Chapter 4: Touring iPhone’s Preloaded Apps and Settings

In This Chapter

check.png Getting to know preloaded apps

check.png Adjusting basic settings to suit your style

check.png Invoking iPhone’s security and privacy features

check.png Averting panic in case your iPhone is lost or stolen

As the name implies, your iPhone is first and foremost a cellular phone. Given its Internet capabilities of browsing the web and juggling e-mail, it’s also a first-class smartphone. But you’re probably starting to realize — if you didn’t already know — that it’s so much more. The apps that come with your iPhone make it a time and task manager, an address book, a photo album, an e-reader, and GPS navigator. This chapter introduces you to those apps, as well as every other preloaded app. We also show you how to download a few free iPhone apps that don’t come preloaded on your iPhone: iBooks, Podcasts, and Find My iPhone.

In this chapter, we also show you how to adjust your iPhone’s basic settings to suit your personal style, explain how to activate security features for protecting your iPhone from prying eyes, and introduce you to steps ...

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