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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition
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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition

by David Pogue
October 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
600 pages
17h 38m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9. The Built-In Apps

Your Home screen comes already loaded with the icons of about 25 programs. These are the essentials; eventually, of course, you’ll fill that Home screen with apps you install yourself. The starter apps include gateways to the Internet (Safari), communications tools (Phone, Messages, Mail, Contacts), visual records of your life (Photos, Camera), shopping centers (iTunes, App Store), and entertainment (Music, Videos).

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Those core apps get special treatment in the other chapters. This chapter covers the secondary programs, in alphabetical order: Calculator, Calendar, Clock, Compass, Find My Friends, Game Center, iBooks, Maps, Newsstand, Notes, Passbook, Reminders, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Weather.

Calculator

The iPhone wouldn’t be much of a computer without a calculator, now, would it? And here it is, your everyday calculator—with a secret twist.

Note

On a new iPhone, the Calculator sits in a folder called Extras. But it’s much faster to tell Siri, “Open the calculator” or to tap the Calculator button on the Control Center.

In Calculator’s basic four-function mode, you can tap out equations (like 15.4 x 300 =) to see the answer at the top. (You can paste things you’ve copied into here, too; just hold your finger down until the Paste button appears.) Apple took the memory function out of the basic calculator in iOS 7, but you do get a +/– button; its function is ...

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