December 2017
Beginner
675 pages
17h 34m
English
Content preview from iPhone: The Missing Manual, 11th Edition
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Introduction
How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is “use statistics”—1 billion sold, 2.2 million apps on the App Store, 200 billion downloads…. Trouble is, those statistics get stale almost before you’ve finished typing them.
Maybe it’s better to talk about the aftermath. How the invention of the iPhone changed society, business, and culture forever. With the iPhone (and Google’s imitator, Android), we became, for the first time, a society of people who are online continuously, wherever we go. Our communications blossomed from text messages to video calls, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Skype. Billion-dollar businesses like Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram sprang into existence. Distracted driving, distracted walking, distracted eating, distracted dating, and even distracted sex all became “things.”
Apple introduces a new iPhone model every fall. In September 2017, for example, it introduced the 11th and 12th iPhone models, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and—to celebrate the iPhone’s 10th birthday—the state-of-the-art, $1,000 iPhone X.
There’s also a new, free version of the iPhone’s software, called iOS 11.
You can run iOS 11 on older iPhone models without having to buy a new phone. This book covers all the phones that can run iOS 11, from the iPhone 5s through the iPhone X.
About the iPhone
So what is the iPhone? Really, the better question is what isn’t the iPhone?
It’s a cellphone, obviously. But it’s also a full-blown multimedia player, complete ...
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