The iPhone Manual - Tips and Hacks

The iPhone Manual - Tips and Hacks

by Wallace Wang
Released November 2020
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781838641016

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Book description

Discover customization and productivity tips with this quick guide for iPhone users

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

Book 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.

What you will learn

  • Use touch gestures and understand the user interface to use any app on the iPhone
  • Explore the latest apps exclusive to iOS 14, such as the translate and magnifier apps
  • Find out how to share data from your iPhone with other devices
  • Set up and customize Siri and learn how to give commands
  • Discover different ways to capture and access pictures and videos
  • Set up an email account and use multiple accounts on a single device
  • Set up FaceTime on your iPhone and discover different ways to make a FaceTime call
  • Use Apple Pay to shop online or send money to other users

Who this book is for

The book is for iPhone users who want to get more out of their state-of-the-art iPhone device and the powerful iOS interface. If you are new to using smartphones or are an Android user new to iPhones, this book will help you migrate efficiently.

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

  • Title: The iPhone Manual - Tips and Hacks
  • Author(s): Wallace Wang
  • Release date: November 2020
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781838641016