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On the Range Meet the iPhone 13 and mini! Apple has released the iPhone 13 and the 13 mini. Let’s look at these two new iPhones, and why you should be excited. On 14th September 2021, Apple lifted the lid on the new 13-series iPhones, including the go-to model, the iPhone 13. Featuring a beautiful design and packed with innovative features such as the A15 Bionic processor, a refreshed dual-camera system and a Super Retina XDR display, with the Ceramic Shield front cover, it’s a significant step up from the iPhone 12. Throw in a new, brighter Super Retina XDR OLED screen and an awesome range of colours, and you have a very desirable product indeed. Across the next few pages, we take an in-depth look at the iPhone 13…

Developing New Skills Buttons and Ports On Your iPhone What’s where on your iPhone? Here we show you the physical layout of the range of iPhones currently on sale. Whether you have a brand new iPhone, or an older iPhone with a Home button, this guide shows you what’s where. 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…

Developing New Skills 15 Your Apple ID Set Up and Use it If you don’t already have a working Apple ID, and you didn’t register one while setting up your iPhone, you should do so now. With it you can download applications from the App Store, use FaceTime, buy music and movies from iTunes and use many of the iPhone’s features and services. Without an Apple ID, you won’t come close to getting the most from your iPhone. 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…

Developing New Skills Internet Access Surfing it The iPhone connects to the Internet automatically whenever you use the App Store, Mail, iTunes Store, Safari, YouTube or any other app that requires it. There are two ways of taking your iPhone online: via a Wi-Fi connection or a 3G/4G/5G mobile network. In this guide, we show you how to set up both, and also how to check your Wi-Fi signal strength. 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’re at a public hotspot that has no security, you can just connect.…

In Control Control Centre Accessing it To access the Control Centre, swipe down from the top right corner, or if you have an older iPhone model, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. The iOS 15 Control Centre has some great features, which we look at here. 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…

TECH ROUND-UP Razer Kishi Universal Gaming Controller A better way to blast the baddies… Your brand-new iPhone 12 might well be the pinnacle of mobile phone gaming but is your controller up to speed? Do you even have a controller? If not, this amazing, pocket-sized add-on could be just what you’re looking for. The Kishi folds down when not in use for easy storage and portability. When opened up it stretches out to accommodate iPhones of all sizes. A Lightning connector plugs into your phone and a through-port lets you plug in your Lightning cable and charge while you play. There’s no need to cut your gaming short because your iPhone’s battery is almost drained. There’s a free app too but this is just for firmware updates and information; there’s…

TECH ROUND-UP AirLit Smart Fan Desk Fan Don’t sweat it – AirLit is here! British start-up GeoSmartPro specialises in smart-home gadgets. Its latest release is AirLit, a n iPhone app-controlled smart fan that’s packed with extra features. As a fan, it’s 44cm high with its telescopic stand retracted, or 100cm with it extended. The fan itself is 45cm wide. An eight-hour battery in the stand means you can use it all day without mains power, or you can plug it into a mains adapter using a USB-C cable. You can control the fan using your iPhone and the GeoSmartPro app. Use your phone to switch it on (obviously), set its wind speed to one of four levels and more. On the lowest setting it’s very quiet, and even when pumping…

Cameras on the iPhone 13 and 13 mini The iPhone 12 and the iPhone 12 mini have the same cameras, and Apple has revised the camera arrangement on the new iPhone 13 and 13 mini models. They’re now positioned diagonally. Diagonal Dual Cameras According to Apple, ‘iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini represent a massive leap in camera design with advancements in hardware and computational photography that deliver stunning photos and videos’. The new Wide camera, the lower of the two on the back of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini, features the biggest sensor ever in an iPhone dual-camera system. It’s capable of gathering 47 percent more light, which means your pictures suffer from less noise and are brighter. The new phones’ Wide camera also benefits from Sensor-shift…

Bonus Features iPhone - The Hardware Explained Super-Fast 5G Once again, the 13-series iPhones feature 5G connectivity. This is the fifth generation of the broadband cellular networks standard, and it’s very fast. All four iPhones in the iPhone 13 series feature 5G, and it’s compatible with 3G and 4G for areas that don’t yet have a 5G infrastructure. What is 5G? 5G is the latest standard for getting onto the Internet with your smartphone. It follows previous standards 3G and 4G. Most major mobile phone networks offer 5G services, and if you’re somewhere where there isn’t 5G coverage, your iPhone can still use older 3G and 4G networks too. The new 5G standard is much faster than previous cellular technologies, making downloads faster, video streaming more reliable and online gaming…

DID YOU KMOW? Interesting Fact! Have you ever wondered why in adverts and press pictures of the iPhone, the time is always set to 9:41? It dates back to 9th January 2007, when the first generation of iPhone was unveiled at the Macworld Convention by the then-CEO Steve Jobs. The keynote was perfectly timed. Starting at 9am local time, the iPhone was to be shown 41 minutes into the presentation at 9:41am. And that’s exactly what happened. So 9:41 was the time when the iPhone was first shown to the world, and has been immortalised in Apple’s product pictures ever since.…

Developing New Skills The Face ID and Touch ID Features iPhones with a top-to-bottom screen have Face ID. Most iPhones with a Home button have Touch ID. You probably set up this service during the initial setup, but here’s how to do it if you need help. 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…

Developing New Skills Setting Up Email Configuring it Your iPhone’s Mail app can send and receive emails from all of your email accounts. It’s easy to set up and use with an iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL or Outlook email address. If you want to add your Internet Service Provider’s own email account, it is a little more complicated. Here we take you through setting up each type of email account on your Apple smartphone. 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…

