iPhone: The Missing Manual by David Pogue This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing. If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to booktech@oreilly.com. Please specify the printing date of your copy. This page was updated November 1, 2007. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification iPhone: The Missing Manual 3rd Printing Changes, September 2007 Chapter 000 (front matter) ix (Update) [updated printing history] --------------- Chapter 000 (front matter) viii (Update) The text used to read: My gratitude also goes to photographer Tim Geaney, graphics goddess Lesa Snider King, and my cheerful intern Zach Brass; they helped me hammer away at the problem of capturing what’s on the iPhone screen. It now reads: My gratitude also goes to photographer Tim Geaney and graphics goddess Lesa Snider King; they helped me hammer away at the problem of capturing what’s on the iPhone screen. My cheerful intern Zach Brass rough-drafted Appendix C, and served as an able screenshot doctor. --------------- Chapter 000 ix, x (Update) [updated book list] --------------- Chapter 00 (intro) 3 (Update) The text used to read: Part 5, Appendixes, contains two reference chapters. Appendix A walks you through the setup and signup process, in which you activate your phone, choose a calling plan, and find out your phone number. Appendix B is a master compendium of troubleshooting, maintenance, and battery information. It now reads: Part 5, Appendixes, contains three reference chapters. Appendix A walks you through the setup and signup process, in which you activate your phone, choose a calling plan, and find out your phone number. Appendix B is a master compendium of troubleshooting, maintenance, and battery information. And Appendix C gives you a taste of iPhone hacking: custom ringtones, unlocking the SIM card, installing delicious new programs on the Home screen, and so on. --------------- Chapter 1 9 (Update) The text used to read: You can’t use any other company’s SIM card in the iPhone—it’s not an “unlocked” GSM phone. Other recent AT&T cards will work, however, but only after you first activate them. After inserting the other card — it fits only one way, with the AT&T logo facing up—connect the iPhone to your computer and let the iTunes software walk you through the process. It now reads: You can’t use any other company’s SIM card in the iPhone—it’s not an “unlocked” GSM phone (at least, not officially; see Appendix C). Other recent AT&T cards will work, however, but only after you first activate them. After inserting the other card — it fits only one way, with the AT&T logo facing up—connect the iPhone to your computer and let the iTunes software walk you through the process. --------------- Chapter 1 12 (Update) The text used to read: Here it is. The one and only real button on the front of this phone. It now reads: Here it is. The one and only real button on the front of this phone (it’s pictured on page 15). --------------- Chapter 1 15 (Update) The text used to read: speaker, the microphone, and the 30-pin connector that charges and syncs the iPhone with your computer. It now reads: speaker, the microphone, and, directly below the Home button, the 30-pin connector that charges and syncs the iPhone with your computer. --------------- Chapter 2 41 Just a tip Insert this tip after step 3: If you know that somebody has AT&T like you, add “(AT&T)” after the last name. That way, when he calls, you’ll know that the call is free (like all AT&T-to-AT&T calls). --------------- Chapter 2 42, 43 (formatting) [text has reflowed] --------------- Chapter 2 47 (Update) The text used to read: The Favorites list holds 20 numbers, max. Once you’ve added that many, the Add to Favorites and ± buttons disappear. It now reads: The Favorites list holds 50 numbers (ever since the 1.0.1 software update). Once you’ve added 50, the Add to Favorites and ± buttons disappear. --------------- Chapter 2 51 (Update) The text used to read: See page 243 for details on specifying the overseas carrier. And see www.wireless. att.com/learn/international/long-distance for details on this roaming stuff. It now reads: See page 243 for details on specifying the overseas carrier. And see www.wireless. att.com/learn/international/long-distance for details on this roaming stuff. (And beware of the data charges—they’re even higher than the voice charges. Bills of $4,000 aren’t unusual following three-week trips abroad!) --------------- Chapter 5 103 (New information) Add this section