Essential iPhone X iOS 12 Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using iPhone X

By Kevin Wilson

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 X: 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 X and upgrading from previous versions

A look at the updates introduced in iOS 12

Getting to know your iPhone X, 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, and surviving without the home button

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, Animojis, Memojis, 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 X with updates, backups, general housekeeping, and much more...

Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential iPhone X: iOS 12 Edition tackles the fundamentals of the iPhone X series, 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 iPhone X: iOS 12 Edition will help you maximize the potential of your iPhone X to increase your productivity, understanding, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elluminet Press
• Release date: Jan 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781911174875

Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Nothing to See Here, which was a Read with Jenna book club selection; The Family Fang, which was adapted into an acclaimed film starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman; and Perfect Little World; as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award; and Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

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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 X 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 16

Upgrading your iPhone to iOS 12 17

Initial Setup 18

Auto Setup 19

Manual Setup 22

Charging your iPhone’s Battery 29

Connecting to a Mac or 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

Face ID 41

Find iPhone 42

Setup 42

Locating & Taking Action 43

Pairing Bluetooth Devices 44

Getting Around Your iPhone 46

Touch Gestures 46

Tap 46

Drag 47

Pinch & Spread 49

Swipe 50

3D Touch 51

Multitasking 53

Control Centre 57

Customising Control Centre 58

Notifications & Lock Screen 59

Handoff 61

The On-screen Keyboard 62

Spotlight Search 64

Arranging Icons 67

Removing Icons 69

Siri 70

Using Siri 70

Siri Translate 71

Voice Dictation 72

Settings Search 73

Family Sharing 74

Add a Family Member 76

Invite in Person 76

Child Accounts 77

Managing your Family 80

Screen Time 81

Downtime 83

App Limits 84

Always Allowed 87

Content & Privacy Restrictions 87

Allowing and Blocking Content 88

Internet, Email, Communication 90

Using Safari 90

Bookmark a Site 92

Browsing History 94

Reader View 95

Using Email 97

Contacts 101

View Contact Details 102

New Contact 103

New Contact from a Message 104

Calendar (iCal) 105

Adding an Appointment 106

Add a Recurring Appointment 107

Adding an Appointment from a Message 109

Phone App 110

Answering Calls 111

Dialling Numbers 112

Call Someone from Contacts List 113

Call Someone from Recent Calls List 114

Add Someone to Favourites 115

Voice Mail 117

Custom Call Decline Messages 118

Ringtones and Text Tones 119

FaceTime 120

Making a Call 120

Adding Effects 123

Animojis 126

Group FaceTime 127

iMessage 129

New Message 130

Send Voice Message 131

Sending Photos from Photos App 132

Sending Photos from Camera 133

Effects 135

Digital Touch in iMessage 137

Sending Payments with iMessage 143

Emojis 144

Using Emojis 144

Animojis 145

Using Animojis 145

Memojis 147

Making a Memoji 147

Using Memojis in FaceTime 150

Using Memojis in iMessage 151

AirDrop 152

To Send a file to Someone using AirDrop 153

To Receive a File from Someone using AirDrop 155

Using Multimedia 156

Photos 156

Import Photos 156

Editing Photos 158

Crop Image 160

Rotate Image 160

Adjusting Images 161

Taking Pictures with Camera App 164

Adjusting Photos 167

Panoramic Photos 170

Recording Video 171

Live Photos 172

Share Pics on Social Media 174

Music App 176

Connecting to your Computer 177

Transferring Music from a Computer 179

Setting Up Apple Music Streaming 180

The Main Screen 182

Searching for Music 183

Add to Library 185

iTunes Store 186

Music 187

Films & TV 188

Apple TV App 189

Airplay 190

Document Scanner 192

QR Code Scanner 195

Common Apps 196

App Store 196

Search for Apps 199

Browsing the Store 201

Taking Notes 204

Typing Notes & Inserting Photos 205

Dictating Notes 206

Reminders 207

Add a Task to List 207

Edit a List 208

Share a List 208

Schedule a Reminder 209

Create New List 210

Create New Reminder 211

Maps App 212

Driving Directions 213

News App 217

Apple Books App 219

Browse the Store 220

Search the Store 221

Buying New Books 222

Files App 224

Create New Folders 225

Drag Files into Folders 226

Delete Files or Folders 227

Share a File 227

Apple Pay 228

Setup 228

Using Apple Pay 231

Voice Memos 232

Recording Memos 233

Renaming Memos 234

Trim a Memo 235

Clock App 236

World Clock 236

Alarm 237

Bed Time 238

Stop Watch 240

Timer 240

Productivity Apps 242

Creating Documents with Pages 242

Formatting Text 244

Adding a Picture 245

Keynote 246

Editing a Slide 249

Adding Media 250

Animations 251

Formatting Text Boxes 253

Formatting Text Inside Textboxes 254

Printing Documents 256

Air Print 256

Older Printers 257

Maintaining Your iPhone 258

iPhone Backups 258

System Updates 259

App Updates 261

Deleting Apps 263

iPhone Storage Maintenance 264

iPhones

iPhones run iOS. iOS is a 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 it with your face - 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 X Models

In this guide, we’ll be taking a look at the iPhone X series. The iPhone X, pronounced iPhone Ten, was originally released to mark the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. There are currently four models in the iPhone X series.

The iPhone X is a major redesign of the hardware, doing away with the home button, adding a larger screen, a notch in the top for the true depth camera, and the introduction of Face ID that uses a scan of the user’s face to unlock the phone as opposed to finger print or pin.

With the exception of the iPhone XR, iPhone X series has two cameras on the rear. One is a 12-megapixel wide-angle camera with f/1.8 aperture, with support for face detection, high dynamic range and optical image stabilization. It is capable of capturing 4K and HD video.

The second is a telephoto lens with a 2× optical zoom and 10× digital zoom with an aperture of f/2.4 and optical image stabilization. This camera is capable of producing photos with specific depth-of-field and lighting effects. It also has a quad-LED True Tone flash that attempts to reproduce colours and skin tones more naturally.

What’s New in iOS 12?

With iOS 12, Apple have concentrated on improving performance - meaning apps load faster, and are generally more responsive.

iBooks has been renamed Apple Books and makes it easier to find and read your ebooks.

Apple News app has been redesigned, making it easier to keep up with the news that interests you.

FaceTime has also had a few updates. You can now talk to multiple people using Group FaceTime, as well as liven up your chat using various camera effects.

Screen Time is a new feature that allows you to keep track of your iPhone usage, as well as giving you stats and reports on your child’s online activity

Also in the mix are new ways to share photos, Siri has a few new shortcuts, as well as the usual security tweaks and other enhancements.

Setting up Your iPhone

If you’ve just bought your new iPhone and taken it out the box, the process to set it up to use for the first time is very simple. You don’t even have to connect it to your computer.

With iOS 12, Apple have dropped support for the iPhone 4 series.

iOS 12 will run on these devices:

iPhone XS

iPhone XS Max

iPhone XR

iPhone X

iPhone 8

iPhone 8 Plus

iPhone 7

iPhone 7 Plus

iPhone 6s

iPhone 6s Plus

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