iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Portable Genius E-Book

Paul McFedries

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Portable Genius
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Seitenzahl: 508

Beschreibung

Save yourself time, hassle, and confusion with this essential guide to the iPhone! The popularity of the iPhone continues to grow every day and shows no sign of slowing down. Now that you've got the latest and greatest iPhone, it's time you discovered all the best and most fun ways to use it! This handy guide presents you with all the important and interesting information you want to know, in a hip, helpful way. Packed with tips, tricks, and techniques, this new edition covers all the practical angles as well as the newest and coolest features, such as iOS 7, Siri, FaceTime video calling, HD video recording, multitasking, and much more. * Reveals numerous tips, tricks, and techniques in a handy trim size to help you get the most out of your iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c * Features the hip, practical Portable Genius approach, designed to show you the key features that keep your digital lifestyle moving right along * Highlights innovative ways to complete various tasks and spare you hassle and aggravation * Details working with the newest features, including iOS 6.1, Siri, FaceTime, HD video recording and editing, multitasking, and more iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Portable Genius is all you need to make the most of your iPhone.

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iPhone® 5s and iPhone® 5c Portable Genius

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Credits

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About the Author

Paul McFedries is a full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 85 books to his credit. Paul’s books have sold more than four million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles iPad and iPad mini Portable Genius; Macs Portable Genius Second Edition; MacBook Air Portable Genius, Fourth Edition; Switching to a Mac Portable Genius, Second Edition; Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macs, Third Edition; Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Mavericks; and The Facebook Guide for People Over 50. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the English language. Paul encourages everyone to drop by his personal website at www.mcfedries.com, or to follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/paulmcf and www.twitter.com/wordspy.

Acknowledgments

Another year, another iPhone, and another edition of iPhone Portable Genius. I enjoy working on this book so much that I almost look forward to writing the new book more than using the new phone (almost!). Why? For starters, it’s just pure fun to write about what’s new and noteworthy in the new iPhone, particularly the lesser-known features that can make your life easier and more efficient. More than that, however, I get to work with a great bunch of professionals at Wiley. There’s a list of all the people who contributed to the making of this book a couple of pages back, and I extend a hearty thanks to all of them for their hard work and competence. A few of those people I had the pleasure of working with directly, including Acquisitions Editor Aaron Black, Project Editor Cricket Krengel, and Copy Editor Marylouise Wiack. Many thanks to each of you for the skill, professionalism, sense of humor, and general niceness that made my job infinitely easier and made this a better book.

iPhone® 5s and iPhone® 5c

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How Do I Start Using My iPhone?

Using the Home Button

Working with the Sleep/Wake Button

Sleeping and waking the iPhone

Powering the iPhone on and off

Silencing or declining a call

Working with the Ring/Silent Switch

Operating the Volume Controls

Getting to Know the Rest of the iPhone

Operating the Touchscreen

Navigating the touchscreen

Searching your iPhone

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 Safari web clip to the Home screen

Resetting the default Home screen layout

Working with App Notifications

Displaying 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

Creating text shortcuts

Configuring Siri

Signing in to your Facebook account

Using Siri to update Facebook

Signing in to your Twitter account

Using Siri to send a tweet

Controlling your privacy

Resetting the iPhone

Protecting Your iPhone

Locking your iPhone with a passcode

Unlocking your iPhone with a fingerprint

Configuring your iPhone to sleep automatically

Backing up your iPhone

Configuring parental controls

Locating and protecting a lost iPhone

Enhancing Your iPhone with Apps

Accessing the App Store on your computer

Accessing the App Store on your iPhone

Syncing apps

Multitasking apps

Using Siri to launch an app

Chapter 3: How Do I Connect My iPhone to a Network?

Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network

Making your first connection

Connecting to known networks

Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network

Stopping incessant Wi-Fi network prompts

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

Connecting to the hotspot using Bluetooth

Connecting to the hotspot using USB

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 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?

Understanding Cellular Speeds

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

Silencing an incoming call

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

Converting a Phone Number into a Contact

Video Calling with FaceTime

Initiating a FaceTime call

Disabling FaceTime

Chapter 5: How Can I Make the Most of iPhone Web Surfing?

Touchscreen Tips for Websites

Browsing Tips for Faster Surfing

Opening and managing multiple browser pages

Working with iCloud tabs

Opening a page in the background

Viewing a page without distractions

Adding bookmarks manually

Managing your bookmarks

Surfing links from your Twitter feed

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 website login passwords

Getting More Out of Safari on Your iPhone

Maintaining your privacy by deleting the History list

Deleting website data

Browsing privately

Tweeting a web page

Sharing a link on Facebook

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 E-mail?

Managing Your iPhone E-mail Accounts

Adding an account by hand

Specifying the default account

Temporarily disabling an account

Deleting an account

Switching to another account

Configuring E-mail Accounts

Managing multiple devices by leaving messages on the server

Fixing outgoing e-mail problems by using a different server port

Configuring authentication for outgoing mail

Configuring E-mail Messages

Processing e-mail faster by identifying messages sent to you

Creating e-mail VIPs

Placing a phone call from an e-mail message

E-mailing a link to a web page

Creating iCloud message folders

Formatting e-mail text

Creating a custom iPhone signature

Disabling remote images in messages

Preventing Mail from organizing messages by thread

Marking all messages as read

Configuring your Exchange ActiveSync settings

Controlling e-mail with Siri voice commands

Chapter 7: How Do I Synchronize My iPhone?

