Book description
If you're looking for a book that focuses on just the most important, most useful, and most fun stuff about your iPhone 5, 4S, or 4—you've found it. There are basically two types of iPhone books out there: (1) The "tell-me-all-about-it" kind, which includes in-depth discussions on everything from wireless network protocols to advanced compression codes. (2) Then there's this book, which instead is a "show-me-how-to-do-it" book that skips all the confusing techno-jargon and just tells you, in plain, simple English, exactly how to use the iPhone features you want to use most. The iPhone Book is from Scott Kelby, the award-winning author of the smash bestseller, The iPod Book, who takes that same highly acclaimed, casual, straight-to-the-point concept and layout and brings it to learning Apple's amazing iPhone. Scott teams up once again with gadget guru and leading iPhone authority Terry White to put together a book that is an awful lot like the iPhone itself—simple to use and fun to learn. The book's layout is brilliant, with each page covering just one single topic, so finding the information you need is quick and easy, with a large full-color photo on each page so you can see exactly how it works. Scott and Terry added even more tips and tricks than the previous editions, and made it even easier by focusing on just the most useful and most requested iPhone 5 features, so you can start really using your iPhone today!
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Scott’s Acknowledgments
- Terry’s Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Contents
- Introduction
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Chapter One. The Bare Essentials: 10 Things Brand New iPhone Users Need to Know
- Turning Your iPhone On, Off, and Putting It to Sleep
- Using Your iPhone’s Touchscreen
- Getting Back to the Home Screen
- Making Phone Calls
- Using Your iPhone’s Built-In Speaker
- How to Send Text Messages
- Using the Built-In Keyboard
- Downloading Songs/Videos Right to Your iPhone
- Flipping Your View
- Charging Your iPhone
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Chapter Two. Phoneheads: How to Use the Phone
- Importing Contacts
- Importing Contacts from Your Old Cell Phone
- Importing Your Google Contacts on Your iPhone
- Importing Your Contacts from Facebook
- Adding New Contacts from Scratch
- Search for a Contact
- Dialing Someone in Your Contacts List
- Seeing a Contact’s Photo When They Call
- Dialing a Call
- The Advantage of Using Groups
- Setting Up Your Speed Dial Favorites
- Reordering (or Removing) Favorites
- Seeing the Contact Info for a Favorite
- Turn a Recent Caller into a Contact
- Shooting a Photo and Adding It to a Contact
- Control the Size of Your Caller ID Photos
- Putting a Call on Hold to Call Someone Else
- Making Instant Conference Calls
- Pausing Music to Take a Call
- Check Your Email While You’re On the Phone
- How to Know If You Missed Any Calls
- Returning Missed Calls
- Seeing If You Have Voicemail Messages
- Listening To and Deleting Voicemail Messages
- Replay Just Part of a Voicemail Message
- Recording Your Outgoing Voicemail Message
- Setting Up Call Forwarding
- Can’t Take a Call Now? Reply with a Text Message
- Get Reminded Later That You Didn’t Take That Call
- Adding a Pause
- Turning the Ringer Off
- Choosing Your Ringtone
- Assigning Ringtones to Specific Callers
- Headsets or Bluetooth in Your Car
- Set Up to Make FaceTime Video Calls
- Making a FaceTime Video Call
- During Your FaceTime Call
- Use FaceTime and Not Cellular Minutes
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Chapter Three. Message in a Bottle: Sending Text Messages
- Sending Text Messages
- Sending Messages to Multiple People
- Seeing If You Have Text Messages
- iMessage: Send Unlimited Free Texts! Really!
- How to Know If You’re Sending an iMessage
- Deleting Individual Messages
- Forwarding Individual Messages
- If Your Text Doesn’t Go Through
- Sending Photos or Videos in a Text Message
- Video Quality and Text (MMS) Messaging
- Sending Voice Memos in a Text Message
- Use Siri to Do Your Texting for You
- Other Ways to Text Your Contacts
- Turning Off the “You’ve Got a Text Message” Sound
- Seeing How Many Characters You’ve Typed
- Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts for Texting
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Chapter Four. App Anthem: Using Apps & the App Store
- Downloading iPhone Apps to Your Computer
- Getting Apps from Your iPhone’s App Store
- Deleting Apps
- Updating Your Apps
- Quickly Switching to Another App
- Rearranging Your Apps
- Cut the App Clutter by Creating Folders
- Access More Apps at the Bottom of Your Screen
- Don’t Miss Apple’s Own Downloadable Apps
- Accessing Your Audio Controls While in Another App
- Organizing Your iPhone Apps on Your Computer
- Where to Find the Very Coolest Apps
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Chapter Five. Please Mr. Postman: Getting (and Sending) Email
- Setting Up Your Email
- What If Your Email Isn’t in the List?
