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iPhone For Dummies, the much-loved guide to Apple’s killer smartphone, is updated for 2023. This book walks you through all the latest features of iOS 16 and the latest iPhone models, including the iPhone 14. Looking for a guide to an older model? We’ve got you covered there, too, with plenty of know-how that applies to previous iPhones. Keep in touch with family and friends all over the world with calls, texts, and FaceTime. We’ll also show you how to use your iPhone as a music player, a gaming system, a camera, and a productivity enhancer, all wrapped up in one touch-screen package.
iPhone For Dummies offers expert insight on how to make the most of your iPhone and its updated features. Peek inside for the latest iOS 16 features, as well as the updated hardware features on the latest iPhone models.
Edward C. Baig is a technology writer whose work has appeared in numerous national publications, including USA Today.
Guy Hart-Davis is the author of various computer books, including macOS Ventura For Dummies and Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone 14.
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book 3
Where to Go from Here 3
Part 1: Meet Your iPhone 5
Chapter 1: Unveiling the iPhone 7
The Big Picture 8
The iPhone as a phone and a digital camera or camcorder 9
The iPhone as an iPod 10
The iPhone as an internet communications device 11
The iPhone as your lifeline 11
Technical specifications 12
A Quick Tour Outside 12
On the sides 13
On the bottom 14
On the front 15
On the back 16
Status bar 17
Home Sweet Home Screen 19
The first Home screen page 20
The second Home screen page 22
The dock (all Home screen pages) 23
Chapter 2: iPhone Basic Training 25
Activating the iPhone 26
Turning the iPhone On and Off 27
Pointing a finger at Touch ID 28
Facing up to Face ID 29
Continuing the setup 31
Locking the iPhone 32
Mastering the Multitouch Interface 33
Discovering the special-use keys 35
One-handed keyboard 36
The incredible, intelligent, and virtual iPhone keyboard 37
Anticipating what comes next 37
Correcting mistakes 40
Choosing an alternative keyboard 40
Cutting, copying, pasting, and replacing 41
Multitasking 42
Navigating beyond the Home Screen 44
Organizing Icons into Folders 45
Visiting App Library 46
Watching Widgets 47
Proactive Searching 48
Notifications and Today View 49
Customizing the Lock Screen 52
Chapter 3: Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPhone 53
A Brief iCloud Primer 54
The Kitchen Sync 57
First things first: About iPhone backups 57
Sync prep 101 59
Syncing Contacts and Calendars 65
Synchronizing Your Media 65
Music, movies, TV shows, and podcasts 66
Photos 68
Manual Syncing 69
Chapter 4: Understanding the Phone-damentals 71
Making a Call 72
Adding contacts 72
Setting up favorites 74
Viewing the Recents list 76
Dialing with the keypad 77
Accessing voicemail visually 77
Recording a greeting 80
Voice dialing 80
Receiving a Call 81
Accepting the call 81
Announcing the caller 81
Rejecting the call 82
Replying with a text message 82
Blocking callers 83
Silencing unknown callers 83
Avoiding disturbances 84
Choosing a ringtone 85
While on a Call 86
Juggling calls 87
Making conference calls 88
Handing off calls 89
Seeing Is Believing with FaceTime 89
Part 2: The PDA iPhone 95
Chapter 5: Taking Control of Your iPhone 97
Controlling Control Center 98
Summoning Siri 101
Figuring out what to ask 103
Siri shortcuts 104
Using dictation 105
Correcting mistakes 105
Making Siri smarter 105
Typing to Siri 106
Chapter 6: Texting 1, 2, 3: Messages and Notes 107
Getting the iMessage 107
You send me: Sending text messages 109
Alert: You’ve got messages 110
Being a golden receiver: Reading and replying to text messages 111
MMS: Like SMS with media 114
Massive multimedia effects 115
SharePlay via Messages 118
Group messaging has never been better 118
Send texts by emergency SOS via satellite 119
Taking Note of Notes 120
Chapter 7: Twelve Indispensable Apps and Utilities 123
Working with the Calendar 123
Year view 124
Month view 124
Day view 124
Week view 126
List view 126
Adding Calendar Entries 127
Displaying multiple calendars 130
Responding to meeting invitations 131
Subscribing to calendars 131
Sharing a family calendar 132
Calculate This 132
Punching the Clock 133
World clock 133
Alarm clock 134
Stopwatch 135
Timer 135
Voicing Memos 136
Making a recording 136
Listening to recordings 137
Trimming recordings 137
Adding a title to a recording 138
Reminding me 140
It’s a Wallet 144
Dropping in on AirDrop 145
Controlling Lights, Locks, and More 146
Using the iPhone in the Car 147
Unlocking the Car 148
Measuring Things 148
Translating Text or Speech 149
Keeping in Good Health 150
Part 3: The Multimedia iPhone 153
Chapter 8: Music to Your Ears: Audio on Your iPhone 155
Introducing Your iPhone’s Music Player 156
It’s music, just not your music 157
My Music Is Your Music 159
A library without library cards 160
Play it again, list 161
Share and share alike 163
Taking Control of Your Tunes 165
Customizing Your Audio Experience 167
Play all songs at the same volume level 167
Setting a sleep timer 168
Using your voice to control your music 169
Listening to Podcasts with the Podcasts App 170
Shopping with the iTunes Store App 172
Chapter 9: “Smile”: Taking Pictures with Your iPhone 173
Taking Your Best Shot 173
Making Photos Come to Life 176
