iPhone All-in-One For Dummies. Hutsko Joe

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СКАЧАТЬ is covered if your iPhone is still under the one-year warranty or you extended the warranty to two years with the AppleCare protection plan, which we explain in Book I, Chapter 5.

      

Gaming, watching videos, and surfing the web use big chunks of battery power. Playing a game helps pass the time on a long trip, but make sure you leave enough battery power to call your ride when you arrive at your destination, or that there’s a power source into which to plug your iPhone.

Keeping the battery charged

      Technically, you should get about eight hours of talk time on an iPhone 5 on the 3G network. Realistically, if you play games and go on the Internet, you probably get less. Here are some tips for keeping the battery charged longer and for maintaining long battery life:

      ✔ Turn off Location Services. Open the Settings app, tap Privacy, and tap Location Services. (Remember though that the apps that use it do so only when you’re using them, so you’re not saving a ton of battery life this way.)

      ✔ Turn off Wi-Fi. If you have Wi-Fi turned on and there’s no Wi-Fi network, your iPhone keeps searching and searching and consuming battery power. To turn off Wi-Fi, open the Settings app, tap Wi-Fi, and tap the Wi-Fi switch off, or just swipe up from the bottom of any screen to open the Control Center and tap the Wi-Fi button.

      ✔ Turn off 4G/LTE. If 4G or LTE isn’t available where you are or you don’t need to access the 4G network, turn it off. Sometimes this actually improves access to your cellular calling network. It doubles your battery charge. Open the Settings app, tap Cellular, and tap the Enable 4G/LTE switch off.

      ✔ Turn off Siri. If you don’t need Siri’s assistance, you may as well send her out to lunch since she’s a power hog. Open the Settings app, tap General, tap Siri, and tap the Siri switch off.

      ✔ Turn on Airplane Mode. If you happen to be out of your network range, your iPhone consumes a lot of battery power as it continually searches for the cellular network. Eventually the words No Service appear instead of the carrier name, and your iPhone settles down and stops searching. Consider putting your iPhone in Airplane Mode: Open the Settings app and tap the Airplane Mode switch on, or just swipe up from the bottom of any screen to open the Control Center and tap the Airplane Mode button. Both cellular and Wi-Fi are turned off, but you can still use other apps that don’t need those services.

      ✔ Use fetch instead of push. Instead of having your iPhone constantly check for new information with push, you can set your iPhone to sync with whichever cloud service you use – such as iCloud, Yahoo! Mail, or MS-Exchange – at set time intervals, or sync manually. Open the Settings app; tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars; tap Fetch New Data; and tap the Push switch off.

      ✔ Use Auto-Brightness. Dimming your screen also improves the length of a charge. The ambient light sensor dims or brightens your screen based on the light it senses. You can turn the automatic adjustment on in the Settings app by tapping Display & Brightness and then tapping the Auto-Brightness switch on.

      ✔ Turn off Bluetooth. If you don’t have any Bluetooth devices connected and don’t plan to use any for a while, open the Settings app, tap Bluetooth, and tap the Bluetooth switch off, or just swipe up from the bottom of any screen to open the Control Center and tap the Bluetooth button.

      ✔ Turn off cellular data. Open the Settings app, tap Cellular, and tap the Cellular Data switch off. You can still use the phone and Wi-Fi connection.

       Interpreting the (Visual) Signs

      In this section, we explain what you see on the Home screen, how to interpret the Status bar icons, and how to read and respond to notifications iPhone sends you when it has something important to communicate.

       Home screen

      The point of departure for everything iPhone is the Home screen, which features three basic parts (or zones), as you can see in Figure 2-3. At the very top is the Status bar, which we get to in just a few paragraphs. The bulk of the screen holds 16 or more app buttons and folders; the number varies with screen size. Four of the Home screen’s apps stay tacked at the bottom of the screen in what’s called the Dock, which makes it easy to get to your most-favorite apps no matter which Home screen you’re viewing.

      Figure 2-3: The Home screen is the point of departure for iPhone.

      When a Home screen is filled with apps and/or folders, a new Home screen is added, up to 15 Home screens in all. Between the last row of apps and the Dock is a line of dots (one of which is white, the others are gray). These represent the number of Home screens you have. The white dot tells you which of the Home screens you’re on. In Figure 2-3, you see the first dot is white followed by three gray dots, which means this is Home screen one of four. Flick the current Home screen to the left, and the screen moves one screen to the left; flick the Home screen to the right, and the screen moves one screen to the right. Touch the dots toward the left, and the screen moves one screen to the left; touch the dots to the right, and the screen moves one screen to the right.

      Tap any of the app icons on the Home screen, and the associated app opens. If you tap a folder, it opens. Then you tap the app inside the folder that you want to launch. Double-click the Home button and the apps that are open appear in the App Switcher and contact icons for your favorite folks or those with whom you’ve recently exchanged a phone call or message appear at the top.

      

iPhone 6 Plus lets you view the Home screen in landscape (horizontal) mode.

       Staying informed with Status bar icons

      The Status bar runs across the very top of your iPhone in either portrait or landscape view, in apps that support landscape view. Its icons give you information about your cellular and/or wireless network connection, battery life, and auxiliary functions you may have turned on, such as Do Not Disturb and the alarm clock. Here is an explanation of each one. Remember, you won’t see them all at once on your iPhone, and some you may never see:

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Airplane Mode: You see this icon if you’ve turned Airplane mode on in Settings. See Book I, Chapter 4 for more details on Airplane Mode.

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Alarm: Appears if you set an alarm using the Clock app; we explore the Clock app in Book III, Chapter 2.

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Battery: The filled amount indicates approximately how much charge remains on the battery. A more accurate percentage appears next to the icon if you turn on Battery Percentage in the Settings app by tapping General and then tapping Usage. A lightning bolt next to the battery tells you it’s being charged. Refer to the earlier section, “Charging Your iPhone Battery” to read more about battery usage.

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