The iPhone Manual - Tips and Hacks

Wallace Wang

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781838644789
• Topic: Ciencia de la computación
• Subtopic: Hardware

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

Key Features

• Learn everything about your iPhone quickly to use it as an effective tool for communication, entertainment, and work
• Customize your phone's look and sound and modify the iOS's privacy settings
• Keep your apps tidy and organized using the App Library

Book Description

The iPhone is the most popular smartphone available on the market, renowned for its sophisticated design, immersive UI, and user safety. And even if you've bought an iPhone for its impressive specifications, you may still be unaware of many of its features, which you'll discover with the help of this book!The iPhone Manual is your practical guide to uncovering the hidden potential of iPhones, and will leave you amazed at how productive you can be by learning tips and hacks for customizing your device as a communication, entertainment, and work tool. You'll unearth the complete range of iPhone features and customize it to streamline your day-to-day interaction with your device. This iPhone manual will help you explore your iPhone's impressive capabilities and fully understand all the features, functions, and settings that every iPhone owner should know. With this book, you'll get to grips with not only the basics of communication but also best practices for accessing photos, videos, and music to set up your entertainment using your iPhone. In addition to this, you'll learn about serious work tools that will make you productive in your everyday tasks.By the end of this iPhone book, you'll have learned how to use your iPhone to perform tasks and customize your experience in ways you probably didn't realize were possible.

What you will learn

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

Who this book is for

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

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Chapter 1: Learning Basic Touch Gestures

Before Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, mobile phones often sported confusing keyboards that flipped open and required you to press multiple keys just to type a single character. Not surprisingly, these early mobile phones were often confusing and clumsy to use.

When Apple introduced the iPhone, they introduced an entirely new way to interact with a mobile phone. Instead of forcing users to type on cramped physical keyboards and squint at information crammed into tiny screens with poor resolution, the iPhone displayed nothing but a blank screen.

This blank screen doubled as both a viewing screen and a virtual interface. Instead of sporting physical buttons, the iPhone could display virtual buttons that could adapt to whether the user wanted to type a text message, an email, or a website address. By adapting to the user, the iPhone screen proved far more versatile than previous mobile phones.

The key to controlling an iPhone lay in its touchscreen, which could interpret touch gestures to perform different commands. Although today's iPhone is vastly different from the first iPhones of 2007, the touchscreen interface remains largely the same. To get the most out of your iPhone, you must learn not only what touch gestures are available, but when and how to use them.

In this chapter, we will cover the uses of these gestures in the following sections:

• Using tap gestures
• Using swipe gestures
• Using long-press gestures
• Using drag gestures
• Using pinch gestures
• Using rotation gestures

Using tap gestures

If you've ever pointed at something in a book or magazine, you've used a tap gesture. Tap gestures consist of pointing at – that is, tapping – something on the iPhone screen, such as an icon or a hyperlink. After tapping the screen briefly with one finger to select that item, you then lift your finger off the screen.

Think of tap gestures as similar to pointing and clicking with a mouse on a traditional PC.

Tap gestures let you tell your iPhone, "See what I'm pointing at? That's what I want." Since tap gestures select items, they represent a common yet simple touch gesture you'll use all the time.

Tap gestures are commonly used to choose commands or select items represented by the following onscreen elements:

• Icons
• Buttons
• Text
• Pictures

Tapping an icon or button to choose a command immediately causes something to happen, giving you visual feedback that you tapped on an item. For example, tapping an app icon from the Home screen loads that app, while tapping a button might dismiss a dialog or open up a different screen, as shown in Figure 1.1:

Figure 1.1 – Tapping a button loads another screen

Besides causing an action to occur, the tap gesture can also select items displayed in a list. The Mail and Messages apps display a list of email and text messages, respectively. When you want to read a specific message, you scroll through a list of messages and tap on the one you want to view its entire contents.

When you want to move, send, or delete items such as pictures, messages, or files, you need to select one or more items by tapping on them. Tapping typically highlights the selected items in some way, such as displaying a check mark, as shown in Figure 1.2. After selecting one or more items, you can then choose a command to move, send, or delete those selected items:

Figure 1.2 – Tapping on pictures selects those items

Since the tap gesture acts as a pointing tool, you can also use the tap gesture to move the cursor when editing text. On a traditional computer, you can move the cursor using a mouse or the cursor keys, but on the touchscreen of an iPhone, you must move the cursor by tapping where you want to place it.

Using swipe gestures

Think of reading a book or magazine. When you're done reading a page, you can put your finger on the far edge of the page and swipe to the left or right to turn to the next (or previous) page. That swiping gesture works exactly the same way on the iPhone.

Swipe gestures are similar to scrolling to view more information on a traditional PC. Such gestures involve placing one fingertip on the edge of the screen, and then sliding your finger in an up, down, left, or right direction, as shown in Figure 1.3:

Figure 1.3 – The four directions for a swipe gesture

Swipe gestures are one of the most common gestures used on the iPhone. Whe...

Table of contents

• The iPhone Manual – Tips and Hacks
• Why subscribe?
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Learning Basic Touch Gestures
• Chapter 2: Using the New iOS 14 Apps
• Chapter 3: Customizing Sound, Look, and Privacy Settings
• Chapter 4: Making Phone Calls
• Chapter 5: Sending Text Messages
• Chapter 6: Using Siri
• Chapter 7: Taking and Sharing Pictures
• Chapter 8: Listening to Music
• Chapter 9: Browsing the Internet with Safari
• Chapter 10: Sending and Receiving Email
• Chapter 11: Using FaceTime
• Chapter 12: Reading eBooks
• Chapter 13: Storing Contact Information
• Chapter 14: Setting Appointments and Reminders
• Chapter 15: Writing Notes and Recording Voice Memos
• Chapter 16: Getting Directions with Maps
• Chapter 17: Getting Time, Weather, and Stock Information
• Chapter 18: Using Apple Pay
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