Indholdsfortegnelse for July - December 2023 i iPhone + iOS 15 The Definitive Guide

Those who listened to the rumour mill ahead of the iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max’s launch expected the notch atop the screen to go in favour of a pill-shaped window a little down from the top edge, but no one predicted what we got. The new iPhone’s Dynamic Island feature is arguably the most innovative and exciting change to the user interface we’ve seen in years. This window, of course, houses the TrueDepth camera, which has been re-engineered to fit into a 30% smaller space. For the first time, the proximity sensor which powers Face ID is positioned behind the display. This allows the Dynamic Island window to do far more than house the camera. Instead, it adapts dynamically to show alerts, background activities, notifications and current information to. For example,…

1 Open the Settings application from your iPhone’s Home screen and scroll to the top of the screen. Tap the Sign in to your iPhone option right at the top of the list, then in the pop-up window, tap ‘Don’t have an Apple ID or forgot it?’. 2 Tap Create Apple ID in the next window and, when instructed, enter your name in the fields provided. In the next field, Date of Birth, set your date with the wheels, and then tap Next to move on to the next step. 3 Then, you’re asked whether you want to use your current email address (if you have one) for your Apple ID. Tap Do not have an email address? if you want to use the free iCloud address that comes with…

Joining a Wi-Fi network 1 To activate Wi-Fi go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn it on. The iPhone searches for all networks in range. If at home, pick your home network and enter the security details, the password should be supplied with your router. 2 If you’reat a public hotspot that has no security, you can just connect. If it’s password protected, which is far more likely, you need to get the network name and the passcode from whoever is providing the Wi-Fi service. 3 From now on, whenever you’re in range of this Wi-Fi service the iPhone automatically connects without any prompting. If more than one is in range, the iPhone rejoins the last network it joined. Joining a mobile 5G, 4G or 3G network 1 When the…

Touchscreen actions Touch The iPhone has a capacitive touchscreen, which means it’s sensitive to the tiny electrical charges in our bodies. With this type of screen, you only have to tap it, not press down hard with your finger. To activate items on the screen such as applications and settings icons, type letters and symbols using the on-screen keyboard or to press on-screen buttons, you simply (gently) touch them with your finger. Touch and hold Touch and hold is useful in a number of different situations. You touch and hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs. The action in question depends on where you’re using the gesture. For example, if you touch and hold a web link, you’re presented…

Reminders in Focus 1 Use the Search field to search your reminders. Titles, notes, people, locations and more are searched. 2 Tap this link and you can edit your lists; delete them with the minus sign, reorder by dragging the Three-line icon up and down and tap the ‘i’ icon to rename a list, change its colour and choose a new icon. 3 These are your smart lists. ‘Today’ is all your reminders scheduled for that day, ‘Scheduled’ shows reminders that are scheduled for any day, ‘All’ lists all of your reminders, and ‘Flagged’ shows reminders to which you’ve added a flag. 4 These are your lists. They can be called anything you like. Tap one to open it and see the individual reminders you’ve added, mark reminders you’ve done…

Notes in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to the folder containing the currently open note. As you can see, that’s the iCloud folder, which is synced across your Apple devices, including your iPhone. You can then tap another folder on the Folders screen to open it, and look at the notes inside. 2 At the top of a note, you can see the date and time when the note in question was last edited. Drag the note down to get this information. 3 The three-dots icon opens a window containing a lot of options, including sharing the note, inviting people to collaborate on it and deleting it from your Notes app; all of which were previously available directly from this screen. 4 Various typographic can underline, bold…

Camera in Focus (older iPhone’s interfaces may vary) 1 Tap the flash icon to turn it on or off, to suit current lighting conditions. 2 Tap this to change the Night Mode setting. A slider lets you switch from Auto to manually setting the time length of the photo, but there’s no real need to do so. 3 Tap the inverted ‘V’ icon to open a row of control icons under the picture. These give greater control over things like the flash and HDR feature. 4 HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It averages the exposure by taking photos at different exposures in a short burst and then combining them into a single image. This icon turns it on or off. 5 A Live Photo adds a few seconds of…

