iPhone For Dummies (eBook)

Edward C. Baig, Guy Hart-Davis (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 14. Auflage
416 Seiten
For Dummies (Verlag)
978-1-119-91283-5 (ISBN)

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iPhone For Dummies, the much-loved guide to Apple’s killer smartphone, is updated for 2023. This book walks you through all the latest features of iOS 16 and the latest iPhone models, including the iPhone 14. Looking for a guide to an older model? We’ve got you covered there, too, with plenty of know-how that applies to previous iPhones. Keep in touch with family and friends all over the world with calls, texts, and FaceTime. We’ll also show you how to use your iPhone as a music player, a gaming system, a camera, and a productivity enhancer, all wrapped up in one touch-screen package.

• Learn your way around your Apple iPhone 14 (or older models)
• Discover the new features of iOS 16 and make the most of your phone
• Customize your settings, keep your phone secure, and master the apps
• Take pictures, communicate with FaceTime, play games, and beyond

iPhone For Dummies offers expert insight on how to make the most of your iPhone and its updated features. Peek inside for the latest iOS 16 features, as well as the updated hardware features on the latest iPhone models.

Autor

Edward C. Baig is a technology writer whose work has appeared in numerous national publica-tions, including USA Today. Guy Hart-Davis is the author of various computer books, including macOS Ventura For Dummies and Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone 14.

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Chapter 1

Unveiling the iPhone

IN THIS CHAPTER

Looking at the big picture

Touring the outside of the iPhone

Checking out the iPhone’s apps

Congratulations. You’ve selected one of the most incredible handheld devices we’ve ever seen. Of course, the iPhone is one heck of a wireless telephone, but it’s actually four handheld devices in one. At least it’s four devices right out of the box. Add some iPhone apps, and your iPhone becomes a personal computer, an e-book reader, a handheld gaming device, a memory jogger, an exercise assistant, and ever so much more.

We discuss optional apps — how to obtain, install, and delete them — throughout the book and particularly in Chapters 15, 17, and 18.

But first let’s focus on the four awesome handheld devices your iPhone is the day you take it out of the box. In addition to being a decent cellular telephone, the iPhone is a gorgeous widescreen video player, a fantastic camera/camcorder system, as well as a tiny-yet-powerful internet communications device.

In this chapter, we offer a gentle introduction to all four devices that make up your iPhone, plus overviews of its revolutionary hardware and software features.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

Somehow, we think you’ve already opened the elegant box that the iPhone came in. But if you didn’t, here’s what you can expect to find inside:

• Lightning-to-USB cable: Use this handy cable to sync or charge your iPhone. You can plug the USB connector into your PC or Macintosh to sync or into a USB power adapter to charge. The cable included with all iPhones these days is Lightning-to-USB-C, which gives zippier performance than the Lightning-to-USB-A cable that older iPhone models use. (If your computer doesn’t have a USB-C port, inexpensive adapters are available from Apple and other vendors such as Amazon.com.)
• Some Apple logo decals: Of course.
• A quick start guide or an iPhone info sheet or both: Not much to it. You see the names of the buttons, how to turn on the phone, and where to learn more and get support. We saved you the time of looking; you can learn more at www.apple.com/iphone and get help at www.apple.com/support/iphone. You’re welcome.

• SIM eject tool: Included with some (but not all) new iPhones. Didn’t get one or lost yours? No problem. Use a straightened paper clip or safety pin to remove your SIM card. (See Chapter 16 for more on the SIM card.)

  iPhone 14 models sold in the US use e-SIMs (virtual SIMs) rather than physical SIM cards; iPhone 14 models sold in some other markets still use physical SIM cards. Older iPhone models — including the iPhone SE third-generation, iPhone 13, and iPhone 12 — all use physical SIM cards.

• iPhone: You were starting to worry. Yes, the iPhone itself is also in the box.

The Big Picture

The iPhone has many best-of-class features, but the big one is its super-high-resolution touchscreen that you operate using a pointing device you can’t lose: your finger.

And what a display it is. We venture that you’ve never seen a more beautiful screen on a handheld device in your life.

The iPhone’s built-in sensors also still knock our socks off. An accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape mode and adjusts what’s on the display accordingly. A proximity sensor detects when the iPhone gets near your face, so it can turn off the display to save power and prevent accidental touches by your cheek. A light sensor adjusts the display’s brightness in response to the current ambient lighting situation. The iPhone even has a gyroscope for advanced motion sensing and GPS sensors so your phone can determine where in the world you are. Our favorite example of motion sensing is that our iPhones automatically turn on driving focus within a few seconds of our cars' wheels hitting the road. That’s a smart smartphone — and a helpful one.