Connecting Your iPhone to Your Computer

Connecting via USB

Connecting via Wi-Fi

Synchronizing Your iPhone Automatically

Bypassing the automatic sync

Troubleshooting automatic syncing

Synchronizing Your iPhone Manually

Synchronizing Your iPhone via Wi-Fi

Synchronizing Information with Your iPhone

Syncing your contacts

Syncing your calendar

Syncing your e-mail account

Syncing your bookmarks

Syncing your notes

Merging data from two or more computers

Handling sync conflicts

Handling large iPhone-to-computer sync changes

Replacing your iPhone data with fresh info

Synchronizing Media with Your iPhone

Syncing music and music videos

Syncing podcasts

Syncing audiobooks

Syncing movies

Syncing TV show episodes

Syncing e-books

Syncing computer photos to your iPhone

Syncing iPhone photos to your computer

Syncing photos via iCloud

Preventing your iPhone from sending photos to your computer

Syncing media with two or more computers

Chapter 8: How Can I Get More Out of Audio Features on My iPhone?

Using Audio Accessories with Your iPhone

Getting More Out of the Music App

Rating a song

Browsing album covers

Controlling music with Siri voice commands

Turning off the Shake to Shuffle feature

Answering an incoming call while listening to music on the headset

Listening to a shared iTunes library

Using AirPlay to stream iPhone audio

Listening to iTunes Radio

Getting More Out of the iTunes App

Creating a custom iTunes menu bar

Redeeming an iTunes gift card

Creating a Custom Ringtone

Using iTunes to create a custom ringtone

Using GarageBand to create a custom ringtone

Syncing ringtones

Working with Playlists

Creating a favorite tunes playlist for your iPhone

Creating a playlist on your iPhone

Customizing Your Audio Settings

Chapter 9: How Do I Max Out My iPhone’s Photo and Video Features?

Getting More Out of iPhone Photos

Understanding the iPhone camera features

Taking a panoramic photo

Taking High Dynamic Range photos

Scrolling, rotating, zooming, and panning photos

Adding an existing photo to a contact

Enhancing a photo

Removing red-eye

Cropping and straightening

Applying a filter

Sending a photo via e-mail

Texting a photo

Sending and receiving a photo via AirDrop

Posting a photo to Facebook

Tweeting a photo

Saving a photo from a text message

Creating a custom photo slide show

Playing a slide show with background music

Creating a photo album

Deleting a photo

Getting More Out of iPhone Video Features

Playing iPhone videos on your TV

Streaming iPhone video to Apple TV

Mirroring the iPhone screen on your TV

Watching videos from a shared iTunes library

Converting a video file to iPhone format

Recording video with an iPhone camera

Editing recorded video

Sending a video via e-mail

Uploading recorded video to YouTube

Editing Video with iMovie for iPhone

Creating a new iMovie project

Opening a project for editing

Importing media into your project

Working with video clips

Working with your project

Chapter 10: Can I Use My iPhone to Manage Contacts and Appointments?

Managing Your Contacts

Creating a new contact

Editing an existing contact

Assigning phone numbers to a contact

Assigning e-mail addresses to a contact

Assigning web addresses to a contact

Assigning social network data to a contact

Assigning physical addresses to a contact

Creating a custom label

Adding extra fields to a contact

Creating a new contact from an electronic business card

Sending and receiving a contact via AirDrop

Working with Facebook contacts

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

Handling Microsoft Exchange meeting requests

Subscribing to a calendar

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

Working with Passes

Chapter 11: 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

Flying over your destination

Displaying your current location

Displaying a map of a contact’s location

Mapping an address from an e-mail

Saving a location as a bookmark for easier access

Specifying a location when you don’t know the exact address

Getting directions to a location

Getting live traffic information

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 12: How Do I Manage My E-book Library?

Getting Your Head around E-book Formats

Syncing E-books via iCloud

Managing Your iBooks Library

Browsing books in the iBookstore

Adding a PDF attachment to your library

Working with collections

Adding other EPUB e-books to your library

Editing the iBooks Bookshelf

Creating a custom e-book cover

Reading E-books with the iBooks App

Controlling e-books on the reading screen

Formatting e-book text

Adding a bookmark

Looking up a word in the dictionary

Highlighting text

Adding a note

Reading Other E-books

Reading Magazines with Newsstand

Chapter 13: How Do I Keep My Life in Sync with iCloud?

Understanding iCloud

Understanding iCloud Device Support

Configuring iCloud on Your iPhone

Setting up your iCloud account on your iPhone

Setting up iCloud synchronization on your iPhone

Setting up iCloud Keychain

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 14: How Do I Fix My iPhone?

General Techniques for Troubleshooting Your iPhone

Troubleshooting connected devices

Updating software

Restoring data and settings

Putting your iPhone in Device Firmware Upgrade mode

Taking Care of the iPhone Battery

Tracking battery use

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

iTunes doesn’t see your iPhone

iTunes won’t sync your iPhone

You have trouble syncing music or videos

You can’t get your iPhone serial number

An app is taking up a large amount of space

Glossary

Introduction

The iPhone is a success not because well over 100 million of them have been sold (or, I should say, not only because well over 100 million of them have been sold; that’s a lot of phones!), but because the iPhone, in just a few years, has reached the status of a cultural icon. Even people who don’t care much for gadgets in general and cell phones in particular know about the iPhone. And for those of us who do care about gadgets, the iPhone elicits a kind of technological longing that can only be satisfied in one way: by buying one (or, in my case, by buying all six versions!).