- Add an iCloud Email Account
- Add a Corporate Microsoft Exchange Email Account
- Checking Your Email
- The Unified Inbox
- Getting Email from Your VIP Contacts
- Reading Your Email
- Threaded Email Discussions
- Viewing and Playing Email Attachments
- Saving an Emailed Photo to Your iPhone
- Opening an Attachment in Another App
- Dialing a Phone Number from an Email
- Going to a Website from an Email
- Filing an Email in a Folder
- Flagging Important Emails
- Deleting, Moving, or Marking Emails
- Searching and Handling the Results
- Replying to an Email
- Forwarding an Email
- Writing a New Email
- Editing Your Email
- Emailing a Photo
- Printing an Email
- Sharing a Contact
- Using Multiple Email Signatures
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Chapter Six. Surfin’ Safari: Using Safari, Your iPhone’s Web Browser
- Visiting Webpages on Your iPhone
- Getting Around a Webpage
- Saving Webpages to Read Later
- Getting a New Page and Closing a Page
- Moving Between Pages
- Using Your Bookmarks
- Adding a Bookmark
- Editing or Deleting a Bookmark
- Adding or Removing a Direct Web Link Icon
- Using iCloud Tabs
- Using Google Search
- Mobile Versions of Your Favorite Sites
- Reading Webpages Made Much Easier
- Dialing a Phone Number on a Webpage
- Filling in an Online Form
- Save or Copy an Image from a Webpage
- Share or Print a Webpage
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Chapter Seven. Tool Time: iPhone’s Tools for Organizing Your Life
- Using Passbook for Gift Cards, Boarding Passes & More, Part 1
- Using Passbook for Gift Cards, Boarding Passes & More Part 2
- Using the Notification Center
- Using Reminders
- Using Newsstand
- Using the Game Center
- Setting Up Clocks for Different Time Zones
- Using the Stopwatch
- Setting Up a Countdown Clock
- Using Your iPhone as an Alarm
- Using the Calculator
- Using the Built-In Maps App
- Locate Yourself on the Map
- Turn-by-Turn Driving Directions
- Drop a Pin on the Map
- Seeing a Satellite Photo View of Your Map
- Seeing a 3D Map Flyover (This Is Really Cool!)
- Seeing Real-Time Traffic Conditions on Your Map
- Finding Your Contacts on the Map
- Build Up Your Contacts from the Maps App
- Use Map Bookmarks
- Using the Weather App
- Making Quick Notes
- Getting Stock Quotes
- Getting More Info on Your Stocks
- Using Stocks as a Currency Converter
- Syncing Your Calendar
- Adding Appointments to Your Calendar
- Subscribing to Calendars on Your iPhone
- Using the Built-In Voice Memos App
- Using the Compass
- Nike + iPod
- Find My iPhone
- Secure Your iPhone with a Passcode
- Chapter Eight. Let’s Get Siri-us: How to Use Siri: Your Built-In Personal Assistant
- Chapter Nine. McCloud: Keep Everything in Sync Using iCloud
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Chapter Ten. I Got the Music in Me: Using Your iPhone’s Built-In iPod That’s Not Called an iPod
- If You Have Songs on Your Computer...
- Don’t Plug In—Now You Can Sync Wirelessly
- Playing Music on Your iPhone
- Seeing Your List of Songs
- Searching for Songs
- Buying Songs on Your iPhone
- Buy the Rest of an Album (or TV Show Season)
- Play/Pause, Skipping Songs, Rewind & Volume
- Your Options When Playing a Song
- Using iTunes Match to Back Up Your Other Songs to iCloud
- Stream Music Wirelessly to Your Stereo Using AirPlay
- Shuffle Your Songs
- Scrubbing Through a Song
- Repeating a Song or Playlist
- Using Cover Flow
- Using Your Playlists
- Creating New Playlists
- Creating Genius Playlists on Your iPhone
- Rating Your Songs on Your iPhone
- Sing Along with the Lyrics
- Using the Audio Playback Control Widget
- Listening to Audiobooks
- Taking a Call While You’re Listening to Music
- Setting a Sleep Timer to Drift Off to Music
- Rearranging Your Music Buttons
- Using External Speakers or Headsets
- Chapter Eleven. Video Killed the Radio Star: Using the Videos App
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Chapter Twelve. One Hour Photo: Using Your Camera and Working with Photos and Videos
- Using the Built-In Camera
- How to Choose Where to Focus
- Taking Self-Portraits
- Using the Built-In Zoom Feature
- Using the Built-In Flash
- Editing Your Photos Right on Your iPhone
- Taking HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photos
- Shooting Panoramic Photos
- Locking Your Exposure
- Arranging Your Photos in Albums
- Shooting Video with Your iPhone
- Shooting Video with Your iPhone Widescreen
- Editing Video on Your iPhone
- Video Straight from Your iPhone to YouTube
- Your iPhone Treats Videos Like Photos
- How to Shoot Stills While You’re Shooting Video
- Want to See Where You Took That Photo?
