Essential iPhone X iOS 12 Edition

The Illustrated Guide to Using iPhone X

Kevin Wilson

• Publisher: Elluminet Press
• ISBN:
  9781911174875
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Hardware
• Index: Computer Science

The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it's hard to keep up.

Essential iPhone X: iOS 12 Edition is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in...

Setting up iOS 12 on iPhone X and upgrading from previous versions

A look at the updates introduced in iOS 12

Getting to know your iPhone X, finding your way around the dock, menus, and icons

Navigating with touch gestures using quick peek, 3D touch, tap, drag, pinch, spread, and swipe

Multi-tasking with the app switcher, and surviving without the home button

A look at the new control centre and how to make use of it

Getting to know Siri, voice dictation, and recording voice memos

Communicating with email, FaceTime, iMessage, using digital touch, Animojis, Memojis, and peer-to-peer payments

Using the Phone app to make and receive calls

Browsing the web with Safari web browser

Taking and enhancing pictures, panoramic and live photos, as well as recording video

Listening to music with Apple Music and iTunes Store, as well as watching films and TV

Using the Files App, as well as Maps, News, Apple Books, Notes, Apple Pay, Calendar, and Contacts

Maintaining your iPhone X with updates, backups, general housekeeping, and much more...

Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential iPhone X: iOS 12 Edition tackles the fundamentals of the iPhone X series, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time, can understand.

So, if you're looking for an iPhone manual, a visual book, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference, Essential iPhone X: iOS 12 Edition will help you maximize the potential of your iPhone X to increase your productivity, understanding, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.

Internet, Email, Communication

Your iPhone has a lot of features that allow you to connect to the internet, browse the web, send and receive emails, share pictures with friends, store addresses and contacts, have video chat conversations with friends and family, as well as make phone calls and send text/sms messages.

To do this, Apple have provided some built in apps; Safari for web browsing, Mail for email and Face Time for video chat.

You also have apps for social media, and an address book to keep track of contacts addresses and details.

Lets start by taking a look at Safari web browser.

Using Safari

Safari is your go to app for browsing the internet. To launch Safari, tap on the Safari icon located on your dock.

This will launch Safari. Lets take a look at the main screen.

In Safari’s main screen, tap in the website address field to enter the website’s address, or Google search keyword.

Two menus to take note of. The first menu allows to share, bookmark or print a web page. The second menu opens your list of bookmarked websites, reading list, and browsing history.

The final icon on the right hand side or the bar, allows you to see all the tabs you currently have open. Swipe up and down to browse through the open tabs. Tap the tab you want to switch to.

Swipe right to left over the tab to close it. You can also tap the small x on the top left hand side of the tab.

Hit the + sign to add a new tab where you can open another website or Google search. Tap ‘private’ to browse the web without Safari recording your browsing history. Tap ‘done’ to return to Safari’s main screen.

Bookmark a Site

Bookmarking sites makes it easier to find websites that you visit most often, without having to search for them or remember the web address. To bookmark the site you’re...

Table of contents

• Essential iPhone X: iOS 12 Edition
• About the Author
• Table of Contents
• iPhones
• Setting up Your iPhone
• Getting Around Your iPhone
• Internet, Email, Communication
• Using Multimedia
• Common Apps
• Productivity Apps
• Maintaining Your iPhone