iPhone For Dummies

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: Youve 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 Its 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 iPh