Using Apps in iOS

While using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is a thing of simplicity not to be rivaled in the history of mankind—where’s the mild sarcasm font?—it’s helpful to know some background information about apps in particular and iOS in general. Which apps work on which devices? What’s this Game Center app that’s on my home screen? How do I move files back and forth to a computer? And more. Read on!

What’s ios?

iOS is the operating system that handles all of the interaction and hardware control on an iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS was called iPhone OS for some time before the iPad was released, even though it worked on the iPod touch as well.

Apple decided to avoid confusion by shortening the name. iOS isn’t an abbreviation for ...

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