Editing contact details, Edit contact details

Editing contact details

You can change or add details about your contacts. You can also set the ringtone for when a specific contact calls, or divert all calls from a contact to your voicemail.

Some contact entries contain information from multiple sources: information that you added manually, information that Contacts joined from multiple accounts to consolidate duplicates, and so on. When you edit a contact entry, the information from each source is grouped in its own color-coded, labeled section. If you find duplicate entries in Contacts, you can join them into a single entry, as described in “Joining contacts” on page 124. If you that find information from unrelated contacts was joined in error, you can separate them, as described in “Separating contact information” on page 126.

Changes that you make to information from one source do not affect the information from other sources. For example, if you have information about a contact from a Google Account and an Exchange ActiveSync account and both are configured to sync contacts, edits to the information from the Google Account are synced to that account on the web, but the information from the Exchange ActiveSync account remains unchanged.

For more information about working with multiple accounts, see “Accounts” on page 127.

Edit contact details

2Touch & hold the contact whose details you want to edit; In the menu that opens, touch Edit contact.

You can also press Menu and touch Edit contact while viewing a contact’s details.

3Edit the contact information, using the same controls as when you create a contact.