If you find a phone number in Safari that you’d like to call, perhaps the phone number of a restaurant where you’d like to make reservations, you needn’t jump to the phone application.

If your iPhone recognises a number as a phone number it will show it as a link. Just tap on the number, and the iPhone will pop-up a message asking if you wish to call or cancel. If you select call your iPhone will dial it for you.

This also works with phone numbers and URLs embedded in e-mails and SMS chats; tapping on either one will place a call or open a Web page, respectively.