David Pogue iPhone “Pogue, the New York Times computer columnist, is among the world’s best explainers.” —KEVIN KELLY, CO-FOUNDER OF WIRED 6th Edition Covers All Models with iOS 6 Software–Including iPhone 5 www.it-ebooks.info iPhone The Missing Manual Sixth Edition www.it-ebooks.info iPhone: The Missing Manual, Sixth Edition BY DAVID POGUE Copyright © 2012 David Pogue. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (safari.oreilly.com). For more information, contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800.998.9938 or corporate@oreilly.com. 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ISBN: 978-1-449-31648-8 [TI] [10/12] www.it-ebooks.info Contents iii Contents The Missing Credits xi Introduction 1 Part 1: The iPhone as Phone Chapter 1: The Guided Tour 7 Sleep Switch (On/Off ) 8 Home Button 12 Silencer Switch, Volume Keys 15 Screen 16 Cameras and Flash 20 Sensors 21 SIM Card Slot 21 Headphone Jack 23 Microphone, Speakerphone 24 The Charge/Sync Connector 24 Antenna Band 25 In the Box 26 Seven Basic Finger Techniques 27 Charging the iPhone 30 Battery Life Tips 31 The Home Screen 33 Notifications 35 Chapter 2: Typing, Editing & Searching 41 The Keyboard 41 Connecting a Real Keyboard 53 Cut, Copy, Paste 54 The Definitions Dictionary 57 Speak! 58 Spotlight: Global Search 58 Chapter 3: Phone Calls & FaceTime 63 Dialing from the Phone App 63 The Favorites List 64 The Recents List 67 Contacts 69 The Keypad 81 Answering Calls 81 Not Answering Calls 83 Do Not Disturb 85 FaceTime 91 www.it-ebooks.info Contents iv Chapter 4: Speech Recognition—and Siri 95 iPhone 4S and 5: Speak to Type 96 Siri 103 Advanced Siri 121 Voice Control (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4) 124 Chapter 5: Voicemail, Texting & Other Phone Tricks 129 Visual Voicemail 129 Text Messages (SMS) 134 iMessages 141 Text Messages: Details and Misc. 143 Free Text Messages 146 Chat Programs 147 Call Waiting 147 Call Forwarding 149 Caller ID 149 Bluetooth Earpieces, Speakers, Car Kits 150 Custom Ringtones 152 Kiosk Mode, Large Type & Accessibility 154 Part 2: Pix, Flix & Apps Chapter 6: The iPhone as iPod 167 List Land 168 Playlists 168 Genius Playlists 170 Artists, Songs, Albums… 171 Cover Flow 174 Playback Control: Now Playing 175 Multi(music)tasking 180 Bluetooth Speakers and Headphones 181 The iTunes Store 185 The Videos App 188 www.it-ebooks.info Contents v Chapter 7: Camera, Photos & Video 193 Taking Still Photos 193 Panoramas 203 Opening Photos 205 Editing Photos 214 Nine Ways to Use Photos and Videos 218 Photo Streams 224 Shared Photo Streams 228 Geotagging 233 Recording Video 235 Capturing the Screen 240 Chapter 8: All About Apps 241 Two Ways to the App Store 241 Organizing Your Apps 247 Folders 251 App Preferences 253 App Updates 253 How to Find Good Apps 254 Multitasking 257 AirPrint: Printing from the Phone 260 Troubleshooting Apps 262 Chapter 9: The Built-In Apps 263 Calculator 264 Calendar 265 Clock 275 Compass 280 Find My Friends 282 Game Center 287 iBooks 290 Maps 299 Newsstand 312 Notes 314 Passbook 317 Reminders 318 Stocks 322 Voice Memos 325 Weather 327 YouTube 329 www.it-ebooks.info Contents vi Part 3: The iPhone Online Chapter 10: Getting Online 331 A Tale of Two Connections 332 Sequence of Connections 335 The List of Hotspots 336 Commercial Hotspots 336 Airplane Mode and WiFi Off Mode 337 Personal Hotspot (Tethering) 338 Twitter and Facebook 342 Chapter 11: The Web 345 Safari Tour 345 Zooming and Scrolling 346 The Address Bar 349 Bookmarks 351 The Reading List 354 The History List 356 Tapping Links 357 Saving Graphics 358 AutoFill 358 Searching the Web 359 Manipulating Multiple Pages 361 Reader 362 Web Security 363 Chapter 12: Email 367 Setting Up Your Account 368 Downloading Mail 371 VIPs and Flagged Messages 375 What to Do with a Message 378 Writing Messages 385 Surviving Email Overload 390 www.it-ebooks.info Contents vii Part 4: Connections Chapter 13: Syncing with iTunes 393 The iTunes Window: What’s Where 394 Five Ways to Get Music and Video 395 Playlists 400 Authorizing Computers 402 TV, Movies, and Movie Rentals 402 Automatic Syncing—with a Cable 403 12 Tabs to Glory 406 Info Tab (Contacts, Calendars, Settings) 408 The Apps Tab 414 The Tones Tab 415 The Music Tab 415 The Movies and TV Shows Tabs 417 The Podcasts and iTunes U Tabs 418 The Books Tab 419 The Photos Tab (ComputerÆiPhone) 419 One iPhone, Multiple Computers 423 One Computer, Multiple iPhones 424 One-Way Emergency Sync 425 WiFi Sync 425 Backing