Essential iPhone iOS 12 Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using iPhone
By Kevin Wilson
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The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it’s hard to keep up.
Essential iPhone: iOS 12 Edition is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in...
Setting up iOS 12 on iPhone and upgrading from previous versions
A look at the updates introduced in iOS 12
Getting to know your iPhone, finding your way around the dock, menus, and icons
Navigating with touch gestures using quick peek, 3D touch, tap, drag, pinch, spread, and swipe
Multi-tasking with the app switcher
A look at the new control centre and how to make use of it
Getting to know Siri, voice dictation, and recording voice memos
Communicating with email, FaceTime, iMessage, using digital touch, and peer-to-peer payments
Using the Phone app to make and receive calls
Browsing the web with Safari web browser
Taking and enhancing pictures, panoramic and live photos, as well as recording video
Listening to music with Apple Music and iTunes Store, as well as watching films and TV
Using the Files App, as well as Maps, News, Apple Books, Notes, Apple Pay, Calendar, and Contacts
Maintaining your iPhone with updates, backups, general housekeeping, and much more...
Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential iPhone: iOS 12 Edition tackles the fundamentals of the iPhone, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time, can understand.
So, if you’re looking for an iPhone manual, a visual book, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference, Essential Phone: iOS 12 Edition will help you maximize the potential of your iPhone to increase your productivity, understanding, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.
Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson is the author of The Family Fang and the collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, which received the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his son, Griff, where he teaches fiction at the University of the South and helps run the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
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Essential iPhone iOS 12 Edition - Kevin Wilson
Essential iPhone: iOS 12 Edition
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About the Author
Kevin Wilson has made a career out of technology and showing others how to use it. After earning a master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, and multimedia systems, Kevin worked as a tutor and college instructor, helping students master such subjects as multimedia, computer literacy and information technology. He currently serves as Elluminet Press Publishing’s senior writer and director, he periodically teaches computing at college in South Africa and serves as an IT trainer in England.
Kevin’s motto is clear: If you can’t explain something simply, you haven’t understood it well enough.
To that end, he has created the Computer Essentials series, in which he breaks down complex technological subjects into smaller, easy-to-follow steps that students and ordinary computer users can put into practice.
Table of Contents
iPhones 8
iPhone Models 8
What’s New in iOS 12? 9
Setting up Your iPhone 12
Insert your SIM 12
Power Up & Power Down 15
Unlock & Wake iPhone 16
Force Shutdown 17
Upgrading your iPhone to iOS 12 18
Initial Setup 19
Auto Setup 19
Manual Setup 22
Charging your iPhone’s Battery 29
Connecting your iPhone to a Mac/PC 30
Using iTunes 31
Syncing your iPhone with your Mac/PC 32
Connecting to the Internet 33
WiFi 33
Setting up Email Accounts 35
Add Social Media Accounts 38
Change your Wallpaper 39
Touch ID 41
Find iPhone 42
Setup 42
Locating & Taking Action 43
Getting Around Your iPhone 44
Touch Gestures 44
Tap 44
Drag 45
Pinch & Spread 46
Swipe 47
Home Button 49
3D Touch 50
Multitasking 52
Control Centre 55
Customising Control Centre 56
Notifications & Lock Screen 57
Handoff 59
The On-screen Keyboard 60
Spotlight Search 62
Arranging Icons 65
Removing Icons 67
Siri 68
Using Siri 68
Siri Translate 69
Voice Dictation 70
Settings Search 71
Family Sharing 72