Keeping Things in Focus 176
From the front to the rear — and back 178
Firing up the flash 178
Night mode 179
Using zoom 179
Two (or three) rear cameras are better than one 180
Shooting closeups (iPhone 13 Pros and 14 Pros only) 182
Applying filters 182
Binging on burst shooting 183
Using the self-timer 185
Tracking Down Your Pictures 185
Choosing albums 186
Viewing all your photos 187
Making memories 189
iCloud Shared Photo Library 191
Categorizing your pics 192
Adding captions and gathering information 194
Searching for pictures 194
Sharing albums 195
Admiring Your Pictures 197
Maneuvering and manipulating photos 197
Launching slideshows 198
Storing pictures in the (i)Cloud 200
Editing and Deleting Photos 201
Livening Up Live Photos 203
Leveraging Live Text 205
More (Not So) Stupid Picture Tricks 206
Chapter 10: Starring in a Blockbuster: Video on Your iPhone 211
Finding Stuff to Watch 212
Playing Video 213
Shooting Video 217
Going slow 222
Going fast 223
Going cinematic (iPhone 13s and 14s only) 223
Capturing stereo 224
Editing what you shot 224
Editing cinematic video 225
Sharing video 226
Watching video on TV 226
Augmented reality 227
Restricting video and other usage 227
Part 4: The Internet iPhone 229
Chapter 11: Going on a Mobile Safari 231
Surfin’ Dude 231
Exploring the browser 231
Blasting off into cyberspace 232
I Can See Clearly Now 234
Opening multiple web pages at a time 235
Starting up the start page 236
Keeping tabs of tabs 237
Looking at lovable links 239
Book(mark) ’em, Danno 240
Altering bookmarks 242
Viewing open pages on other devices 243
Letting history repeat itself 243
Launching a mobile search mission 244
Saving web pictures 244
Reading clutter-free web pages 245
Translate web pages 246
Private Browsing 246
Sign in with Apple 247
Smart Safari Settings 247
Chapter 12: The Email Must Get Through 251
Prep Work: Setting Up Your Accounts 252
Setting up your account 252
Setting up an email account with the big guys 252
Setting up an account with another provider 253
Setting up corporate email 254
See Me, Read Me, File Me, Delete Me: Working with Messages 256
Reading messages 256
Filtering mail 257
Managing messages 258
Threading messages 261
Searching emails 262
Darling, You Send Me (Email) 266
Makin’ messages 266
Settings for sending email 276
Setting your message and account settings 278
Chapter 13: Tracking with Maps, Compass, Stocks, Weather, and Files 283
Maps Are Where It’s At 283
Finding your current location with Maps 284
Finding a person, place, or thing 285
Views, zooms, and pans 286
Timesaving map tools: Contacts, Recents, Guides, and Favorites 288
Smart map tricks 290
Contemplating the Compass 295
Taking Stock with Stocks 295
Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes 296
Details, details, details 297
Charting a course 297
Weather Watching 298
Keeping Track of Documents with Files 299
Part 5: The Undiscovered iPhone 301
Chapter 14: Setting You Straight on Settings 303
Sky-High Settings 304
All about you 304
Airplane mode 305
Wi-Fi 306
Bluetooth 307
Cellular 309
Emergency SOS 311
Report, Sound, and Appearance Settings 311
Notifications 311
Control Center 312
Focus/Do Not Disturb 313
Privacy 314
Sounds 316
Happy Home button (iPhone 7, 8, and SE models) 317
Brightening up your day 317
Auto-lock 318
Home Screen 318
Wallpaper 319
In General 319
About About 320
Software update 320
Storage 320
Background App Refresh 321
Siri & Search 321
AirPlay & Handoff 321
Picture-in-Picture 322
CarPlay 322
VPN & Device Management 322
Battery 323
Touch ID/Face ID & Passcode 324
App Store 325
Wallet & Apple Pay 325
Screen Time 326
Date & Time 327
Keyboard 328
Fonts 329
Language & Region 329
Dictionary 330
Accessibility 330
Reset 333
Phoning in More Settings 334
Promoting harmony through Family Sharing 334
Sorting and displaying contacts 334
Nothing phone-y about these settings 335
Find My 336
Chapter 15: Apps-O-Lutely! 339
Finding Apps 340
Browsing for apps 340
Finding more information about an app 341
Downloading an app 342
App Library 342
Updating an app 344
Deleting and Organizing Your Apps 344
Deleting an app 344
Organizing your apps 345
App clips 347
Apple’s Arcade 348
Books, Newspapers, and Magazines 348
Books app 349
Newspapers and magazines 350
Chapter 16: When Good iPhones Go Bad 353
iPhone Issues 354
But first 354
Recharge your iPhone 355
Restart your iPhone 356
Reset (force restart) your iPhone 356
Remove your content 357
Reset your settings and content 358
Restore your iPhone 358
Renew your iPhone with Recovery mode 359
Problems with Calling or Networks 360
Sync, Computer, or iTunes Issues 362
More Help on the Apple Website 363
If Nothing We Suggest Helps 364
Dude, Where’s My Stuff? 365
Part 6: The Part of Tens 367
Chapter 17: Ten Appetizing Apps 369
Shazam 369
ProCam 8 by Tinkerworks Apps 370
OmniFocus 370
Evernote 371
Noizio 372
IMDb 372
Libby 373
Waze Navigation 373
BeCasso 374
Clubhouse 374
Chapter 18: Ten Helpful Hints, Tips, and Shortcuts 375
Use QuickPath for Speed and Accuracy 375
Autocorrect Is Your Friend 376
Connect a Hardware Keyboard 377
Assault on Batteries 378
Tricks with Links and Phone Numbers 380
Share the Love and the Links 381
Choose a Home Page for Safari 381
Create Ringtones for Free in GarageBand 382
Getting Apps Out of App Switcher 384
Taking a Snapshot of the Screen 385
Index 387
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