Maps in Focus 1 Tap the folded map icon for a pop-up window, where you can switch between four map types; Explore, Driving, Public Transport and Satellite view. 2 Tap this arrow icon to focus the map on your current location. Tap it again and the map rotates as you move, so the direction your travelling is always ‘up’. A third tap returns it to its default function. 3 The blue dot shows your current location on the map and the direction you’re facing. The smaller the blue circle around it, the more accurate the location is. 4 Use the search bar found here to look for a location or nearby feature; we looked for Fast Food. Tap the Search field without typing anything for a list of recent searches…

How to store credit and debit card information 1 To use Apple Pay, you need at least an iPhone 6, 6 Plus or SE; or an Apple Watch connected to a compatible iOS device. Apple Watches are compatible with the iPhone 5 or later, including the iPhone SE and require at least iOS 8. You can make Apple Pay payments online with an iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 or an iPad Mini 3. 2 Credit or debit cards are added to Apple Pay through the Wallet app. To add a new card, use your iSight camera to take a photograph of the card in question. Just keep it in the frame as advised on screen, and the card is photographed and its information stored. Or type the information in manually.…

Measure App in Focus 1 The back arrow undoes the last command but doesn’t clear all the points of a multi-point measurement. 2 The Clear button gets rid of all the current measurements so you can move on to the next one. 3 Measure is designed to calculate the distance between fixed points such as the length of a table or width of a chair. 4 You will need to direct Measure to the object you’d like to measure by hovering over it. 5 The + button is used to specify the start and end points that Measure should use when measuring your object. 6 The onscreen Shutter button is used to take a photo of what you’ve just measured for future reference. 7 Tap the ruler icon to access…

First Steps with FaceTime 1 To start a FaceTime conversation from the Contacts app, first find the contact card of the person you wish to call. If that person’s email or phone number are registered with FaceTime, you can see FaceTime icons for both audio (the telephone receiver) and video (the camera). Tap one to make the call. 2 There are several ways of starting a FaceTime call from the FaceTime app. Tap the New FaceTime button (top right). Add the name of the person you want to call (or their phone number or email address if they’re not in your Contacts), then tap a button for either a video or audio FaceTime call. 3 The FaceTime app also shows a list of recent FaceTime calls, showing whether they were…

iTunes in Focus 1 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you filter music according to its genre. Available genres include Blues, Classical, Country, jazz, metal, rock, greatest hits and more. Choose the Tones option to view ringtones. 2 Tap the Featured tab to see what’s hot and what’s new. The Charts tab gives you the best selling songs, albums and music videos on the iTunes Store. 3 Tap here for your wish list, songs you’ve identified using Siri (see the Siri guide for more details) and tracks you listened to as previews. 4 Scroll this line of albums left and right for more options, or tap See All to open the New Music page. 5 The iTunes Store’s shop window. Tap a price to buy a song or album or tap the cover…

Updating iOS and Apps 1 When a new version of iOS is available, the Settings app is badged. Open it, go to General > Software Update and your iPhone checks with Apple to check if there’s a new version for you. If there is, it gives you an option to Download and Install. Tap the link to do so. 2 The update downloads. When advised to do so, tap Install Now; you might need to connect your iPhone to a power source if the battery is low. After your update has installed, your iPhone restarts. Of course, if you turn on Automatic Updates, all this is done for you. 3 When app updates are available, your App Store app is badged. Open it, and tap the badged icon in the…

First of all, open Settings > Mobile Data > Personal Hotspot or Settings > Personal Hotspot, depending on what version of iOS you’re using. Make sure it’s switched on, and Allow Others to Join is on. Make a note of the Wi-Fi password, which you might need later. Now you must connect the device you wish to take online through your iPhone, using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB. Using Wi-Fi. On the computer or tablet you wish to take online, open your Wi-Fi settings and look for the name of your iPhone in the list of available networks. Connect to it, and use the Wi-Fi password shown on your iPhone’s screen; the one you made a note of earlier. If you’re using an Apple device logged into the same Apple ID…

