iPhone For Dummies, 9th Edition

Are you ready for a new iPhone or an upgrade to your old one? Start here! Do you have your eye on a brand new iPhone 6s or 6s Plus? Or do are you opting to make an older model run like new? Either way, iPhone For Dummies, 9th Edition is the place to start. This book has the step-by-step guidance you need to learn how to use your phone's many features and functions. Newly updated to cover both the latest features you'll find on the 6s and 6s Plus as well as perennial iPhone features that you'll find on all recent models, this revised text provides you with straightforward, yet fun instructions, tips, and advice to guide you in taking advantage of all that the iPhone's technology has to offer. You first get started with your iPhone by exploring its settings and features. Then you dive into specific topics that accumulate in a comprehensive understanding of how to navigate your new phone, such as using the multi-touch interface, synching your data, using iCloud, making phone calls, using FaceTime, taking photos and videos, and more. Since June of 2007, Apple has sold more than 500 million iPhones. The success of the iPhone is largely due to the technology that powers it—and it's important that you understand how to use this technology to navigate your phone (and get every penny's worth of functionality out of it). Explore the basics of your new iPhone, from using the interface to organizing your schedule Discover multi-media capabilities of your phone, such as the ability to surf the web, watch videos, listen to music, etc. Keep your data organized and at your fingertips through iCloud and data synchronization Find and add the apps that make your iPhone your sidekick for all you do in a day iPhone For Dummies, 9th Edition, revised and ready to guide you through the latest technologies, is the perfect resource when you're ready to conquer your new or older iPhone's many features. Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Table of Contents 9 Introduction 17 About This Book 17 Foolish Assumptions 18 Icons Used in This Book 18 Beyond the Book 19 Where to Go From Here 19 Part I Meet Your iPhone 21 Chapter 1 Unveiling the iPhone 23 The Big Picture 23 The iPhone as a phone and a digital camera or camcorder 25 The iPhone as an iPod 26 The iPhone as an Internet communications device 26 Technical specifications 27 A Quick Tour Outside 28 On the top and side 28 On the bottom 30 On the front 31 On the back 32 Status bar 33 Home Sweet Home Screen 35 The first Home screen 35 The second Home screen 37 The dock (all Home screens) 38 Chapter 2 iPhone Basic Training 39 Activating the iPhone 40 Turning the iPhone On and Off 42 Pointing a finger at Touch ID 43 Continuing the setup 45 Locking the iPhone 45 Understanding Pressure-Sensitive Touch 47 Mastering the Multitouch Interface 47 Discovering the special-use keys 49 The incredible, intelligent, and virtual iPhone keyboard 50 Anticipating what comes next 51 Finger-typing on the virtual keyboards 51 Correcting mistakes 55 Choosing an alternative keyboard 56 Cutting, copying, pasting, and suggesting 56 Multitasking 58 Navigating beyond the Home Screen 60 Organizing Icons into Folders 61 Proactive Searching 62 Notifications 64 Chapter 3 Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPhone 67 A Brief iCloud Primer 68 The Kitchen Sync 70 First things first: About iPhone backups 70 Sync prep 101 71 Syncing Your Data 75 Syncing contacts 76 Syncing calendars 77 Advanced syncing 77 Synchronizing Your Media 78 Ringtones, music, movies, and TV shows 79 Podcasts, iTunes U, and books 81 Photos 82 Manual Syncing 84 Chapter 4 Understanding the Phone-damentals 87 Making a Call 88 Contacts 88 Favorites 90 Recents 92 Keypad 93 Visual voicemail 93 Recording a greeting 96 Voice dialing 97 Receiving a Call 97 Accepting the call 97 Rejecting the call 97 Replying with a text message 98 Blocking callers 99 Avoiding disturbances 99 Choosing ringtones 100 While on a Call 101 Juggling calls 103 Making conference calls 103 Handing off calls 105 Seeing Is