My Galaxy phone was missing this crucial Contacts feature, but I found a workaround

There aren’t many tasks the latest Android phones can’t assist with, which makes it all the stranger when you discover some fundamental functionality missing. This happened to me recently, when I finally got around to cleaning up my contacts list. The chore would be made a whole lot easier if I could sort my contacts by the date I added them, but I realized that this isn’t something you can do.

When this issue comes up online, people usually want to look up recent contacts, such as someone they added to their phone the week before, but whose name has since slipped their mind. I have almost the opposite problem. As someone who runs a longstanding pick-up soccer game, I find myself adding dozens of players to my list each year, some of whom have the same first names. Knowing the date they were added to my contacts would let me easily skip back a couple of years and purge the ones who have long since stopped playing.