{"id":9581,"date":"2018-05-22T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2018-05-21T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T02:02:47","slug":"area-code-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9581","title":{"rendered":"Area Code Madness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t yet got the message, your phone company will remind you soon: Update your contact’s phone numbers, or when dialing, ensure that you dial the 1 and the area code. For some people, that’s a lot of contacts, a lot of updating, and a lot of work!
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\nDon’t think it’s just you. It’s everywhere. In Idaho, where I live, we had to update all our phone numbers about a year ago.<\/p>\n

For a while, an annoying voice came on the line, reminding me that I had to “add the area code” when dialing a local number. Recently, my Mom phoned from California, where she too has to update her contacts. Her problem is that she has over 50 of them that are just 7-digits long. To update them all with the area code would require a lot of tedious editing on a tiny touchscreen.<\/p>\n

I have a better way!<\/p>\n

On a computer, visit contacts.google.com<\/a>. Because your Android phone is synchronized with your Google account, all your contacts appear on the Google Contacts page. And because you’re using a computer, you can see them all – and their phone numbers – in one convenient place.<\/p>\n

Once you see your contacts, cull through the list and look for the 7-digit phone numbers. When you find one, click to select the contact, then click the Edit (pencil) icon. Add the area code.<\/p>\n

Yes, you must repeat this process for every contact who has a short phone number, but it’s easier to do it on a computer screen than a tiny touchscreen on your phone.<\/p>\n

Contacts are updated and synchronized between Google and your phone almost instantly. So when you’re done, you’re done!<\/p>\n

Now you just have to wait for the upcoming 12-digit phone numbers to make the next conversion.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I’m kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to update all your contacts. All of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9583,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/9583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}