iPhone For Dummies. Bob LeVitus

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        EDGE: Your wireless carrier’s slower EDGE (Enhanced Datarate for GSM Evolution) network is available and you can use it to connect to the internet.

        GPRS/1xRTT: Your wireless carrier’s slower GPRS data network is available and your iPhone can use it to connect to the internet.

        Headphones connected: iPhone is paired with Bluetooth headphones.

        Location Services: An application is using Location Services, a topic we discuss in Chapter 13.

        LTE: Your wireless carrier’s high-speed LTE network is available.

        Microphone in use indicator: Appears whenever an app is using your iPhone microphone.

        Network activity: Some network activity is occurring, such as over-the-air synchronization, sending or receiving email, or loading a web page. Some third-party apps use this icon to indicate network or other activity.

        Personal hotspot: This iPhone is connected to the internet via the personal hotspot connection of another device.

        Personal hotspot indicator: This iPhone is providing a personal hotspot connection or screen mirroring to another device; or an app is actively using your location.

        Portrait orientation lock: The iPhone screen is locked in portrait orientation. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to reveal Control Center and then tap the portrait orientation lock icon to lock your screen in portrait orientation.

        Recording indicator: Your iPhone is either recording sound or recording your screen.

        Syncing: Your iPhone is syncing with Finder or iTunes.

        TTY: Your iPhone is set up to work with a teletype (TTY) machine, which is used by those who are hearing or speech impaired. You need an optional Apple iPhone TTY Adapter (suggested retail price $19) to connect your iPhone to a TTY machine.

        VPN: Your iPhone is currently connected to a virtual private network (VPN).

        Wi-Fi: Your iPhone is connected to the internet over a Wi-Fi network. The more semicircular lines you see (up to three), the stronger the Wi-Fi signal. If your screen displays only one or two semicircles of Wi-Fi strength, try moving around a bit. If you don’t see the Wi-Fi icon in the status bar, internet access is not currently available. Wireless (that is, cellular) carriers may offer one of five data networks. The fastest (in theory) are the so-called fifth-generation networks; the next fastest is 4G (LTE and UMTS); the next fastest is 3G; and the slowest are EDGE and GPRS. The device looks for the fastest available network. If it can’t find one, it looks for a slower network.Wi-Fi networks, however, are usually even faster than cellular data networks. So iPhones connect to a Wi-Fi network if one is available, even when a 5G, 4G, 3G, GPRS, or EDGE network is also available.Last but not least, if you don’t see one of these icons — 5G, LTE, 4G, 3G, GPRS, EDGE, or Wi-Fi — you don’t currently have internet access.

        Wi-Fi call: Your iPhone is making a call over Wi-Fi.

Home Sweet Home Screen

      The first page of your Home screen offers a bevy of icons, each representing a different bundled app or function. Because the rest of the book covers each and every one of these babies in full and loving detail, we merely provide brief descriptions here.

      To get to the first Home screen, press the Home button (Touch ID models) or swipe upward from the bottom of the screen (Face ID models). If your iPhone is asleep when you press the button, the Unlock screen appears. Once unlocked, you’ll see whichever page of icons was on the screen when it went to sleep. If that screen happens to have been the first Home screen, you’re golden. If it wasn’t, merely press the Home button again to summon your iPhone’s first (main) Home screen.

Three steps let you rearrange icons on your iPhone:

      1 Long-press any icon, and then choose Rearrange Apps to start the icons jiggling.

      2 Drag icons around until you’re happy with their positions.

      3 Tap the Done button in the upper-right corner, swipe upward from the bottom of the screen (Face ID), or press the Home button (Touch ID) to save your arrangement and stop the jiggling.

      The first Home screen

      If you haven’t rearranged your icons or restored your iPhone from a backup, you should see the Weather and Calendar widgets (more about widgets in Chapter 2) at the top of the screen, with the following apps (starting at upper left):

       FaceTime: Makes FaceTime video or voice calls to others using Apple devices.

       Calendar: Synchronizes events and alerts between your computer and your iPhone, no matter what calendar program you prefer on your Mac or PC (as long as it’s Calendar, Microsoft Entourage, Outlook, or Exchange, or the online calendars from Google or Yahoo!). Create an event on one, and it’s automatically synchronized with the other the next time they’re synced. Neat stuff.

       Photos: Displays pictures that you took with the iPhone’s built-in cameras, transferred from your computer, received through email, saved from Safari, or acquired as part of your Photo Stream. You can zoom in or out, create slideshows, email photos to friends, and much more. Other phones may let you take pictures; the iPhone lets you enjoy them in many ways.

       Camera: Shoots a picture or video with one of the iPhone’s built-in cameras.

       Mail: Sends and receives email with most POP3 and IMAP email systems and, if you work for a company that grants permission, Microsoft Exchange accounts, too.

       Notes: Enables you to type notes anywhere and at any time. You can send the notes to yourself or anyone else through email or save them on your iPhone until you need them. Notes can be synced with your other devices via iCloud if you so desire and are easily shared with others.

       Reminders: Integrates with Calendar, Outlook, and iCloud, so to-do items and reminders sync automatically with your other devices, both mobile and desktop. This app may be the only to-do list you’ll ever need. You’ll read much more about this great app and its shiny location-based reminders, but you have to wait until Chapter 7.

       Clock: Displays the current time in as many cities as you like, sets one or more alarms, and makes your iPhone act like a stopwatch or a countdown timer.

       News: Delivers the news you want to read in a beautiful, uncluttered format. You read more about News in Chapter 15.

       TV: Stores your movies, TV shows, music videos, video podcasts, and some iTunes U courseware. It’s also a path to streamed programming available from myriad sources, including Comedy Central, HBO, and every major TV network.

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