iPhone Portable Genius

✍ Scribed by Paul McFedries

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Your step-by-step guide to iPhone mastery iPhone Portable Genius delivers a practical and simple guide to quickly learning everything you need to know about the iPhone. Whether you're a novice user with Apple products or a seasoned pro, you'll find a wealth of info designed to show you how to configure your iPhone, set up accounts, manage your contacts and appointments, take stunning pictures, and surf the web. All while keeping your identity and accounts private and secure. Before you know it, you'll be: Mastering the touchscreen Setting up your iPhone to suit the way you work and play Connecting your iPhone to Wi-Fi and setting up your phone as an internet hub Solving the most common iPhone problems Getting the most out of email With straightforward and step-by-step instructions in a portable and convenient package and engaging illustrations, iPhone Portable Genius is the ideal resource for owners and users of one of the world's most popular phones.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 How Do I Start Using My iPhone?
Working with the Side Button
Sleeping and waking the iPhone
Powering the iPhone on and off
Silencing or declining a call
Making a purchase
Working with the Ring/Silent Switch
Operating the Volume Controls
Inserting a SIM Card
Operating the Touchscreen
Navigating the touchscreen
Searching your iPhone
Switching between running apps
Typing on the keyboard
Running Your iPhone from the Control Center
Chapter 2 How Do I Configure My iPhone?
Customizing the Home Screen
Creating an app folder
Adding a web page bookmark to the Home screen
Working with App Notifications
Displaying the Notification Center
Handling notifications within the Notification Center
Customizing notifications
Configuring Do Not Disturb settings
More Useful iPhone Configuration Techniques
Changing the name of your iPhone
Turning sounds on and off
Customizing the keyboard
Setting up Apple Pay
Configuring Siri
Controlling your privacy
Protecting Your iPhone
Locking your iPhone with a passcode
Unlocking your iPhone biometrically
Configuring parental controls
Locating and protecting a lost iPhone
Chapter 3 How Do I Connect My iPhone to a Network?
Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network
Making your first connection
Showing available Wi-Fi networks automatically
Connecting to known networks
Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network
Sending a file from your Mac to your iPhone
Forgetting a Wi-Fi network
Turning off the Wi-Fi antenna
Setting Up Your iPhone as an Internet Hub
Activating the Personal Hotspot
Connecting to the hotspot using Wi-Fi
Keeping an Eye on Your Data Usage
Controlling Network Data
Turning off LTE
Turning off cellular data
Controlling cellular data usage
Turning off data roaming
Switching to Low Data Mode
Switching your iPhone to Airplane Mode
Pairing Your iPhone to Bluetooth Devices
Making your iPhone discoverable
Pairing your iPhone with a Bluetooth keyboard
Pairing your iPhone with a Bluetooth headset
Selecting a paired headset as the audio output device
Unpairing your iPhone from a Bluetooth device
Chapter 4 How Can I Get More Out of the Phone App?
Working with Outgoing Calls
Making calls quickly
Automatically dialing extensions or menu options
Voice dialing a call with Siri
Configuring your iPhone not to show your caller ID
Handling Incoming Calls
Answering a call on other devices
Sending an incoming call directly to voicemail
Replying with a message
Setting a callback reminder
Turning off the call waiting feature
Blocking incoming calls
Forwarding calls to another number
Juggling Multiple Calls and Conference Calls
Managing Your Favorites List
Chapter 5 How Can I Make the Most of iPhone Web Surfing?
Touchscreen Tips for Web Sites
Browsing Tips for Faster Surfing
Opening and managing multiple browser tabs
Opening a tab in the background
Viewing a page without distractions
Requesting a web site’s desktop version
Saving sites as bookmarks
Managing your bookmarks
Saving a page to read later
Retracing your steps with the handy History list
Filling in Online Forms
Turning on AutoFill for faster form input
Saving web site login passwords
Adding web site passwords manually
Getting More Out of Safari on Your iPhone
Maintaining your privacy by deleting the History list
Deleting website data
Browsing privately
Changing the default search engine
Searching web page text
Searching the web with Siri voice commands
Sharing a link via AirDrop
Chapter 6 How Do I Maximize iPhone Email?
