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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Serie: Portable Genius
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
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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 Portable Genius, Third Edition; Macs Portable Genius, Second Edition; MacBook Air Portable Genius, Fourth Edition; Switching to a Mac Portable Genius, Second Edition; Teach Yourself VISUALLY Complete Mac Pro; Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Yosemite; 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 Maureen Tullis, and Copy Editor Scott Tullis. 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.
This book is dedicated to my beautiful wife, Karen, who is wise, funny, and smart, even in texts.
iPhone® 6S Portable Genius
Table of Contents
Cover
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What’s New in This Edition
Chapter 1: How Do I Start Using My iPhone?
Using the Home Button
Working with the Sleep/Wake Button
Working with the Ring/Silent Switch
Operating the Volume Controls
Getting to Know the Rest of the iPhone
Operating the Touchscreen
Running Your iPhone from the Control Center
Chapter 2: How Do I Configure My iPhone?
Customizing the Home Screen
Working with App Notifications
More Useful iPhone Configuration Techniques
Protecting Your iPhone
Enhancing Your iPhone with Apps
Chapter 3: How Do I Connect My iPhone to a Network?
Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network
Setting Up Your iPhone as an Internet Hub
Keeping an Eye on Your Data Usage
Controlling Network Data
Pairing Your iPhone to Bluetooth Devices
Chapter 4: How Can I Get More Out of the Phone App?
Understanding Cellular Speeds
Working with Outgoing Calls
Handling Incoming Calls
Juggling Multiple Calls and Conference Calls
Managing Your Favorites List
Converting a Phone Number into a Contact
Video Calling with FaceTime
Chapter 5: How Can I Make the Most of iPhone Web Surfing?
Touchscreen Tips for Websites
Browsing Tips for Faster Surfing
Filling in Online Forms
Getting More Out of Safari on Your iPhone
Chapter 6: How Do I Maximize iPhone Email?
Managing Your iPhone Email Accounts
Configuring Email Accounts
Configuring Email Messages
Chapter 7: How Do I Synchronize My iPhone?
Connecting Your iPhone to Your Computer
Synchronizing Your iPhone Automatically
Synchronizing Your iPhone via Wi-Fi
Synchronizing Your iPhone Manually
Chapter 8: How Can I Get More Out of Audio Features on My iPhone?
Getting More Out of the Music App
Getting More Out of the iTunes Store App
Creating a Custom Ringtone
Working with Playlists
Customizing Your Audio Settings
Chapter 9: How Do I Max Out My iPhone’s Photo and Video Features?
Getting More Out of iPhone Photos
Getting More Out of iPhone Videos
Editing Video with iMovie for iPhone
Chapter 10: Can I Use My iPhone to Manage Contacts and Appointments?
Managing Your Contacts
Tracking Your Events
Creating Reminders
Working with Passes
Chapter 11: How Do I Use My iPhone to Navigate My World?
Finding Your Way with Maps and GPS
Configuring Location Services
Sharing Map Data
Chapter 12: How Do I Manage My Ebook Library?
Getting Your Head around Ebook Formats
Syncing Ebooks via iCloud
Managing Your iBooks Library
Reading Ebooks with the iBooks App
Reading Other Ebooks
Chapter 13: How Do I Keep My Life in Sync with iCloud?
Understanding iCloud
Understanding iCloud Device Support
Configuring iCloud on Your iPhone
Configuring iCloud on Your Mac
Configuring iCloud on Your Windows PC
Chapter 14: How Do I Fix My iPhone?
General Techniques for Troubleshooting Your iPhone
Taking Care of the iPhone Battery
Solving Specific Problems
Glossary
End User License Agreement
Guide
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Introduction
The iPhone is a success not because over 750 million of them have been sold (or, I should say, not only because over 750 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 be satisfied in only one way: by buying one (or, in my case, by buying all nine versions!).
Part of the iconic status of the iPhone comes from its gorgeous design and remarkable interface, which makes all the standard tasks — surfing, emailing, 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 6s 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 timesaving features that aren’t obvious at a casual glance. In this book, you learn about all the amazing new features found in the iPhone 6s and in iOS 9. 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.
