My Address Book is a mess. I know I should spend more time organizing it, importing Vcards and fixing the holes myself (missing emails, website info) but somehow I never find the time to do it. What’s even worse, though, is that there are dozens of contacts I never use on my iPhone but I don’t want to delete. Why? Because Apple’s mobile Address Book is broken: you can’t delete multiple contacts at once and it takes 5 steps to delete a single one. Five.
I must thank the guys over at Elegant Hippo for shipping Spring Cleaning, which finally brings proper contact organization to the iPhone.
Spring Cleaning is so simple - yet so effective - you’ll regret the fact that you didn’t think of it before Elegant Hippo. It lets you delete multiple contacts with 2 taps. Select and delete, that’s it. But that’s not the real selling point: the cool thing is, delete contacts go in the Trash, and you’ll be able to restore them at any time. When in the Trash they’re not visible in the Contacts app, but you can put them back with 2 taps. Say you want to hide some contacts (new girlfriend? Hide your past romantic adventures) or temporarily delete some because you’re not using them, Spring Cleaning is perfect.
Spring Cleaning is available at $0.99 in the App Store. Your Address Book needs this, so please - just go buy it.
