iPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

The Contacts List

The Phone app offers four ways to dial—Favorites, Recents, Contacts, and Keypad—but the Contacts list is the source from which all other lists spring. That's probably why it's listed twice: once with its own button on the Home screen, and again at the bottom of the Phone application.

Contacts is your address book—your master phone book.

Tip

Your iPhone's own phone number appears at the very top of the Contacts list—or at least it does when you open Contacts from within the Phone module. (If you tap the Contacts icon on your Home screen instead, your phone number doesn't appear.) Drag down on the list to reveal its hiding place above the Search box.

That's a much better place for it than deep at the end of a menu labyrinth, where it is on most phones.

If your social circle is longer than one screenful, then you can navigate this list in any of three ways.

First, you can savor the distinct pleasure of flicking through it (Tap).

Second, if you're in a hurry to get to the T's, use the A to Z index down the right edge of the screen. You can tap the last-name initial letter you want (R or W or whatever). Alternatively, you can drag your finger up or down the index. The list scrolls in real time.

Third, you can use the Search box at the very top of the list, above the A's. (If you ...