Up the iPhone 427 Chapter 14: iCloud 429 What iCloud Giveth 429 iCloud Sync 430 Photo Stream 433 Find My iPhone 433 Email 436 Video, Music, Apps: Locker in the Sky 436 iTunes Match 438 The Price of Free 439 Chapter 15: The Corporate iPhone 441 The Perks 441 Setup 443 Exchange + Your Stuff 447 A Word on Troubleshooting 451 Virtual Private Networking (VPN) 452 www.it-ebooks.info Contents viii Chapter 16: Settings 455 Airplane Mode 456 WiFi 456 Carrier 457 Bluetooth 458 Personal Hotspot 458 Do Not Disturb 458 Notifications 458 General 459 Sounds 469 Brightness & Wallpaper 470 Privacy 471 iCloud 473 Mail, Contacts, Calendars 473 Notes 479 Reminders 479 Phone 480 Messages 481 FaceTime 482 Maps 482 Safari 482 iTunes & App Store 484 Music 485 Videos 485 Photos & Camera 486 iBooks 486 Newsstand 487 Twitter, Facebook 487 App Preferences 488 Part 5: Appendixes Appendix A: Signup & Setup 491 Buying a New iPhone 491 A New iPhone: “PC-Free” Setup 494 Upgrading an Older iPhone to iOS 6 497 Software Updates 497 www.it-ebooks.info Contents ix Appendix C: Accessorizing the iPhone 499 Proper Shopping for the iPhone 499 Protecting Your iPhone 500 Making the iPhone Heard 503 Power to the iPhone 504 Health and Fitness 505 Snap-On Accessories 506 And the Rest 506 Appendix C: Troubleshooting & Maintenance 507 First Rule: Install the Updates 507 Reset: Six Degrees of Desperation 508 iPhone Doesn’t Turn On 510 Doesn’t Show Up in iTunes 511 Phone and Internet Problems 511 Email Problems 512 Problems that Aren’t Really Problems 513 iPod Problems 514 Warranty and Repair 514 The Battery Replacement Program 515 Where to Go from Here 516 Index 517 www.it-ebooks.info [...]... 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Brett McLaughlin Life •• Personal Investing: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore •• Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald •• Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald •• Your Money: The Missing Manual by J.D Roth xiv The Missing Credits www.it-ebooks.info Introduction H ow do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is “use statistics”—200 million... your clothes restores the screen to its right-out-of -the- box crystal sheen You can also use the screen as a mirror when the iPhone is off The iPhone s Retina screen has crazy high resolution (the number of tiny pixels per inch) the highest resolution of any phone on the market It’s really, really sharp, as you’ll discover when you try to read text or make out the details of a 16 Chapter 1 www.it-ebooks.info... camera as the one on the back The front camera has no flash, isn’t as good in low light, and takes much lower-resolution shots (1.2 megapixels on the iPhone 5, only 0.3 megapixels on earlier models) The camera on the back of the iPhone, meanwhile, takes very good photos indeed—8 megapixels on the iPhone 4S and 5 On the iPhone 4 and later, a tiny LED lamp appears next to this lens It’s the flash for the camera,... glass-and-metal slab Silencer switch Volume keys Home button For the rest of this book, and for the rest of your life with the iPhone, you’ll be expected to know what’s meant by, for example, the Home button” and the Sleep switch.” A guided tour, therefore, is in order Keep hands and feet inside the tram at all times The Guided Tour www.it-ebooks.info 7 Sleep Switch (On/Off) On the top-right edge of the. .. Presses, Part 2: The Widget Bar Most of the time, you’ll do the two-presses thing to open the task switcher so you can, well, switch tasks But there are hidden gems awaiting If you summon the task switcher and then drag your finger to the right, the task switcher reveals a set of four hidden controls These go by the name of The Guided Tour www.it-ebooks.info 13 widgets, meaning that they’re not quite... then, of course, there’s iOS 6, which runs on any iPhone from the 3GS onward Apple says it contains over 200 features, but many of them are tiny nips and tucks Here are the big-ticket items: • Maps Here’s the big one, the controversial one: the new Maps app, which replaces the Google Maps app that has been on the iPhone since its debut in 2007 It’s a beautiful app with some great features, but in the . Software–Including iPhone 5 www.it-ebooks.info iPhone The Missing Manual Sixth Edition www.it-ebooks.info iPhone: The Missing Manual, Sixth Edition BY DAVID. 97 8-1 -4 4 9-3 164 8-8 [TI] [10/12] www.it-ebooks.info Contents iii Contents The Missing Credits xi Introduction 1 Part 1: The iPhone as Phone Chapter 1: The