Remove Pronouns in contacts

Please allow the deletion or removal of the pronouns field in iPhone contacts. This field serves no useful purpose for people who do not believe that people can have their own pronouns just like they can't have their own adjectives. The option to remove the field would be helpful just like the other optional fields that can be added to a contact at this time.

iPhone 16 Pro Max

Posted on Mar 3, 2025 10:09 AM

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Mar 3, 2025 01:34 PM in response to BMWNUT

Here's the great thing about Contacts.


It supports a whole slew of fields for a myriad of purposes. More than I can count off hand.. Do you want to know a contact's MySpace account ID? or their home fax machine number? or maybe their lunar birthday? Great! all of that (and more) is supported!


You know what's even greater - Contacts automatically hides fields that you don't use! Amazing!

Don't care about a contact's Yelp ID or their pager number - just don't enter it, and you won't see it! How cool is that.

Mar 3, 2025 11:15 AM in response to Zurarczurx

That’s fine they can design it to suite a broad range or people but they can also make it possible to customize if for the kind of people that don’t have delusions about being able to have their own pronouns. I can add fields like job title or others if they are relevant to me but pronouns is there whether I like it or not. Apple absolutely has the ability to make this pronouns fantasy field an optional field.

Mar 3, 2025 01:59 PM in response to BMWNUT

Here's another thought you seem not have considered.


The pronoun field (should you decide to use it - it's optional), is not part of some leftist/woke/rainbow-colored/gender-fluid/non-binary/queer conspiracy.


Even in your cis-centric world, many names are equally applied to male and female. Is that 'Alex Smith' in your contacts male or female? The pronoun field can help answer that.

It's also valuable for people from other countries, where you don't have familiarity with the name to be able to make an assumption on gender. I have no idea where you are, geographically, but I'm assuming you can't gender 'Yoon Suk Yeol' or 'Mette Frederiksen' by name alone (hint: he's the President of South Korea, and she's the Prime Minister of Denmark, respectively).

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Remove Pronouns in contacts

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