Chapter 9
Using Handy Utilities
IN THIS CHAPTER
Use the Calculator app
Get your bearings with Compass
Record voice memos
Measure and level
Get started with the Home app
Translate words and phrases
Utilities are simple apps that can be very useful indeed to help with common tasks, such as calculating a meal tip, finding your way on a hike in the woods, or translating phrases from one language to another.
In this chapter, you find out how to use the Calculator app to keep your numbers in line. You also explore a few other apps: Compass to help you find your way, Voice Memos so that you can record your best ideas for posterity, Measure to help determine distances, Home to begin automating your home’s tech, and Translate to assist with conversing in languages you don’t natively speak or are still learning.
Use the Calculator App
This one won’t be rocket science. The Calculator app works ...
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