Part of the iconic status of the iPhone comes from its gorgeous design and remarkable interface, which makes all the standard tasks — surfing, e-mailing, texting, scheduling, and playing — easy and intuitive. But just as an attractive face or an easygoing manner can hide a personality of complexity and depth, so too does the iPhone hide many of its most useful and interesting features.

When you want to get beyond the basics of iPhone and solve some of its riddles, you might consider making an appointment with the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store. More often than not, the on-duty genius gives you good advice on how to get your iPhone to do what you want it to do. The Genius Bar is a great thing, but it isn’t always a convenient thing. In some cases, you may even need to leave your iPhone for a while (No!) to get the problem checked out and, hopefully, resolved.

What you really need is a version of the Genius Bar that’s easier to access, more convenient, and doesn’t require tons of time or leaving your iPhone in the hands of a stranger. What you really need is a portable genius that enables you to be more productive and solve problems — wherever you and your iPhone happen to be.

Welcome, therefore, to iPhone 5s and 5c Portable Genius. This book is like a mini Genius Bar all wrapped up in an easy-to-use, easy-to-access, and eminently portable format. In this book, you learn how to get more out of your iPhone by accessing all the really powerful and time-saving features that aren’t obvious at a casual glance. In this book, you learn about all of the amazing new features found in the iPhone 5s and 5c and in iOS 7, such as the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor, Control Center, Activation Lock, Twitter links, AirDrop, iTunes Radio, and much more. In this book, you learn how to prevent iPhone problems from occurring and (just in case your preventative measures are for naught) how to fix many common problems.

This book is for iPhone users who know the basics but want to take their iPhone education to a higher level. It’s a book for people who want to be more productive, more efficient, more creative, and more self-sufficient (at least as far as the iPhone goes). It’s a book for people who use their iPhone every day but would like to incorporate it into more of their day-to-day activities. It’s a book I had a blast writing, so I think it’s a book you’ll enjoy reading.

Chapter 1 How Do I Start Using My iPhone?

When you first look at your iPhone, you notice its sleek, curvaceous design, and then you notice what might be its most remarkable feature: no buttons! Unlike your garden-variety smartphone bristling with keys and switches and ports, your iPhone has very few physical buttons. This makes for a stylish, possibly even sexy, design, but it also leads to an obvious problem out of the box: How do you work the darn thing? This chapter solves that problem by giving you the grand tour of your iPhone. You learn about the few physical buttons on the phone, and then I show you the real heart of the iPhone, the remarkable touchscreen.

Using the Home Button

The starting point for most of your iPhone excursions is the Home button, which is the circular button on the face of the phone at the bottom, as shown in Figure 1.1. The Home button has five main functions:

1.1 Press the Home button to (among other things) leave standby mode or to return to the Home screen.

When the iPhone is in standby mode, pressing the Home button wakes the iPhone and displays the unlock screen.

When the unlock screen is displayed, leave your thumb (or whichever finger you’ve trained) on the Home button to unlock your iPhone using your fingerprint.

When the iPhone is running, pressing the Home button returns the iPhone to the Home screen.

Pressing and holding the Home button invokes Siri, which enables you to control many iPhone features using voice commands. (If Siri is turned off, pressing and holding the Home button invokes Voice Control, Siri’s predecessor.)

Double-pressing the Home button displays the multitasking bar, which enables you to quickly switch between your running apps (see the section on switching between running apps later in this chapter).

If your iPhone is in standby mode, press the Home button to display the slide to unlock screen, shown in Figure 1.2. (The iPhone displays this screen for up to about 8 seconds, and if you don’t do anything the phone just drops back into standby mode.) Place your finger on the left side of the screen and slide it to the right side of the screen. This unlocks the iPhone and displays the Home screen.

1.2 Slide your finger along the screen from left to right to unlock your iPhone.

Working with the Sleep/Wake Button

If your iPhone is on but you’re not using it, the phone automatically goes into standby mode after one minute. This is called Auto-Lock and it’s a handy feature because it saves battery power when your iPhone is just sitting there. However, you can also put your iPhone into standby mode at any time by using the Sleep/Wake button. You find this button at the top of your phone. It’s the dash-shaped button on the right (see Figure 1.3) and, as you see in this section, this button actually has three main functions: sleeping and waking, powering on and off, and handling incoming calls.

1.3 The Sleep/Wake button on your iPhone.

Sleeping and waking the iPhone

If you’re currently using your iPhone, you put the phone in standby mode by pressing the Sleep/Wake button once. You can still receive incoming calls and texts, but the screen powers down, which drops the power consumption considerably. Tap the Sleep/Wake button again to wake your iPhone. This is just like pressing the Home button: You’re prompted with the slide to unlock screen, and you slide your finger from the left side of the screen to the right to unlock the phone.

Press the Sleep/Wakebutton to put your phone in standby whenever you’re not using the screen. This not only conserves battery power but also prevents accidental screen taps. If you have a program such as the Music app running, it continues to run even after the phone is in standby.

Powering the iPhone on and off

You can also use the Sleep/Wake button to turn off your iPhone so that it uses no power. This is a good idea if your battery is getting low and you don’t think you’ll be able to charge it any time soon. You can still periodically check your messages or make an outgoing call when needed, but as long as you turn the phone off when you’re done, you minimize the chance that your battery will drain completely. You might also want to turn off your iPhone if you won’t be using it for a few days.

