How to Enable Recent and Favorite Contacts on iPhone App Switcher Screen

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🗓️ November 10, 2020 By ✍️ Jaysukh patelTypically, on your iPhone, you bring up recent and favorite contacts through tapping the Phone app and you get it. But there is also a way to access recent and favorite contacts by following this article. You become eligible to access that at the iPhone App switcher (multitasking screen of iPhone). So what you want, have you eager to know that how to enable recent and favorite contacts on iPhone App switcher? Then follow the bottom outlined instructions carefully and done it.

This guide really makes helpful for those users who accidentally hide their recent and favorite contacts on the iPhone App switcher (Multitasking screen).

Note: This feature is not longer avialbe after the iOS 11 update.

Useful Advice: if your iPhone Home button doesn’t work then enable Assistive touch and reach at iPhone app switcher using these steps (open up Assistive touch > Device > More > Tap Multitasking).

Steps guide you on how to turn on/ enable recent and favorite contacts on iPhone App switcher

Step 1. Go to Settings
Step 2. Find Mail, Contacts, Calendar then

Step 3. Scroll down the screen and select Show in App Switcher (Under Contacts section)
Step 4. Now you can see two options Phone favorites and Recents

So now turn on both and then a twice-click home button for quick access to phone favorites and people from recent and calls conversations.

That’s it. So after Enable recent and favorite contacts on iPhone App switcher, now you can get a couple of types of contacts (favorites& recent) by doing double tap iPhone Home button.

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Know how to hide recent and favorite contacts on iPhone App switcher on iOS 9

Even if you don’t like to show recent and favorite contacts on iPhone App switcher. Then you’ve to need hiding these features. And want to hide recent and favorite contacts on the iPhone App switcher? That explained below.

Launch Settings app > choose Mail,contacts,calendar > select Show in App Switcher > do turn off Phone favorites and Recents

You’re done.

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