Adding a Contact to Your Address Book

Here is where you will start building your contacts if you have never had a phone before or if there was trouble transferring your contacts from a previous phone. Something to keep in mind: it would be best to include both first and last names in their respective fields because the Address Book sorts them alphabetically from A to Z. If you only put their first name in, it will show in a different area than the last names that start with that same letter. You can put their first name in the last name field if you wish, but that could potentially cause confusion.

Adding a New Contact to Your Address Book

Down in the bottom right corner is the Add button. Double tap on it to start a new contact.
You will now be placed in the First Name field where you will need to insert their name. You can manually type it in by finding each letter and double tapping to insert that letter in the box. The quicker way is to use dictation. This will only work if the name is in the speech dictionary. If not, you will need to type it in letter by letter.
To start dictation, use two fingers and tap the screen two times quickly. You should hear a bell-like sound. This means the microphone was turned on to listen for your voice. If you didn’t hear a sound, you may need to give the Address Book permission to use the microphone for dictation. Swipe right until you hear Allow and tap the screen twice with one finger. You then will immediately hear the bell sound. Say the person’s name and turn the mike off with a two-finger double tap again. You will hear a lower bell sound and then the phone will echo the name it thought you said. If it is correct, then swipe right until you hear Last Name.
Now use one finger to double tap the screen to open the Last Name edit box. Repeat the two-finger double tap gesture to turn the mike on so you can say the last name. Speak the name and use the same two-finger double tap to turn the mike off again. You should hear the low bell sound and the name you said echoed back to you.
Swipe right until you hear Add Phone and double tap to put your cursor in that edit field. The number pad will appear in place of the letter pad so you could type in the numbers yourself. Otherwise, you can dictate the number in the same way as above.
Now, there are many more fields that you can fill out below the number area, but we are going to let you practice filling those out yourself. Just swipe to the field you want and double tap with one finger to activate that field, dictate what you want to say, and turn off the mike with a two-finger double tap again. Repeat the steps above until all the fields you want are filled in the way you like.

Editing a Field That Dictated Incorrectly

If you turned the mike on and what you spoke into the mike did not type what you said, you will need to do one of two things: redictate the information in the field or manually type it in the box. Below are the steps for doing both.

Either method, you will need to learn how to delete the text out of the edit box before retyping or dictating.

First Method

Slowly drag your finger down the screen or swipe right until you get to the field you need to correct unless you are already in it. If you had to find it, you need to double tap with one finger to open the edit box.
Now, the cursor usually puts you at the end of the edit box, thinking that you need to delete or change that information.
Now, down near the bottom right of the screen is a Delete button. It is the third button up on the right side of the screen. There are two ways we can delete letters this way. Once you find the button, hold one finger on the button, and tap the screen with a different finger on your other hand. You may want to put the phone down so you can do this easily until you are more comfortable with this action. Repeat tapping your finger while holding the Delete button to delete all the letters.

Second Method

Complete all the steps above up to finding the Delete button.
Now, this time, use one finger and double tap with one finger, but don’t let up after the second tap. This starts the deleting process all by itself. You will hear all the letters being deleted quickly and backwards. If you are just deleting a name, it will be very quick to delete. You can let up after the noise stops. You are ready to retype or dictate the information that goes in that field again.

This is the end of this lesson.