Follow these steps to turn off your iPhone:

1. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for three seconds. The slide to power off slider appears on the screen.

If you change your mind and decide to leave your iPhone on, tap Cancel at the bottom of the screen. Note, too, that the slide to power off screen automatically cancels itself if you do nothing for 30 seconds.

2. Use your finger to drag the slider all the way to the right. The iPhone shuts down after a few seconds.

When you’re ready to resume your iPhone chores, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until you see the Apple icon. The iPhone powers up and then a few seconds later displays the unlock screen.

Silencing or declining a call

The Sleep/Wake button has another couple of tricks up its electronic sleeve, and these features give you quick ways to handle incoming calls:

Silence an incoming call. Press the Sleep/Wake button once. This temporarily turns off the ringer, which is great in situations where you don’t want to disturb the folks around you. You still have the standard four rings to answer, should you decide to. If you don’t answer, your iPhone sends the call to your voicemail.

Decline an incoming call. Press the Sleep/Wake button twice. This sends the call directly to voicemail, which is useful in situations where you don’t want the ringing to disturb your neighbors and you don’t want to answer the call. Note that, in this case, you don’t have the option of answering the call.

Working with the Ring/Silent Switch

When a call comes in and you press the Sleep/Wake button once, your iPhone silences the ringer. That’s great if you’re in a meeting or a movie, but the only problem is that it may take you one or two rings before you can tap Sleep/Wake, and by that time the folks nearby are already glaring at you.

To prevent this phone faux pas, you can switch your iPhone into silent mode, which means it doesn’t ring, and it doesn’t play any alerts or sound effects. When the sound is turned off, only alarms that you’ve set using the Clock application will sound. The phone will still vibrate unless you turn this feature off as well.

You switch the iPhone between ring and silent modes using the Ring/Silent switch, which is located on the left side of the iPhone, near the top (assuming you’re holding the phone in portrait mode, where the Home button appears at the bottom), as shown in Figure 1.4.

1.4 Use the Ring/Silent switch to toggle your phone between ring and silent modes.

Use the following techniques to switch between silent and ring modes:

Put the phone in silent mode. Flick the Ring/Silent switch toward the back of the phone. You see an orange stripe on the switch, the iPhone vibrates briefly, and the screen displays a bell with a slash through it.

Resume normal ring mode. Flick the Ring/Silent switch toward the front of the phone. You no longer see the orange stripe on the switch and the iPhone displays a bell on the screen.

Operating the Volume Controls

The volume controls are on the left side of the iPhone (again, when you’re holding the phone in portrait mode), right below the Ring/Silent switch (see Figure 1.4). The button closer to the top of the iPhone is Volume Up, and you press it to increase the volume; the button closer to the bottom of the iPhone is Volume Down, and you press it to decrease the volume. As you adjust the volume, a speaker appears on-screen with filled-in dashes representing the volume level.

You use these buttons to control the volume throughout your iPhone:

If you’re on a call, the volume controls adjust your speaker volume.

If you’re using the Music app, the volume controls adjust the music volume.

In all other situations, the volume controls adjust the output of sounds such as alerts and effects.

Getting to Know the Rest of the iPhone

Except for the touchscreen, there are a number of other physical features of your iPhone that you need to be familiar with.

For starters, the bottom panel of your iPhone has four features (see Figure 1.5):

Headset jack. The headset jack is located at the left of the bottom panel of the iPhone. This is where you plug in the EarPods that came with your iPhone to listen to music or a phone call. You can also use this jack to plug in any other headset or headphones that use a 3.5mm stereo audio jack.

Microphone. This feature is also located at the bottom of your phone, to the right of the headset jack. This is where the iPhone picks up your voice for phone conversations, recording voicemail, and anything else that requires you to speak.

1.5 The bottom panel of your iPhone houses the headset jack, microphone, Lightning connector, and speaker.

Lightning connector. This feature is on the bottom panel of the phone, between the speaker and microphone. This is where you connect the cord to either charge your iPhone or hook it up to a computer.

Speaker. This is located at the bottom of your phone, on the right side of the bottom panel. This is where the sound is broadcast when you turn on the speakerphone or listen to music.

Because the speaker is at the bottom of the phone, you may have trouble hearing it. In that case, turn the iPhone so that the bottom panel is facing you, which should give you better sound quality.

The front of the iPhone holds the Home button, as you’ve seen, but it also has four other features near the top (see Figure 1.6):

Front camera. This is one of the two cameras on the iPhone, and you use this one to take pictures of yourself (and perhaps a nearby friend or loved one) or to conduct FaceTime video calls.

Front microphone. This second (and amazingly tiny) microphone is used for noise cancellation when you’re on a call. This microphone picks up the ambient sounds around you and the iPhone then cancels them out, so the person you’re talking to can hear you more clearly.

Proximity sensor. When you’re on a phone call, this sensor (which is behind the screen and so can’t be seen) determines when your head is near the iPhone, and it then turns off the screen to prevent you from accidentally tapping the screen with your cheekbone.

Ambient light sensor. This sensor (also behind the screen) monitors the surrounding light and automatically turns up the screen brightness when there’s a lot of light and turns down the screen brightness if it’s dark.

