Non US Phone formats needed

[Doug_Parke]

Now, I know there are 300 million of you Americans and that’s a big market - BUT - we need phone formats that work for other countries! First up should be Australia - where the phone format is landline (XX) xxxx xxxx and mobiles are (04xx) xxx xxx. Please?

[David_Krizan]

In addition, it would be nice if this field could support raw US numbers containing “+1” that are copied & pasted into Airtable. For example, if I copy & paste +15555555555 from a CSV, I would like it to be formatted in a more readable format [perhaps “+1 (555) 555-5555” or “1-555-555-5555”] or have the option of selecting the display format like other field types provide.

[Brett_D]

+1 for this. Would be great to set our default formatting for phone numbers.
Australian here too

[John_Pope]

Also agreed re default formatting for international (especially Australian) phone numbers! Was wondering if there is an approximate ETA on this feature?

[Barnaby_Bracham]

I’d like to support this request. French phone numbers are also 10-digit, but they are typically formatted by twos (01 23 45 67 89).

[Bart_Froyen]

+1 also Belgian phone numbers (+32 xxx xx xx xx format) needed. Perhaps field formats can be updated in the settings page where you can choose your locale?
thanks
Bart

[Adrien_Jorge]

I support the need for international phone number and we too would love to have that. Yet, I believe there are better solutions than the one proposed above.

What not to do
1/ The format must not be defined at the field level, otherwise, in a contact table, we’ll need a field for US numbers, another for FR numbers, another for AU numbers…
2/ The format must make the phone number unique. Those days, people use more phone than email hence, phone makes more sense as a unique key than email. But phone is only unique with its prefix +1… for US, +33… for France, +65 for Singapore.

What the solution could look like
1/ Have a flag for prefix left to the local phone numbers. The gold standard is something similar to this: https://intl-tel-input.com/
2/ Can add some conditional logic for pre-selecting the flag: could be admin defined at base level or user level, could be user location, could be user local.

[Vaite_Leprince]

A customization of phone format exactly like you did for Dates is what I’d need. Thanks!

[Alba_Losada]

+1 from Spain we need to have a phone validation at least

[Gary_Brookes]

Is this even on the roadmap? Originally posted request was 4.5 years ago?
This is an annoying issue that ignores your non-US customers.

[Doug_Parke]

Yes, I agree this is extremely frustrating. Airtable need to look at what happened at Evernote when they stopped listening to their customers. A long road back.