iPhone For Dummies. Bob LeVitus
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Название: iPhone For Dummies
Автор: Bob LeVitus
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Справочники
isbn: 9781119837176
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Maps: Displays street maps or satellite imagery of locations around the globe. Also provides driving, walking, and public transportation directions, traffic conditions, and even the location of a nearby pizza joint. This app is among our favorites.
Health: Gathers info from fitness devices and other health apps to provide a clear and current overview of your health on an easy-to-read dashboard.
Wallet: Stores Apple Pay credit cards as well as gift cards, coupons, tickets, boarding passes, and other passes, all in a single convenient location.
Settings: Adjusts your iPhone’s settings. If you’re a Mac user, think System Preferences; if you’re a Windows person, think Settings app.
The second Home screen
You probably won’t find the icons we’re about to describe on your Home screen — at least not on the first (main) one. These apps usually appear on the second Home screen (which you find out about in Chapter 2). If you just can’t wait to see them, swipe your finger across the screen from right to left and they’ll appear like magic.
Outside the Utilities folder
In addition to the Utilities folder, you find several additional icons on the second Home screen:
Weather: Monitors the six-day weather forecast for as many cities as you like.
Find My (formerly Find My iPhone and Find My Friends): Displays a map with the last known locations of your family’s iPhones and other Apple devices (assuming the feature was enabled on each device before it was misplaced). It can also display the locations of friends who have consented to being tracked by Find My.
Shortcuts: Create multistep shortcuts that you can trigger with a tap or by voice command.
Home: Controls HomeKit-compatible lights and appliances.
Contacts: Stores contact information, which can be synced with iCloud, macOS Contacts, Yahoo! Address Book, Google Contacts, and many more.
Files: Displays documents saved on your iPhone or saved in the cloud to iCloud, Dropbox, or several other cloud-based storage services.
Stocks: Monitors your favorite stocks, which are updated in near real time.
Translate: Provides a quick (and mostly accurate) translation of voice or text to and from 11 languages.
Books (formerly iBooks): Enables you to purchase and read e-books.
iTunes Store: Accesses the iTunes Store, where you can browse, preview, and purchase songs, albums, movies, and more.
Watch: Manages features on your Apple Watch. It’s useless unless you have an Apple Watch.
Tips: Provides tips for using your iPhone.
Inside the Utilities folder
In the Utilities folder, you find these icons:
Voice Memos: Turns your iPhone into a convenient handheld recording device.
Compass: Adds a magnetic needle compass inside your iPhone, but better.
Measure: Measures things. To use this cool virtual reality-measuring tool, you just point it at an object and see its dimensions!
Calculator: Performs addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Give the phone a quarter turn, however, and you’ll find a nifty scientific calculator that does all that and much more.
App library and Home screen widgets
Two features that make finding what you need on your iPhone faster and easier are App Library and Home screen widgets; you’ll learn all about both in Chapter 2.
The dock (all Home screens)
Finally, four icons at the bottom of the Home screen are in a special area known as the dock. When you switch Home screens (see Chapter 2), all the icons above the dock change. The four items on the dock, which follow, remain available on all Home screens:
Phone: Lets you use the iPhone as a phone. What a concept!
Safari: Opens Safari, your web browser. If you’re a Mac user, you know that already. If you’re a Windows user, Safari is kinda like Microsoft Edge only (much) better.
Messages: Exchanges text messages (SMS) and multimedia messages (MMS) with almost any other cellphone user. The app also lets you exchange Apple-exclusive iMessages with anyone using any Apple device with iOS 5 or higher (iDevice) or a Mac running Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) or higher, as described in Chapter 6. We’ve used a lot of mobile phones in our day, and this app is as good as it gets.
Music: Unleashes all the audio power of an iPod right on your phone.
Last, but certainly not least: Although you couldn’t delete preinstalled apps in many previous iOS releases, you can delete some of them in iOS 15. See Chapter 15 for details.
Okay, then. Now that you and your iPhone have been properly introduced, it’s time to turn it on and actually use it. Onward!
Chapter 2
iPhone Basic Training
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