1.6 The front of the iPhone holds the front camera and a couple of sensors.

The back of the iPhone is home to three more features (see Figure 1.7):

Rear camera. This is the second of the two iPhone cameras. This one has much higher resolution, so you’ll use it to take most of your iPhone photos.

Rear microphone. Yes, a third microphone! This one is also used for noise cancellation, particularly with video recording through the rear camera.

LED flash. This is the flash used by the rear camera in low-light situations.

1.7 The back of the iPhone is where you’ll find the rear camera and its LED flash.

Finally, the right panel is where you’ll find the SIM card tray, which holds the Nano-SIM card provided by your cellular company. To open the tray, push a SIM removal tool or a pin into the hole on the cover. This ejects the tray, as shown in Figure 1.8.

1.8 Push a SIM removal tool or pin into the hole to eject the tray.

Operating the Touchscreen

I can’t get enough of the touchscreen on the iPhone, and I think it’s the phone’s best feature, by far. You can zoom in and out, scroll through lists, drag items here and there, and even type messages. Amazingly, the touchscreen requires no external hardware to do all this. You don’t need a stylus or digital pen, and you don’t need to attach anything to the iPhone. Instead, the touchscreen requires just your finger (or, for some operations, a couple of fingers).

Navigating the touchscreen

There are a few maneuvers that you need to be familiar with to successfully use the touchscreen in all its glory. Take some time to try these out now. I’ll refer to these gestures throughout the rest of the book, so play around and make sure you understand them.

Tap. This means that you use your finger to quickly press and release the screen where desired. This gesture is what you use to initiate just about any action on the iPhone. This opens applications, activates options, enters text boxes, and much more.

Double-tap. This is what it sounds like: two quick taps with your finger. In applications such as Photos or Safari, it zooms in on images or chunked parts of web pages. A second double-tap zooms back out.

Swipe and flick. To swipe means to drag your finger across the screen. You use this technique to scroll through lists, drag items to different spots, and unlock the iPhone. Flicking is just an exaggerated swipe. This rapidly scrolls through lists. Flick your finger up and down (or sometimes left and right) on the screen and the iPhone rapidly scrolls through the list. The faster the flick, the faster the scroll. Touch the screen to stop the scrolling process.

Spread and pinch. You use these techniques to zoom in on or out of the screen. To spread means to move two fingers apart, and you use it to zoom in; to pinch means to move two fingers closer together, and you use it to zoom out. This is especially useful when viewing web pages because the text is often too small to read. Spread to zoom in on the text, making it readable, and pinch to return to the full screen for easy scrolling and navigation.

Searching your iPhone

Parkinson’s Law of Data pithily encapsulates an inescapable fact of digital life: “Data expands to fill the space available for storage.” With each new iteration of the iPhone, the space available for storage keeps getting larger: from 4GB in the original phone to 64GB in a top-of-the-line iPhone 5s. So, following Parkinson’s Law, we keep adding more data to our iPhones: music, photos, contacts, e-mail messages, Safari bookmarks, and on and on.

That’s cool because it means you can bring more of your digital world with you wherever you go, but there’s another law that quickly comes into play; call it McFedries’ Law of Digital Needles in Electronic Haystacks: “The more data you have, the harder it is to find what you need.” Fortunately, iOS rides to the rescue by adding welcome search features to the iPhone.

If you use a Mac, then you probably know how indispensable the Spotlight search feature is. It’s just a humble text box, but Spotlight enables you to find anything on your Mac in just a blink or two of an eye. It’s an essential tool in this era of massive hard drives. (Windows users get much the same functionality with Start screen or Start menu searches.)

The size of your iPhone hard drive might pale in comparison to your desktop’s drive, but you can still pack an amazing amount of stuff into that tiny package, so you really need a way to search your entire iPhone, including e-mail, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, apps, and much more. And, best of all, Spotlight on the iPhone is just as easy to use as Spotlight on the Mac:

1. Tap the Home button to return to the Home screen.

2. Flick down on the screen. The iPhone displays the Search iPhone box at the top of the screen.

3. Enter your search text. Your iPhone immediately begins displaying items that match your text as you type, as shown in Figure 1.9.

1.9 Flick down on the Home screen and then type your search text.

4. Tap Search to see the complete results. If you see the item you’re looking for, tap it to open it.

Spotlight looks for a wide variety of items within your iPhone hard drive. If you find you’re getting too many results, you can configure Spotlight to only search selected sources, and you can also change the order in which Spotlight returns the results. Tap Settings, tap General, and then tap Spotlight Search. In the Spotlight Search screen, tap any data type that you don’t want to see in the search result. You can also tap and drag the move handle on the right to position each type in the list.

Typing on the keyboard

You can type on your iPhone, although don’t expect to pound out the prose as easily as you can on your computer. The on-screen keyboard (see Figure 1.10) is a bit too small for rapid and accurate typing, but the iPhone does typing better than any other touchscreen phone out there.

1.10 Trust the touchscreen even though the keys may be small.

To use the keyboard, tap into an area that requires text input, and the keyboard appears automatically. Tap the keys that you want to enter. As you touch each key, a magnified version of the letter pops up. If you touch the wrong key, slide your finger over to the correct one. The keyboard does not enter a key until your finger comes off the screen.

Special keys

The keyboard has a few specialty keys that allow you to do some tricks:

Shift. This key is a little upward-pointing arrow. Tap this key once to engage shift. The key glows white and the next letter you type will be a capital letter. The Shift key returns to normal automatically.

