Keeping Contact Information
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Sending Email to a Contact
If you need to reach someone, you can find that person’s name in the Contacts
app and send an email to that person, if you’ve stored that person’s email address.
To send email to someone from the Contacts app, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Contacts. The Contacts screen appears.
2. Find a contact that you want to send an email to.
3. Tap the person’s displayed email address. An email message and the virtual
keyboard appear on the screen with the recipient’s email address already
stored in the To field. Just type a message and subject and tap Send.
Getting Directions to a Contact
If you’ve stored someone’s street address (either a home or work address) you
might want to know the fastest route to that location. To get directions from your
current location to a stored street address, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Contacts. The Contacts screen appears.
2. Find a contact that you want to visit.
3. Tap the person’s displayed street address. The Maps screen appears and
displays a red pin at the location of the street address.
4. Tap the Directions tab in the upper-left corner of the Maps screen. A blue
direction bar appears at the bottom of the Maps screen.
5. Tap the Car (driving), Bus (mass transit), or Man (walking) icon and tap Start
to see a list of directions from your current location to your destination.
Q NOTE: You’ll learn all about maps and driving directions in Ch a p t e r 27.
Additional Ideas for Using Contacts
The Contacts app is just a simple database, so feel free to store any kind of text
information in it, whether it’s information about your stamp collection or a list of
celebrities you’d like to meet.
You can use the iPad to store emergency contact information, your software
serial numbers, or critical information such as emergency phone numbers for your
credit card and insurance company in case you need to reach them. Now when you
need to reinstall a program or find a phone number to reach your car insurance
company, just look in the Contacts app on your iPad.
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