Set up your most frequently called Contacts as Favorites on your iPad and iPhone, so that you can easily access these people when calling or Facetiming them!

This can make it so much easier to find and keep in touch with the people that you contact the most.

Are you finding that your mobile does not ring for long enough?  That it stops before you get a chance to find it in your handbag or somewhere in the house?

By default, your phone only rings for 15 seconds before diverting to your voicemail or unanswered call service.  

However you can change this using increments of five seconds, up to a maximum of 30 seconds. You just need to enter a sequence of numbers and symbols on your mobile phone.  

There are slight differences in the numbers you enter, depending on your Mobile phone service provider.  See the list below:

• Telstra: **61*101** (number of seconds: 15, 20, 25 or 30) #.  Then press the call/send button.
• Optus: **61*321** (number of seconds: 15, 20, 25 or 30) #.  Then press the call/send button.
• Vodafone:  **61*61414121000** (number of seconds: 15, 20, 25 or 30) #.  Then press the call/send button.

Examples:  
   To extend Telstra rings to 30 seconds, enter         **61*101**30
   To extend Optus rings to 30 seconds,enter           **61*321**30
   To extend Vodafone rings to 30 seconds,  enter   **61*61414121000**30

If you have different mobile phone service provider to those listed, just try entering a Google search phrase like "extend the ring time for your mobile vodafone” (replacing 'vodafone' with the name of your mobile service provider) and find an answer to this question in the listed Google results.

For more information about changing the number of rings, click on one of the links below:

• Telstra
• Optus
  
• Vodafone

Hey ladies - do you find it impossible to find your phone in your handbag when it is ringing?  Find out how to make your phone flash when it rings so that you can find it more easily!

Sometimes, you just can't answer a call that's coming through, but would like to be able to let the person know that you have seen that they have called and will call them back soon.  Or perhaps you want to remind yourself to return the call when you are finished with whatever it is you are doing.  Watch to below video to find out about some phone features you may not have noticed before!

The above video shows the screens for iOS 7.  iOS 6 has similar functionality - just slide up the phone symbol next to 'Answer' to see the Reply options (shown below).