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Add the Contacts widget to your iPhone's Home Screen to quickly send a message, call, or video chat with your most-contacted people. Learning how to make a widget on your iPhone Home Screen with your most frequent contacts is super easy. Let's learn how to save contacts to the iPhone Home Screen!
Why You'll Love This Tip:
- With the Contacts widget on your iPhone's Home Screen, the people you call and text most are just a tap away.
- You can add one, four, or six of your top contacts to the Home Screen for easy access.
How to Add Your Favorite Contacts to the Home Screen on Your iPhone
System Requirements
The Contacts widget feature is available with iOS 15 and later, but the screenshots shown were captured using iOS 18. Find out how to update to the latest version of iOS.
iPhone widgets are so convenient and useful, and the Contacts widget is one of my favorites. You can add one, four, or six of your most-used contacts to your iPhone's Home Screen! To learn more about other ways to use widgets, check out our Tip of the Day newsletter.
- Touch and hold a blank spot on the Home Screen until the app icons begin to wiggle.
![touch and hold blank spot on home screen to enter wiggle mode]( "touch and hold blank spot on home screen to enter wiggle mode")
- Tap Edit in the upper-left corner.
![tap edit in upper left corner]( "tap edit in upper left corner")
- Tap Add Widget.
![tap add widget to see which widgets you can add to home screen]( "tap add widget to see which widgets you can add to home screen")
- Scroll down and find Contacts in the widget options, or type "Contacts" in the Search bar, then tap Contacts.
![type contacts in search field then tap contacts]( "type contacts in search field then tap contacts")
- First, you'll see an option to add a single contact to your Home Screen. Swipe left to see options to add four or six contacts.
![swipe left to see option to add four contacts]( "swipe left to see option to add four contacts")
- When you've decided how many of your favorite contacts you'd like to add to your Home Screen, tap Add Widget.
![tap add widget or swipe right to one or four then tap add widget]( "tap add widget or swipe right to one or four then tap add widget")
- Tap Done or tap a blank spot on your Home Screen to leave Wiggle mode.
![tap done to finish adding contact widget on iphone]( "tap done to finish adding contact widget on iphone")
Note
There is a known issue with this feature that is usually easy to fix. If your Contacts widget fails to load properly, try plugging the iPhone in, making sure it's connected to a stable Wi-Fi network, and leaving it alone for a few hours or overnight. More often than not, this fixes the issue. In rare circumstances, the widget will still fail to load properly. In this case, you can either try removing and re-adding the widget or simply wait for the next iOS update, which should bring a fix for this software bug.
Now, your top contacts (those you communicate with the most, not necessarily those marked as Favorites) have been added to your Home Screen as the Contacts widget! You'll even see their locations if they've shared their location with you! You can long press and drag the widget to move it around if you want to change its location.
