iPhone: The Missing Manual

Favorites List

Truth is, you may not wind up dialing much from Contacts. That's the master list, all right, but it's too unwieldy when you just want to call your spouse, your boss, or your lawyer. The iPhone doesn't have any speed-dial buttons, of course, but it does have Favorites—a short, easy-to-scan list of the people you call most often.

You can add names to this list in either of two ways:

• From the Contacts list. Tap a name to open the Info screen, where you'll find a button called Add to Favorites. (This button appears only if there is, in fact, a phone number recorded for this person—as opposed to just an email address, for example.) If there's more than one phone number on the Info screen, you're asked to tap the one you want to add to Favorites.

  Tip

  Each Favorite doesn't represent a person; it represents a number. So if Chris has both a home number and a cell number, add two items to the Favorites list. Blue lettering in the list lets you know whether each number is mobile, home, or whatever.

  

• From the Recents list. Tap the button next to any name or number in the Recents list (see the facing page). If it's somebody who's already in your Contacts list, you arrive at the Call Details screen, where one tap on "Add to Favorites" does what it says.

  If it's somebody who's not in Contacts ...