Believing with FaceTime 105 Part II The PDA iPhone 109 Chapter 5 Taking Control of Your iPhone 111 Controlling Control Center 112 Summoning Siri 113 Figuring out what to ask 115 Using dictation 116 Correcting mistakes 117 Making Siri smarter 117 Voice Dialing 118 Chapter 6 Texting 1, 2, 3: Messages and Notes 121 Getting the iMessage 121 You send me: Sending text messages 123 Alert: You’ve got messages 124 Being a golden receiver: Reading and replying to text messages 127 MMS: Like SMS with media 129 Group messaging has never been better 130 Taking Note of Notes 131 Chapter 7 Eight Indispensible Utilities 133 Working with the Calendar 134 Year view 134 Month view 134 Day view 135 Week view 136 List view 136 Adding Calendar Entries 137 Letting your calendar push you around 141 Displaying multiple calendars 141 Responding to meeting invitations 142 Subscribing to calendars 143 Sharing a family calendar 143 Calculate This 144 Punching the Clock 145 World clock 145 Alarm clock 147 Stopwatch 148 Timer 148 Voicing Memos 149 Making a recording 149 Listening to recordings 150 Trimming recordings 150 Adding a title to a recording 151 Reminding me 152 It’s a Wallet 154 Dropping in on AirDrop 156 Keeping in Good Health 157 Part III The Multimedia iPhone 159 Chapter 8 Get in Tune(s): Audio on Your iPhone 161 Introducing Your iPhone’s Music Player 162 It’s music, just not YOUR music 162 My Music Is Your Music 166 A library without library cards 166 Play it again, list 168 Share and share alike 170 Taking Control of Your Tunes 172 Customizing Your Audio Experience 174 Setting preferences 175 Setting a sleep timer 176 Using your voice to control your music 177 Shopping with the iTunes Store app 178 Chapter 9 “Smile”: Taking Pictures with Your iPhone 179 Taking Your Best Shot 180 Making Photos Come to Life 182 Keeping Things in Focus 182 From the front to the rear — and back 183 Firing up the flash 183 Using digital zoom 184 Applying filters 185 Binging on burst shooting 186 Using the self-timer 189 Tracking Down Your Pictures 189 Choosing albums 190 Categorizing your pics 192 Searching for pictures 194 Sharing your photos 194 Admiring Your Pictures 196 Maneuvering and manipulating photos 196 Launching slideshows 198 Storing pictures in the (i)Cloud 199 Editing and Deleting Photos 200 More (Not So) Stupid Picture Tricks 203 Chapter 10 Starring in a Blockbuster: Video on Your iPhone 209 Finding Stuff to Watch 210 Playing Video 211 Shooting Video 215 Going slow 218 Going fast 218 Editing what you shot 219 Sharing video 220 Watching video on TV 221 Restricting video and other usage 221 Part IV The Internet iPhone 223 Chapter 11 Going On a Mobile Safari 225 Surfin’ Dude 226 Exploring the browser 226 Blasting off into cyberspace 227 I Can See Clearly Now 229 Opening multiple web pages at a time 231 Looking at lovable links 232 Book(mark) ’em, Dano 232 Altering bookmarks 235 Viewing open pages on other devices 236 Letting history repeat itself 236 Launching a mobile search mission 237 Saving web pictures 238 Reading clutter-free web pages 238 Private Browsing 239 3D Touch and Safari 240 Smart Safari Settings 240 Chapter 12 The Email Must Get Through 243 Prep Work: Setting Up Your Accounts 244 Setting up your account the easy way 244 Setting up your account the less easy way 244 Setting up corporate email 247 See Me, Read Me, File Me, Delete Me: Working with Messages 249 Reading messages 249 Managing messages 251 Threading messages 253 Searching emails 255 Darling, You Send Me (Email) 258 Makin’ messages 258 Settings for sending email 266 Setting your message and account settings 267 Special Mail options on the 6s and 6s Plus 270 Chapter 13 Tracking with Maps, Compass, Stocks, and Weather 271 Maps Are Where It’s At 271 Finding your current location with Maps 272 Finding a person, place, or thing 273 Views, zooms, and pans 274 Timesaving map tools: Favorites, Recents, and Contacts 275 Smart map tricks 278 Contemplating the Compass 282 Taking Stock with Stocks 283 Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes 284 