Custom email/phone labels not working

[ericfischereu]

Describe the bug

Setting custom labels for a phone number and email address does not work currently. While it is possible (after retries) to type in and select the label, after saving and reloading the default "Private" appears in the UI. Checking with a different app (DAVx5 -> Fossify Contatcs) those custom labels are set. Editing the contact again and selecting "work" instead of "private" (which already is wrong at this place) removes the number/email completely.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create phone number/email with custom label
2. save contact
3. reload page

Plus for the real mess:

1. edit contact again
2. select work instead of private as label
   --> the phone number has been removed completely.

Expected behavior

Contacts with custom labels are displayed correctly.

Actual behavior

See bug description

Contact version

8.4.5

Operating system

AIO container

PHP engine version

None

Web server

None

Database

None

Additional info

No response

[hamza221]

I can't reproduce the bug but rather another one

1. add a phone number with a custom label
2. refresh
3. Saved as Home

[ericfischereu]

Now try to change the type from Home to Work. This should remove the number.

[DerDreschner]

I can't produce either of your bugs with contacts version 8.4.6? 🤔 Only strange thing that happens on my instance is that the custom phone number get a new "Phone" headline as soon as I select a custom label:

simplescreenrecorder-2026-05-21_14.24.44.mp4

[DerDreschner]

@ericfischereu : Could you create a record of the steps you did to trigger the issue like I did?

[ericfischereu]

@DerDreschner your video is exactly showing the issue. You named the number "Test", but in the final screen you have just "Work" and "Home". If you try to edit it again, the phone number labeled "Test" originally will be gone completely.