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Your full-color iPhone go-to guide
Get started enjoying your iPhone’s powerful, versatile features quickly and easily! Loaded with crisp, full-color screenshots, this practical, visual guide focuses on the best ways to maximize your iPhone’s capabilities. Set up and customize your iPhone, manage contacts, access the web, take great photos, listen to music, find the best apps from iTunes, and so much more. Tips and Now You Know sidebars offer solutions to potential pitfalls and veteran insight helps you get even more out of this revolutionary device.
- See how it’s done with tons of color screenshots
- Make calls, browse the web, send/receive email, and find/play games
- Get productivity, entertainment, and strategy apps from the App Store
- Snap and share impressive photos
- Sync your iPhone 5 with other devices
- Set up iCloud for data storage and recovery
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780071809863 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | McGraw Hill LLC |
| Publication date: | 01/11/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 336 |
| File size: | 38 MB |
| Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
About the Author
Michael E. Cohen (Los Angeles, CA) is the author and co-author of numerous books, most recently The iPad 2 Project Book (Peachpit) and Take Control of TextExpander (TidBITS Publishing), and is currently a contributing editor to TidBITS, a Macintosh-oriented online newsletter, now in its twenty-second year. Cohen has been hanging out at the intersection of Science and The Arts for the last four decades. He is a graduate of UCLA’s Motion Picture and Television program and has developed instructional and commercial software and written about it.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments iii
Introduction xi
Part I Get Started with Your New iPhone
1 Set Up Your New iPhone 3
Unpack Your iPhone 4
Activate and Set Up Your iPhone 6
Initial Activation Steps 6
Setup: Via Computer or Wireless? 9
Create a New Apple ID or Use an Existing Apple ID 13
Sign Up for iCloud 14
Enable Essential Settings 16
2 Talk and Type 21
Make a Phone Call 21
How to Hold the iPhone When Making Calls 21
Dial the iPhone with the Keypad 23
Use Phone Features While on a Call 26
Use the Onscreen Keyboard 27
Basic Typing 28
Select, Copy, Paste, and Correct Text 30
Talk to Siri 32
Set Up Siri 33
See What Siri Can Do 34
Use Dictation 36
3 Receive and Send E-Mail 39
Connect to Your Mail Service Provider 39
Learn How You Get E-mail from a Server 39
Set Up an E-mail Account 40
Establish Other Settings for E-mail 44
Retrieve Your Messages 46
Send a Message 52
Organize Your E-Mail 55
4 Browse the Web 57
Meet Mobile Safari 57
Connecting to the Internet 58
Mobile Safari's Screen 58
Search the Web 61
Manage Bookmarks 63
Access History's Pages 63
Forget the Past 64
Use Reading List 65
Use Reader 66
5 Use the Bundled Apps 69
Meet the Bundled Apps 69
Notes 70
Messages 73
Photos 73
Camera 74
Stocks 74
Maps 77
Weather 80
Compass 82
Reminders 83
Calendar App 85
Clock 86
Voice Memos 89
Videos 90
Music 90
iTunes 90
App Store 91
Calculator 91
Contacts 91
Newsstand 92
Game Center 92
Passbook App 92
Arranging Your Apps 94
Arranging and Removing Apps 94
Using Folders and Exploiting the Dock 95
Part II Communicate with Your iPhone
6 Master Advanced Phone Features 99
Make Favorites 99
Create a Favorite 100
Use and Manage Favorites 103
Assign Ringtones 104
Use Call Waiting and Call Forwarding 107
Set Up and Disable Call Waiting 108
Set Up and Disable Call Forwarding 111
Make Conference Calls 112
Use Voicemail 113
Set Up Your Voicemail 113
Check Your Voicemail 113
Manage the Recents List 116
Emergency Call Feature 118
7 Use Contacts and Calendars 119
Use the Contacts App 119
Turn on Contacts in an Account 120
Create, Edit, and Delete a Contact 123
Use Contacts with Mail 126
Make Calls with Contacts 127
Get Directions 128
Use the Calendar App 129
Turn on Calendars in an Account 130
Make and Edit Calendar Events 131
Use Multiple Calendars 135
Subscribe to Calendars 136
8 Communicate with Text and Images 139
Use Messages 139
Send and Receive Texts with SMS 140
Send and Receive Texts with iMessage 144
Send and Receive Images 146
Video Chat with FaceTime 147
Use Social Networks 150
Use Twitter 151
Use Facebook 154
Part III Sync and Share Data
9 Sync Your iPhone with iTunes 161
iTunes from On High 162
The Summary Tab 165
iPhone Section 165
Version Section 166
Backup Section 166
Options Section 166
Info Tab 167
Sync Contacts 167
Sync Calendars 168
Sync Mail Accounts 168
Other 169
Advanced 169
Apps Tab 170
Tones Tab 172
Music Tab 173
Movies Tab 175
TV Shows Tab 176
Podcasts Tab 178
iTunes U Tab 179
Books Tab 180
Photos Tab 181
10 Use iCloud and Other Cloud Services 183
Sync and Back Up with iCloud 184
Set Up iCloud on Your iPhone 185
Set Up iCloud on Your Computer 193
Use Other Cloud Services 195
Use Google 196
Use Dropbox 198
Part IV Obtain Digital Media
11 Find and Purchase Apps 203
Browse and Purchase from the App Store 205
Browse Featured Apps 206
Browse Bestsellers 209
Browse Genius Recommendations 211
Browse by Searching 212
Browse What You Own 213
Restore Purchased Apps 215
12 Buy Music, Movies, and TV Shows 217
Shop in the iTunes Store 217
Sign in to the iTunes Store 218
The Stores in the iTunes Store 220
Searching the Store and Viewing Purchases 227
Configure Your Favorities 231
Use the Music App 232
Views of Your Tunes 233
Make a Playlist 236
Playing Your Tunes 241
Use the Videos App 243
13 Read on Your iPhone 247
Use iBooks and the iBookstore 248
Use iBooks 248
Shop the iBookstore 258
Understand the Newsstand 262
Use Other Reading Apps 263
Part V Use the Cameras
14 Shoot and Edit Photos 269
Taking Pictures with the Camera App 269
Shooting Basics 269
Autofocus and Auto Exposure 271
The Viewfinder Buttons 272
Using the Photos App. 279
Using the Camera Roll and Other Albums 281
Sharing and Photo Streams 290
Viewing Events, Faces, and Places 298
15 Shoot and Edit Videos 301
Using the Video Cameras 302
Make a Movie in iMovie 304
Start a Project 305
A Troubleshooting 311
Back Up Your iPhone 311
Restart to Handle Misbehaving Apps and Other Problems 313
Close Misbehaving Apps with the Multitasking Bar 313
AppleCare+ 315
Index 317