Innehållsförteckning för Issue 5 från iPhone The Complete Manual

Are you getting the most from your iPhone and iOS 17? Do you use its features and apps to the full, or is much of the iPhone, and its operating system iOS 17, a mystery to you? In this book we get to the heart of your Apple smartphone and the brand new iOS 17 operating system. Whether you’re a complete beginner or a more advanced user, there’s something here for you. Our easy-to-follow, plain-English guides are fully illustrated and very comprehensive, and we’re right up to date with the latest features and functions. Master your tech @ www.pclpublications.com…

iPhone 15 Pro Max Capacity & Price: 128GB, £1,199/$1,099/1.449€ 256GB, £1,309/$1,199/1.579€ 512GB, £:1,529/$1,399/1.579€ 1TB, £:1,749/$1,599/1.839€ Screen Size: 6.7-inch Screen Tech: Super Retina XDR display Cellular: 5G Front Camera: TrueDepth, 12MP Rear Cameras: 48MP Main, 12MP Ultra Wide, and 12MP Telephoto. Zoom: 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x optical zoom options Night Mode: Yes Video: Up to 4K at 24 fps, 25 fps, 30 fps or 60 fps Processor: A17 Pro Chip Battery: Up to 29 hours video playback Water resistance: Up to a depth of six meters for up to 30 minutes MagSafe Compatible: Yes Dimensions: 6.29 x 3.02 x 0.32 inches Weight: 7.81 ounces Strengths and Weaknesses + Awesome screen + Brilliant cameras + Best current large-sized iPhone - Expensive - Extra size maybe too much iPhone 15 Pro Capacity & Price: 128GB, £999/$999/1.299 €…

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. Or use a free iCloud email address, which comes with your Apple ID. Accept the suggestion, or type your own. 4 If you…

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 apublic 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 iPhone connects to the Internet…

How to use 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…

First steps with the lock screen 1 If your phone is unlocked, swipe the screen down to get to the lock screen. Deep press anywhere on the screen to get to the Collections screen, as seen here. Swipe the screen left and press the Plus icon to open a new lock screen. 2 A pop-up window invites you to choose a new wallpaper for your new lock screen. Slide the circular icons at the top to review the categories on offer. The rest of the screen shows samples; take a look to see what’s on offer. 3 When you’ve chosen a wallpaper, you can add widgets. Tap the ‘+ Add Widgets’ box for a pop-up window, from which you can choose them. They work a little like home screen widgets, but are available…

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 or open a menu. You can also scroll the screen up and down by dragging it up and down with one finger. 2 This controls window hides when not in use; tap it to open again. Swipe the window left and right to cycle through open tabs. Tap it to type a new URL or get to the Start page, and deep press it for more options. 3 Tap here for a pop-up window offering a long list of options such as opening the site in a different app, turning Reader View on and off,…

How to make a new Memoji 1 Open a Messages conversation. Tap the Plus icon to the left of the text field, and in the menu that appears, tap More at the bottom. Scroll to and select the Memoji option. Scroll to the blue Plus icon in the far left. Tap it to start your Memoji. 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…

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 All-day events such as public holidays 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 Copy, Share, Favourite or…

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, Air 2, Mini 3 or later. 2 Credit or debit cards are added to Apple Pay through the Wallet app. To add a new card, use your iPhone’s rear 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. 3 Your credit and…

BOOKS in Focus 1 See how many pages are left in the chapter here. 2 Read your book here. Tap anywhere around here to see how many pages you have left to read (see 14). 3 Tap here or slide right to go to the previous page. 4 Tap here or slide left to go to the next page. 5 This shows how much of the book you’ve already read. Tap it for a chapter list. 6 Tap here to see bookmarks and highlights you’ve added to the book as you read. 7 Search the book for a word or phrase. 8 Tap here for a controller that lets you change the brightness, font, text size and other option. 9 The Sharing icon. Tap it for iOS sharing options. 10 This icon lets you lock the…

HOME in Focus 1 Tap this waveform icon to record a message which is then sent to every intercom device connected to your Home app. 2 The Plus icon opens a 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 Tap here to access a list of your accessories, your Home settings, options to edit the Home view and reorder sections, and access to rooms you’ve set up with HomeKit accessories. 4 These status icons give important information gleaned from your HomeKit-compatible accessories. You can tell at a glance, for example, whether a light is on, what the temperature is or whether a motion sensor is picking up movement. 5 The Home app now groups connected cameras and…

