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Название: iPhone For Seniors For Dummies

Автор: Dwight Spivey

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

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СКАЧАТЬ Home screen. You can also nest apps in folders, which almost gives you the possibility of storing limitless apps on your iPhone. You are, in fact, limited — but only by your phone’s memory.

      

Treat the iPhone screen carefully. It’s made of glass and it will break if an unreasonable amount of force is applied.

      The iPhone uses touchscreen technology: When you swipe your finger across the screen or tap it, you’re providing input to the device just as you do to a computer using a mouse or keyboard. You hear more about the touchscreen in the next task, but for now, go ahead and play with it for a few minutes — really, you can’t hurt anything. Use the pads of your fingertips (not your fingernails) and try these tasks:

       Tap the Settings icon. The various settings (which you read more about throughout this book) appear, as shown in Figure 2-2. To return to the Home screen, press the Home button for many iPhone models. If you have an iPhone without a Home button, swipe up from the very bottom edge of your screen.

       Swipe a finger from right to left on the Home screen. This action moves you to the next Home screen. The little white dots at the bottom of the screen, above the Dock icons, indicate which Home screen is displayed.

       To experience the screen rotation feature, hold the iPhone firmly while turning it sideways. The screen flips to the horizontal (or landscape) orientation, if the app you’re in supports it.FIGURE 2-2To flip the screen back, just turn the device so that it’s oriented like a piece of paper again (this is called portrait mode). (Some apps force iPhone to stay in one orientation or the other.)

       Drag your finger down from the very top edge of the screen to reveal such items as notifications, reminders, and calendar entries. Drag up from the very bottom edge of the Home screen to hide these items, and then drag up on iPhone models with Home buttons to display Control Center (containing commonly used controls and tools and discussed later in this chapter). If your iPhone doesn’t have a Home button, swipe down from the top right corner of the screen towards the center to open Control Center.

      Haptic Touch uses your iPhone’s built-in Taptic Engine to provide haptic feedback when you touch-and-hold an area or item on your iPhone’s screen. For example, if you touch-and-hold an icon on the Home screen, a menu of options and tasks will appear, and you’ll also feel a tap from your iPhone. Another of my favorite examples of Haptic Touch is when you press the Flashlight icon in the lower-right of the Lock screen. This action causes the flash on the back of your iPhone to turn on or off, and the haptic feedback feels almost like pressing the button on an actual flashlight.

Snapshot of a shortcut list of commonly called contacts and several other call-related options from the Phone icon.

       FIGURE 2-3

      You can use several methods for getting around and getting things done in iPhone using its Multi-Touch screen, including

       Tap once. To open an application on the Home screen, choose a field, such as a search box, choose an item in a list, use an arrow to move back or forward one screen, or follow an online link, tap the item once with your finger.

       Tap twice. Use this method to enlarge or reduce the display of a web page (see Chapter 12 for more about using the Safari web browser) or to zoom in or out in the Maps app.

       Pinch. As an alternative to the tap-twice method, you can pinch your fingers together or move them apart on the screen (see Figure 2-4) when you’re looking at photos, maps, web pages, or email messages to quickly reduce or enlarge them, respectively. This method allows you to grow or contract the screen to a variety of sizes rather than a fixed size, as with the double-tap method. You can use the three-finger tap to zoom your screen to be even larger or use multitasking gestures to swipe with four or five fingers. This method is handy if you have vision challenges. Go to Chapter 10 to discover how to turn on this feature using Accessibility settings.

       Drag to scroll (known as swiping). When you touch your finger to the screen and drag to the right or left, the screen moves (see Figure 2-5). Swiping to the left on the Home screen, for example, moves you to the next Home screen. Swiping down while reading an online newspaper moves you down the page; swiping up moves you back up the page.

       Flick. To scroll more quickly on a page, quickly flick your finger on the screen in the direction you want to move.

       Tap the Status bar. To move quickly to the top of a list, web page, or email message, tap the Status bar at the top of the iPhone screen. (For some sites, you have to tap twice to get this to work.)FIGURE 2-4FIGURE 2-5

       Press and hold. If you’re using Notes or Mail or any other application that lets you select text, or if you’re on a web page, pressing and holding text selects a word and displays editing tools that you can use to select, cut, or copy and paste the text.

      

When you rock your phone backward or forward, the background moves as well (a feature called parallax). You can disable this feature if it makes you seasick. From the Home screen, tap Settings ⇒ Accessibility ⇒ Motion and then tap and turn on the Reduce Motion setting by tapping the toggle switch (it turns green when the option is enabled).

      Your iPhone offers the ability to perform bezel gestures, which involves sliding from the very outer edge of the phone left to right on the glass to go backward and sliding right to left to go forward in certain apps.

       Tap the Safari button in the Dock at the bottom of any iPhone Home screen to display the web browser.

       Tap a link to move to another page.

       Double-tap the page to enlarge it; then pinch your fingers together on the screen to reduce its size.

       Drag one finger up and down the page to scroll.

       Flick your finger quickly up or down on the page to scroll more quickly.

       Press and hold your finger on a word that isn’t a link (links take you to another location on the web).The word is selected, and the Copy/Look Up/Speak/Share/Spell СКАЧАТЬ