Innehållsförteckning för Issue 8 från iPhone The Complete Manual

What’s at the front Turn it On and Off To turn your iPhone on, press and hold the Side button until you see the Apple logo. To turn it off, press and hold the Side button and Volume Up button until you see the slider marked ‘slide to power off’. Action Button The iPhone 17 range, iPhone Air, iPhone 16 series and iPhone 15 Pros all have an Action Button instead of the Ring/Silent switch. Its function can be customised by going to Settings > Action Button and scrolling left and right through the options. Press and hold it to activate. In iOS 26, Control Centre functions can be assigned to the Action Button, for even more options. Rear and side features…

Setting up Face ID 1 Open the Settings app and scroll down the list of apps and features until you get to the one called Face ID & Passcode. Tap it to open these settings. 2 If you’ve set up a passcode on your iPhone, whether four-digit, six-digit or alphanumeric, you must enter it now to get to the main Face ID settings screen. 3 Tap Set Up Face ID and on the next screen read the instructions; then tap Get Started. You can add more than one face to Face ID if you wish. 4 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, as shown. 5 If you wish, you can then set up Face ID to…

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. You can follow these tips for joining a public Wi-Fi service as well as for…

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…

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 Shared Name and Photo and then tap the Customise button. Tap Choose to pick an avatar for your Contact Poster. 2 On the next screen, tap the first circle in each row to choose a photo, Memoji and so on, or choose one that’s suggested to you in the rest of the row. Scroll up to see options about when you share your poster and more. 3 If you choose a photo, some are curated for you. Tap All to choose a different one. Tap the Crop icon then spread and pinch to resize it and drag to reposition it. When you’re done, tap the tick. Filter effects…

REMINDERS in Focus 1 Tap here for a Search field, which you use to search your reminders. Titles, notes, people, locations and more are searched. 2 Tap here to create a new list, which appears in the My Lists section of the Reminders home page. You can move individual reminders to another list. 3 The three dots icon gives access to options where you can edit lists and access templates. 4 Smart lists.‘Today’ is for today’s tasks. You can now reorder sections in this list. ‘Scheduled’ shows scheduled items, ‘All’ lists all reminders, and ‘Flagged’ shows those with a flag. ‘Completed’ shows those you’ve done. 5 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,…

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 or Face ID/Touch ID. If the note is already lock-protected, the option here is to remove the lock. 4 Find in Note: Search within a note for a particular word or phrase. You’re told how many times it appears. Use the chevrons next to the search field to cycle through them. 5 Move Note: Arrange notes in folders, and move an open note between them. You can also move a Quick…

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

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 Edit (top-left) for a pop-up window, then choose Add Widget. They come in three sizes, based on the size of an app icon; 2x2, 2x4 and 4x4. Tap a Widget then swipe left and right to see its 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 Resize a Widget by tap and…

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 Apps > Mail, then Mail Accounts. From here tap Add Account > Choose from a list. Tap iCloud link 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 Continue to verify details. 2 If you have two-factor authentication turned on, a code is sent…

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…

MAIL in Focus 1 This screen, in Mail, shows your Inbox. Tap the chevron to choose another mailbox, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk or VIP emails. 2 The Select button puts an empty circle to the left of each email. Tap a circle to add a tick, and then action multiple emails at once. 3 If you don’t like the new email layout, tap the three-dots icon and choose the old-style List View instead. 4 Apple Intelligence collates your emails into categories. Swipe this bar left and right to switch between viewing Primary, Transactions, Updates, Promotions and All Mail. 5 These are your emails. Tap 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…

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 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 using the free iMessage service, and green if they’re sent to non-Apple devices as regular SMS messages. 4 Messages can contain attachments such as…

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 9th September. 3 This icon lets you switch from a single day view to a multiple day view or a list of upcoming events. 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 and month that each column represents is shown here for reference. 7 All-day events…

