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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 13th Edition
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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 13th Edition

by David Pogue
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
719 pages
19h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Introduction

How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is “use statistics”—2.5 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. 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 new iPhone models every fall. In September 2019, it introduced the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th models, the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max.

There’s also a new, free version of the iPhone’s software, called iOS 13.

You can run iOS 13 on older iPhone models without having to buy a new phone. This book covers all the phones that can run iOS 13, from the iPhone SE through the iPhone 11 family and iPhone SE 2.

About the iPhone

What is the iPhone? The better question is what isn’t the iPhone?

It’s a cellphone, obviously. But it’s also a full-blown multimedia player, complete with a dazzling screen for watching videos. And it’s a sensational pocket internet ...

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