November 2012
Beginner
416 pages
11h 27m
English
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Turning the iPhone On and Off
Apple has taken the time to nearly fully charge your iPhone, so you’ll get some measure of instant gratification. After taking the phone out of the box, press and hold the sleep/wake button on the top-right edge. (Refer to Chapter 1 for the location of all buttons.) If the phone has been activated — and at least in Apple Stores, a salesperson will happily handle this for you — the famous Apple logo appears on your screen, followed a few seconds later with the word iPhone overlaid on top of a gray background. If the phone is shipped to you from the Apple Store, you get a Connect to iTunes screen so that the device can connect to your provider’s servers and perform the activation. Or you can go computer-free through iCloud.
Over the next several screens that appear, you’ll set up your phone. You get to choose your language (English by default) and country or region. You then choose a Wi-Fi network, if available, or proceed using your cellular connection.
Next, you decide whether to enable Location Services. Agreeing to this step means the iPhone knows where you are, which is useful for Maps and other apps that rely on your whereabouts.
The interrogation continues. Do you want to set up the device as a new iPhone, restore the phone from an iCloud backup (see the next chapter), or restore it from an iTunes backup?
After that business is decided, you’re asked to agree to the Terms and Conditions. And just what took the lawyers so long to get involved?
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