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, and can reciprocate and share their location with you by tapping a notification they get. Pinch and spread to…

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 Browse, 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 document to open…

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 ‘beach’. 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 Cats’, for example, we see pictures of cats 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 Install and delete apps; enter the…

How to activate and speak to Siri 1 To open Siri, hold down the Side button or the Home button on older 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 “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 tells you how many appointments…

For years, we’ve enjoyed the ease with which we can share files with AirDrop, and now it’s got a whole lot easier. In iOS 17, you don’t even need to go through the Share menu. You simply bring your phones together. One way of using this great new way to AirDrop is the NameDrop feature. Now you can share your Contact Poster, along with your details, quickly and easily. No need to hand the other person your phone or read out your number while they type it in. AirDropping with NameDrop The NameDrop gesture, that is, bringing iPhones together, can also be used to share content. Instead of going through the Share menu, you can choose files such as photographs, videos, documents and other things you might have previously AirDropped,…

What’s at the front The very latest Pro-level iPhones, the 12MP TrueDepth camera, infrared projector and proximity sensor are housed in a pill-shaped space called Dynamic Island. This island can also carry information gleaned from apps, show incoming messages and more. Previous generations of iPhone have a notch instead of the Dynamic Island. To unlock your iPhone, enter a password or confirm a purchase, just hold it up so it can see your face. Face ID does its work, with no further input needed. The iPhone’s Side Button is here. On some iPhones, this button is located on the top instead of on the side. It’s a multi-function button that can summon Siri, launch Face ID, access Apple Pay and more. On the base of your iPhone is either a…

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 youhaveTwo-Factor Authentication on, you must authenticate now. Enter the verification code…

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, tap the 123 key on the lower-left side of the keyboard. A tap on the key above brings up more symbols. To return to letters, tap the ABC key. 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 Predictive text learns your choice of language and suggests the correct word for the tone of what it is you’re writing, or anticipates a reply to a message. Tap on the…

Making your Contact Poster 1 Open the Phone app, and tap Contacts at the foot of the screen. Tap your name and My Card, tap Contact Photo & Poster and then tap the Edit button. Tap the Plus button in the bottom right to design a new Contact Poster. 2 On the next screen, you can choose to use your Camera to take a new picture, Photos to choose an existing photo, Memoji to select an artistic impression of you or Monogram to use your initials instead. The choice is yours. 3 If you choose a photo, some are curated for you. Tap All to choose a different one. Spread and pinch to resize it, and drag to reposition it. If it covers a small part of your name, it sits on top…

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 Smart lists. ‘Today’ is reminders scheduled for that day, ‘Scheduled’ shows all scheduled items, ‘All’ lists all reminders, and ‘Flagged’ shows those to which you’ve added a flag. ‘Completed’ shows reminders you’ve checked as done. 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 as complete, and add new ones. 5 You can…

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 sharing icon opens the sharing, collaboration options, and more. The three-dots icon opens a window containing a lot of options, including searching within the note, moving it, pinning or locking, adding lines and grids and more. 4 Various typographic options are available. You can underline, bold and…

CONTACTS in Focus 1 Tap here to go back to the previous page; maybe a contacts group, or search. 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 more. Tap a number to…

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 and popular search options…

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 the skip track and pause/play…

NEWS in Focus Today’s date, which is 1 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 to…

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…

A new app for iOS 17 is coming later in 2023. Journal A lets you record your daily thoughts and activities, curating information from your favourite iPhone apps to include too. Think of it like a digital diary and scrapbook rolled into one. Journal helps iPhone users reflect and practice gratitude through journaling, which has been shown to improve wellbeing. Using on-device machine learning, the app creates personalised suggestions for you to include in your journal. These suggestions are intelligently curated from recent activity, including photos, people, places, workouts and more. Your day’s location can be recorded, along with music and podcasts you listened to, any workouts you did, photos you took and more. When you write your musings for the day, these things are offered to you by the…

Features of the Files app 1 When you first open the Files app, you see three icons at the foot of the screen. The Recents icon shows you documents you’ve recently opened, and Shared gives access to those you’ve shared with other people. 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 shared with you) and Recently…

