We basically had three fields. First and last, but that was because we had to interface with tons of internal and external entities that required it. And we had

We basically had three fields. First and last, but that was because we had to interface with tons of internal and external entities that required it. And we had a freetext “spoken name” that would be used all over the site. Good times. There is an ISO standard for phone numbers, actually. There are even libraries to parse phone numbers into the format. That being said, for “non machine readable” phone numbers (say for a contacts app) some say you should keep it free text because people plug all kinds of shit into the field and if you aren’t using it to send messages/voice/whatever just let the user do whatever…