What’s New in This Edition
This is the iPhone 6s Portable Genius so, of course, it covers all the new features that come with Apple’s latest phones, the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus. These new features include 3D Touch, which adds a new dimension (literally) to interacting with your iPhone by enabling you to press down on the screen: A light press activates the Peek feature, while a more vigorous press activates the Pop feature. I also cover the interesting new Camera feature called Live Photos, which magically takes a series of photos for a second and half not only after you press the Shutter button, but before, as well. The result is a three-second long animated photo — with sound! — that you can set in motion by pressing the screen. I also tell you about the other new capabilities of the iSight camera, what’s new with the FaceTime HD camera, and the updated video recording specs of the iPhones 6s and 6s Plus.
Please note that although this edition of the book has “6s” in the title, with the exception of the iPhone 6s-specific features I mentioned above, everything in the book applies just as well to older iPhones. (And in cases where you need a specific iPhone version to run a certain feature, I let you know.) This is particularly true if you’ve upgraded your phone operating system to iOS 9, which runs on every iPhone from the 4s and up. In the book I take you through all the major new and improved features of iOS 9. These include (but are by no means limited to) the following:
Keyboard improvements, including the new Shift key behavior and the new switch for toggling character preview on and off.
The new app switcher, which you use to switch from one running app to another without having to use the Home screen, as well as the new “Back to” feature that makes it easy to return to the app that launched the current app.
The Maps app’s addition of transit info for many major cities worldwide, as well as the new Nearby feature, which you can use to discover coffee shops, restaurants, and more that are near your location.
New passcode and parental restrictions features.
Answering phone calls on other devices.
Working with the iCloud app.
Mail’s new swipe options.
All in all, it’s an iPhone feast. Enjoy!
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: It’s nearly button-free! 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
Working with the Sleep/Wake Button
Working with the Ring/Silent Switch
Operating the Volume Controls
Getting to Know the Rest of the iPhone
Operating the Touchscreen
Running Your iPhone from the Control Center
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 six 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 (assuming you have Touch ID configured; see
Chapter 2
).
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.
On the iPhone 6 or 6s, double-tapping the Home button (that is, lightly tapping the button rather than firmly pressing it) slides the current screen’s contents down about half-way, making it easier to access items at or near the top if you’re using the phone one-handed. To push the screen back up, double-tap the Home button once again or tap in the blank area above the screen contents (you can also wait about eight seconds and the screen will restore itself automatically).
To disable the Home button double-tap feature, tap Settings, tap General, tap Accessibility, and then tap the Reachability switch to Off.
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 eight 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 either unlocks the iPhone and displays the Home screen or, if you configured a passcode during setup, it prompts you to enter that code.
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 either on the right side of your phone (if you have an iPhone 6 or later) or at the top of your phone (for all earlier models). It’s the dash-shaped button (see Figure 1.3) and, as you see in this section, it actually has three main functions: sleeping and waking, powering on and off, and handling incoming calls.
1.3 On an iPhone 6 or later, the Sleep/Wake button appears on the right side.
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 (or enter your passcode).
Press the Sleep/Wake button 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 while 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:
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for three seconds.
The slide to power off slider appears on the screen.
Use your finger to drag the slider all the way to the right.
The iPhone shuts down after a few seconds.
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.
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.
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.
1.5 The bottom panel of your iPhone houses the headset jack, microphone, Lightning connector, and speaker.
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 also home to 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.
Press.
This means that you apply pressure to the screen to activate the 3D Touch feature of the iPhone 6s or 6s Plus. A light press on a screen object (such as a Home screen icon) activates that object’s Peek feature, which either gives you a sneak peek of the object or displays commands that you can run on the object. If you then release the screen, iOS takes you back to where you were. Otherwise, a slightly harder press on the screen object activates the object’s Pop feature, which takes you into the object’s app.
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 128GB in a top-of-the-line iPhone 6s Plus. So, following Parkinson’s Law, we keep adding more data to our iPhones: music, photos, videos, email 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 email, 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:
Tap the Home button to return to the Home screen.
Flick down on the screen.
The iPhone displays the Search iPhone box at the top of the screen.
Enter your search text.
Your iPhone immediately begins displaying items that match your text as you type, as shown in
Figure 1.9
.
Tap Search to see the complete results.
If you see the item you’re looking for, tap it to open it.
