Sharing Contacts

Chances are good that you have a phone number and address for someone stored on your iPhone that someone else wants to have. While you could read this information aloud and let the other person type it into their mobile phone, this method is slow, tedious, and prone to error. To make things easier, you can send contact information in an email or MMS message.

To share contact information, do this:

  1. From the Home screen, tap Contacts. The All Contacts screen appears.

  2. Tap the name of the contact whose information you want to share. An Info screen appears, listing all your stored information for that person.

  3. Tap Share Contact. (You may need to scroll down to find this option on the screen.) Email, MMS, and Cancel buttons appear, as shown ...

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