I picked up a message earlier asking if I could forward someone a mobile number I had. Before I had my iPhone I have always had Nokia phones where you can simply send a contact via text as a business card. This can then be easily saved in the recipient’s phone. Sadly Apple don’t like to make things easy. The following procedure had to be taken:

Equipment: iPhone, Pen, Paper, 5 minutes

1.       Go to the main iPhone screen and tap the ‘Contacts’ icon

2.       Search or scroll to the contact whose number you want to send

3.       Take you pen and paper and write down the number

4.       Return to the menu and open the SMS application

5.       Compose message

6.       Search or scroll to contact you want to send number to

7.       Select body and use numeric keypad to copy the number from your piece of paper

8.       Tap send

Hopefully the recipient will have a phone that will let them save a number from the body of the text otherwise they will have to write down.

Saving a number someone has sent to you:

1. Open the text message
2. Tap the number in the message (which should be blue and underlined)
3. You will now be asked if you want to call this person. Tap ‘Call’
4. Quickly hang up the call as you don’t really want to talk to them
5. Go back to menu and go to phone app
6. Select ‘Recents’ and you will see the number you have just called
7. Click the blue arrow to the right of the number
8. You will now get options for that number. Tap to ‘Create new contact’
9. Enter contacts name and save
10. Answer the phone to that person asking why you have just ‘pranked’ them

Thanks Apple you make my life so much easier