123. Tap this key to display the numeric keyboard, which includes numbers and most punctuation marks. The key then changes to ABC. Tap this key to return to the standard keyboard.

#+=. This key appears within the numeric keyboard. Tap this key to enter yet another keyboard that contains more punctuation marks as well as a few symbols that aren’t used very frequently.

Backspace. This key is shaped like a backward arrow with an X inside it. This key deletes at three different speeds. The first speed deletes in response to a single tap, which deletes just a single letter. The second speed deletes in response to being held. If you hold the delete key, it begins moving backward through letters and won’t stop after a single letter. The third speed kicks in if you hold the delete key long enough. This deletes entire words.

Return. This key moves to the next line.

Editing text

Everyone asks me how you’re supposed to move throughout the text in order to edit it. The only obvious option is to delete all the way back to your error, which is impractical to say the least. The solution is, of course, in the touchscreen, which enables you to zoom in on the specific section of text you want to edit. Follow these steps:

1. Press and hold your finger on the line you want to edit. iPhone displays the text inside a magnifying glass, and within that text you see the cursor (you might need to angle your iPhone just so to see the cursor).

2. Slide your finger along the line. As you slide, the cursor moves through the text in the same direction.

3. When the cursor is where you want to begin editing, remove your finger.

Using the suggestion feature

As you type, the iPhone often provides a suggestion in a little bubble underneath the current word. To accept the suggestion, tap the spacebar or any punctuation. To ignore it, tap the suggested word bubble on the screen. This helps save time when you use apostrophes. Leave the apostrophe out and the iPhone recommends the correct word. For example, if you type shell, the iPhone suggests she’ll because that’s a legitimate word as well. If she’ll is what you want, accept the suggestion (again, by tapping the spacebar or any punctuation); otherwise, tap the suggestion to retain shell.

The suggestion feature also shows up with misspelled words. The iPhone guesses the correct word and provides a suggestion. If the suggestion is the word you want, accept it.

Selecting and copying noneditable text

How you select and then either cut or copy text depends on whether that text is editable or noneditable.

The simplest case is noneditable text, such as you get on a web page. In that scenario, when the text you want to use is on the screen, tap and hold anywhere within the text. After a second or two, your iPhone selects the text and displays blue selection handles around it, as shown in Figure 1.11. If necessary, tap and drag the selection handles to select more or less of the text, and then tap Copy.

1.11 For text you can’t edit, tap and hold within the text to select it, and then tap Copy to copy it.

Selecting and then cutting or copying editable text

If the text is editable, such as the text in a note, an e-mail message you’re composing, or any text box, then the process is more involved, but only ever so slightly:

1. Tap and hold anywhere within the text. After a short pause for effect, your iPhone displays a couple of buttons above the text, as shown in Figure 1.12 (if you’ve previously copied some text, you’ll also see a Paste button; more on this follows).

1.12 For editable text, tap and hold within the text to see these options.

2. Tap one of the following options:

• Select. Tap this button if you only want to select some of the text. Your iPhone displays blue selection handles around the word you tapped.

• Select All. Tap this button if you prefer to select all the text. The iPhone displays the buttons shown in Figure 1.13; if you don’t need to adjust the selection, skip to Step 4.

3. Tap and drag the selection handles to select the text you want to work with. The iPhone displays a new set of buttons above the text, as shown in Figure 1.13.

1.13 Select your text and then choose what you want to do with it.

4. Tap the action you want iPhone to take with the text:

• Cut. Tap this button to remove the text and store it in the memory of your iPhone.

• Copy. Tap this button to store a copy of the text in the memory of your iPhone.

Pasting text

With your text cut or copied and residing snugly in the memory of your iPhone, you’re ready to paste the text. If you want to paste the text into a different app, open that app. Position the cursor where you want the text to appear, tap the cursor, and then tap Paste, as shown in Figure 1.14. Your iPhone dutifully adds the cut or copied text.

1.14 Tap the cursor, and then tap Paste to place your cut or copied text in the app.

Copying and pasting a photo

If you want to make a copy of a photo, such as an image shown on a web page, the process is more or less the same as copying noneditable text:

1. Tap and hold the photo. After a second or two, your iPhone displays a pop-up menu of image options.

2. Tap Copy. The iPhone copies the photo into its memory.

3. Open the app where you want the copy of the photo to appear.

4. Position the cursor where you want the photo to appear, and then tap the cursor.

5. Tap Paste. The iPhone pastes the photo.

Undoing a paste

The addition of the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands makes the iPhone feel even more like a computer. That’s good, but it also means that you can also make the same pasting errors that you can with your regular computer. For example, you might paste the text or photo in the wrong spot, or once you’ve performed the paste you might realize that you selected the wrong data.

Frustrating? Yes. A big problem? Nope! Slap your forehead lightly in exasperation, and then perform one of the coolest iPhone tricks: shake it. Your iPhone displays the options shown in Figure 1.15. Tap Undo Paste to reverse your most recent paste, and then move on with your life.

1.15 Reverse an imprudent paste by shaking the iPhone and then tapping Undo Paste.

Running Your iPhone from the Control Center

As you read the rest of this book, you’ll see that your iPhone is rightly called a “Swiss Army phone” because it’s positively bristling with useful tools. However, unlike the easy-to-access tools in a typical Swiss Army knife, the tools on your iPhone aren’t always so readily accessible. Most features and settings require several taps, which doesn’t sound like much, but it can get old fast with features you use frequently.

