Contacts in iPhone are not searched. How to enable the "Find iPhone" function? How to create contacts on the iPhone

Various features in the new version of the platform increases the number of functions in the iPhone, iPod and iPad settings, which is not so easy to find that the usual user. Because of the large selection of tools, finding the right thing becomes more difficult, even considering what " Settings»The most used native application.

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However, you should not be upset in advance, because in " Settings»There is a special hidden field designed to quickly find the tool you need in iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

How to find a specific parameter in the settings in iOS 9

1. Open "Settings" On iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad based on iOS 9 or later versions.

2. Log in to the Main Menu, where there are functions such as "air", Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and "Cellular communication" and move the list of settings down so that the hidden search box appears.

3. Start tying the first letters of the parameter that is interested in the user. As input, suitable results will be issued.

For example, the user knows that the iPhone allows you to invert colors on the display, but does not remember where this function is specifically. You need to open a hidden setup search field, enter the word "color", and the required parameter will appear in the search results. Another example is the entered word "ringing" will allow you to get quick access to the volume settings, selecting a new ringtone, turning on or off the sound and vibration parameters.

4. By clicking on a specific resulting result, the user will fall into the menu you need. In the results, each search element is accompanied by the "path" on which it was found.

Unfortunately, the search for settings can only be used through the main menu. According to some users, this is a fairly unprotected and not very convenient search option.

In addition to the search for native Apple applications, you can also use the method described above to search for programs from third-party manufacturers.

Also interesting is the fact that the settings parameters are not displayed in, despite the fact that the "settings" were listed by default in Spotlight sources.

If your iPhone is constantly looking for a network, do not rush to immediately carry it into the service center. In most cases, it is possible to eliminate the malfunction yourself. Below is four ways thanks to which you will understand how to fix the problem on the spot.

First, check the adjustments of the aircraft, when you turn on which Wi-Fi can work, and the honeycomb search is always turned off. If this mode is turned off, and the smartphone does not see the mobile operator, try the actions described below.

Check the date and time settings

If your iPhone is constantly looking for a network after firmware iOS or component repair, the reason for the loss of the network can be shot down date and time settings. To restore the search and on the iphone screen, the cellular operator icon again appeared, try the following steps:

• connect the iPhone to Wi-Fi, which is caught without a SIM card
• go to the "Settings" menu
• sequentially select the "Main" tabs, then - "Date and Time"
• turn on the "Automatically" icon (turn off and turn it on again if it is already active)
• reload an iPhone that stopped catching a cellular communication

After re-loading the iPhone, the network must catch, and the icon of your operator will appear on the mobile device screen. If the search mode is not recovered, go to another method.

Make sure the SIM card is working

Sometimes iPhone "does not see" the network is not due to the cellular operator, but because of the fact that the SIM card has failed. Mobile device without a SIM card that works properly, will "hang" infinitely long. Action options how to fix this situation:

• rearrange your SIM card in another iPhone and check its performance
• purchase a new SIM card for your smartphone

Ayphons acquired in other countries can be "locked" under a certain mobile operator, as a result of which they do not work with cellular networks of Russia. You will need to unlock the Apple smartphone and its re-activation. Perform this action using the iTunes program by creating a copy in advance. With this procedure, the settings set by the owner and the loss of data on the phone take place on the phone. But in the end, you restore the cell's search mode.

Try to reflash the phone

Perhaps your iPhone is constantly looking for a network, because the program crash occurred. This happens when installing new applications or illiterate modem firmware. You can return the original state of the instrument by resetting the parameters set recently, or reflashing the phone again.

To reset the cellular settings, go to the "Basic" iPhone menu, select "Reset". The system will offer several options for:

• reset all settings
• erase content and settings
• reset network settings
• reset the "Home" settings
• reset geoctoque

First of all, try updating the iPhone through the reset of the settings associated with the network. If the constant network search continues, complete the full reset and return to the factory parameters of the smartphone. If, after that, the phone is infinitely "hanging" and does not catch the mobile operator signal, try to eliminate the malfunction using software flashing. To do this, follow the instructions for installing a new modem firmware:

• update iTunes on your computer to the latest version.
• create backup
• download the current iOS phone model
• open iTunes again, press the SHIFT (ALT-Option) key and the Restore button.
• select the downloaded file of the new software and run the update.