In Control 15 The Touchscreen And How to Use it The iPhone’s touchscreen supports more than one touch, that is, you can place more than one finger on it and the screen recognises their presence and movement. This allows for touchscreen gestures, which are achieved by placing one or more finger on the screen and swiping, pinching, spreading gesture and more. Here’s a guide to gestures and what they do. 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…

TECH ROUND-UP STM ChargeTree Swing Charging station Charge three, with Qi! This second-generation STM ChargeTree makes a few minor, but welcome, changes from the original model. Like the original ChargeTree it’s available in black or white, and it once more charges a Qi-compatible iPhone, AirPods (with a wireless charging case), and an Apple Watch - all at the same time, using only one power socket. You just need a USB-C mains adapter of at least 20W. It’s not supplied, but they’re not hard to come by. As before, you charge your iPhone by resting it on the backward-leaning mat at the front of the ChargeTree Swing. It’s comfortably cushioned, and there’s an optional rubber raiser to fit over the foot if you have a smaller iPhone that needs the extra…

TECH ROUND-UP Cubbit Cell Network Storage Drive A new kind of storage drive; NAS, but not as you know it. Where do you keep your Mac’s data files? You could use an external hard drive, but then you can’t access your files over the Internet, and if you’re burgled and it gets stolen with your computer, you’ve lost your data. You could use a NAS drive, but these are notoriously user-unfriendly, and again, if it gets stolen with your Mac, you’ve lost your data. What about the cloud? There’s no danger of having your files stolen with your equipment there, but you have to pay a monthly fee for whatever storage space you need. Or you could use Cubbit Cell, a new kind of cloud storage. Cubbit Cell is a…

DEVELOPING NEW SKILLS Developing New Skills If you have just eagerly released your brand new iPhone or iPhone Pro from it’s packaging, or brought home your second hand Apple device back from the shop, you are going to need to go through the basics to use it. That’s where we come in! Contents Buttons and Ports On Your iPhone Did You Know? Set Up Your iPhone - Start With it Your Apple ID - Set it Up and Use it Using Face ID and Touch ID Features iOS 15 Home Screen - Organise it Internet Access - Surfing it Setting Up Email - Configuring it Phone Calls - Talk on it…

Developing New Skills 15 Set Up Your iPhone Start with it If you’re setting up your new iPhone straight out of the box, follow this guide as we take you through the extremely important first time setup. Learn how to set up all the core functions of your iPhone, from switching it on for the first time to making your first phone call. Whichever model of iPhone you own, with our help you’ll soon be up and running. 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…

Developing New Skills 15 iOS 15 Home Screen Organise it The Home screen is at the heart of your iPhone. It’s through the Home screen you open apps, organise them into folders, edit and use Home screen widgets and more. The previous release of the iOS operating system brought some great new features such as the App Library and using Widgets on the Home screen. Follow this guide to master your iPhone’s Home screen. 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…

Developing New Skills Phone Calls Talk on it With all the games, apps, videos, Internet browsing, email and photography available on your iPhone, one might be excused for forgetting it can also make and receive telephone calls. In this next section we take you through making and answering calls, and show you a few of the iPhone’s clever phone-related features such as placing calls on hold and using voicemail. 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…

In Control The Keyboard Type on it When it comes to using your iPhone, the keyboard is second only in importance to the touchscreen. If you familiarise yourself with the iPhone’s virtual keyboard features, you can get so much more out of your Apple smartphone. This guide teaches you how to use the virtual keyboard, and its features such as voice input and additional languages. 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.…

TECH ROUND-UP Tech Round-Up ©2021 Pokemon. ©1995-2021 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc. ©2021 Tencent. If you’re looking for something different for your device, this is the place to start. Each issue, we take a look at some of the best and worst peripherals, gadgets and apps that have crossed our path. Hardware Razer Kishi Universal Gaming Controler STM ChargeTree Swing I1601P AOC 16 LCD Monitor AirLit Smart Fan HaloLock Adjustable Wireless Charging Stand Cubbit Cell Groov-e Jazz Buds ESR Gear HaloLock Kickstand Software DxO PhotoLab 5 DxO FilmPack 6 AKVIS Magnifier AI 11 Roxio Toast 20 HUMANITY app Motif Photo Canvas Service Cloud Battery Games SpongeBob Patty Pursuit Double Dragon Trilogy Pokemon UNITE Zombie Night Terror…

TECH ROUND-UP I1601P AOC 16 LCD Monitor Is this portable screen a worthy addition to your travel bag? The problem with working away from home on your notebook is you’ve probably got no access to a second monitor. Sure, there’s your iPad using the Sidecar feature, but do you miss the high-definition, 16-inch behemoth you have on your desk? This portable screen from AOC is designed to fill precisely that gap. The I1601P (why must monitor manufacturers use such boring names?) is 15.6 inches corner to corner and has a resolution of 1920x1080 (1080p). Not a match for your 3072?by?1920 16-inch Retina MacBook Pro, but it’s a decent screen in its own right. One area where it can’t compete with Apple’s screens is the colour gamut. Whereas the current range…

TECH ROUND-UP DxO PhotoLab 5 Significant improvements, but should you upgrade? DxO is back with this year’s annual update of its flagship PhotoLab high-end photo editing suite. Version 5 offers a small but significant update from last year’s release, is available in Standard and Elite versions and there’s a discount if you’ve already bought PhotoLab 3 or 4. There’s also a launch discount available, so if you buy before 14th November 2021, you get a substantial knockdown on the prices listed here. As regular readers know, DxO PhotoLab is an image editor designed specifically for photographers. It’s a high-end suite of tools that takes a while to master, but can produce excellent results. During set up you can choose between three levels of difficulty, depending on your skills and experience,…