[comex]

For what it's worth, you also don't need to do that if you've ever had a conversation with them (since deleting your message history), since you can use the conversation search field in the app's home screen - though some users may not know that scrolling up from the initial view of a scrolling list in iOS sometimes reveals a search field. And this also works with non-contacts and group conversations: you couldn't just change the home screen to be a contact list, you'd have to combine them with those other two types of conversation, which sounds more likely to cause confusion than the current setup.

[codyb]

See, and that does work and I know about that feature somewhere, but there's no indication where that works. So if I know it works in one place, it doesn't occur to me that it might work somewhere else.