- Add Your iPhone’s Geotag Info to Other Photos Using iPhoto
- If You Shoot Video, Get iMovie for iPhone
- Getting Photos into Your iPhone (Mac)
- Getting Photos Without iPhoto (Mac)
- Getting Photos into Your iPhone (PC)
- Getting Photos Without Album or Elements (PC)
- iPhone Tips for Photographers
- Viewing Your Imported Photos
- Viewing a Slide Show
- Adding Background Music to Your Slide Show
- Viewing and Saving a Photo/Video Sent in a Text Message
- Making a Photo Your iPhone’s Wallpaper
- How to Email a Photo
- Access Your Photos from Anywhere Using iCloud
- Downloading Photos from Your iPhone
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Chapter Thirteen. Cereal Killer: Killer Tips and Tricks
- Slide a Push Notification Icon to Go to That App
- Send a Tweet or Post a Facebook Status from the Notification Center
- Get Notified When You Receive an Email from a VIP
- Restrict Access to a Single App
- Refresh Your Passbook Balance
- Take Safari into Full-Screen Browsing Mode
- See Your Safari Browsing History
- Use Safari to Upload Photos
- Mirror What’s on Your iPhone to Your Apple TV
- Set Up a Custom Vibration Pattern
- Use Your iPhone to Dictate into Other Apps
- Cut, Copy, Paste, Suggest, and the Landscape Keyboard
- Master the Virtual Keyboard
- Access Those Special Accent Characters
- Switch to a Foreign Language Keyboard
- Want to Use Emoticons?
- Tips for the International Traveler
- Create Your Own Ringtones or Text Tones with GarageBand
- Create Your Own Ringtones or Text Tones with iTunes
- Get a More Accurate Battery Status
- What to Do with Your Old iPhone
- Send Mail from a Backup Server
- Create a Custom Wallpaper Image
- Take a Screenshot
- Shake to Undo and Shake to Shuffle
- Find Out How Much Data You’re Using
- Protect Your iPhone
- Reading ePubs and PDFs in the iBooks App
- Why You Should Encrypt Your iPhone’s Backup
- Track Your Package
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Chapter Fourteen. Setting Me Off: The Ins and Outs of Your iPhone’s Settings
- Using Your iPhone on an Airplane
- Connecting to Wi-Fi
- Using Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
- Don’t Want to Be Disturbed?
- Manage Your Push Notifications
- Your iPhone’s General Settings
- Updating Your Software Over the Air
- Checking Your iPhone Usage
- Understanding Your Cellular Settings
- Using Your iPhone to Connect Your Laptop or Other Wi-Fi Device to the Internet
- Sync Your iPhone Over Wi-Fi
- Control Your Spotlight Searches
- Don’t Forget to Set Your Time Zone
- Setting Up Your Keyboard
- Choosing Your Primary Language
- Settings for the Visually, Hearing, Learning, and Physically Impaired
- Choosing and Managing Sounds
- Adjusting the Brightness and Changing Your Wallpaper
- Controlling Your Privacy Settings
- Setting Up Your Mail, Contacts, and Calendar Apps
- Setting Up Your Notes App
- Setting Up Your Phone App
- Setting Up Your Messages App
- Setting Up FaceTime
- Setting Up Your Maps App
- Setting Up Your Safari Web Browser
- Setting Up Your iTunes and App Store Apps
- Setting Up Your Music App
- Setting Up Your Videos App
- Setting Up Your Photos and Camera Apps
- Setting Up Twitter Integration on Your iPhone
- Setting Up Facebook Integration on Your iPhone
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Chapter Fifteen. The Trouble with Boys: Troubleshooting Your iPhone
- Dropped Calls and Bad Reception
- The Quick Fix for Most Problems
- Your iPhone Doesn’t Come On or Respond
- No Sound
- You’re on Wi-Fi, but Your iPhone Uses 3G/4G
- You’re on Wi-Fi, but Your iPhone Won’t Surf the Web
- You’re in a Wi-Fi Hotspot, but Can’t Surf the Web
- Get a Fresh Start with Your Information
- Starting from Scratch
- Can’t Make Calls
- Did Your App Crash?
- Poorly Running Apps
- Do a Backup and Restore
- Battery Saving Tips
- More Battery Saving Tips
- SIM Card Not Detected by Your iPhone
- Software Updates Are Important
- Problems Downloading or Updating Apps, Music, etc.
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Chapter Sixteen. Matchbox Twenty: 20 Apps We Can’t Live Without
- Yahoo! Sportacular
- Zite Personalized Magazine
- Reeder
- Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine
- Tweetbot for Twitter
- Foursquare
- Adobe Revel
- Uber
- TripIt – Travel Organizer
- FlightTrack Pro – Live Flight Status Tracker
- GateGuru, Airport Info & Flight Status
- NAVIGON
- TomTom
- Movies by Flixster
- Presentation Clock
- 1Password
- Starbucks
- Dropbox
- Delivery Status Touch, a Package Tracker
- Index
Product information
- Title: The iPhone Book: Covers iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 4, Sixth Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2012
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780133375886