These are all the ways telling how to fix at the site of a cellular settings failed. If, after reset, your iPhone is constantly looking for a network, take it to masters to diagnose the device and its recovery. Most likely, the device stopped catching the network due to malfunctions of internal electronic components. This requires professional diagnostics of a device that will help determine the type of repair required.

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Often the diagnosis of Apple devices that have ceased to catch the network, reveals the oxidation of the internal elements of the smartphone as a result of moisture. If you often use the phone on the street with adverse weather conditions, this situation is quite possible. Also, the diagnostics of the device may show the need for the following events.

Today we learn what is phonebook iPhone.How to work with this book, learn how to create contacts and find out some of the features faced by the user when working with contacts in the iPhone.

All phonebook numbers iPhone are stored in the standard application "Contacts". But you can use the saved numbers and using the standard phone application, which serves for calls.

Edit iPhone's telephone book is more convenient in the "Contacts" application, as it supports the screen rotation and allows you to work with contacts in horizontal mode, in such a screen scan to use more convenient. But if you are not going to enter F.O.O. Fully, to make home addresses, posts and other information that the iPhone phone book supports, you can use the phone with the phone, which is enough to write the number and name of the new subscriber.

After purchasing the new apparatus, the iPhone phone book contains only Apple's contact. Contacts recorded on the SIM card will not appear in the phone until you produce. If the phone contains the former owner's contacts, then you can.

To create a new contact, click "+" in the upper right corner of the iPhone phonebook, enter the name and phone number. If you want to enter a home or work address, email and other subscriber information. Here you can set a photo in full screen to an incoming call by selecting it from the gallery or making a snapshot. IN phonebook iPhone. In addition to the standard data entry fields, it is possible to add an additional field with which you can specify additional information, for example - birthday or number.

If there is a need to enter an additional field with a specific identifier, you can use the creation of your own label, can sometimes be useful. Any number can be assigned an individual ringtone, for this select, thus, with an incoming call, you will understand that the identified subscriber calls.

After you fill in all the necessary fields of the new recording and press the "ready" contact will be saved in the iPhone phone book memory, copy contacts with iPhone You will not be able to SIM because the phone does not support such a function. The iPhone works only with contacts stored in the phone's memory.

Apple mobile devices with IOS version above 5.0 are equipped with an excellent protective mechanism - the "Find iPhone" function. The function allows remotely block the lost / stolen gadget and find out its location. Thanks to "Finding the iPhone", the number of registered theft "apple" devices in the whole world has decreased significantly - in London, for example, by as much as 50%.

Russian users, alas, still not "typked" the "Antivetor" function Apple - many of them do not believe in its effectiveness; Someone also assumes that in this way America follows Russians. In fact, the search mechanism proposed by Apple is effective. It makes sense to abandon paranoid prejudices in order not to pour tears after the alarm of the expensive device.

The service "Find iPhone" gives the user the opportunity:

• Find out the geographical position of the lost gadget. Find out where the device is located, it will be possible only if it is connected to the Internet.
• Remotely delete all the contents of the smartphone.
• Activate on the disappearance mode. It is impossible to use such a gadget - it will be possible to sell it only on parts and then for a snapsicle.
• Remotely run a loud beep on the smartphone to facilitate the search.

The function will be used only if it is activated on the mobile device itself and if the gadget owner remembers the password from his account in ICloud.

After the Apple smartphone loss, the user can go to www.icloud.com under the data of the account, which is activated on the device, select the "Find iPhone" section and see the city map on which the Gadget location is marked.

The owner of the lost "mobile phone" remains to include "the regime of the disappearance" and put forward in search. It is better to grab a friend with you, who also has an "apple" device - but only with the "Find iPhone" application installed. Through the application you can play on the lost device signal.

More detailed instructions on the use of the "Antivetor" Apple technology is present in our article on how to find the lost iPhone.

How to enable "Find an iPhone" function?

Setting the "Find iPhone" function on your mobile device as follows:

Step 1. Go to section " icloud." in " Settings»Iphona.

Step 2.. Enter the Apple ID and password from it - if you have not done this before.

Then click " To come in».

Step 3.. Give agreement to combine the data stored in ICloud and on the iPhone - or refuse if you want to separate the "flies from the kitlet". Also allow ICloud to use an iPhone geoposition.

