iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

Taking Stock with Stocks

Stocks is another Internet-enabled app on your iPhone. It’s kind of a one-trick pony, but if you need its trick — information about specific stocks — it’s a winner.

Every time you open the Stocks app by tapping its icon (on the second Home screen by default), it displays the latest price for your stocks, with two provisos:

The quotes are provided in real-time; in earlier versions of iOS, they were delayed by up to 20 minutes.

The quotes are updated only if your iPhone can connect to the Internet via either Wi-Fi or a wireless data network.

So tap that Stocks icon and take a peek. The first time you open Stocks, you see information for a group of default stocks, funds, and indexes. You can’t see them all on the screen at once, so flick upward to scroll down.

Your stocks also appear by default in Notification Center (swipe down from the top of the screen). If you don’t see them in your Notification Center, tap Settings⇒Notifications⇒Stock Widget to enable them.

Adding and deleting stocks, funds, and indexes

Your chance of owning that exact group of stocks, funds, and indexes displayed on the screen is slim, so this section shows you how to add your own stocks, funds, or indexes and delete any or all default ones if you want.

Here’s how to add a stock, a fund, ...