Using Focus Filters to hide app content 1 To customise a Focus, open the Settings app and select the Focus option. Choose the Focus you want to customise, or press the + screen in the top-right corner to start a new Focus from scratch. To use Focus Filters, scroll the screen up to find the Focus Filters section. 2 Tap Add Filter and you arrive at this screen, from where you can apply filters to four first-party apps, namely Calendar, Mail, Messages and Safari. You can also set System Filters, allowing you to set the appearance of your iPhone to Dark Mode or turn on Low Power Mode. 3 Tap Calendar and you can choose which calendars to show with the Focus in question. For example, for the Work Focus, you can restrict…

Using the Notification Centre 1 Notifications arrive as a roll at the foot of your screen. Swipe it up to review them, or down to replace them with a Notification Count. Get to Notification Centre on an unlocked phone by swiping down from the top of the screen. 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. Notification options If…

How Much Storage Do I Need? Whichever iPhone you buy, you have a range of storage options. But how much do you need? All iPhones offer at least 64GB, which is enough to store one (not all) of the following: • 450 photos • 30 minutes of UHD video • 500 songs • 50+ apps and games • 10 movies You can, of course, store a combination of songs, photos, movies and more if you want. If you’re a keen gamer, a prolific photographer or want to carry around a large music library with you, go for more storage. If these things aren’t important to you, make do with less. Remember, streaming music and movies from the Internet doesn’t take up any storage on your phone, but you need a reliable…

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. eSIM Explained The dual sim functionality introduced with the 2018 iPhone models, enables users to access two sim cards in one iPhone. Unlike The dual sim functionality of…

Home Screen Widgets 1 Widgets can sit on the Home screen. To add one, tap and hold an empty space until the icons start wobbling. Tap + (top-left) for a pop-up window, from where you can choose a Widget. They come in three sizes, based on the size of an app icon; 2x2, 2x4 and 4x4; Swipe the Widget left and right to see these sizes. 2 When you’ve chosen a size, tap Add Widget (bottom). You can drag and reposition it like an app icon. Tap a Widget on the Home screen to open its app. Tap and hold it for a pop-up menu that lets you edit the Widget. To remove a Widget, tap and hold it and select Remove Widget from the pop-up menu. 3 A Smart Stack is a…

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 the call is…

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 your iPhone’s screen. Tap…

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 to another Apple device…

The Action Menu 1 Scan: Tap here to scan a document with your camera, and add it to a note. 2 Pin: Pin a note to the top of the notes list. If the note you have open is already pinned, this option turns into Unpin, which does the opposite. 3 Lock: Lock a note so it can only be opened with a password. You can set a password yourself, or use your device passcode and/or Face ID/Touch ID. If the note is already lock-protected, the option here is to remove the lock. 4 Find in Note: If you’ve a note with a lot of text, this is a useful option that lets you search it for a particular word or phrase. You’re told how many times that word or phrase appears in a…

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 video to the still picture,…

1 Set up your Health Profile. It should appear the first time you open the app, but if not, tap the icon in the top right corner of the Summary screen. Tap Health Details, then Edit and add your information. Do the same for Medical ID too. 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 Scroll down the…

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 is Watch Now,…

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 audio or video.…

The iTunes Store & App Store Apps 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. 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 Featured apps. Tap one for information on that particular app, and the opportunity to get it. 4 Tap here to get to the Today screen, with suggestions as seen here. 5 Gaming apps have their own category here. 6 Tapping the Apps icon takes you to the apps page, where you find non-gaming apps. Scroll up and down and browse by category if you wish. Scroll…

If your iPhone is running iOS 17 or I later, by connecting it to a charger (wireless or cabled) and turning it into landscape mode, you activate StandBy. If it doesn’t appear immediately, make sure the phone is locked and wait a few seconds. The screen turns on, and gives you information at a glance. If you have an iPhone with an always-on screen, it’s always on in Standby Mode too, but with other iPhones you need to touch it to wake it up if it’s gone into sleep mode. An iPhone in Standby Mode can display a number of things. The Clock 1 The default view for StandBy is a clock. A range of clock faces are available. Swipe up and down to switch between analogue, digital, solar and…

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 Install Now or Install Tonight. Tap one and enter your passcode. 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…

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 whatyou’vebeendoingwith 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 think you’re spending…

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 youacceptAirDropsfrom 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, etc. Pairing and…