iOS 8 introduced the idea of showing your most-contacted contacts in the multitasking screen. You’d simply double click on the Home button to see the list of the most recent apps as well as a row of the folks you contacted the most across the top.
If you’re looking for that feature in iOS 9, you might have noticed that the contacts are no longer in the multitasking screen. Never fear, though, they’ve just moved.
Instead of engaging the multitasking system, get to the first page of your Home screen. You can either swipe right until you’re there, or just hit the Home button once to speed your way back to the first page.
Either way, once you’re on that first home screen page full of your most used app icons, swipe right one more time and you’ll see Siri’s proactive screen. You’ll see a search bar up top, where you can type or dictate whatever you’re looking for, a section for Siri Suggestions, Nearby places to browse, and some News items below that.
Take a look at the Suggestions area and you’ll see two rows. The top row is where the contacts are.
These are there due to Siri’s proactive feature.
“See the contacts you talk with most,” writes Apple, “those you talked to last, or even those you’re next scheduled to meet.”
So there you have it. If you were looking for the list of contacts on your iPhone or iPad in the multitasking screen, head on over to the left of the main Home page and find them again, plus a lot more.
Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
4 responses to “Swipe your way to iOS 9’s suggested contacts”
Hey Apple, how about fixing the bug ridden, broken, slow piece of garbage that is Safari on the iPad? And how about NOT crippling an iPad after only a year after its release by another bloated, bug ridden and broken iOS release?
Apple has some really screwed up priorities post Steve Jobs. I have never used a piece of software as broken, slow, and as bug ridden as iOS on the iPad.
Hmm…Really? No problems on my iPad Air 2. The speed is unreal! Not even one single hitch, nothing. Just pure speed, with everything including (no especially in Safari).
Of course you have no problems with speed; you have the latest model. Give it a year or two and it will be a crippled iPad, like my iPad 4 quickly became.
I gave my iPad Air 1 to my sister, and she has no problems with speed, at all. And that device is about 2 years old now. My iPad Air is approaching a year, and its as fast as ever. Well… put it like this. I use lots of IOS, and Android products for review, and trust me you haven’t seen a crippled tablet unless you have a Nexus 9, or new Samsung Galaxy tab. Both these devices are not even a year old, and work terribly(almost unusable). You can now get an iPad Air for $300 on ebay. Try it!