My favourite new feature of OS X iPhone 3.0
You know what? You can keep your Spotlight, your Cut, Copy & Paste, your MMS and your landscape keyboards, your improved calendar and your Voice Memos* app. With Apple’s latest iPhone OS update, it was a much smaller new feature that made me happy.
Buried in Settings > Phone is a shiny new field: ‘My Number’. For many iPhone owners, this won’t make any odds, but I bought a Pay and Go model, and transferred a number from my old T-Mobile account. Although the transfer was eventually fine, my iPhone resolutely decided that my number (accessible via the Phone app) was the one on the iPhone SIM card, not the one that had been transferred.
As someone notoriously bad at remembering my phone number, this wasn’t great. However, the aforementioned new feature means my Swiss-Cheese memory won’t have the problem again. (And, yeah, I know many other phones have been able to do this for ages—yada yada—but my phone couldn’t.)
* In fact, you really can keep that one, Apple, because I don’t use it, and it’s getting really annoying that you can’t get rid of the default apps. Do we really need Stocks ‘forced’ on us? Gnh.

Cunning Photoshop ahoy! My actual number isn’t 07-blurry squares-blurry squares-blurry squares, etc.
I noticed that this number appears at the top of the contacts list as well as the Summary section of the iPhone screen in iTunes.
It’s also at the top of the Contacts list in phone.app (right above the search field). It isn’t there in the dedicated Contacts app though, which has confused on more than one occasion.
Wow, thanks for sharing, I have learned so much here on your site, thought I’d let you know your efforts are appreciated. I forget my numbers all the time, totally braindead…