iOS 7 Address book not sorted

Question

I am making a contacts app and was testing it in iOS 7 simulator using XCode 5. I noticed that if I launch Apple's contacts app within the simulator and create a bunch of new contacts, the ones that come pre-built with XCode are not getting sorted. Notice John Appleseeds is listed under "#" while he should be under "A". Can I fix this? Its annoying the #@!$ out of me while I try to implement custom sort in my own app.

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It is an annoying bug in the iOS Simulator. Basically, just go into each of the contact, press edit, then press done. When you go back it is no longer in the # section — erdekhayser, Nov 26 '13 at 02:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '13 at 00:49

If anyone is interested in future this is how I fixed it.

Launch Simulator on its own
Touch each and every contact and change their first name Like David to Dave
Click on your Simulator home button to exit out of contacts app then shutdown simulator
Launch it again and go to contacts app. Everything will be sorted and no one will be under # section.

What fun .... In another life I will be a baker.

iOS 7 Address book not sorted

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