Filed under: Tips and tricks, iPhone
iPhone 101: Locate your callers
Here's a neat feature that almost works beautifully. If you've received a call from a number you don't recognize, go to "Recents" and touch its blue arrow. A window appears that lists the number as well as the geographic origin, based on area code. Pretty cool.Of course, if a person purchased her phone in New York and them moved to Colorado, this information would be incorrect. Still, it could help you identify that "mystery caller."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cydeweyz said 2:15PM on 7-24-2007
Wish this worked for text messaging as well...
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Jeff said 2:17PM on 7-24-2007
Wish that there was an instant "block caller" option that would let me deal with all those annoying telemarketers...
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Genius Jones said 2:18PM on 7-24-2007
Why would it be incorrect on the receiving end if you move? You mean it could be wrong on someone else's iPhone if you aren't where your area code is?
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Rishevan said 2:33PM on 7-24-2007
Interesting that your screen shot shows the city and state. Mine only shows the state & country - "MI, USA"
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Bambino said 2:44PM on 7-24-2007
I'm sorry but why is TUAW recently posting stuff that has already been posted elsewhere in the past weeks? All the posts I read here are mostly old stuff... what's going on? This had already been covered elsewhere.
And what's up with dissecting a mouse that has a year and a half on the market? That's interesting when it's new!
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Gary Brinkman said 3:56PM on 7-24-2007
Genius Jones,
It would be wrong if they lived in NY, then moved to CO, but never changed there phone number. The caller ID would stil be a 212.XXX.XXXX number which would show up as being in NY, when the caller was in CO. So not really wrong, just not accurate.
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Gene Cowan said 3:06PM on 7-24-2007
Thank you, Bambino. I myself posted this tidbit (along with others) on my blog way back on June 30.
What's new is that "big" sites like 37 Signals or Daring Fireball are starting to post these stories, so the smaller sites are finally noticing. Another case of "follow the leader" even though the leader is way behind.
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bean said 3:37PM on 7-24-2007
what's up south bend! Man I miss the sh*tty weather there...GO IRISH!
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John said 5:47PM on 7-24-2007
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Jim said 4:44PM on 7-24-2007
@5 - I for one don't visit (and don't want to visit) that many Mac sites, so I appreciate this story being posted, even if it is "old news" to some people. If it's old to you, just skip it. How hard is that?
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Fernando said 5:46PM on 7-24-2007
South Bend!
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bill said 6:07PM on 7-24-2007
i don't get any geographic information at all. someone asked about blocking telemarketers. http://www.donotcall.gov
this is a government mandate. it's free it works on any number. it make take a few months. mine stopped in immediately.
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neildugal said 7:50PM on 7-24-2007
Geez, someone goes to Notre Dame.
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Rico said 8:26AM on 7-25-2007
South Bend FTW.
GO IRISH!
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