Photos to Your Web Gallery If you have a Mac, and you have a copy of iPhoto ‘08, and you’re paying $100 a year for one of Apple’s .Mac accounts, then a special treat awaits you: You can send photos from your iPhone directly to your online Web photo gallery, where it appears instantly, to the delight of your fans. --------------- Chapter 5 104 (New information) [add this info] To set this up, begin on your Mac. In iPhoto, highlight an album and then choose Share->Web Gallery. In the confirmation box, turn on “Allow photo uploading by email.” Click Publish, and wait until your beautiful new photo gallery appears on the Web. Then, and only then, will you discover, on the iPhone, a new option that magically appears when you tap the ^button: Send to Web Gallery. It does just what it says: it flings the photo on the screen up to the Web gallery that you created on your Mac. Now that, you have to admit, is pretty neat. --------------- Chapter 7 117 Just a tip [insert this tip:] And speaking of scrolling: If you ever find yourself inside a frame (one piece of a Web page that has its own personal scroll bar), the iPhone is ready for you. Drag with two fingers to scroll that frame. --------------- Chapter 11 207 Just a tip The text used to read: In the iPhone’s case, that’s music, photos, movies, calendar, address book, email settings, and Web bookmarks It now reads: In the iPhone’s case, that’s music, photos, movies, calendar, address book, email settings, ringtones, and Web bookmarks --------------- Chapter 11 208 (Update) [updated screenshot of iTunes to show Ringtones tab] --------------- Chapter 11 210 (Update) The text used to read: The middle part of the iTunes window now reveals six file-folder tabs, representing the six categories of stuff you can sync to your iPhone. Here’s what each one tells you: It now reads: The middle part of the iTunes window now reveals seven file-folder tabs, representing the seven categories of stuff you can sync to your iPhone. Here’s what each one tells you: --------------- Chapter 11 210 (Update) [insert this bullet after “Info”:] Ringtones. Any ringtones that you’ve bought from the iTunes store (page 283) appear here, so that you can control which ones you want synced to the iPhone. --------------- Chapter 11 211 (Update) [updated screenshot of iTunes to show Ringtones tab] --------------- Chapter 11 213 (Update) The text used to read: Syncing Podcasts You get a special Podasts tab in iTunes just for your podcast management on the iPhone. Once you click that Podcasts tab, you can choose to sync all shows, selected shows, all unplayed episodes—or just a certain number of episodes per sync. Individual checkboxes let you choose which podcast series get to come along for the ride. It now reads: Syncing Ringtones and Podcasts Once you click Podcasts, you can choose to sync all shows, selected shows, all unplayed episodes—or just a certain number of episodes per sync. Individual checkboxes let you choose which podcast series get to come along for the ride. Similar checkboxes await on the Ringtones tab for the ringtones you’ve bought from Apple (page 283). --------------- Chapter 11 215, 218, 225 (Update) [updated screenshots of iTunes to show the new Ringtones tab] --------------- Chapter 13 245 (Update) The text used to read: Ringtone. Tap this row to view the iPhone’s list of 25 ringtones. (No, you can’t use your own music as ringtones, and you can’t download new ones.) Tap a ring sound to hear it. After you’ve tapped one that you like, It now reads: Tap this row to view the iPhone’s list of 25 built-in ringtones, plus any new ones you’ve added yourself (see Appendix C). --------------- Chapter 13 251 (Update) The text used to read: Here, you can turn off the password requirement, change the number, and specify how quickly the password is requested before locking somebody out: immediately after the iPhone wakes, or a minute later. (That option was provided It now reads: Here, you can turn off the password requirement, change the number, and specify how quickly the password is requested before locking somebody out: immediately after the iPhone wakes, or 1, 15, 30, or 60 minutes later. (Those options were provided --------------- Chapter 15 269 (Update) [add this at bottom:] Within the first two months of the iPhone’s life, in fact, software updates 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 had already come down the pike, offering louder volume, security fixes, bug fixes, and many other subtle improvements. ---------------