iPhone SDK: Getting Contact's Name from the Phone Number

Question

Does anyone know if there is a preferred method to find a contact's name in the Address book using their phone number as the key?

It seems that this should be a standard function since it is done in several places by the phone, such as in Recent Calls, Voice Mail list, Incoming Call ID, etc.

Thanks, Anthony

Answer 1

Unfortunately the only way to do it is to enumerate through all the contacts, enumerate through each contacts phone numbers, and check each one until you find a hit. If you think there should be a built in way to query by phone number directly you should file a feature request.