I\'m trying to let the user create a new contact. While I\'ve got the screen to prompt the user to put in all his details there is no navigation bar at the top(Like there is
Since you are presenting contactPicker viewcontroller on top of current active controller, you will not have access to navigationbar as the view is presented fully,if you want to have button's as in Apple contact app you need to embed your presenting viewcontroller inside UINavigationController, and add left and right bar button items.
Refer the following apple sample which demonstrates the same. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/iPhoneCoreDataRecipes/Listings/Classes_RecipeAddViewController_m.html