iPhone Tips: Managing Your iPhone Contacts

Many smart phone users end up having more contacts then they even know what to do with. The ability to jump between sections by selecting their alphabetical position helps this, but if you have seventy-five J names the entire process can get complicated. This is one of the reasons that managing the contacts in your iPhone can be one of the most important parts of customization.

You can end up separating your most used contacts for different purposes using the Favorites function. Just go ahead and begin going through your phone and begin finding the numbers you call the most. The best way to do this is by going through your recent calls and finding the most often occurring numbers. Then go to the Favorites menu and select the “add contact” option by pressing the “+” button in the upper right hand corner. Once you do you will be given your contact menu and you can go through and select one of these numbers to add to the Favorites list. Remember, manage the favorites list and do not allow it to get too long.

When going through your contact list you need to know how to scroll through quickly. You can do the normal action of scrolling by moving the list up or down like a Rolodex. Another standard way is to select the letter of the alphabet that the target contact begins with. A third and lesser used way is to scroll through these contacts much faster. Press and hold down on a letter on the right hand list and then slide your finger up and down. This allows you to scroll quickly between alphabetic positions, but just puts you at the beginning of each letter list.

Try to complete each contact to limit the total number. This means adding the business, home, and cell numbers along with email addresses to each contact that you can. This will make each contact more complete and will let you end up having less. Try doing all this by syncing them with your online email accounts and your iTunes information. This can be done when syncing your calendar and other technical considerations. IF you already use Outlook then this is going to help ease the process along even more so.

You can even use applications like Google Mobile to search through your applications. The application can give you a search box just like the one you would use to search online, except it can be applied to your contacts. This can be useful for those who use Google from their iPhone constantly, but otherwise you can just try and go through it manually. It also will only go through contacts and not other parts of your phone personalization, like email or calendar.

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