The iPhone Manual – Tips and Hacks

Description

The iPhone is the most popular smartphone available on the market, renowned for its sophisticated design, immersive UI, and user safety. And even if you’ve bought an iPhone for its impressive specifications, you may still be unaware of many of its features, which you’ll discover with the help of this book!

The iPhone Manual is your practical guide to uncovering the hidden potential of iPhones, and will leave you amazed at how productive you can be by learning tips and hacks for customizing your device as a communication, entertainment, and work tool. You’ll unearth the complete range of iPhone features and customize it to streamline your day-to-day interaction with your device. This iPhone manual will help you explore your iPhone’s impressive capabilities and fully understand all the features, functions, and settings that every iPhone owner should know. With this book, you’ll get to grips with not only the basics of communication but also best practices for accessing photos, videos, and music to set up your entertainment using your iPhone. In addition to this, you’ll learn about serious work tools that will make you productive in your everyday tasks.

By the end of this iPhone book, you’ll have learned how to use your iPhone to perform tasks and customize your experience in ways you probably didn’t realize were possible.

Key Features

• Learn everything about your iPhone quickly to use it as an effective tool for communication, entertainment, and work
• Customize your phone’s look and sound and modify the iOS’s privacy settings
• Keep your apps tidy and organized using the App Library

Table of Contents

1.  The iPhone Manual – Tips and Hacks
2. Why subscribe?
3. Contributors
4. About the author
5. About the reviewer
6. Packt is searching for authors like you
7. Acknowledgements
8. Preface
9. Who this book is for
10. What this book covers
11. To get the most out of this book
12. Download the color images
13. Get in touch
14. Reviews
15. Chapter 1: Learning Basic Touch Gestures
    1. Using tap gestures
    2. Using swipe gestures
    3. Using left- and right-swipe gestures to navigate screens
    4. Using left-swipe gestures to delete items in a list
    5. Using the down-swipe gesture to view Notifications Center
    6. Using up- and down-swipe gestures to view more information
    7. Using up – and left/right-swipe gestures to switch apps
    8. Using swipe gestures to open Control Center
    9. Using long-press gestures
    10. Using drag gestures
    11. Using pinch gestures
    12. Using rotation gestures
    13. Summary
16. Chapter 2: Using the New iOS 14 Apps
    1. Using the Magnifier app
    2. Using the App Library
    3. Summary
17. Chapter 3: Customizing Sound, Look, and Privacy Settings
    1. Getting an Apple ID
    2. Protecting your iPhone
    3. Using passcodes
    4. Using Touch ID
    5. Using Face ID
    6. Making sure you don’t lose your iPhone
    7. Setting up tracking
    8. Locating a missing iPhone
    9. Changing the wallpaper
    10. Customizing sounds and haptics
    11. Blocking out disturbances
    12. Adjusting text size and screen brightness
    13. Customizing date/time formats
    14. Customizing the battery
    15. Defining an emergency SOS
    16. Protecting your privacy
    17. Defining notification settings
    18. Setting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and hotspots
    19. Connecting to a Wi-Fi network
    20. Turning on Bluetooth
    21. Creating a hotspot
    22. Finding information about your iPhone
    23. Updating an iPhone
    24. Using accessibility features
    25. Summary
18. Chapter 4: Making Phone Calls
    1. Making a call
    2. Typing a complete phone number
    3. Calling a phone number from the screen
    4. Storing and calling a number from the Contacts app
    5. Calling a favorite person
    6. Calling recent callers
    7. Receiving a call
    8. Defining a ringtone and haptic feedback
    9. Creating a reminder for returning a call
    10. Creating messages for returning a call
    11. Taking multiple calls
    12. Blocking callers
    13. Blocking disturbances
    14. Summary
19. Chapter 5: Sending Text Messages
    1. Understanding text messages
    2. Sending a text message
