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Название: iPhone For Dummies

Автор: Bob LeVitus

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Справочники

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isbn: 9781119730071

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СКАЧАТЬ a word to select it, and then drag the grab points or handles to select a larger block of text, as shown in Figure 2-7, top. (You can use the handles to contract selected text too.) After you’ve selected the text, tap Copy. (If you want to delete the text block, tap Cut instead.)

Snapshot of dragging the grab points to select text and tap Copy (top) and then tap Paste to make the selected text appear elsewhere (bottom).

      FIGURE 2-7: Drag the grab points to select text and tap Copy (top) and then tap Paste to make the selected text appear elsewhere (bottom).

      Here’s the pizzazz part. If you make a mistake while you’re cutting, pasting, replacing, or typing, shake the iPhone. It gives you the option to undo the last edit or action.

      

Apple also lets you undo the last action by double-tapping the screen with three fingers. It’s all about choices, friends, and this choice is pretty simple too.

Snapshot of Tap Replace and then tap a substitute word to make a switch.

      FIGURE 2-8: Tap Replace and then tap a substitute word to make a switch.

      

Of course there’s a good chance that the iPhone will suggest the replacement word in the row on top of the keyboard as one of the three words it predicts you want to (or meant to) type.

      If the iPhone has already flagged a suspect word by underlining it, you need not go through tapping Replace first. Instead, merely tap the word and the iPhone will provide alternatives. Say you inadvertently typed Freek. When you tap the word, the iPhone presents alternatives such as Creek, Freak, and Freed.

      Meanwhile, if you want to know exactly what a word means, double-tap the word and choose the Look Up option instead. The first time you tap Look Up, you’re presented with the option to download the dictionary. Look Up also shows suggestions from iTunes and the App Store, along with movie showtimes and locations. It ties into the search capabilities of your phone, about which we have more to say shortly.

      Multitasking simply lets you run numerous apps in the background simultaneously or easily switch from one app to another. For example, music from a third-party app such as Spotify can play in the background while you surf the web, peek at pictures, or check email.

      But that’s not all. If you use an Internet voice-calling app such as Skype, you’ll be able to receive notification of an incoming call even if you haven’t launched the Skype app. The multitasking feature also lets a navigation app employing GPS update your position while you’re listening to an Internet radio app such as Pandora. From time to time, the navigation app or Apple’s own Maps app will pipe in with turn-by-turn directions, lowering the volume of the music so you can hear the instructions.

      

As part of iOS 14, Apple added a picture-in-picture feature that will let you watch video or be on a FaceTime call while browsing Safari or engaging in other apps. See Chapter 10 for details.

      Multitasking couldn’t be easier — and it has become a lot smarter through the years. Now your iPhone can anticipate your needs. If it detects over time that you tend to turn to your social networking apps around the same time every morning, it will make sure the feeds are ready for you and suggest those apps.

      Double-press (not double-tap) the Home button on models with that button. On Face ID models, swipe up from the bottom of the screen and then pause for a moment.

      Apple insists (and our experience generally leads us to believe) that multitasking will not drain the iPhone battery or exhaust system resources. The iPhone conserves power and resources by putting apps in a state of suspended animation. Your phone will schedule updates only during power-efficient times, such as when your device is connected to Wi-Fi.

      To remove an app from the multitasking rotation, swipe up the app’s preview. Poof, it’s gone.

Snapshots of scrolling to see previews of the apps you’ve recently used.

      FIGURE 2-9: Scroll to see previews of the apps you’ve recently used.

      The Home screen, which we discuss in Chapter 1, isn’t the only screenful of icons on your phone. After you start adding apps from the App Store (see Chapter 15), you’ll likely have multiple screens.

      Initially, you see three tiny dots above the Phone, Safari, Messages, and Music icons. Each dot denotes an additional screen, containing up to 20 additional icons on the original iPhone SE, and up to 24 on the iPhone 6 and later. The icons can represent apps, folders of apps, or (as you’ll learn later in this chapter) widgets. The middle dot, which is all white, represents the Home screen, or the screen you’re currently viewing. The next dot to the right, in gray, is the first additional screen on which you can park icons. You get to it by flicking right to left (assuming you’re on the first screen). You can have 15 screens in all; as you add screens, you add dots.

      If you flick all the way right to left, you get to the today screen, which used to be part of Notification Center but is now out on its own. Flicking all the way to the right takes you to the new App Library, which we also get to later in this chapter.

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