Playing around with iOS contacts, I finally got stuck with this ‘notes’ problem and came here. Is it a bug? Ain’t it Apple’s new policy?

Matching by the name...
Is this the only way to correlate Pythonista contacts person.id and CNContact identifier()? 😟

Well, call him up and ask him to write Symphony No.10? 😂

Thanks ❣️🙏

Got it. For loop was no use.

Wrong: CNSaveRequest.updateContainer_(CNMutableContact)
Correct: CNSaveRequest.updateContact(CNMutableContact)

Console:
First name: Ludwig
Last name: Beethoven
Label: passing
Passing year: 1827
Passing month: 3
Passing day: 26

Final code:

from objc_util import *

# ObjectiveC contacts
CNContactStore = ObjCClass('CNContactStore').alloc().init()
CNContact = ObjCClass('CNContact')
Containers = CNContactStore.containersMatchingPredicate_error_(None,None)
for Container in Containers:
    id = Container.identifier()
    predicate = CNContact.predicateForContactsInContainerWithIdentifier_(id)
    # keys not exactly like in Apple doc
    predicate_contacts = CNContactStore.unifiedContactsMatchingPredicate_keysToFetch_error_(predicate, ['familyName', 'givenName', 'middleName', 'dates'], None)
    print('First name: ', end='')
    first_name = input()
    print('Last name: ', end='')
    last_name = input()
    for contact in predicate_contacts:
        if first_name == str(contact.givenName()) and last_name == str(contact.familyName()):
            break

CNMutableContact = contact.mutableCopy()
dateComponents = ObjCClass('NSDateComponents').alloc().init()
print('Label: ', end='')
label = input()
print(label.capitalize()+' year: ', end='')
dateComponents.year = int(input())
print(label.capitalize()+' month: ', end='')
dateComponents.month = int(input())
print(label.capitalize()+' day: ', end='')
dateComponents.day = int(input())
CNLabeledValue=ObjCClass('CNLabeledValue')
value=CNLabeledValue.alloc()
value.initWithLabel_value_(label, dateComponents)
CNMutableContact.dates=[value]
CNSaveRequest = ObjCClass('CNSaveRequest').new().autorelease()
CNSaveRequest.updateContact(CNMutableContact)
CNContactStore.executeSaveRequest_error_(CNSaveRequest, None)

I couldn’t attach the capture 😣

Now I’m trying to modify and save ‘dates’ field of an existing contact. Though the following script doesn’t spit errors but nothing happens to the contact. Could anybody help?

from objc_util import *

# ObjectiveC contacts
CNContactStore = ObjCClass('CNContactStore').alloc().init()
CNContact = ObjCClass('CNContact')
Containers = CNContactStore.containersMatchingPredicate_error_(None,None)
for Container in Containers:
    id = Container.identifier()
    predicate = CNContact.predicateForContactsInContainerWithIdentifier_(id)
    # keys not exactly like in Apple doc
    predicate_contacts = CNContactStore.unifiedContactsMatchingPredicate_keysToFetch_error_(predicate, ['familyName', 'givenName', 'middleName', 'dates'], None)
    '''
    print('First name: ', end='')
    first_name = input()
    print('Last name: ', end='')
    last_name = input()
    '''
    first_name = 'Ludwig'
    last_name = 'Beethoven'
    for contact in predicate_contacts:
        if first_name == str(contact.givenName()) and last_name == str(contact.familyName()):
            break
    CNMutableContact = contact.mutableCopy()
    dateComponents = ObjCClass('NSDateComponents').alloc().init()
    label = 'passing'
    dateComponents.day = 26
    dateComponents.month = 3
    dateComponents.year = 1827
    '''
    print('Label: ', end='')
    label = input()
    print(label.capitalize()+' year: ', end='')
    dateComponents.year = int(input())
    print(label.capitalize()+' month: ', end='')
    dateComponents.month = int(input())
    print(label.capitalize()+' day: ', end='')
    dateComponents.day = int(input())
    '''
    CNLabeledValue=ObjCClass('CNLabeledValue')
    value=CNLabeledValue.alloc()
    value.initWithLabel_value_(label, dateComponents)
    CNMutableContact.dates=[value]

    CNSaveRequest = ObjCClass('CNSaveRequest').new().autorelease()
    CNSaveRequest.updateContainer_(CNMutableContact)
    CNContactStore.executeSaveRequest_error_(CNSaveRequest, None) ```

@cvp @JonB
Thank you folks.
I'm just a Python beginner and I had no place to begin w/ Objective C stuff. Now I think I can begin to try.

@cvp Sorry, I’d like to know how to assign values to ‘date’ field of contact person.

@cvp Could you give me an example to assign values?