How to activate and speak to Siri 1 To open Siri, hold down the Home button or the Side button on Face ID iPhones. Siri now appears at the foot of the screen; as you can see here. 2 Begin speaking and the coloured icon reverberates to let you know that Siri can hear you. If it doesn’t, tap it to talk to Siri again. 3 You can also access Siri by saying “Hey Siri” and then speaking your request. Tap the answer shown to open the app that created it. What Siri can do for you Check appointments Siri can tell you if you have any appointments on any particular date, or even within a time frame. Say to Siri something like “What’s my schedule for April?” and it…

Changing your Wallpaper 1 Go to Settings > Wallpaper and tap Choose a New Wallpaper. Choose from Dynamic, Stills, Live, or a pic from the Photos app. Dynamic wallpapers are lightly animated, Stills are static and Live wallpapers give more movement. 2 Tap the pictures found under the Dynamic, Stills and Live options to navigate your way through your Photos app’s images. Choose a photograph by tapping on it, then drag and pinch to move and scale it to fit your screen. 3 If the wallpaper is animated, the icon next to Cancel switches the animation off. The icon next to the Set button turns the Perspective Zoom on and off. Tap Set, and choose to use the new wallpaper on the Home screen, Lock screen, or both. Changing your…

Using the Notification Centre 1 To access the Notification Centre, swipe your finger down from the top of the screen. Notifications are arranged in stacks according to the app that sent them. Tap one of these stacks to open it and see its notifications. 2 To clear a single notification, swipe it left and tap the Clear button. To delete all notifications received from a given app, tap the X next to the app name and then the Clear button that replaces it. All those notifications go. 3 Swipe an incoming notification left and tap Options to mute notifications from that app for an hour or the rest of the day, view the settings for that app’s notifications or turn off notifications for that app altogether. Organising your notifications 1 Go…

Full Screen iPhones Models 1 This part of the iPhone contains much of Apple’s latest technologies. In the high-end iPhones, an infrared camera, flood illuminator, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor and Dot projector are all present; alongside a speaker, microphone and front camera. The latter is utilised by the Face ID feature. 2 This is the Ring/Silent switch. Click it to turn Silent Mode on and off. 3 These are the volume buttons. The upper one increases the volume, and the lower button lowers it. In Apple’s Camera app, and many third-party photography apps, you can also use the volume buttons to take a photo, instead of the on-screen shutter button. 4 This is the side button. On some iPhones, this button is located on the top instead of on…

Setting up Face ID 1 Go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode and enter your iPhone’s passcode to continue. Tap Set Up Face ID or Set Up Alternative Appearance, or tap Reset Face ID to start afresh. 2 Position your face within the frame as instructed, then move your head in a circle until the small lines around your face are all green. Tap continue, then repeat for a second scan. 3 Your face is now registered with Face ID. Tap Done to return to the Settings screen, where you can configure your iPhone’s Face ID feature to your own personal requirements. Setting up Touch ID 1 Go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode and enter your iPhone’s passcode when instructed. Tap the Add a Fingerprint link to…

Setting up accounts. For most of the popular web-based email services such as Gmail and Yahoo, the iPhone automatically enters most of the settings needed for you to access your account. We’ve put together these steps that cover each of the Internet’s key email providers. Just follow this guide and you’ll soon be emailing from your iPhone. Setting up an iCloud email account 1 Tap the Settings icon and scroll down. Tap the Mail option, then Accounts. From here tap Add Account then tap the iCloud link and enter your Apple ID and Password. If you don’t have an Apple ID, tap Create a New Apple ID instead and follow the instructions. Tap Next to automatically verify your details. 2 If you have Two-Factor Authentication on, you must authenticate now.…

1 Once you’ve opened the on-screen keyboard, you can enter text by simply tapping on the keys as you would on any similar typing device. It’s really easy and intuitive to use. 2 To add digits and punctuation to your text, just tap the 123 key located on the lower-left side of the keyboard. An additional tap on the key above brings up more symbols. 3 When you start to type a word, the iPhone tries to complete it for you and displays its predictions in a bar above the keyboard. Tap one of the suggestions to finish the word. 4 When sending messages or emails, predictive text learns your choice of language and suggests the correct word for the tone of what it is you’re writing. Tap on the…

