iPhone Mail, Contacts, and Calendars Settings

For the social and organizational parts of your brain, iPhone makes available Mail, Contacts, and Calendar apps; the settings for these apps are covered in the following table. You access the settings listed here by tapping the Settings app icon on the Home screen and then tapping Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Setting	Description
iCloud	Choose to sync mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, bookmarks, notes, photos, and documents and data from an e-mail account wirelessly using iCloud. Set up the Find My iPhone service.
Add Account	Add and manage e-mail accounts.
Fetch New Data	Turn on/off the feature that pushes new e-mails and contacts and calendar info for Microsoft Exchange and MobileMe accounts to you automatically.
Show	Set how many recent messages to show in Mail.
Preview	Set how many lines of e-mail messages are to be shown in the Inbox preview.
Minimum Font Size	Specify the minimum font size for e-mails.
Show To/Cc Label	Turn display of the To/Cc label on or off in e-mails.
Ask Before Deleting	Turn on to display a confirmation dialog before deleting e-mails.
Load Remote Images	Control whether images on websites are displayed; displaying such images can allow a site to gather some information about you and your iPhone.
Organize by Thread	Turn on a feature to organize e-mail messages to and from the same person so those messages appear together in a sub-folder.
Always Bcc Myself	Turn on to send a copy of every e-mail to yourself. (This is in addition to saving a copy in the Sent folder.)
Increase Quote Level	Add one level of indentation to text when you reply to a message.
Signature	Change the signature at the end of all your messages. ("Sent from my iPhone" is the default message.)
Default Account	Specify which account other apps use by default when sharing data via e-mail.
Sort Order	Specify the sort order for contacts (first/last or last/first names).
Display Order	Specify the display order for contacts (first/last or last/first).
My Info	Access a list of contacts to choose one to base your info on.
Import SIM Contacts	Imports contacts saved to your phone’s SIM card to the Contacts app.
New Invitation Alerts	Turn on alerts when you get a new invitation in Mail.
Sync	Control how far back in time events are synced when you connect to your computer and iTunes.
Time Zone Support	Turn on time zone support to show event data and times in your time zone; set your time zone.
Default Alert Times	Set up the default time increment for alerts (such as on the day, 1 day before, and so on) before a birthday, event, or all-day event.
Default Calendar	Choose whether to use the built-in Calendar program or a calendar from a synced program such as Gmail or AOL.
Sync	Set how far back to sync reminders, such as 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months, or sync all reminders regardless of date.
Default List	Specifies where reminders that you create outside of a particular list will be saved.

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