Add a Family Member 74
Invite in Person 75
Child Accounts 76
Managing your Family 79
Screen Time 79
Downtime 81
App Limits 82
Always Allowed 85
Content & Privacy Restrictions 85
Allowing and Blocking Content 86
Internet, Email, Communication 88
Using Safari 88
Bookmark a Site 90
Browsing History 92
Reader View 93
Using Email 94
Contacts 99
View Contact Details 100
New Contact 101
New Contact from a Message 102
Calendar (iCal) 103
Adding an Appointment 104
Add a Recurring Appointment 105
Adding an Appointment from a Message 107
Phone App 108
Answering Calls 109
Dialling Numbers 110
Call Someone from Contacts List 111
Call Someone from Recent Calls List 112
Add Someone to Favourites 113
Voice Mail 115
Custom Call Decline Messages 116
Ringtones and Text Tones 117
FaceTime 118
Making a Call 118
Adding Effects 121
Group FaceTime 124
iMessage 126
New Message 127
Send Voice Message 128
Send a Photo 129
Effects 131
Digital Touch in iMessage 133
Sending Payments with iMessage 139
AirDrop 140
To Send a file to Someone using AirDrop 141
To Receive a File from Someone using AirDrop 143
Using Multimedia 144
Photos 144
Import Photos 144
Editing Photos 146
Crop Image 148
Rotate Image 148
Adjusting Images 149
Taking Pictures with Camera App 152
Adjusting Photos 155
Panoramic Photos 158
Recording Video 159
Live Photos 160
Share Pics on Social Media 162
Music App 164
Connecting to your Computer 165
Transferring Music from a Computer 167
Setting Up Apple Music Streaming 168
The Main Screen 170
Searching for Music 171
Add to Library 173
iTunes Store 174
Music 175
Films & TV 176
Apple TV App 177
Airplay 178
Document Scanner 180
QR Code Scanner 183
Common Apps 184
App Store 184
Search for Apps 186
Browsing the Store 189
Taking Notes 192
Typing Notes & Inserting Photos 193
Dictating Notes 194
Reminders 195
Add a Task to List 195
Edit a List 196
Share a List 196
Schedule a Reminder 197
Create New List 199
Create New Reminder 199
Maps App 200
Driving Directions 201
News App 205
Apple Books App 207
Browse the Store 208
Search the Store 209
Buying New Books 210
Files App 212
Create New Folders 213
Drag Files into Folders 214
Delete Files or Folders 215
Share a File 215
Apple Pay 216
Setup 216
Using Apple Pay 219
Voice Memos 220
Recording Memos 221
Renaming Memos 222
Trim a Memo 223
Clock App 224
World Clock 224
Alarm 225
Bed Time 226
Stop Watch 228
Timer 228
Productivity Apps 230
Creating Documents with Pages 230
Formatting Text 232
Adding a Picture 233
Keynote 234
Editing a Slide 237
Adding Media 238
Animations 239
Formatting Text Boxes 241
Formatting Text Inside Textboxes 242
Printing Documents 243
Air Print 244
Older Printers 245
Maintaining Your iPhone 246
iPhone Backups 246
System Updates 247
App Updates 249
Deleting Apps 251
iPhone Storage Maintenance 252
iPhones
iPhones run iOS. iOS is mobile, multitasking operating system designed specifically for iPads and iPhones. iOS 12 is the latest release for iPhones and iPads.
An Operating System is a program that manages the device’s hardware resources such as memory, processor and storage. The Operating System also provides a platform for you to run apps such as web browsers, maps, email, photos, games and so on.
The iOS user interface is a touch screen, meaning you can directly manipulate sliders, switches, buttons and icons on screen using your finger.
iOS has a main screen called the home screen containing icons that represent apps. You can download countless apps from the App Store - you’ll find an app for almost anything you can think of.
Security has improved on these devices, you can unlock just with a finger print - no need to keep remembering a PIN.
Finally there’s Siri, the voice activated personal assistant that uses natural language AI to interpret voice commands you speak out loud. You can ask Siri to send messages, dial a number, as well as search the web, and answer certain questions.
iPhone Models
In this guide, we’ll be taking a look at the iPhone 6 / 6 Plus, iPhone 6S / 6S Plus, iPhone 7 / 7 Plus, and iPhone 8 / 8 Plus.
I’ll spare you all the boring technical differences between the phones, Apple’s website has plenty of information about their product if you want to read in more