Mail in Focus 1 This screen, in Mail, shows your Inbox. Tap the Mailbox link to go back and choose another mailbox, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk or VIP emails. 2 The Edit link puts an empty circle to the left of each email. You can tap these circles to add a tick, and then action multiple emails at once. 3 These are your emails, listed in the order they arrived. Tap on one to open and read it. Emails with blue dots to their left have not yet been opened and read. Pull down on the screen to get new mail. 4 Tap here to search your emails. You can type a name, a subject or something from the body of an email, and suggestions are offered as you…

Messages in Focus 1 Tap here to take you back to the list of message conversations. Tap one of them to open, and if you wish, continue that conversation; such as the chat you see here. 2 This is the person you’re chatting to. The picture is drawn from your Contacts app and is replaced by an initial if it’s not available. Tap this pic for more options, including sharing your location, making a call or video call, send an email and more. 3 Tap the video camera icon here for a pop-up menu, offering FaceTime Audio and FaceTime Video calls. Tap one to make that call. 4 Your outgoing messages are on the right, incoming ones on the left. Received messages are grey. Sent messages are blue if sent…

Calendar in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to the month view, showing the whole of the month. 2 Here you see the days of the month, with the currently displayed day highlighted. So here we’re looking at 12th November. 3 This icon gives you a list of upcoming events, displayed according to their date and time. 4 Tap here to search the Calendar app, looking at titles and content in your calendar entries. 5 Tap here to create a new calendar event, setting the date, time and title, as well as whether it repeats (for example, with birthdays and anniversaries), which calendar it’s in, when it starts and ends and more. 6 The day, date, month and year currently open are shown here for easy reference. 7…

Translate in Focus 1 These are the languages you’re currently translating out of (left) and into (right). Tap the down-pointing chevrons to choose another language. 2 This is the last thing you typed into Translate. 3 This is the translation of the English you typed in. As you selected German at the top of the screen, it’s translated into German. 4 These icons are; Switch to full-screen mode for the translation; save the translation as a favourite; and look up a highlighted word in the dictionary. 5 Tap Play to read the translation out loud. 6 This is where you type the text you wish to be translated. Tap here to bring up the virtual keyboard. 7 Tap here and speak what you want to be translated instead of typing…

Music in Focus 1 This is the main page of the Apple Music streaming service, where albums, artists and playlists tailored to your tastes are suggested for your listening. 2 Tap here to see your account details. You can change your username to a specific Music app nickname, choose more of your favourite artists, replace the silhouette with a photo and add some personal details. 3 Top Picks is a range of playlists from bands and artists curated by the Music app to match your tastes, gleaned from what you’ve listened to. Tap one to play the tracks. 4 The mini-player shows the track you’re currently playing. You can tap it to expand it to full-screen size, with all the usual audio controls available to use. 5 You can use…

Finding and viewing TV shows 1 From the main screen, tap the top right icon (silhouette or your photo) for this window, from where you can manage your account (tap your name), manage services to which you’ve subscribed, or add funds or gift cards to your Apple account, to spend on apps and media. 2 Tapping Connected Apps shows the TV and catch-up apps you downloaded from the App Store, and that are linked to your TV app. Tap the switch to unlink an app and stop its content appearing in your TV app. If you don’t have any, download some now. 3 Tap Account in the top left corner to go back to the previous window. Then tap Done, in the top right corner, to get to here. This…

Weather in Focus 1 This is the town that’s currently featured; the weather forecast below it is for here. 2 This is the current recorded temperature in the town or area you’re currently looking at. 3 This is the highest and lowest the forcast temperatures should reach for the day. Which should give you an idea of whether it’s getting warmer, colder or staying reasonably stable. 4 An hourly forecast, predicting the weather and the temperature. Slide it left to see later forecasts. The icon showing the weather might be cloudy, sunny, raining and more, and sunrise/sunset times are also shown in this window. 5 Your ten-day weather forecast for the town or area in focus. Scroll the screen up to see later days, and also for more weather information…

