Chapter 9

Using Handy Utilities

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Use the Calculator app

Bullet Get your bearings with Compass

Bullet Record voice memos

Bullet Measure and level

Bullet Get started with the Home app

Bullet 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 (perhaps while you’re on a hike using the Compass app for direction), Measure to help determine distances (you can find out just how far of a jump it is over the creek in your path), Home to begin automating your home’s tech (the coffee will be hot and ready when ...

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