    3. Sending pictures as a text message
    4. Sending emojis as a text message
    5. Sending stickers as a text message
    6. Creating Memojis
    7. Sending a Digital Touch drawing as a text message
    8. Sending audio as a text message
    9. Sending animated fitness images as a text message
    10. Sending animated images as a text message
    11. Sending a song you’re currently playing as a text message
    12. Sending money through a text message
    13. Receiving and responding to text messages
    14. Responding to text messages with symbols
    15. Hiding a text message conversation
    16. Deleting a text message conversation
    17. Summary
20. Chapter 6: Using Siri
    1. Setting up Siri
    2. Asking Siri questions
    3. Giving Siri commands
    4. Getting the current time
    5. Getting the current weather
    6. Translating words and phrases
    7. Setting, editing, and deleting an alarm
    8. Setting a timer
    9. Setting a reminder
    10. Setting an appointment
    11. Getting directions
    12. Sending and receiving text messages
    13. Making phone calls
    14. Opening an app
    15. Tracking flights above you
    16. Summary
21. Chapter 7: Taking and Sharing Pictures
    1. Capturing still images
    2. Capturing a photo or square image
    3. Capturing a portrait image
    4. Capturing a panoramic image
    5. Capturing screenshots
    6. Recording video
    7. Recording ordinary video
    8. Recording time-lapse video
    9. Recording slow motion video
    10. Using the Photos app
    11. Viewing images and videos in the photos category
    12. Viewing images and videos in the For You category
    13. Creating albums to organize images and videos
    14. Editing images and videos
    15. Editing Live Photos
    16. Trimming a video
    17. Adjusting the appearance of an image or video
    18. Applying filters to an image or video
    19. Resetting the orientation of an image or video
    20. Cropping an image or video
    21. Tagging and sharing images and videos
    22. Tagging an image or video
    23. Sharing an image or video
    24. Deleting images and videos
    25. Summary
22. Chapter 8: Listening to Music
    1. Listening to the radio
    2. Listening to Music 1
    3. Listening to internet radio stations
    4. Listening to podcasts
    5. Downloading podcast episodes
    6. Deleting downloaded podcast episodes
    7. Unsubscribing from a podcast
    8. Transferring music to an iPhone
    9. Transferring audio from a Macintosh
    10. Transferring audio files with iTunes
    11. Storing and organizing audio files on an iPhone
    12. Creating playlists
    13. Editing a playlist
    14. Playing an audio file
    15. Deleting audio files
    16. Summary
23. Chapter 9: Browsing the Internet with Safari
    1. Browsing websites
    2. Typing a website address
    3. Changing text size
    4. Reloading web pages
    5. Navigating between web pages
    6. Opening and switching between multiple web pages
    7. Opening additional web pages
    8. Switching between open web pages
    9. Closing web pages
    10. Private browsing
    11. Defining privacy settings in Safari
    12. Bookmarking websites
    13. Creating a bookmark
    14. Using a bookmark
    15. Deleting and moving a bookmark
    16. Viewing browsing history
    17. Using reading lists
    18. Storing web pages in a reading list
    19. Viewing web pages in a reading list
    20. Deleting web pages in a reading list
    21. Sharing websites
    22. Searching with Safari
    23. Summary
24. Chapter 10: Sending and Receiving Email
    1. Setting up an email account
    2. Setting up a common email account
    3. Manually setting up an email account
    4. Sending email
    5. Writing and sending email
    6. Saving email as a draft
    7. Attaching files to an email message
    8. Reading messages
    9. Choosing a message to read
    10. Responding to a message
    11. Moving a message to the Archive folder
    12. Deleting a message
    13. Creating a VIP list
    14. Filtering email
    15. Flagging messages
    16. Dealing with junk email
    17. Summary
25. Chapter 11: Using FaceTime
    1. Setting up FaceTime
    2. Using Wi-Fi for a FaceTime call
    3. Making a FaceTime call
    4. Talking in a FaceTime call
