The recent update enabled contacts however they are exactly the same as always, I still cannot access my apple contacts from within Outlook which means there is no way to store my iPhone and Outlook contacts in one place (I sync these across from iOS too)

In current Outlook, my contacts are in the My Computer folder. New outlook does not display them.

How can you design a "New" Outlook that doesn't have same functionality of the Old Outlook.

And when the Old Outlook is no longer an option, how do I get my contacts?

Bad design.

Under "People" the search bar only finds results if searching by name. If you try to search by say, a company name, it will not return results. The old outlook would find results for your search term no matter what field that term was in. Please bring this back!

i organize my contacts in folders. they are accessible from windows and web, they were acessible from old outlook on mac. they should be available also on ney outlook for mac

port the address book from the windows outlook client to the macOS version.
In a large company you need to be able to select different address lists and GAL from the exchange server

There is no feature to support Groups or contact lists in new Outlook for macOS. When you switch from old to new, the Lists are not visible and neither can one create new lists

The ability to transfer a contact in vCard format has disappeared in the new Outlook. Could you put it back?

When I create a new email message and begin typing the name of a contact, Outlook should find contacts from all of my mail accounts. This worked in Old Outlook, but in New Outlook it only searches contacts in the current account.

Right now you cannot add, remove or rearrange columns in People section, and they are automatically pre-grouped in Name (instead of First/Last Name) and Title and Company (instead of 2 separate Columns).
I also cannot sort/search by Category, Title or any other field in the Contact.

When viewing the Contact Card of an email recipient (clicking the recipient's name/address) there is an option to initiate a chat with the individual. However, this appears to default to Skype. However, Teams is my primary chat agent. I assume since Skype is set to sunset, Teams will be integrated, but in the interim, a user should be allowed to set their preferred default chat agent is. Since I don't use Skype, this initiate chat action is useless, but a much needed/desired feature.

In a former version of OUTLOOK, the PEOPLE view allowed to place all contacts in a "business card view" where one contact is next to the other.... filling the whole page... then scrolling down for searching contact details was much easier and more efficient, especially if you treat more than 1,500 contacts.

I use Outlook as my CRM for my sales job. 90% of my contacts are tagged or categorized with custom categories. I use the Advance Search feature in contacts to filter by specific category. Not having this ability is a major inconvenience and will force me to stop using Outlook to effectivelly manage my contacts database.

If you get rid of this feature, I don't know what the purpose of categories will then be?

When looking at anyone's Contact information, the Alias field is not displayed. This is a vital need for my work looking up identity information that is used in setting up laptop user accounts.

I no longer have the ability to search our institutional directory. Memorizing 10,000 email addresses or adding them local is pointless, when I have access to a perfectly good IDM system.

More view options including Cards and list with panel on right with details. Current view is very poor compared to other solutions like Mac or emclient

I suggest you enable Outlook for Mac to import CSV files

Helpful when adding a second contact to the same company!!

The Search bar must return results from the text field in the notes section of people/contacts. Many people record key information in the noters field. Older versions of outlook show search results from this field.

Cann you advise when this will be implemented.

no simple way to edit contacts. add feature to open all contacts showing all fields and scroll thru each one by line or Page to make direct edits.

For example. If you have a client in your address book that you need to follow up with on a monthly basis, assign that tasks under the contact, and when it's time to follow-up you have all your notes and past interactions with that prospect in one view.