Fortunately, the latest version of the operating system that runs your phone — it’s called iOS 7 — aims to solve that problem by offering the Control Center. This is a special screen that offers one-flick access to a dozen of the most useful features on your iPhone. By “one-flick access” I mean just this: from any iPhone screen, flick your finger up from the bottom of the screen. This displays the Control Center, as shown in Figure 1.16, which also points out what each icon and control represents. Most of these features are covered elsewhere in the book, so I won’t go into the details here. To hide the Control Center, either tap the Home button or tap the downward-pointing arrow that appears at the top of the Control Center screen.

1.16 Flick up from the bottom of any screen to come face-to-face with the Control Center.

Chapter 2 How Do I Configure My iPhone?

The iPhone is justly famous for its stylish design and its effortless touchscreen. However, although good looks and ease of use are important for any smartphone, it’s what you do with that phone that’s important. The iPhone helps by offering a lot of features, but chances are those features aren’t set up to suit the way you work. Maybe your most-used Home screen icons aren’t at the top of the screen where they should be, or perhaps your iPhone goes to sleep too soon. This chapter shows you how to configure your iPhone to solve these and many other annoyances so the phone works the way you do.

Customizing the Home Screen

The Home screen is your starting point for all things iPhone, and what could be simpler? Just tap the icon you want, and the app loads lickety-split. Ah, but things are never so simple, are they? In fact, there are a couple of hairs in the Home screen soup:

The icons in the top row and the left column are a bit easier to find and a bit easier to tap.

When you have more than 20 icons on the iPhone 5s, 5c, or 5 (or 16 on earlier iPhones), they extend onto a second (or third or fourth) Home screen. If the app you want isn’t on the main Home screen, you must first flick to the screen that has the app’s icon (or tap its dot) and then tap the icon. Note, however, that even when your icons extend onto multiple Home screens, the four icons in the iPhone Dock appear on every Home screen, so they’re always available.

You can make the Home screen more efficient by moving your four most-used icons to the iPhone Dock and by moving your other often-used icons to the top row or left column of the main Home screen. You can do all this by rearranging the Home screen icons as follows:

1. Display the Home screen.

2. Tap and hold any Home screen icon. When you see the icons wiggling, release your finger.

3. Tap and drag the icons into the positions you prefer. To move an icon to a previous screen, tap and drag it to the left edge of the current screen. To move it to a later screen, tap and drag it to the right edge of the current screen. Next, wait for the new screen to appear and then drop the icon where you want it.

4. Rearrange the existing Dock icons by dragging them left or right to change the order.

5. To replace a Dock icon, first tap and drag the icon off the Dock to create some space. Then tap and drag any Home screen icon into the Dock.

6. Press the Home button. Your iPhone saves the new icon arrangement.

The icons in the Home screen’s menu bar are also fair game. That is, you can drag them left and right to change the order, and you can replace the menu bar icons with any other Home screen icons. For the latter, set the icons jiggling, and then tap and drag an icon off the menu bar to create some space. Now tap and drag any Home screen icon into the menu bar.

Creating an app folder

The best way to make the main Home screen more manageable is to reduce the total number of icons you have to work with. This isn’t a problem when you’re just starting out with your iPhone, because out of the box it comes with only a limited number of apps. However, the addictive nature of the App Store almost always means that you end up with screen after screen of apps. In fact, the iPhone lets you use a maximum of 11 screens. If you fill each screen to the brim — that’s 20 apps per screen on the iPhone 5s, 5c, or 5 — you end up with a total of 224 icons (including the four Dock icons; earlier iPhone versions can have up to 180 icons). That’s a lot of icons.

Now, when I tell you to reduce the number of icons on the Home screens, I don’t mean that you should delete apps. Too drastic! Instead, you can take advantage of a great feature called app folders. Just like a folder on your hard drive that can store multiple files, an app folder can store multiple app icons. In the iOS 7 app folders, you can store nine apps per page and create multiple pages. This enables you to group related apps together under a single icon, which not only reduces your overall Home screen clutter but can also make individual apps easier to find.

Here are the steps to follow to create and populate an app folder:

1. Navigate to the Home screen that contains at least one of the apps you want to include in your folder.

2. Tap and hold any icon until you see all the icons wiggling.

3. Tap and drag an icon that you want to include in the folder, and drop it on another icon that you want to include in the same folder. Your iPhone creates the folder and displays a text box so that you can name it. The default name is the underlying category used by the apps, as shown in Figure 2.1. If the apps are in different categories, your iPhone uses the category of the app you dragged and dropped.

2.1 Drop one app icon on another to create an app folder.

4. Tap inside the text box to edit the name, if you feel like it, and tap Done when you finish.

5. Press the Home button. Your iPhone saves your new icon arrangement.

Use the following techniques to work with your app folders:

To add another app to the folder, tap and drag the app icon and drop it on the folder.

To launch an app, tap the folder to open it and tap the app.

To rename a folder or rearrange the apps within a folder, tap the folder to open it. Then tap and hold any app icon within the folder. You can then edit the folder name, or drag and drop the apps within the folder.

To remove an app from a folder, tap the folder to open it. Tap and hold any app icon within the folder, then drag it out of the folder.