Home in Focus 1 Tap the home icon in the top left corner of the screen for a pop-up allowing you to access your Home Settings and your Room Settings. Home Settings cover the whole of the house, while Room Settings let you set up specific rooms and groups of rooms. 2 The Plus icon gives another pop-up, from which you can add a HomeKit-compatible accessory; or add a scene or group of instructions to your accessories activated with a single tap. 3 This is the current name of your home. To change it, tap the Home icon (1), Home Settings and then tap the Name field to edit or change the current name. 4 These status icons give important information gleaned from your HomeKit-compatible accessories. You can tell at…

App Store in Focus 1 The App Store’s Today screen gives you the pick of the best of the new releases, chosen every day by Apple’s editors. Scroll up for the apps that were chosen on previous days. 2 Tap here to get to your account details, redeem a card, send an app as a gift, update apps, and check on the apps you’ve previously purchased, or sign out of the App Store. 3 These are the apps, and a feature highlighting a range of apps, that have been chosen by Apple’s editors as the choice of the day. Tap one for information on that particular app, and the opportunity to get it. 4 Tap here to get to the Today screen, as seen here. The Today screen is a great way of…

An introduction to iCloud Drive and the Files app 1 In the Settings app, tap your name at the top of the screen, tap iCloud and scroll down to iCloud Drive. If it isn’t on already, turn it on. You can now save your files in the cloud and access them from any Internet device. 2 Open the Files app and under Locations, tap iCloud Drive. Here you see the files stored on your iCloud Drive, arranged by their apps. iCloud Drive is also accessible through other Apple devices, and www.icloud.com. 3 You can open an iCloud document on your iPhone, if you have the iPhone version of the app that created it. Just open the folder for the app in question (here we’re looking at Pages) and tap a…

Using Live Text 1 Using the Camera app, point your iPhone’s camera at a piece of text or numerals, such as the picture here. The text is identified, and a ‘page’ icon appears in the bottom-right. Tap this icon. 2 The text is lifted, and a menu appears giving you the chance to copy it, select more text, look it up, translate it or share it. You can also tap and drag to select a portion of the text instead of all of it. 3 You can copy and paste it into any app that uses text, or share it directly to that app. It sometimes needs a little editing, especially if the original text is presented in an unusual font. 4 Tap a text field in an app that utilises…

1 While watching a video or in a FaceTime video call, swipe the screen up or tap the Home button to get back to the Home screen. The video continues to play in a floating window on top of whatever is open on your screen on your iPhone. 2 Tap screen for controls; play, pause, 15 secs and scrub through the video. Tap the video to hide and show on-screen controls. The icon in the middle lets you pause and play the video and you can skip forward and backward 15 seconds too. 3 Close window or back to full size You can drag the floating window into any corner of the screen. Tap the X icon in the top-left to close it or tap the Picture-in-Picture icon in the…

1 To set up and use Dark Mode, open System Preferences (the app with the grey icon showing cogs), and scroll up. Tap the Display and Brightness link; it’s in the third set of links, and has a blue double-A icon. 2 At the top of the screen, you see the Light and Dark options; tap one to choose it, immediately making the screen light or dark. This is the option you use to change the screen between Light and Dark Mode on a permanent basis. 3 Under the Light and Dark pictures, there’s a switch labelled ‘Automatic’. If you want the light and dark modes to toggle automatically, turn it on by tapping this switch. Do so and an Options link appears under the Automatic switch. 4 By default,…

Screen Time in Focus 1 To open Screen Time, go to Settings > Screen Time. You can also get to the Widgets screen by swiping right from the Lock screen, or the Home screen, and tapping the Screen Time widget near the bottom. 2 A summary of how you’ve been using your iPhone on each day of the week. Tap a bar to see how much you used it on that day. Also shown is your daily average time, and whether this is up or down. 3 This link takes you to a more detailed breakdown of what you’ve been doing with your phone, and when. 4 Tap here to schedule downtime for your iPhone. During this time, only apps you choose to exclude can be used. It’s great if you…

