Making Calls

Buttons at the bottom of the Phone screen give you quick access to your favorites, recent calls, your contacts, and a numeric keypad for dialing manually.

For important information about driving safely, see the Important Product Information Guide. A portion of the iPhone screen showing buttons for options while using the Phone application. The buttons from left to right are: Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Keypad, and Voicemail. The Recents button has a counter on the upper-right corner that indicates the number of missed calls.The Voicemail button has a counter that indicates the number of unheard voicemail messages.

Use Contacts to call someone: 

Tap Contacts, choose a contact, then tap a phone number.

Call a favorite: 

Tap Favorites, then choose a contact.

Return a recent call: 

Tap Recents, then tap a name or number in the list.

Dial a number: 

Tap Keypad, enter the number, then tap Call.

If you copy a phone number to the clipboard, you can paste it to the keypad and dial it.

Paste a number to the keypad: 

Tap the screen above the keyboard, then tap Paste. If the phone number you copied included letters, iPhone automatically converts them to the appropriate digits.

Jump to favorites from anywhere: 

Double-click the Home Home button icon button. You can change this preference in Settings. See Home.

Bring up the last number you dialed: 

Tap Keypad, then tap Call. Tap Call again to dial the number.