Apple allows its users to manage their contacts directly from their iPhones. But to efficiently manage contacts on your iPhone, you must know where they’re stored. Where are contacts stored on your iPhone? Does the iPhone store contacts on the phone or the SIM card? Can you recover contacts if you’ve lost your iPhone? Where …
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iOS provides a centralized database for your contacts that can be accessed from all your Apple devices. You can sync contacts from multiple iOS devices through your iCloud account. Any change made to your contact list from one of your devices will be synced on all your devices that have the same iCloud account. Have …
Having some of your contacts appearing grayed out on your iPhone keeps you from sending them an iMessage, forwarding an email to them, or adding them to your emergency contact list. If you are frequently getting frustrated by those grayed out contacts, you should find this article helpful as we will go over the most …
You’re unable to find a contact in your iPhone contact list. After a bit of research, you realize the contact you’re looking for has been merged under another contact without you doing anything. Sounds familiar? iPhone will sometimes merge two or more contacts that have the same first and last names or some other common …
You can activate an iPhone using a cellular network, Wifi connection, or with the help of iTunes. If you do not use any of these methods, you will not be able to set up your device. If you don’t activate your iPhone, you can’t transfer data from an old device or restore an old backup …
If you’ve upgraded to a new mobile phone, you may want to use the same SIM card as before. But is it possible to use your old SIM card on a new phone? You can use your SIM card from an old phone in a new phone as long as the SIM is from the …
When you buy an unlocked smartphone through Best Buy, you can choose to “activate today” or “activate later” . What is the difference? “Activate today” means the phone comes with a service plan and a new SIM card from a supported carrier, with a discounted device price. “Activate later” means you can use a SIM …
An unlocked phone is not restricted to a carrier and gives you a choice to switch to another network provider. If you buy a new unlocked phone, do you need to activate it in order to switch to your preferred carrier? You must activate an unlocked phone to make it active on the carrier’s network. …
When a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card is inserted into your mobile device, you can connect to a carrier’s network and make cellular calls and send text messages. It’s also possible to make calls without a SIM card as almost all smartphones have a Wi-Fi function that connects you to the internet. Read on to …
Straight Talk is a popular prepaid carrier that offers excellent rates on service. If you have a Straight Talk phone, you may wonder if you can use it with AT&T service. To switch your Straight Talk phone to AT&T, your device must be compatible with the AT&T network. Secondly, you need to make sure that …