Using AirDrop for file transfer 1 Send files to other Apple devices using AirDrop. Switch on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, then go to Settings > General > AirDrop and decide whether receiving via AirDrop is on or off, share only with Contacts, or share with everyone. 2 Select a file, photo, or video you want to send by AirDrop, and open it. Tap the Sharing icon (the page with the up-pointing arrow), and then tap AirDrop in the pop-up window. Tap the person to which you want to send the file, and it’s sent. 3 If you accept AirDrops from everyone, when you’re sent an AirDrop file, you have to accept it first. AirDropped files are accessible from their host apps: Safari links open via Safari, photos via the Photos app,…

Apple’s flagship phones To no one’s surprise, the iPhone 14 range includes an iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. These are Apple’s high-end models, top-ofthe-range models for top-of-the-range needs. As expected, there was a price increase over the launch prices of the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max, but this wasn’t as hefty as we thought it might be. So let’s take a look at the iPhone 14 Pro, and its larger stable mate, the iPhone 14 Pro Max. New Colours iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are made from surgical grade stainless steel, and are available in four new colours, namely space black, silver, gold, and a gorgeous deep purple design that looks far better than the more lilac model in the non-Pro iPhone 14…

Inserting your Nano-SIM card 1 To activate your iPhone, you must first insert the Nano-SIM card provided by your mobile phone network provider. An eSim card is non-removal as detailed below. 2 Use a SIM eject tool like the one pictured here, or maybe a straightened paper clip, and insert it into the small hole next to the SIM slot. The tray then pops out as shown. 3 Place the SIM card in the tray (there’s only one way it can go in) and slide the tray back in the slot. Push it in firmly so it snaps into place. Your iPhone should recognise it. The initial set up of your iPhone 1 The opening screen shows `Hello’ in different languages. Press the Home button or flick the screen up.…

Home Screen Widgets 1 A Widget is a small piece of an app which displays information drawn from the app in question, making it easily accessible. We’ve had them for years on the Today screen (to the left of the home screen) but their abilities have now been greatly extended. 2 To add a Widget to the Home screen, tap and hold an empty space until the app icons start wobbling. Tap the + icon in the top-left corner and you get a pop-up window, from where you can select a Widget. Tap the Widget you want to add and see a preview and description. 3 Swipe backwards and forwards through these previews and choose at what size you want the Widget to be shown. Widgets come in three sizes,…

Dialling a number from the keypad 1 Tap the Phone app icon and then select the keypad link from the five options at the bottom of the screen. Enter the phone number by tapping the on-screen digits; the number is shown as you enter it at the top of the screen. 2 If this number is important and is likely to be used often, tap the Add Number link found under the phone number at the top of the screen to add it to your contacts list. If not, tap the green button to make the call. 3 The call automatically connects when your contact answers the phone at their end. To end the call, tap the End Call button, the red one; you’re returned to the keypad screen and…

Control Centre in Focus 1 In this box, you can turn on and off (clockwise, from top left) Airplane Mode, Mobile Data, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. If you have 3D Touch, deep press the main box for more options. 2 This box shows what you’re currently listening to. Here we’re listening to the radio, so we can play/pause and skip forward or backward ten seconds. Deep press for more options, including volume control and external speakers. 3 Tap here to lock the screen in its current orientation, so it doesn’t switch between landscape and portrait mode when you turn the iPhone. Tap it again to switch off the screen orientation lock. 4 Tap here to access the Screen Mirroring menu, which shows a list of devices to which you can mirror…

Safari in Focus 1 A web page can contain words, pictures, videos, icons and more. Tap a link on a web page, such as the pictures here and icons atop the page, to go to a new page. You can also scroll the screen up and down by dragging it with one finger. 2 TheURL, tabs and tools are now down here, instead of at the top of the browser. This window settles into the bottom of the screen when not in use; tap it to return to seeing the larger window again. Swipe the window left and right to cycle through your open tabs. Tap it to type a new URL or get to the Start page, and deep press it for more options which appear in a floating…