Managing Your iPhone Email Accounts
Adding an account by hand
Specifying the default account
Temporarily disabling an account
Deleting an account
Switching to another account
Configuring Email Accounts
Managing multiple devices by leaving messages on the server
Fixing outgoing email problems by using a different server port
Configuring authentication for outgoing mail
Configuring Email Messages
Creating iCloud message folders
Attaching a file from iCloud Drive
Formatting email text
Creating a custom iPhone signature
Disabling remote images in messages
Preventing Mail from organizing messages by thread
Maintaining messages with gestures
Configuring Mail’s swipe options
Marking all messages as read
Controlling email with Siri voice commands
Chapter 7 How Do I Max Out My iPhone’s Photo and Video Features?
Taking Great iPhone Pictures
Taking a basic photo
Checking out the iPhone camera features
Focusing the shot
Locking the focus and exposure
Shooting in low light with Night Mode
Taking live photos
Taking a portrait photo
Taking a panoramic photo
Changing the zoom level
Changing the aspect ratio
Applying a filter
Taking a time-delayed photo
Taking time-lapse photos
Preventing blurry iPhone photos
Getting More Out of iPhone Photos
Scrolling, rotating, zooming, and panning photos
Enhancing a photo
Cropping and straightening
Applying a filter
Adjusting a photo’s lighting
Creating a photo album
Getting More Out of iPhone Videos
Recording video with an iPhone camera
Setting the recording format for video and slo-mo
Editing recorded video
Playing iPhone videos on your TV
Streaming iPhone video to Apple TV
Mirroring the iPhone screen on your TV
Chapter 8 Can I Use My iPhone to Manage Contacts and Appointments?
Managing Your Contacts
Creating a new contact
Editing an existing contact
Adding a photo to a contact
Creating a custom label
Managing contacts with Siri voice commands
Tracking Your Events
Adding an event to your calendar
Editing an existing event
Setting up a repeating event
Converting an event to an all-day event
Adding an alert to an event
Controlling events with Siri voice commands
Creating Reminders
Setting a reminder for a specific time
Setting a reminder for a specific location
Creating a new list
Completing a reminder
Deleting a reminder
Setting the default Reminders list
Setting reminders with Siri voice commands
Chapter 9 How Do I Use My iPhone to Navigate My World?
Finding Your Way with Maps and GPS
Searching for a destination
Getting info about a destination
Displaying your current location
Seeing what’s near you
Displaying a map of a contact’s location
Mapping an address from an email
Specifying a location when you don’t know the exact address
Getting directions to a location
Getting more info about a location
Controlling Maps with Siri voice commands
Configuring Location Services
Turning off location services
Controlling app access to GPS
Enabling or disabling system location services
Sharing Map Data
Chapter 10 How Do I Keep My Life in Sync with iCloud?
Understanding iCloud
Understanding iCloud System Support
Configuring iCloud on Your iPhone
Setting up your iCloud account on your iPhone
Setting up iCloud synchronization on your iPhone
Setting up and using Family Sharing
Setting up iCloud Keychain
Backing up your iPhone
Managing your iCloud storage
Changing your iCloud storage plan
Upgrading to iCloud Drive
Configuring iCloud on Your Mac
Setting up an iCloud account on your Mac
Setting up iCloud synchronization on your Mac
Configuring iCloud on Your Windows PC
Chapter 11 How Do I Fix My iPhone?
General Techniques for Troubleshooting Your iPhone
Troubleshooting connected devices
Resetting the iPhone
Erasing and restoring data and settings
Updating software
Taking Care of the iPhone Battery
Tracking battery use
Checking battery health
Tips for extending battery life
Solving Specific Problems
The iPhone screen won’t respond to taps
Your battery won’t charge
You have trouble accessing a Wi-Fi network
An app is taking up a large amount of space
Index
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