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iPhone: The Missing Manual

Errata for iPhone: The Missing Manual

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Printed Page 5
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 Anonymous  Mar 01, 2012 
Printed Page 23
First note

The note states that "the iPhone is still not an 'unlocked' GSM phone". The Apple Store does now sell the iPhone 4s unlocked and, in fact, I recently bought one, inserted my T-Mobile SIM card, and it's now a T-Mobile iPhone, contrary to what the note implied. =)

 Wayne Smith  May 16, 2012 
Printed Page 36
3rd paragraph

word is now, should be how in sentence "Or at least that's now it used to be."

 Michael McGunigal  Jan 25, 2012 
Printed Page 36
United States

Second paragraph under The Notification Center

"now" should read "how"

 Robert Erickson  Feb 14, 2012 
Printed Page 101
Middle row of table, first column

"all caps," then "all caps off" should be "all caps on," then "all caps off"

 Richard Goff  May 16, 2012 
PDF Page 166
First Paragraph

The paragraph states that audiobooks rippend from CDs will not appear under Audiobooks in the Music app. In my experience, they do appear there, as long as one remembers to change the media type to Audiobook from Music in iTunes before syncing to the phone.

 Anonymous  Mar 14, 2012 
Printed Page 200
Screen Capture procedure

I have an iPhone 4S. I wanted to try the Screen Capture procedure as described on page 200. Did so several times and the phone just shut down. What works for me is: (1) Phone displays screen you want to capture; (2) Hold down ON/OFF button; (3) Press HOME button twice quickly. Screen capture will be saved.

The instructions in the book are almost a reverse of the correct method...at least for the iPhone 4S.

 Anonymous  Jan 06, 2012 
Printed Page 200
Under "Screen Capture"

I have the iPhone 4S. Your screen capture instructions say hold down the home button and press the sleep button. If you hold down the hold button too long, Siri answers. If I hold it and quickly hit the sleep button, it goes to sleep. Did they change the screen capture button combo for the 4S model?

 Robert Castiglione  Jan 11, 2012 
Printed Page 200
Under Screen Capture

I found the answer! You have the button order backwards in your book. The correct method is hold down the sleep switch first and then quickly push the home button before it gives you the shutdown swipe.

 Robert Castiglione  Jan 12, 2012 
Printed Page 220
Yellow box on top of page

You wrote, use the iPhone's Revert to Original command.

You meant to say, iPhoto's command.

(Apart from this totally unimportant mistake, thank you for this great book from a reader in Berlin, Germany)

 Oliver V?lckers  Feb 03, 2012 
Printed Page 437
United States

Data protection feature is stated that it requires a device with 32GB of memory. This does not seem to be true because I'm able to turn it on with 16GB phones.

Elery Beale  Feb 27, 2012 
Printed Page 514, 515
Index: Battery/backup batteries and Charging.../backup batteries

In both cases the index gives the page number for that topic as 799. There is no Page 799 in this book.

Thank you. Excellent book.

 Mark Leinwand  Oct 17, 2012