Managing Your Calling Plan (iPhone Only)

When the iPhone first hit the street, Apple placed the Phone application’s icon in prime position: in the first spot among the four major apps at the bottom of the Home screen. Tap that Phone icon, and you see one of the five Phone application screens: Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Keypad, or Voicemail. (Which screen appears depends on the last one you accessed before moving back to the Home screen or to another application.) A row of buttons at the bottom of all five screens (refer to Figure 3.1) lets you navigate quickly among these screens. Because you may be in a hurry to place a call, I’ll discuss them out of order.

Keypad

The function of this button couldn’t be much more obvious. Tap Keypad, and you see . . . a telephone keypad. To place a call, just tap the digits you want. As you tap, each digit appears in order at the top of the screen, nicely formatted with the area code in parentheses followed by the number—(555) 555-1212, for example.