How to get user sort order with CNContact API

Question

I know that I can sort with CNContacts like this:

let fetch = CNContactFetchRequest(...)
fetch.sortOrder = .UserDefault

The question is: how do I find what is that sort order? Apart from some hacky heuristic of examining what comes back from the fetch enumeration.

There is an old ABPersonGetSortOrdering() call that will probably stay around for a while, but surely there is a CNContact way to do it.

Answer 1

ABPersonGetSortOrdering() was deprecated in iOS 9.0: use [[CNContactsUserDefaults sharedDefaults] sortOrder]

let sortOrder = CNContactsUserDefaults.sharedDefaults().sortOrder

Answer 2

Swift 4

Using the default sort Order :

let sortOrder = CNContactsUserDefaults.shared().sortOrder

For Custom Sort Order i.e.

let customSortOrder = CNContactSortOrder.givenName