iPhone For Dummies

Hey Siri, order iPhone For Dummies 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. Learn your way around your Apple iPhone 14 (or older models) Discover the new features of iOS 16 and make the most of your phone Customize your settings, keep your phone secure, and master the apps Take pictures, communicate with FaceTime, play games, and beyond 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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.