Details, details, details 284 Charting a course 285 Weather Watching 286 Part V The Undiscovered iPhone 289 Chapter 14 Setting You Straight on Settings 291 Sky-High Settings 292 Airplane mode 292 Wi-Fi 293 Bluetooth 294 Cellular 296 Report, Sound, and Appearance Settings 297 Notifications 297 Control Center 298 Do Not Disturb 298 Privacy 298 Sounds 300 Brightening up your day 301 Wallpaper 301 In General 302 About About 302 Software update 302 Storage & iCloud Usage 303 Background App Refresh 303 Siri 304 Handoff and Suggested Apps 304 CarPlay 304 VPN 304 iTunes Wi-Fi sync 305 Spotlight search 305 Auto-lock 305 Battery 306 Touch ID & Passcode 306 Restrictions 307 Date & Time 308 Keyboard 309 Language & Region 310 Accessibility 310 Reset 313 Phoning In More Settings 313 iCloud 313 Promoting harmony through Family Sharing 314 Twitter 314 Facebook 314 Flickr and Vimeo 315 Sorting and displaying contacts 315 Nothing phone-y about these settings 316 Find My iPhone 317 Chapter 15 Apps-O-Lutely! 319 Using Your Computer to Find Apps 320 Looking for apps from your computer 320 Getting more information about an app 324 Downloading an app to your computer 326 Updating an app from your computer 326 Using Your iPhone to Find Apps 327 Looking for apps from your iPhone 327 Finding more information about an app 328 Downloading an app to your iPhone 328 Updating an app from your iPhone 330 Deleting and Organizing Your Apps 330 Deleting an app 331 Organizing your apps 332 Books, Newspapers, and Magazines 335 iBooks for your iPhone 336 Newspapers and magazines 337 Chapter 16 When Good iPhones Go Bad 339 iPhone Issues 340 But first . . . 340 Recharge your iPhone 341 Restart your iPhone 341 Reset your iPhone 342 Remove your content 342 Reset your settings and content 343 Restore your iPhone 344 Renew your iPhone with Recovery mode 344 Problems with Calling or Networks 345 Sync, Computer, or iTunes Issues 347 More Help on the Apple Website 348 If Nothing We Suggest Helps 350 Dude, Where’s My Stuff? 352 Part VI The Part of Tens 355 Chapter 17 Ten Appetizing Apps 357 Shazam 358 SoundCloud 359 TripCase 360 Evernote 361 Bill Atkinson PhotoCard 363 IMDb 364 Tunity 365 iTunes U 366 Waze 367 WebMD 368 Chapter 18 Ten Apps Worth Paying For 371 Akinator the Genie 371 Comics 373 OldBooth 374 Action Movie FX 375 WordsWorth Pro 377 iTeleport 378 Baseball Statistics 379 Dark Sky 381 Wallet 382 TurboScan 382 Chapter 19 Ten Helpful Hints, Tips, and Shortcuts 385 Do the Slide for Accuracy and Punctuation 385 Autocorrect Is Your Friend 387 Auto apostrophes are good for you 387 Make rejection work for you 387 The Way-Cool Audio Scrub Speed Tip 389 Tricks with Links and Phone Numbers 390 Share the Love . . . and the Links 391 Choosing a Home Page for Safari 391 Storing Files 392 Create Ringtones for Free in GarageBand 393 Getting Apps Out of the Multitasking Screen 395 Taking a Snapshot of the Screen 396 Index 397 EULA 419 www.it-ebooks.info Finding it hard to put your iPhone down, but still haven't figured out how to make the most of its capabilities? Packed with fun instructions, tips, and advice, iPhone For Dummies makes it easy to navigate your way around your new device and unlock all of its state-of-the-art features. The book walks you through surfing the web, staying connected with Facebook and FaceTime, sharing photos and videos, rocking out with music, and much more... Beginning with the basics about getting started with your iPhone, this hands-on guide quickly gets you up and running on setting up e-mail, downloading applications from the App Store, getting organized with Reminders, finding your way around with Maps, synching your stuff to iCloud, buying music and movies from the iTunes store" --Amazon.com Baig and LeVitus help you get all the fun and functionality out of your iPhone! They make it easy to navigate your way around your new device and unlock all of its state-of-the-art features. You'll get a walk-through on surfing the web, staying connected with Facebook and FaceTime, sharing photos and videos, rocking out with music, and much more