If you get a call from someone in your contacts list, you will be able to tell as your phone will likely display their caller ID.
However, there's a way for iPhone owners to work out who's calling them before the phone even leaves their pockets. As with other smartphones, you can set specific ringtones for specific contacts, but there's a clever trick that takes this even further.
iPhone users can work out who's calling them, even when their devices are on silent as they can set distinct vibration patterns for individual contacts, writes the Mirror.
In an online version of the iPhone User Guide, Apple says all you need to do to set individual ringtones or vibration patterns is head to your Contacts app, find the contact you want, and tap Edit.
From there, you can choose a specific ringtone and text tone that will only apply to that contact. To change their vibration pattern, tap "create a new vibration" and tap out the pattern you want.
The trick could be handy for those who need to have their phones on silent for work, as they'll be able to quickly tell if it's someone important calling them without having to check.
This trick should work on iPhones from eight onwards with up-to-date IOS systems including the iPhone SE. You can also change the vibration for texts, voicemails, emails, reminders, or any other type of notification.
The clever trick comes after people only recently discovered what the 'i' in iPhone stands for, as Steve Jobs previously stated it means: "internet, individual, instruct, inform and inspire". However, the company's former CEO added it can be open to interpretation.
As for the company's name, Apple, Jobs told writer Walter Isaacson: "It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word 'computer'. Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book."
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