How to save a contact to your iPhone (8 easy ways)

In this tutorial, we’ll share 8 quick ways to create a new contact and save a person’s phone number, email address, home address, and other details to your iPhone.

1. Use the Contacts app or Phone app

The Contacts app holds all your friends, family, coworkers, and favorite people. So, if you have a bit of information jotted down on a piece of paper, like a phone number or email address, you can create a new contact there in a snap.

1. Open the Contacts app or the Phone app and tap Contacts.
2. Tap the plus sign to add a new one.
3. Enter the information you have for the person in the corresponding fields, like name, company, phone, email, address, birthday, social media profiles, etc. You don’t have to fill in everything and can leave them empty if you don’t have that information. Note: You can designate specific items like phone numbers as Work, Home, or Mobile, which comes in handy.
4. Tap the checkmark icon from the top when you finish.

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2. Use the Phone app keypad

If a phone number is written on a business card or a piece of paper, here’s how to save it manually.

1. Open the iPhone Phone app and tap Keypad.
2. Enter the phone number you want to save.
3. Tap the person icon at the top and choose Create New Contact.
4. Give it a name, fill in other details, and save it.

3. Save a recent call from an unknown number

Adding a new contact from a phone call you either received or placed to someone is another handy method.

1. Open the Phone app on your iPhone and go to the Calls or Recents tab.
2. Tap the phone number or email address if you’re in the Calls tab. Or, tap the info icon ⓘ next to the phone number or email address if you’re in the Recents tab.
3. Select Create New Contact.
4. Add the necessary information and tap the checkmark to save this number or email as a contact.

4. Save an unknown texter’s phone number

Follow these steps if someone has sent you a text message and you want to save their number to your iPhone.

1. Open the Messages app and go inside that conversation.
2. Tap the phone number or profile picture icon from the top center.
3. Tap Create New Contact and save the number. On older versions of iOS, tap info first.

5. Save an email address from the Mail app to your contacts

If you use the Mail app on your iPhone and have either received or sent an email to somebody that you want to turn into a contact, this is just as easy.

1. Launch the Mail app and open the email to or from that person.
2. Tap the sender’s name or email address next to the From field. If this isn’t visible, tap the header area first.
3. Tap View Contact Card followed by Create New Contact to save it to your iPhone’s address book.

6. Save a phone number or email from a web page in Safari

If you come across a phone number or email address on a website, you can save it to your iPhone’s Contacts app.

• For a phone number (or an email address that’s a tappable hyperlink), touch and hold the number or link and choose Add to Contacts.

• For a visible email address mentioned in plain text, select it and use the arrow button on the thin menu strip until you see the Add to Contacts option. Tap it, followed by Create New Contact.

7. Use third-party apps to save a contact

Some third-party apps also let you save a new contact. Here are the steps to do that from WhatsApp, which is the world’s most popular chat app.

1. Open WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business and tap the compose new message button (+) from the top right.
2. Tap New Contact.
3. Enter the first & last names and the phone number. Then, make sure “Sync contact to phone” is enabled, and tap Done.

8. Import SIM or Google contacts to iPhone

You also have the option to import contacts from your physical SIM card or other internet accounts like Google. The contacts you import appear inside the Contacts app and the Phone app and feel just like any other contact you save manually.

However you choose to create a new contact on iPhone, each of these methods is simple and convenient. Which one do you think you’ll use most often?

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