Making a Memoji 1 Open the Messages app. Tap the Memoji icon in the app drawer and scroll all the way to the right until you see the Plus icon. Tap it to start your Memoji. Note: if the Memoji icon isn’t there, your iPhone is likely too old and cannot use Memojis. 2 Under a blank face you see a slider. Using this slider, the colour options and diagrams, build your Memoji any way you wish. Choose a hairstyle and colour, add glasses if you wear them, and more. You can make as many Memojis as you like so have fun and get creative. 3 When you’re finished, tap Done. Your Memoji is added to your Animoji collection, from where it can be used in the usual way, just…

Contacts in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to your list of contacts, arranged in alphabetical order. 2 The name and picture of your currently open contact. If you don’t yet have a picture here, the person’s initials are shown on a grey background. 3 Tap Edit to add, remove or change information on the contact card. You can add things like birthdays and social media addresses as well phone numbers, street addresses and more. 4 These icons let you communicate with your contact directly from the Contacts app. Tap to send a message, make a call, make a video call or send an email. A greyed icon means the feature is unavailable. 5 Phone numbers for the contact. You can add numbers for home, work, mobile and…

Photos in Focus 1 This is the name of the Photos album you have open (or in this case, where the pics were taken, as we’re looking at all the photos and not a single album), and the dates between which the photos contained in that album were all taken. 2 Tap here to select photos. You can pick out as many as you like, and dragging your finger will select multiple photos more easily. 3 Tap the three-dots icon for a pop-up that lets you zoom in and out, set the thumbnails, filter pictures, show them on a map and more. 4 These are your pictures. Tap the Select link, then tap photos to select and unselect them. Tap and hold a picture for a pop-up that lets you…

1 First of all, set up your Health Profile. It should appear automatically the first time you open the app, but if it doesn’t, tap the icon in the top right corner of the Summary screen and add your information and details. Tap Done when finished. 2 The main Summary screen, accessed by tapping the Summary icon at the bottom, starts with your Favourites. To configure, tap the Edit link and choose the items you want to use. Note the Existing and All tabs. 3 In the Browse tab, tap Activity and then Activity again for your Activity data, which is taken from your Apple Watch. It shows how you’re getting on filling your rings today, and how your activity level compares over the last week, month and year. 4…

Fitnenss App in Focus 1 This is the main page of the Activity app and it shows you a summary of your recent activities. It also shows you today’s date. 2 The Activity section features information drawn from your Apple Watch. It starts afresh each day, so what you see are today’s figures. 3 Here you can see how many calories you’ve used up today, how many minutes you’ve spent exercising and how many times you’ve stood up and moved around for at least two minutes. 4 This is the same information discussed in ‘3’, but represented as part-completed rings. You can set up your Apple Watch to display these rings on the watch face if you wish. 5 Your recent workouts are displayed here. Again, the information is gleaned…

Books in Focus 1 Tap the chevron to close the a book and go back to your eBooks library. When you open the book again, it’s on the last page you viewed. 2 This icon gives you access to the book’s contents and also any bookmarks and notes you made whilst reading it. 3 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you change the font and font size, adjust the brightness, change the page colour, set the text to scroll up and down rather than turn pages like a physical book, and toggle the automatic Night Theme option. 4 Tap here to search for a word, phrase or page number in the book you currently have open. 5 Tap here to place or remove a bookmark. The book stays…

News in Focus 1 Today’s date, which is always important on a digital news app. 2 This is Today, the News app’s main page. Scroll for top stories, trending stories and more. 3 You can watch videos directly from the News app. Just tap the Play button and the video plays, right there in the story. 4 Stories in the News app are tagged with how long ago they were uploaded to the Internet, so you know how recent your stories are. 5 Front-page news stories are usually illustrated with photos, videos or other such graphics. If you scroll the page, you get to see a range of news stories, trending stories, top videos and articles selected especially for you. 6 This is the Today icon. It takes you back…

