Getting \U00a , While fetching multiple phone numbers from the contact iOS - ios

Question

I am trying to fetch multiple phone numbers from the contacts of device.
It's working fine if the contact have only one number, but it's f***** when they have multiple numbers (which means that I'm getting "\U00a" in between the numbers).
I tried every solution I could think of, but it's still not working.
ABMultiValueRef phonesRef = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty);
for (int i = 0; i < ABMultiValueGetCount(phonesRef); i++) {
CFStringRef currentPhoneLabel = ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(phonesRef, i);
CFStringRef currentPhoneValue = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phonesRef, i);
if (CFStringCompare(currentPhoneLabel, kABPersonPhoneMobileLabel, 0) == kCFCompareEqualTo) {
[contactInfoDict setObject:(__bridge NSString *) currentPhoneValue forKey:#"mobileNumber"];
}
else if (CFStringCompare(currentPhoneLabel, kABHomeLabel, 0) == kCFCompareEqualTo) {
[contactInfoDict setObject:(__bridge NSString *) currentPhoneValue forKey:#"homeNumber"];
}
CFRelease(currentPhoneLabel);
CFRelease(currentPhoneValue);
}

Answer 1

You can use Contacts Framework. Hope this will provide you direct solution for contacts.
#import <Contacts/Contacts.h>
-(void)getContact{
CNContactStore *store = [[CNContactStore alloc] init];
[store requestAccessForEntityType:CNEntityTypeContacts completionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError * _Nullable error) {
// make sure the user granted us access
if (!granted) {
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
// user didn't grant access;
// so, again, tell user here why app needs permissions in order to do it's job;
// this is dispatched to the main queue because this request could be running on background thread
});
return;
}
// build array of contacts
NSMutableArray *contacts = [NSMutableArray array];
NSError *fetchError;
CNContactFetchRequest *request = [[CNContactFetchRequest alloc] initWithKeysToFetch:#[CNContactEmailAddressesKey, CNContactPhoneNumbersKey, CNContactFamilyNameKey, CNContactGivenNameKey, CNContactPostalAddressesKey]];
BOOL success = [store enumerateContactsWithFetchRequest:request error:&fetchError usingBlock:^(CNContact *contact, BOOL *stop) {
[contacts addObject:contact];
}];
if (!success) {
CTLog(#"error = %#", fetchError);
}
__weak typeof(self)weakSelf = self;
[weakSelf parseContactWithContact:contacts];
}];
- (void)parseContactWithContact :(NSMutableArray* )contacts{
for (CNContact *contact in contacts)
{
NSString * firstName = contact.givenName;
NSString * lastName = contact.familyName;
NSString *StrContactName = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%# %#",firstName,lastName];
NSArray * arryPhone = [[contact.phoneNumbers valueForKey:#"value"] valueForKey:#"digits"];
for (int i=0; i<[arryPhone count]; i++)
{
NSMutableDictionary *mDictValue = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];
[mDictValue setValue:firstName forKey:#"firstName"];
[mDictValue setValue:lastName forKey:#"lastName"];
[mDictValue setValue:StrContactName forKey:#"contactName"];
[mDictValue setValue:[arryPhone objectAtIndex:i] forKey:#"Phone"];
[arrayOfContacts addObject:mDictValue];
}
}