 '14 at 15:54

Jingshao Chen · Answer 2 · 2015-04-08T13:53:32.583

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kABHomeLabel and kABWorkLabel

if (CFStringCompare(phoneLabelRef, kABHomeLabel, 0) == kCFCompareEqualTo) {
        homePhone = (__bridge NSString *)phoneNumberRef;
} else if (CFStringCompare(phoneLabelRef, kABWorkLabel, 0) == kCFCompareEqualTo) {
        officePhone = (__bridge NSString *)phoneNumberRef;
}

See this excellent tutorial: http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-import-contact-address-book/

edited Apr 08 '15 at 13:53

answered Apr 08 '15 at 13:17

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