In this section, we take a brief look at some of the iPhone’s features, broken down by product category.

The iPhone as a phone and a digital camera or camcorder

On the phone side, the iPhone synchronizes with the contacts and calendars on your Mac or PC, as well as contacts and events on iCloud, Google, Yahoo!, Outlook.com, and Microsoft Exchange. It includes a full-featured QWERTY virtual keyboard, whose uncannily accurate text predictions and automatic corrections make entering text faster and easier than ever before. Granted, the virtual keyboard takes a bit of time to get used to. But we think that many of you eventually will be whizzing along at a much faster pace than you thought possible on a mobile keyboard of this type.

The camera in your iPhone is paired with iOS 16’s improved Camera and Photos apps, so taking and managing digital photos and videos on your iPhone is a pleasure rather than the nightmare it can be on other phones. Plus, you can automatically synchronize iPhone photos and videos with the digital photo library on your Mac or PC or with all your devices through your iCloud account.

The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max cameras are the best yet, with all the features of the preceding Pro generation cameras, including autofocus with focus pixels to help prevent out-of-focus pictures. And all models available today have the best executions yet of the greatest camera feature ever: optical image stabilization, which uses data from the processor, gyroscope, and motion coprocessor to determine camera motion when you’re shooting, and then compensates for your shaky hands or low light. Bottom line: All iPhone 14 models shoot better low-light photos than previous iPhones, and iPhone 14 Pro models shoot the best low-light photos and videos yet.

Cinematic mode (all iPhone 14 models only) adds a beautiful depth effect with automatic focus that can be changed during and after capture. For what it's worth, these iPhones are the only devices that can edit depth-of-field effect in video after recording (at least for now).

Finally, don’t miss the Live Photos feature (all current iPhone models), which captures a bit of video before and after the still image. This brings images to life when viewed, and it’s as easy as ever to add effects — such as loop, bounce, and our favorite, long exposure — making Live Photos perhaps the coolest iPhone camera feature since, well, whatever we called the coolest iPhone camera feature in a previous edition.

Another of our favorite phone accouterments is visual voicemail. (Try saying that three times fast.) This feature lets you see a list of voicemail messages and choose which ones to listen to or delete without being forced to deal with every message in your voice mailbox in sequential order. Now, that’s handy!

Finally, all iPhone models include Siri, an intelligent voice-controlled assistant that understands what you tell it (most of the time). Siri just keeps getting better at figuring out what you mean and determining which (if any) iPhone app should be used to find the right answer. And, like a real personal assistant, Siri replies in a natural sounding human voice. Furthermore, it has become even smarter in recent years with proactive assistance, which provides the most relevant information and suggestions at a particular moment and place using on-device learning, which helps Siri deliver a more personalized experience based on your usage of Safari, News, Mail, Messages, and other apps.

One more thing: Siri can also take dictation!

If you’ve tried voice control before, forget everything you know and give Siri a try. We think you’ll be as impressed as we are — at least, if you're in a relatively quiet environment or you're using a headset.

The iPhone as an iPod

Do you remember when iPods were all the rage? We agree with the late Steve Jobs on this one: The iPhone is a better iPod than any iPod Apple ever made. (Okay, we can quibble about the iPod touch — RIP, old friend — and the iPad, as well as wanting more storage, but you know what we mean.) You can enjoy all your existing media content — music, audiobooks, audio and video podcasts, music videos, television shows, and movies — on the iPhone’s gorgeous high-resolution color display, which is bigger, brighter, and richer than any iPod display ever was.

Bottom line: If you can get the content — be it video, audio, or whatever — into the Music app or TV app (macOS Catalina or later) or into iTunes (PC or macOS Mojave or earlier), you can synchronize it and watch or listen to it on your iPhone.

The iPhone as an internet communications device

But wait — there’s more! Not only is the iPhone a great phone and a stellar media player, but it’s also a full-featured internet communications device with — we’re about to drop a bit of industry jargon on you — a rich HTML email client that’s compatible with most POP, IMAP, and web-based mail services, with support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. (For more on this topic, see Chapter 12.) Also on board is Safari, a world-class web browser that, unlike on most other phones, makes web surfing fun and easy.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Drahtlose Kommunikation • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik • iPhone • Mobile & Wireless Communications
• ISBN-10: 1-119-91283-0 / 1119912830
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-91283-5 / 9781119912835