Who this? Common response to text messages when you change your number. Well Apple has eliminated the whole restoring of a contact with their new patent. Hit the jump to check it out.


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So, you’ve changed your phone number to escape that stalker (look, we’re sorry, we just wanted to sell you a pyramid scheme), but how do you let all 104 of your remaining friends know without manually texting ’em? The answer lies in Apple’s newly granted patent, which aims to end the tedium by having your device recognize when your number switches and automatically send an updated contact entry to everyone in your address book. Of course, there’s nothing in the claims to say it’s discriminatory, so now we’ve got your number again — have you changed your mind about that pyramid scheme?

Check out the patent here.

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