These two requests will appear on the screen sequentially, one after another.

Step 4.. Scroll down the screen down and find the slider " Find iPhone».

Translate it into an active position.

Step 5.. A notification will be notified on the screen that the service "Find iPhone" will be activated. Click " OK».

Step 6.. It remains to check whether the "Find iPhone" function is enabled. Geolocation services" Go to " Settings"And follow the path" Privacy» — « Geolocation services».

In chapter " Geolocation services"Is the subsection" Find iPhone"- Visit it.

Make sure the same toggle switch is activated.

It is very important to carry out this check. If the service "Find iPhone" does not use geolocation, see the lost gadget on the map will not be able to see.

What is Activation Lock?

Useful addition for the service "Find iPhone" called " Activation lock" (or " Activation Lock.") For the first time appeared on iOS 7. Supplement allows you to" tightly "block the mobile device attached to the Apple ID account - that is, actually turn the smartphone into the" brick ". It will not help to reanimate the gadget neither by flashing or recovery in DFU mode.

"Activation Lock" is, in fact, there is a "disappearance mode", which was mentioned earlier and which can be included on the ICloud website.

With the existing " Locking activation"Enter an Apple ID will have every time you need to perform the following steps:

• Deactivate the "Find iPhone" function.
• Delete information from the gadget.
• Repeat activation of the smartphone.

That is, the attacker who stole the gadget will discover that he has a device in his hands with whom he cannot do anything. The most reasonable thing for the thief will contact the owner and, pretending that I found a gadget, to propose to return the device for a symbolic remuneration.

The user needs to be careful and to activate the "Loss Mode" only after the Apple ID password is recorded in all sorts of notepads and computer programs. If he loses the password or forget him, he himself will not be able to return to the device to the device. Under such circumstances and service centers, and Apple's support service, and even computer hackers will be powerless.

Conclusion

A person who activated the "Find iPhone" function on his "mobile phone", will have to treat the confidentiality of the credentials of your Apple ID very seriously. If the data is in the hands of the attackers, they will get the ability to block the gadget and, by changing the password from Icloud, to blackmail the owner of the mobile device. This fraud method is not "from the field of fiction"; Recently, more and more users suffer from such unlawful actions.

Each of us remembers times when theft or loss of a mobile phone has created many problems, one of which was to restore the list of important contacts. Many even started special notepads and transferred numbers on paper manually. Today, the list of contacts list in smartphones of any manufacturer is automatically executed, but some users still manage to clean the address book without the possibility of recovery.

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Why accomplish contacts on iPhone: basic examples and reasons

Contacts disappeared after flashing (software recovery), reset or iPhone repair

If the subsequent entry of the Apple ID in the ICloud section does not load contacts, it will not be possible to restore them.

Why did it happen. Contacts were entered manually without synchronization with ICloud. If synchronization with iCloud is not performed, then after or in the event of a device breakdowns all contacts will be irretrievably lost.

Some (or all) Contacts disappeared after apple ID or iPhone to a third party

Why did it happen. It often happens that the user transfers his or iPhone to a new owner, for example, a relative, without bothering himself by creating a new Apple ID. Say, why 60-year-old mother or 8-year-old daughter's own account. However, then a new user begins to remove unnecessary contacts and add your own, iPhone "catches" home Wi-Fi and synchronizes the edits made with iCloud, thereby making changes to all devices associated with this Apple ID.

ATTENTION!!! Never delete contacts from the phone application on the iPhone if you are logged in to iCloud.

Some (or all) Contacts disappeared after action with Gmail account or other service

Why did it happen. Another common problem is when the user activates the contact list synchronization not only with iCloud, but also with other services (usually Gmail). In this case, confusion occurs - part of the contacts is saved in ICloud, and the other part, for example, in Gmail.

Check for double syncs by clicking on the menu Settings → Accounts and passwords. Here, select the desired account and make sure the switch opposite the item Contacts is in an inactive position.

If the contact synchronization via Gmail or other service is preferred (not recommended), you should install a tick opposite the corresponding item in the menu Settings → Contacts → Uch. Default entries.

How to check if there are contacts in iCloud without iPhone?

Make it very easy - Open on any computer website icloud.com, enter your Apple ID account and go to the web application Contacts.

In the browser version of the iCloud service, you can edit the address book, import and export contacts, restore saved archive copies.