How to Manage Contacts on an iPhone

First off, let's cover how to add a contact on your iPhone. Adding a contact on your iPhone is super simple. Here's how:

1. Open the Phone app. Alternatively, open the contacts app if it's just as readily available to you. Mine is hidden away.
2. Click "contacts" at the bottom of the screen.
3. Click the plus sign "+" in the upper right-hand corner.
4. Enter the new contact's first and last name. You can also enter the company they represent if it's relevant.

1. Click "+ add phone."
2. Enter that contact's phone number.
3. Click "done" in the upper right-hand corner.
4. Check out your new contact.

See how easy that was? Now, let's edit your contact. Maybe there is more information you wish to provide for this contact like their mailing or email address.

Now, let's get into how to edit a contact. Whether you want to add more information to that contact such as email address or mailing address, or you want to change the information you've already input, editing a contact is super simple. There's also a ton of information you can add and edit within a contact that many iPhone users overlook.

Here's how to edit a contact:

1. Open the Phone app. Alternatively, open the contacts app if it's just as readily available to you.* Mine is hidden away.
2. Click "contacts" at the bottom of the screen.
3. Select the contact you wish to edit.
4. Click "edit" in the upper right-hand corner.

Now, let's look into what we can edit or add to your contacts! There are so many options.

Information you can edit or add to a contact:

1. Phone numbers- Not only can you edit the current phone number by giving it a click, but you can click "+ add phone" to add another phone number such as a work phone.
2. Email- You can add emails until your heart's content. What I love about this is that they will auto-populate the emails when you search for them in the Mail app.
3. Ringtones- You can add a special ringtone or text tone so that you recognize who is calling or texting without picking up your phone.
4. Miscellaneous information- You can add a contact's website, mailing address, birthday, special date (anniversary for example), nickname or related names, IM (instant message) account, and even make notes about that person. If you own a business, you can even use the note section to put facts about a client or potential client that will jog your memory about them before giving them a call!

Deleting a contact on your iPhone is probably the easiest of the three contact management steps. I have illustrated the steps as if you have already opened contacts and are looking at the contact in question. If you aren't, first do the following:

1. Open the Phone app.
2. Click contacts at the bottom.

Now, let's delete that contact:

1. Click the contact you want to delete.
2. Click "edit" in the upper right-hand corner.
3. Scroll down and click "delete contact."
4. Click "delete contact" again when prompted.

Voila! Contact gone.