iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

Making a Call

Start by tapping the Phone icon on the Home screen. You can then make calls by tapping any of the icons that show up at the bottom of the screen: Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Keypad, or Voicemail, in that order. In this section, we describe these options one by one.

The iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 have another way of calling, by using the aptly named Voice Control feature to dial a name or phone number by voice. As of the iOS 5 upgrade, the Siri feature on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 can also take on voice-dialing responsibilities. We discuss both these options in Chapter 7.

Contacts

If you read the chapter on syncing (Chapter 3), you know how to get the snail-mail addresses, e-mail addresses, and (most relevant for this chapter) phone numbers that reside on your PC or Mac into the iPhone. Assuming that you went through that drill already, all those addresses and phone numbers are hanging out in one place. Their not-so-secret hiding place is revealed when you tap the Contacts icon in the Phone app. Okay, so Contacts hangs out in the Utilities folder.

As of iOS 6, if you enter your Facebook credentials in Settings, your Facebook friends — and their phone numbers, if they were made publicly available in Facebook — will automatically populate your list of contacts.

Here’s how to make those contacts work to your benefit:

1. In the Phone app, tap Contacts.

2. Flick your ...