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User Tip: How to Automatically Change Your Status When Your Phone is Idle
You can enable your phone to automatically set your status to Away when your phone is idle for a
certain length of time. After you touch the screen or press a key on your phone, your status changes
to Available again. To enable this feature, tap Settings from Home view, and tap Basic >
Preferences > Presence > Idle Timeout. From the Idle Timeout screen, enable an office hours and
off hours timeout period, and enter the number of minutes your phone should be idle before your
status changes to Away. For steps on how to set your office hours, see Changing Your Office Hours.
Setting Up and Managing a Buddy List
If you want to monitor other people, you need to make sure they are in your Buddy list. You add people to
your Buddy list from your Contact Directory, so in order to add someone to your Buddy list, you must first
add them to your Contact Directory. For information on adding a person to your contact directory see
Working with Your Contact Directory.
To update your Buddy list:
1 From your Contact Directory, tap the contact you want to start or stop monitoring.
1 From the contact’s information screen, tap .
2 From the Edit Contact screen, tap Watch Buddy, and enable or disable the field. The default
setting is Disabled. When enabled, the contact is added to your Buddy list so you can monitor the
contact’s status. When disabled, the contact is removed from your Buddy list, and you cannot
monitor the contact’s status.
3 Tap Save.
When you enabled the Watch Buddy setting for a contact, the contact displays in your Buddy list. To view
your Buddy list, tap Buddies from Lines view.
User Tip: Dialing Buddies
You can quickly dial a buddy by accessing your Buddy list. From Lines view, tap Buddies, tap the
buddy you want to call, and tap Dial.
Blocking Contacts from Viewing Your Status
You can prevent someone from monitoring you by blocking the contact in your Contact Directory. If you
unblock the contact, the contact can add you to their Buddy list and monitor you.