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 Technical specifications 11 A Quick Tour Outside 12 On the sides 12 On the bottom 13 On the front 14 On the back 16 Status bar 16 Home Sweet Home Screen 18 The first Home screen 19 The second Home screen 20 The dock (all Home screens) 22 Chapter 2: iPhone Basic Training 23 Activating the iPhone 24 Turning the iPhone On and Off 25 Pointing a finger at Touch ID 26 Facing up to Face ID 28 Continuing the setup 29 Locking the iPhone 30 Mastering the Multitouch Interface 31 Discovering the special-use keys 32 One-handed keyboard 34 The incredible, intelligent, and virtual iPhone keyboard 35 Anticipating what comes next 35 Correcting mistakes 38 Choosing an alternative keyboard 38 Cutting, copying, pasting, and replacing 39 Multitasking 41 Navigating beyond the Home Screen 42 Organizing Icons into Folders 44 Visiting the App Library 44 Watching Widgets 45 Proactive Searching 46 Notifications and Today View 48 Chapter 3: Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPhone 51 A Brief iCloud Primer 52 The Kitchen Sync 54 First things first: About iPhone backups 55 Sync prep 101 57 Syncing Your Data with iTunes or Finder 62 Syncing contacts 63 Syncing calendars 63 Advanced syncing 64 Synchronizing Your Media 64 Music, movies, TV shows, and podcasts 65 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 80 Accepting the call 81 Announcing the caller 81 Rejecting the call 81 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 87 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 110 MMS: Like SMS with media 113 Massive multimedia effects 114 Group messaging has never been better 118 Taking Note of Notes 119 Chapter 7: Twelve Indispensable Apps and Utilities 121 Working with the Calendar 121 Year view 122 Month view 122 Day view 122 Week view 124 List view 124 Adding Calendar Entries 125 Displaying multiple calendars 128 Responding to meeting invitations 129 Subscribing to calendars 129 Sharing a family calendar 129 Calculate This 130 Punching the Clock 131 World clock 131 Alarm clock 132 Stopwatch 133 Timer 133 Voicing Memos 134 Making a recording 134 Listening to recordings 134 Trimming recordings 135 Adding a title to a recording 135 Reminding me 138 It''s a Wallet 141 Dropping in on AirDrop 143 Controlling Lights, Locks, and More 144 Using the iPhone in the Car 144 Unlocking the Car 145 Measuring Things 145 Translating Text or Speech 146 Keeping in Good Health 147 Part 3: The Multimedia Iphone 149 Chapter 8: Music to Your Ears: Audio on Your iPhone 151 Introducing Your iPhone''s Music Player 152 It''s music, just not your music 153 My Music Is Your Music 156 A library without library cards 156 Play it again, list 158 Share and share alike 160 Taking Control of Your Tunes 162 Customizing Your Audio Experience 164 Setting preferences 164 Setting a sleep timer 165 Using your voice to control your music 166 Listening to Podcasts with the Podcasts App 167 Shopping with the iTunes Store App 169 Chapter 9: "Smile": Taking Pictures with Your iPhone 171 Taking Your Best Shot 171 Making Photos Come to Life 174 Keeping Things in Focus 174 From the front to the rear -- and back 176 Firing up the flash 176 Night mode 177 Using zoom 177 Two (or three) rear cameras are better than one 178 Shooting closeups (iPhone 13 Pros only) 179 Applying filters 180 Binging on burst shooting 181 Using the self-timer 183 Tracking Down Your Pictures 183 Choosing albums 184 Viewing all your photos 185 Making memories 186 Categorizing your pics 189 Adding captions and gathering information 190 Searching for pictures 191 Sharing your photos 192 Admiring Your Pictures 194 Maneuvering and manipulating photos 194 Launching slideshows 195 Storing pictures in the (i)Cloud 197 Editing and Deleting Photos 198 Livening Up Live Photos 201 Leveraging Live Text 203 More (Not So) Stupid Picture Tricks 203 Chapter 10: Starring in a Blockbuster: Video on Your iPhone 207 Finding Stuff to Watch 208 Playing Video 209 Shooting Video 213 Going slow 218 Going fast 218 Going cinematic (iPhone 13s only) 219 Capturing stereo 219 Editing what you shot 220 Editing cinematic video 220 Sharing video 221 Watching video on TV 222 Augmented reality 222 Restricting video and other usage 223 Part 4: The Internet Iphone 225 Chapter 11: Going on a Mobile Safari 227 Surfin'' Dude 227 Exploring the browser 227 Blasting off into cyberspace 228 I Can See Clearly Now 230 Opening multiple web pages at a time .231 Starting up the start page 232 Keeping tabs of tabs 233 Looking at lovable links 235 Book(mark) ''em, Danno 236 Altering bookmarks 238 Viewing open pages on other devices 239 Letting history repeat itself 239 Launching a mobile search mission 240 Saving web pictures 240 Reading clutter-free web pages 241 Translate web pages 242 Private Browsing 242 Sign in with Apple 243 Smart Safari Settings 243 Chapter 12: The Email Must Get Through 247 Prep Work: Setting Up Your Accounts 248 Setting up your account 248 Setting up an email account with the big guys 248 Setting up an account with another provider 249 Setting up corporate email 250 See Me, Read Me, File Me, Delete Me: Working with Messages 251 Reading messages 252 Filtering mail 253 Managing messages 253 Threading messages 257 Searching emails 258 Darling, You Send Me (Email) 261 Makin'' messages 261 Settings for sending email 271 Setting your message and account settings 273 Chapter 13: Tracking with Maps, Compass, Stocks, Weather, and Files 277 Maps Are Where It''s At 277 Finding your current location with Maps 278 Finding a person, place, or thing 279 Views, zooms, and pans 280 Timesaving map tools: Contacts, Recents, Guides, and Favorites 282 Smart map tricks 284 Contemplating the Compass 289 Taking Stock with Stocks 289 Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes 290 Details, details, details 291 Charting a course 291 Weather Watching 292 Keeping Track of Documents with Files 293 Part 5: The Undiscovered Iphone 295 Chapter 14: Setting You Straight on Settings 297 Sky-High Settings 298 All about you 298 Airplane mode 299 Wi-Fi 300 Bluetooth 301 Cellular 303 Emergency SOS 305 Report, Sound, and Appearance Settings 305 Notifications 305 Control Center 306 Focus/Do Not Disturb 307 Privacy 308 Sounds 309 Happy Home button (iPhone 7, 8, and SE models) 310 Brightening up your day 311 Auto-lock 311 Home Screen 312 Wallpaper 312 In General 313 About About 313 Software update 313 Storage 313 Background App Refresh 314 Siri & Search 314 AirPlay & Handoff 314 Picture-in-Picture 315 CarPlay 315 VPN & Device Management 315 Battery 316 Touch ID/Face ID & Passcode 317 App Store 318 Wallet & Apple Pay 319 Screen Time 319 Date & Time 321 Keyboard 321 Fonts 322 Language & Region 322 Dictionary 323 Accessibility 323 Reset.