{"id":1590,"date":"2016-07-01T11:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2016-06-20T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:13:46","slug":"make-phone-calls-directly-from-ios-calendar-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/make-phone-calls-directly-from-ios-calendar-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Phone Calls Directly from iOS Calendar Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019re setting up a lunch with a contractor, and you want to make it easy to call them when your iPhone alerts you to the meeting. Or perhaps you want to embed conference call details into an event. A little-known fact about the Calendar app is that you can enter phone numbers into the Location field, and whenever you\u2019re viewing the event later, you can tap a number to dial it directly (if you need a real location in the Location field, use the Notes field for the phone number instead). To add a meeting code to a conference call number, append a semicolon, the meeting code, and the pound symbol\u2014after the iPhone dials the phone number, you can press a button to dial the code at the right moment. The entire thing would look like\u00a0<b>518-555-0101;123456#<\/b>. For a more automated, but potentially error-prone approach, replace the semicolon with one or more commas, each of which causes the iPhone to pause for 2 seconds before dialing the rest of the numbers. Finally, if you seemingly spend your life in conference calls, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetingmogulapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MeetingMogul<\/a>\u00a0app for making dialing in even easier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-670 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iOS-Calendar-icon.png\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iOS-Calendar-icon.png 250x, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iOS-Calendar-icon-150x150.png 150x\" alt=\"iOS-Calendar-icon\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/250;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-671 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iPhone-dial-from-Calendar-576x1024.png\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iPhone-dial-from-Calendar-576x1024.png 576x, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iPhone-dial-from-Calendar-169x300.png 169x, https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iPhone-dial-from-Calendar.png 750x\" alt=\"iPhone-dial-from-Calendar\" width=\"258\" height=\"459\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 258px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 258\/459;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019re setting up a lunch with a contractor, and you want to make it easy to call them when your iPhone alerts you to the meeting. Or perhaps you want to embed conference call details into an event. A little-known fact about the Calendar app is that you can enter phone numbers into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,48,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-ios","category-iphone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/vintage-communication-dialer-telephone-1080x675.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YLEm-pE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1478,"url":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/build-travel-time-into-your-calendar-alerts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1590,"position":0},"title":"Build Travel Time into Your Calendar Alerts","author":"computeradv","date":"May 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"There\u2019s nothing worse than being late because you didn\u2019t anticipate traffic. 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