1.9 Flick down on the Home screen and then type your search text.
Spotlight looks for a wide variety of items not only on your iPhone, but also on the Internet, iTunes, the App Store, and more. If you find you’re getting too many results, you can configure Spotlight to search only selected sources, and you can also change the order in which Spotlight returns the results. Tap Settings, tap General, and then tap Search. In the Search screen, tap the switch to Off beside each data type that you don’t want to see in the search results.
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 letter keys change to uppercase and the Shift key changes to a black arrow on a white background. The next letter you type will be a capital letter, at which point the Shift key returns to normal automatically (and the letter keys return to their lowercase versions).
If you prefer the old keyboard where the keys always appear as uppercase letters, tap Settings, tap General, tap Accessibility, tap Keyboard, and then tap the Show Lowercase Keys switch to Off.
123.
Tap this key (it shows as .?123 if you don’t have Siri enabled) 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 left-pointing 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 when you’re typing text. However, this key often changes names and functions, depending on what you’re doing. For example, you saw earlier (see “
Searching your iPhone
”) that this becomes the Search key when you invoke the Search screen.
Editing text
Everyone asks me how you’re supposed to move throughout the text 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:
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).
Slide your finger along the line.
As you slide, the cursor moves through the text in the same direction.
When the cursor is where you want to begin editing, remove your finger.
Understanding predictive typing
As you type, the iPhone often tries to predict which word you want to use, and in iOS 8 it displays its suggestions in a bar that appears just above the keyboard. (In earlier versions, a single suggestion appears in a little bubble underneath the current word.) This is called predictive typing and the suggestions you see depend on the context of your writing. You have three ways to handle these suggestions:
To accept the highlighted suggestion, tap the spacebar or any punctuation.
To use another suggestion, tap it.
To keep your typing as is, tap the suggestion that appears in quotation marks.
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, tap it to 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 email message you’re composing, or any text box, then the process is more involved, but only ever so slightly:
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).
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.
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
.
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.
1.12 For editable text, tap and hold within the text to see these options.
1.13 Select your text and then choose what you want to do with it.
If you have an iPhone 6 Plus, rotate it into landscape mode to see an extended keyboard that includes dedicated buttons for Cut (the scissors icon), Copy (the letter A in a square), and Paste (a glue bottle).
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:
Tap and hold the photo.
After a second or two, your iPhone displays a pop-up menu of image options.
Tap Copy.
The iPhone copies the photo into its memory.
Open the app where you want the copy of the photo to appear.
Position the cursor where you want the photo to appear, and then tap the cursor.
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 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.
To undo on the iPhone 6 Plus, rotate into landscape mode and tap the Undo key (the semi-circular arrow pointing to the left).
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, iOS 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
Working with App Notifications
More Useful iPhone Configuration Techniques
Protecting Your iPhone
Enhancing Your iPhone with Apps
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 24 icons on the iPhone 6 or later (or 20 icons on the iPhone 5 or 5s, 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 of this by rearranging the Home screen icons as follows:
Display the Home screen.
Tap and hold any Home screen icon.
When you see the icons wiggling, release your finger.
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.
Rearrange the existing Dock icons by dragging them left or right to change the order.
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.
Press the Home button.
Your iPhone saves the new icon arrangement.
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 24 apps per screen on the iPhone 6 or later — you end up with a total of 268 icons (including the four Dock icons; the iPhone 5 can have up to 224 icons and 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. 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:
Navigate to the Home screen that contains at least one of the apps you want to include in your folder.
Tap and hold any icon until you see all the icons wiggling.
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.
Tap inside the text box to edit the name, if you feel like it, and tap Done when you finish.
Press the Home button.
Your iPhone saves your new icon arrangement.
2.1 Drop one app icon on another to create an app folder.
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:
Use the Safari browser on your iPhone to navigate to the page you want to save.
Scroll to the portion of the page you want to see.
Pinch and spread your fingers over the area you want to zoom in on until you can comfortably read the text.
Tap the Share icon (the arrow) at the bottom of the screen.
iPhone displays a list of actions.
Tap Add to Home Screen.
iPhone prompts you to edit the web clip name.
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.
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:
On the Home screen, tap Settings.
The Settings app appears.
Tap General.
The General screen appears.
Scroll down and tap Reset.
The Reset screen appears.
Tap Reset Home Screen Layout.
iPhone warns you that the Home screen will be reset to the factory default layout.
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 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 notifications for an app.
There are actually four kinds of 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.
