iPhone 3.0 Tip: How to Share Contact via Email & MMS

One of the popular questions that I have been asked is how you can share contact with others on iPhone.

Three months ago, I have posted 3 great ways to forward a contact to your friends or co-workers. They should work for you but they’re not perfect. And, the solutions depend on 3rd party applications.

With the release of iPhone 3.0, Apple finally built this feature into iPhone and allows you to share contacts with others via MMS (not available for all carriers) or email natively.

To share a contact on iPhone 3.0, simply view your contact and you’ll see a new button called “Share contact”. Tap on it and select MMS/Email to send out the contact. (For those without MMS enabled, you’ll not be prompted with the option and your contact will be sent out via email)

The contact is delivered in a standard vCard format. When you or your friend receive an email with vCard attached, simply tap on the attachment and you can add the contact.

I’ll continue to post other iPhone tips about iPhone 3.0 OS. So, stay tuned.

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 magatron July 11, 2009 at 4:24 pm: Hi Simon,

I am already on iphone 3.0 but i dont have “Share Contact” option in my contacts. When i tap on a contact, i only see “Text Message” and “Add to Favourites”. Any sujjestions please

2 bdking88 August 26, 2009 at 3:08 am: Yes, same here. I’ve got the brand new iPhone, the latest software, but I don’t have the button to “Share Contact” at all. Just “Text Message” and “Add to Favorites”. Anyone have any ideas?

3 rahul September 3, 2009 at 11:51 pm: hi there, i am facing the same problem on my new iphone 3GS, i had the option of share contact earlier but its not there now…any clue ppl???

4 eric September 7, 2009 at 11:56 pm: on the iphone 3g ver 3.0.1…make sure that you have activated the mms settings for your iphone. Settings>Messages>MMS Messaging>On for you to be able to see the “Share Contact” option.