Setting alarms 1 Tap the Alarm tab at the bottom of the clock screen to start editing your alarms. To set a new alarm, use the ‘+’ icon (top right). This opens an Add Alarm window. Use the two wheels to pick a time for the alarm to sound. You can also choose which days the alarm plays, the sound, whether it can be snoozed and what it’s called. When you’ve set an alarm in the Clock app, an alarm clock icon appears at the top of the Home screen to show that it’s active. 2 You can set an alarm to repeat at the same time on specific days of the week or never repeat. To turn each alarm on or off independently, tap the On/Off button. Alternatively you…

The People tab 1 Tap the People icon at the foot of the screen. To start sharing your location with friends or family members, tap Start Sharing Location. Enter the name, Apple ID email, or phone number of the person you want to share with. 2 As is usual, you can tap the + sign to the right and select a person from your Contacts app. Add as many people as you wish, and tap the Send link. Then you can choose whether to share for an hour, the rest of the day or indefinitely. 3 The people you shared your location with can now see you as a blue spot on the map. Pinch and spread to zoom in and out. Tap a name for options. From here, you…

Features of the Files app 1 When you first open the Files app, you see two icons at the foot of the screen. The Recents icon shows you documents you’ve recently opened, and also gives access to those you’ve shared and tagged with a colour. The Browse icon lets you look through your files. 2 The Files app has an improved search facility. You can restrict your search to recents, files on iCloud Drive, or the specific app whose folder you’ve opened, and can also add ‘tokens’ to restrict the search to (for example) specific file types or production dates (e.g. ‘last week’). 3 The first four options on the Browse screen include On My iPhone (documents you’ve stored locally) iCloud Drive (documents stored on your iCloud service), Shared (files…

Searching for Photos 1 Type (or at least, start to type) ‘Photos’ and you can open the Photos app, or see photographs taken from apps, including the Photos app. Tap Show More next to Photos from Apps to see more pictures. 2 You can look for specific subjects within your photos if you wish. Here we’ve searched for ‘cats’. In the search results are pictures taken from the Photos app; tap Search in App and you’ll see the results in Photos. 3 You can be more specific too. By searching for ‘Summer Alison’, for example, we see pictures of Alison that were taken during the Summer months. Of course, we could use that search in other apps too, such as Mail and Safari. Other Spotlight Features 1 You can search for…

1 Go to Settings > Focus. Some categories are already offered. There’s a regular Do Not Disturb, and ‘Focuses’ for Driving; Personal; Sleep and Work. Turn on Share Across Devices to sync settings across your Apple gear. 2 Tap one of the Focuses to set it up. Under Allowed People, tap Add and on the next screen, tick anyone you wish to get through without being blocked when the Focus is active. You can choose an entire group or none from Other People too. 3 Tap Allow or Allow None to continue to the next screen, where you can do the same for Apps and allow certain apps to still send you notifications, even when the Focus in question is active. Tap a switch to allow Time Sensitive notifications too.…

1 When setting up a new account, some apps and websites let you sign in with your social media and online accounts such as Facebook, Google and Windows Live. Where available, you can also sign in using your Apple ID. 2 You sign in with Apple using your Face ID our Touch ID. Your account is created on the website or app in question, without you having to type in your details and come up with a password. It’s very convenient and quick. 3 If you’re signing in to an app and you don’t want to give them your email address, you can register using a random address generated by Apple, and forwarded to your iCloud email. This can be deleted whenever you choose. Security control. Sign in with Apple…

Close an application If an application has frozen or is running very slowly, try forcing it to quit. On an iPhone with no Home button, on the Home screen swipe from the bottom to half-way up the screen. If your phone has a Home button, Quickly press it twice. Either way, you get to a screen showing your open apps. Find the faulty one and swipe it off the top of the screen. Restart your iPhone This tip solves most iPhone issues, and indeed, most tech issues in general, so always start with this if you’re having a problem.To restart an iPhone with no Home button, press and hold the Side and top Volume buttons. On older iPhones, press and hold the side or the top button. This screen appears,…