10. Playing with Game Center

Your iPhone can help make you incredibly productive. Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, Siri, Mail, and Notes save you lots of time. They might save you too much time. Perhaps you now have a bit of free time, and you’re not sure what to do with it. Or maybe you’re just ready to have a little fun.

Lucky for you, there’s Game Center. Game Center is an app that manages your collection of iOS games, keeping track of them and giving you an easy way to boast about your prowess to others. But it’s much more than that. Use Game Center to connect with friends, and see what games they’re playing and how well they are doing. Let’s play. ...

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