At WWDC25, Apple previewed a beautiful new software design that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful while being instantly familiar. It’s crafted with a new material called Liquid Glass. This translucent material reflects and refracts its surroundings, while dynamically transforming to help bring greater focus to content, delivering a new level of vitality across controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and more. For the very first time, this new design extends across platforms — iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26 — to establish even more harmony while maintaining the distinct qualities that make each unique. Inspired by the depth and dimensionality of visionOS, the new design takes advantage of Apple’s powerful advances in hardware, silicon and graphics technologies. The new material, Liquid…

1 Open the Settings app and scroll to the top of the screen. Tap the Apple Account option right at the top of the list, then choose whether to sign in with another device or manually, or tap ‘Don’t have an Apple Account?’ to create one. 2 Assuming you’re creating a new Apple ID, on the next screen, enter your forst and last names in the fields provided. In Date of Birth, set your date with the calendar and 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 you can use a free iCloud email address, which comes with your Apple ID. Accept the suggestion, or type your…

First steps with the lock screen 1 Even with your phone locked, you can swipe the Lock screen right to access your Widgets. If you want to interact with them, though, you’re asked to unlock your iPhone with Face ID or your passcode. Swiping the Lock screen left opens the Camera app; just the thing if you need to take a shot really quickly. 2 With your phone unlocked, you can still scroll up and down your notifications. Tap on one to open it in the app that created it, but you’ll have to unlock your phone using Face ID or your passcode when asked. You can scroll up and down the list before you open your iPhone, though. 3 At the foot of the Lock screen are two icons. By default, the…

Dial number 1 In the Phone app, tap Keypad at the bottom of the screen. Enter the phone number by tapping the on-screen digits; the number is shown as you enter it. To save the number, tap Add (top right). To place the call, tap the green button. Call from Contacts 1 If this number is important and is likely to be used often, tap the Add link found in the top left corner of the screen to add it to your contacts list. If you don’t wish to save it, tap the green button to make the call. 2 Once you’ve found the contact, tap their name to be taken to their contact page. To call, tap the Call button or their phone number. When you’re done, tap the red End button…

CONTROL CENTRE in Focus This is Control Centre’s default set-up. It soon fills up with tiles and controls you’ve added yourself. 1 Tap the plus symbol found here to bring up the Controls Gallery. 2 Long tap the power icon here and you can turn off your iPhone. It’s a quick and easy way of accessing this function. 3 You can open the Control Centre by swiping diagonally from the top right corner, but you can also swipe down from here to cycle through the various Control Centre pages. 4 Tap the large icons for Airplane Mode, AirDrop and Wi-Fi. The smaller icons to access Bluetooth, Personal Hotspot and more. 5 Tap for quick access to the Music controls. Tap the music source button at the top right of it to switch the sound to…

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 When scrolling down the page, this controls section minimises. To get to the larger version, as seen here, scroll up again or tap the minimal version. 3 These chevrons let you move through your web browsing history, back to the page you just left, or forwards if you’ve already moved back. If one of these options isn’t available, its chevron isn’t shown. 4 Tap here for a pop-up window offering options such as…

NOTES in Focus 1 Tap to go back to the folder containing the currently open note. Only Notes stored in the iCloud folder are synced across your Apple devices. You can then tap another folder on the Folders screen to open it. 2 At the top of a note, you can see the date and time when it was last edited. Drag the note down to get this information. 3 The curly arrow icon gives you Undo and Redo options. The Share icon offers sharing, collaboration options, and more The three-dots icon opens a window with options including searching within the note, moving it, pinning or locking, adding lines and grids and more. 4 To add highlights, in the toolbar over the keyboard, tap the pencil icon. Deep tap the pencil for a menu…

CONTACTS in Focus 1 Tap here to go back to the previous page; maybe a contacts group, or search. 2 The name and picture (or initials) of your currently open contact. To modify what you see here, tap Contact Photo & Poster below. 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 make a call…