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Making a Phone Call from within the Messages app on iPhone

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madscribe99

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Is this possible? If not, this would definitely be one of the things on my wish list.

It would save the exercise of coming out of Messages, going back into Contacts or Phone and looking up the person to make the call.
 
Not quite...

Let's say someone sent me a text, and instead of texting back, I wanted to call.

As I see it now, I have to come out of Messages, and open Contacts or the Phone app to call. There isn't an option to call straight from the Messages app.
 
madscribe99 said:
Let's say someone sent me a text, and instead of texting back, I wanted to call.

As I see it now, I have to come out of Messages, and open Contacts or the Phone app to call. There isn't an option to call straight from the Messages app.
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Indeed there is. There's a button labelled "Call" right at the top of the message thread. If you're not there, hit the status bar at the top of the screen to get instantly there instead of finger-scrolling.
 
It Sure is

I guess my conversations thread on for so long that I never noticed it. It would be nice if it stayed put at any part in the conversation.
 
I agree

Yet another reason I miss my droid...
Handcent SMS had a phone icon in the top left corner of the message window you could instantly call with 1 touch.
 

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madscribe99 said:
I guess my conversations thread on for so long that I never noticed it. It would be nice if it stayed put at any part in the conversation.
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Sorry for reviving such an old thread (google brought me here). Just to mention: in a long thread, you can immediately jump to the top of the thread by clicking the top bar on your screen, where the call button is. (Same way to get to the "Search" when in the Contacts).
 
Wes123 said:
Sorry for reviving such an old thread (google brought me here). Just to mention: in a long thread, you can immediately jump to the top of the thread by clicking the top bar on your screen, where the call button is. (Same way to get to the "Search" when in the Contacts).
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yes, but how do you get back down then? a double click top bar function would be nice. or cmd-alt-click top bar.
 
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