By Amy Spitzfaden Both
Contact Posters are one of the most fun new features to play around with, but you might not always want to use the picture someone else has picked out. Whether it's a painful reminder of an ex's new relationship or a picture you find a bit off-color, knowing how to change someone's Contact Poster is a handy tip as your friends go wild with customization. Let's learn how to do it.
By Becca Ludlum
Making iPhone contact groups allows you to quickly send a message or email to multiple people. With iOS 17, you no longer have to use a Mac or PC to create an email list. Instead, you can create a group in your iPhone Contacts app to easily send large group emails. If you want to create a contact group for text messages, you can do that in the iPhone Messages app. We'll teach you how to add groups on your iPhone so you can quickly send group texts and emails.
By Leanne Hays
The Messages app allows users to pin a contact or even pin a group on their iPhone or iPad. Pinning keeps contacts at the top of the Messages app, making it faster and easier to send a text message to the people you message the most. Pin up to nine text threads, and if you change your mind, it's just as easy to unpin contacts in Messages. We'll walk you through both!
By August Garry
Add the Contacts widget to your iPhone's Home Screen to quickly send a message, call, or video chat with your most-contacted people. Learning how to make a widget on your iPhone Home Screen with your most frequent contacts is super easy. Let's learn how to save contacts to the iPhone Home Screen!
By Hallei Halter
If you're not able to make a phone call, you can send a text! For experienced iPhone users, texting is generally second nature. But other iPhone users are unsure where to get started. This tip is for them. Let's go over how to send a text message on your iPhone.
By Sarah Kingsbury
The default iPad and iPhone signature in iOS Mail is "Sent from my iPad" or "Sent from my iPhone." But while some people may be happy to declare what device they are using at the bottom of every email they send, others prefer to provide other information, such as the name of the sender and additional contact information. Here's how to remove or change your email signature.
By Rachel Needell
Contact Posters are a super fun way to let you choose what people see when you call them, so now you can display your favorite photo when calling your friends. I love this new feature and have already been experimenting and playing around with all the customization options. Here's how to do it!
By Hal Goldstein
I was one of few voices in the 1990s writing columns urging manufacturers to create a super-sized handheld. So, naturally I bought an iPad as soon as Apple introduced it in 2010 and have owned one ever since. Then in fall of 2022, my old laptop died. I wondered, should I stick with Windows, make the switch to a MacBook, or go for a budget-friendly Chromebook?
By Rhett Intriago
Can you text on Apple Watch? Yes, you can use your Apple Watch to send and receive texts! If you're not near your phone or don't want to have to pull it out, using your Apple Watch to send a text is a great alternative. Let's find out all the different ways you can send a message on the Apple Watch.
By Sarah Kingsbury
This might seem small, but for so many people, hearing your name pronounced incorrectly all the time can be a total annoyance. Maybe you're tired of hearing Siri call you "Kevin" when your name is "Kevan." Or, maybe you're like me, and you want Siri to call you something crazy but don't want to change your name on the Contact Card, which is often shared amongst and between devices. This is also a great prank to pull on your friends and family as well, but you didn't hear that from me! Here's how!
By Rachel Needell
Nobody likes to miss their friend's birthday. Especially if you don't use social media, it can be easy to forget the exact day a person was born. That's why I like to have my iPhone send me notifications automatically on an important person's birthday. Here's how to set it up!
By Hallei Halter
Over the years, our Contact lists can become extremely overwhelming. If you find that you have too many contacts to sort through when you need to call someone in particular, here's how to search your contacts on iPhone.
By Cullen Thomas
Unblocking a number on your iPhone couldn’t be easier, thanks to the forward thinkers at Apple who knew that the handy block feature should not be permanent. That’s because it’s easy to block someone accidentally or unknowingly. Maybe you were blocking robo-callers or spam texters and blocked a contact by mistake. Or maybe you intentionally blocked a friend or colleague so as not to be disturbed for a period of time and now you want to undo that. Or maybe you’re having trouble calling a contact, or vice versa, so you want to find the blocked list and check to see if that number is on it. Here’s how to do it.
By Sarah Kingsbury
Sometimes, whether it's an ex, a cyberbully, or an obnoxious telemarketer, a person just won't get the message and stop calling or texting you. That's when it's time to block their calls and texts on your iPhone. Let's talk about how to stop unwanted messages or phone calls on your iPhone.
By Leanne Hays
The Mail app can autofill email addresses based on your recent activity. However, sometimes the Mail app will suggest old email addresses that are no longer relevant. You can avoid accidentally sending your email to a random contact by removing them from your recents. Here's how!
By Sarah Kingsbury
Learning how to set different ringtones for different contacts is a great way to know which friend or family member is calling you without having to look at your iPhone screen. It's easy to assign ringtones to contacts on the iPhone. It’s fun to do and allows you to select something personalized, funny, or unique to your friendship. Here's how!
By Rhett Intriago
If you need to hide contacts on your iPhone for any reason, there are ways to do it. We’ll go over a few different methods that will allow you to conceal a contact. Let’s take a look at how to hide contacts on iPhone.
By Conner Carey
The Contacts app is the place where all your family, friends, and random people you met at a conference five years ago and haven't spoken to since come together. However, people change their email addresses and phone numbers every now and again, so being able to edit those contacts is essential. Here’s how to edit a contact.
By Rachel Needell
iPhone's Emergency SOS system really does save lives. The feature allows iPhone users to quickly call for help, alert their emergency contacts, and ping their location. If you've already set up your emergency contacts but would like to change, edit, or delete emergency contact information, it's a fairly simple process. Here's how to change emergency contacts on your iPhone.
Have you ever tried to make a call from Contacts or a text thread, only to see that the iPhone contact call button is grayed out, so you can't make the call? Here's how to fix this annoying iPhone call button problem!
