A feature I do miss in the iPhone

When someone sends you an SMS with a number in it most phones let you extract the number and save it as a contact or call it immediately. It is a simple but really useful feature, especially when you use directory enquiries that text you the number.

Sadly, the iPhone SMS app doesn’t do this as far as I can tell. You have to jot the number down with pen a paper and then key it in or attempt to memorize the number until you get it into the contacts app.

And on a similar vein you can’t seem to send or receive business cards/vcards with the iPhone.

I’d far rather have these features than MMS and multi-recipient SMS added to the iPhone.

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Martin Murphy 1 year ago 1 point
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Can you copy-and-paste?
I would have expected that to be available, and more useful generally.

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Paul Watson 1 year ago 1 point
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No, there is no copy-and-paste functionality on the iPhone at all. Strange but true.

Though I haven't really missed it. I think when 3rd party apps start proliferating on the iPhone that it will become a missing feature.

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Trevor 11 months ago 1 point
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You've probably discovered by now that a little blue button with an arrow pops up when an SMS message contains phone numbers, email addresses or URLs. Tap on that and you'll get all kinds of options, such as 'add to contact', 'create new contact' etc. Hope this helps.

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Trevor 11 months ago 1 point
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Oh, and you can just tap on the number immediately to place a call, too, from an SMS, email or web page. As above, hope this helps.

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paulmwatson 11 months ago 1 point
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Thanks Trevor. It does not always recognise numbers though. Most friends don't type phone numbers in a format that the iPhone picks-up. With Nokia phones it displays all numbers and you can choose which is a phone number.

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