    5. Adding multiple people to a FaceTime call
    6. Using visual effect filters in FaceTime
    7. Adding text to a FaceTime image
    8. Adding shapes to a FaceTime image
    9. Adding activities to a FaceTime image
    10. Adding memojis to a FaceTime image
    11. Adding emojis to a FaceTime image
    12. Summary
26. Chapter 12: Reading eBooks
    1. Getting eBooks from Apple’s bookstore
    2. Adding eBooks to the Books app
    3. Adding eBooks from a Macintosh
    4. Adding eBooks from an iPhone/iPad
    5. Opening an eBook
    6. Choosing from the Reading Now list
    7. Choosing from your eBook library
    8. Searching for an eBook title
    9. Reading an eBook
    10. Closing an eBook
    11. Viewing a table of contents
    12. Searching an eBook
    13. Bookmarking a page
    14. Changing text size in an ePub eBook
    15. Taking notes in an ePub eBook
    16. Highlighting in an ePub eBook
    17. Reading a PDF eBook
    18. Summary
27. Chapter 13: Storing Contact Information
    1. Storing contact information
    2. Communicating through the Contacts app
    3. Combining duplicate contacts
    4. Displaying birthdays
    5. Defining favorites
    6. Sharing contacts
    7. Deleting contacts
    8. Creating emergency contacts
    9. Summary
28. Chapter 14: Setting Appointments and Reminders
    1. Setting appointments
    2. Editing and deleting an appointment
    3. Setting reminders and travel time
    4. Defining recurring appointments
    5. Adding meeting locations
    6. Inviting others to an appointment
    7. Adding notes to an appointment
    8. Typing text on an appointment
    9. Attaching files to an appointment
    10. Attaching URLs to an appointment
    11. Deleting an appointment
    12. Summary
29. Chapter 15: Writing Notes and Recording Voice Memos
    1. Taking notes
    2. Understanding folders
    3. Creating a new note
    4. Typing and editing text
    5. Formatting text
    6. Using tables
    7. Modifying table rows and columns
    8. Moving and copying rows and columns
    9. Copying a table
    10. Sharing a table
    11. Converting tables to text
    12. Deleting a table
    13. Creating checklists
    14. Adding pictures to a note
    15. Cropping images into a note
    16. Adding images and videos to a note
    17. Adding a picture from the Photo Library to a note
    18. Drawing in a note
    19. Searching notes
    20. Viewing notes as thumbnails
    21. Password protecting notes
    22. Capturing audio with Voice Memos
    23. Summary
30. Chapter 16: Getting Directions with Maps
    1. Customizing the Maps app
    2. Getting directions
    3. Adding a detour
    4. Viewing a list of instructions
    5. Searching around you
    6. Creating favorite locations
    7. Using a guide
    8. Deleting a location in a guide
    9. Placing markers on a map
    10. Using the compass
    11. Changing the appearance of a map
    12. Summary
31. Chapter 17: Getting Time, Weather, and Stock Information
    1. Using the Clock app
    2. Using the world clock
    3. Setting alarms
    4. Using a stopwatch
    5. Setting a timer
    6. Getting weather forecasts
    7. Viewing stock quotes
    8. Summary
32. Chapter 18: Using Apple Pay
    1. Setting up Apple Pay
    2. Adding multiple cards to your Apple Pay account
    3. Removing cards from your Apple Pay account
    4. Defining a shipping address
    5. Paying with Apple Pay
    6. Viewing past transactions
    7. Getting an Apple Card
    8. Summary
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Author Biography

Wallace Wang has written dozens of computer books over the years, including Microsoft Office for Dummies and Beginning Programming for Dummies, along with Macintosh and the iPhone books such as macOS Programming for Absolute Beginners, Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 5, Pro iPhone Development with Swift 5, and Beginning ARKit for iPhone and iPad.
When he’s not helping people discover the fascinating world of programming, he performs stand-up comedy and appears on two radio shows on KNSJ in San Diego called Notes From the Underground and Laugh-In Your Face Radio.
In his free time, Wallace also writes a screenwriting blog called The 15 Minute Movie Method and a blog about the latest cat news on the Internet called Cat Daily News.