{"id":7235,"date":"2019-09-11T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2019-09-11T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:56:55","slug":"want-to-use-your-friends-nicknames-in-ios-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/want-to-use-your-friends-nicknames-in-ios-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Use Your Friends\u2019 Nicknames in iOS? Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a friend whom you refer to only by his nickname, it can be annoying to feel like you should use his proper first name when adding him to Contacts. Worse, then he shows up in Messages with a name you don\u2019t recognize as easily. Here\u2019s how to convince iOS to use his nickname instead. Open his card in Contacts, tap Edit, scroll to the bottom, tap Add Field, and tap Nickname. That puts a Nickname field at the top, under his proper name, for you to fill in. To get iOS to use it, go to Settings &gt; Contacts &gt; Short Name and enable Prefer Nicknames. From then on, you can enter your friend\u2019s nickname instead of his proper name in apps like Messages and Mail, and iOS will also display it instead of his name everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7340\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/want-to-use-your-friends-nicknames-in-ios-heres-how.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/want-to-use-your-friends-nicknames-in-ios-heres-how-1.png 980w, https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/want-to-use-your-friends-nicknames-in-ios-heres-how-2.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, ((min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px)) 480px, ((min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px)) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@motionshotto?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yuri Manei<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/woman-wearing-beige-and-gray-hoodie-portrait-2272855\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pexels<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a friend whom you refer to only by his nickname, it can be annoying to feel like you should use his proper first name when adding him to Contacts. Worse, then he shows up in Messages with a name you don\u2019t recognize as easily. Here\u2019s how to convince iOS to use his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}