Chapter 4

Beyond the Basics

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Charge the battery

Bullet Sign into an iTunes account for music, movies, and more

Bullet Sync wirelessly

Bullet Understand and set up iCloud

Bullet Browse files on your iPhone

Your first step in having fun with the iPhone is to make sure that its battery is charged. Next, if you want to find free or paid content for your iPhone from Apple, from movies to music to electronic books (e-books) to audiobooks, you’ll need to have an iTunes account, also known as an Apple ID.

You can also use the wireless sync feature to exchange content between your computer and iPhone over a wireless network.

Another feature you might take advantage of is the iCloud service from Apple to store and push all kinds of content and data to all your Apple devices — wirelessly. You can pick up where you left off from one device to another through iCloud Drive, an online storage service that enables sharing content among devices so that edits you make to documents in iCloud are reflected in all ...

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