Adding a Safari web clip to the Home screen

Do you have a web page that you visit all the time? If so, you can set up that page as a bookmark in the iPhone Safari browser, but there’s an even faster way to access it: Add it to the Home screen as a web clip icon. A web clip is a link to a page that preserves that page’s scroll position and zoom level. For example, suppose a page has a form at the bottom. To use that form, you have to navigate to the page, scroll to the bottom, and then zoom in to see it better. However, you can perform all three actions — navigate, scroll, and zoom — automatically with a web clip.

Follow these steps to save a page as a web clip icon on the Home screen:

1. Use the Safari browser on your iPhone to navigate to the page you want to save.

2. Scroll to the portion of the page you want to see.

3. Pinch and spread your fingers over the area you want to zoom in on until you can comfortably read the text.

4. Tap the Actions icon (the arrow) at the bottom of the screen. iPhone displays a list of actions.

5. Tap Add to Home Screen. iPhone prompts you to edit the web clip name.

6. Edit the name as needed. Names up to about 10 to 14 characters display on the Home screen without being broken. The fewer uppercase letters you use, the longer the name can be. For longer names, iPhone displays the first and last few characters (depending on the locations of spaces in the name) separated by an ellipsis (...). For example, if the name is My Home Page, it appears in the Home screen as My Ho...Page.

7. Tap Add. iPhone adds the web clip to the Home screen and displays the Home screen. If your main Home screen is already filled to the brim with icons, iPhone adds the web clip to the first screen that has space available.

To delete a web clip from the Home screen, tap and hold any Home screen icon until the icon dance begins. Each web clip icon displays an X in the upper-left corner. Tap the X of the web clip you want to remove. When iPhone asks you to confirm, tap Delete, and then press the Home button to save the configuration.

Resetting the default Home screen layout

If you make a bit of a mess of your Home screen, or if someone else is going to be using your iPhone, you can reset the Home screen icons to their default layout. Follow these steps:

1. On the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings app appears.

2. Tap General. The General screen appears.

3. Scroll down and tap Reset. The Reset screen appears.

4. Tap Reset Home Screen Layout. iPhone warns you that the Home screen will be reset to the factory default layout.

5. Tap Reset Home Screen. iPhone resets the Home screen to the default layout, but it doesn’t delete the icons for any apps you’ve added.

Working with App Notifications

A lot of apps take advantage of an iOS feature called notifications, which enables them to send messages and other data to your iPhone. For example, the Facebook app displays an alert on your iPhone when a friend sends you a message. Similarly, the Foursquare app, which lets you track where your friends are located, sends you a message when a friend checks in at a particular location.

If an app supports notifications, then the first time you start it, your iPhone usually displays a message like the one shown in Figure 2.2, asking if you want to allow push notifications for the app. Tap OK if you’re cool with that; if you’re not, tap Don’t Allow.

2.2 Your iPhone lets you allow or disallow push notifications for an app.

There are actually four kinds of push notifications:

Sound. This is a sound effect that plays when some app-related event occurs.

Alert. This is a message that pops up on your iPhone screen. You must then tap a button to dismiss the message before you can continue working with your current app.

Banner. This is a message that appears at the top of the screen. Unlike an alert, a banner allows you to keep using your current app and disappears automatically after a few seconds. If you prefer to switch to the app to view the message, tap the banner.

Badge. This is a small, red icon that appears in the upper-right corner of an app icon. The icon usually displays a number, which might be the number of messages you have waiting for you on the server.

Displaying the Notification Center

If you miss an alert or banner, or if you see a banner but ignore it, you can still eyeball your recent notification messages by displaying the Notification Center. This is a feature that combines all your recent alerts and banners in one handy location. So, not only can you see the most recent alert, but you can also see the last few so you don’t miss anything.

Even better, displaying the Notification Center is a snap — just swipe down from the top of the screen. As you can see in Figure 2.3, the Notification Center displays a summary at the top, followed by your recent messages sorted by app. From here, you can either tap an item to switch to that app or swipe up from the bottom of the screen to hide the Notification Center.

2.3 Swipe down from the top of the screen to display the Notification Center.

Customizing notifications

For each app, your iPhone also lets you toggle individual notification types (sounds, alerts, and badges), switch between banner and alert messages, or remove an app from the Notification Center altogether. You can also configure app notifications to appear in the Lock screen (with the Lock screen displayed, swipe down from the top of the screen to see the Notification Center). This is handy because you can see your notifications without having to unlock your iPhone.

Here’s how to configure app notifications:

1. On the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings app appears.

2. Tap Notification Center. The Notification Center screen appears.

3. Use the switches in the Access on Lock Screen section to configure what you want to see in the Lock screen version of the Notification Center.

4. Use the switches in the Today View section to configure the information that appears in the main part of the Notification Center.

5. Tap the app you want to customize. The app notification settings appear. Figure 2.4 shows the settings for the Game Center app. Note that not all apps support all possible settings.

2.4 Use each app’s notification settings to control notifications on your iPhone.

6. In the Alert Style section, tap the style you prefer for message notifications. Tap None to turn off alerts, or tap the style you want: Banners or Alerts.

7. If the app supports badges, use the Badge App Icon switch to toggle this type of notification on or off.

8. If the app supports sounds, use the Sounds switch to toggle this type of notification on or off.

9. To remove the app from the Notification Center, tap the Show in Notification Center switch to Off.

10. To set the maximum number of app messages that appear on the Notification Center, tap Include and then tap the number of messages.

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