Exploring Apple iPhone: iOS 15 Edition: The Illustrated, Practical Guide to Using your iPhone
By Kevin Wilson
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Written in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion, with full color illustrated screenshots and images, Exploring iPhone is here to help you learn the fundamentals of your iPhone. You'll learn how to navigate around iPhone, how to make phone calls, video calls, check email and use apps. Whether you want to learn the basics, or discover something a bit more advanced, Exploring iPhone is here to help you:
Upgrade your iPhone to iOS 15
Set up your iPhone, secure it with Touch ID and Face ID
Discover new features of iOS 15 on iPhone
Find your way around your iPhone's home screen, dock, menus, widgets and icons
Navigate with touch gestures such as tap, drag, pinch, spread and swipe
Multi-tasking on iPhone
Use control centre, lock screen, notifications, handoff and airplay
Take notes on your iPhone
Get to know Siri, voice dictation, and recording voice memos with iPhone
Communicate with email, FaceTime, and Messages on your iPhone
Watch a movie or listen to music together with SharePlay
Set important appointments with Calendar on iPhone
Keep the people you correspond with in the Contacts app
Set yourself reminders and 'to-do' lists
Use digital touch, and peer-to-peer payments
Browse the web with Safari web browser safely and efficiently
Take, enhance, and share photos and video with your iPhone
Organise your photos in the Photos app on iPhone
Catch up with your favourite podcasts and the latest news
Stream music with Apple Music, buy tracks & albums from iTunes Store
Stream TV programs & movies with the Apple TV App
Use Files App to access your files from anywhere using iPhone
Find your way around with the Maps App, get directions, explore places in 3D
Accessorise your iPhone with covers, stands, AirPods and headphones
Setup and use Apple Pay, and more...
In addition, you will learn how to make the most of the new features of iOS 15 with clear explanations and video demos to help you along the way. Finally, system updates, backups, and general housekeeping tips complete this invaluable guide. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you explore your iPhone.
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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Exploring Apple iPhone - Kevin Wilson
What’s New in iOS 15?
iOS 15 introduces a few new features and improvements, let’s take a look at some of the main ones.
You can now place widgets among the apps on your Home Screen.
You can use Live Text to copy text out of an image and paste it into another app, or translate the text into another language.
You’ll need an iPhone XS, XR or later.
You can also look up information. Visual Lookup identifies objects and landmarks in photos. Here in the photo below, visual lookup has identified my dog as a dachshund, and offers extra photos and info.
SharePlay allows you to watch and listen to music in your FaceTime calls with your friends.
Memojis now includes clothing, new headgear and glasses. You can customise these with colours and styles to suit your tastes. You can use your memojis in the messages app as well as facetime.
Focus mode allows you to concentrate on a task and minimise distractions. You can turn on ‘do not disturb’ to switch off all apps & notifications, or choose from pre-defined focus modes for work, sleep, fitness, gaming, reading or driving. You can select only the apps, people or notifications related to a particular task such as work. You can also configure your own focus modes.
In Safari, the tab bar is now at the bottom making it a bit easier to control.
The maps app now has an interactive globe but this only works on an iPhone XS or later.
With wallet, you can add home, hotel, office and car keys.
The ‘find my’ app now has live locations so you can see where your family and friends are.
A Series Chip
The Apple A series is a series of microprocessors known as a system on a chip (SoC) used to power iPhones and iPads. The A series chips combine the CPU, Graphics Processor (or GPU), memory (or RAM), flash storage, and a neural engine which is a component designed to use machine learning and artificial intelligence for tasks such identifying objects in photos, or applying an automatic filter to a picture, analysing videos, voice recognition, and so on.
Liquid Retina Displays
A Retina Display is a screen with a high pixel density - meaning there are a lot more pixels per inch than a standard computer screen. This generates a high resolution, crystal clear image. The image on the left is a standard LCD screen, while the image on the right is a retina screen.
Liquid Retina XDR display is lit by multiple mini-LEDs, and supports resolutions of 2732x2048 pixels for a total of 5.6 million pixels with 264 pixels per inch, and delivers P3 wide colour giving richer and more vibrant colours.
ProMotion technology automatically adjusts the display refresh rate up to 120 Hz (twice the rate of typical LCD displays) to the optimal rate for the content.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) delivers detail in extremely bright parts of the image along with the subtle details in the darkest parts of the image.
True Tone uses multiple sensors to adjust the colour temperature of the display on your iPhone depending on the ambient light, to make the display look more natural.
A nit is measurement of the brightness of light. Computer monitors usually range from 200 - 600 nits. Higher nits allow you to brighten the display so you can see the screen clearly on a sunny day.
Setting up 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.
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at
Insert your SIM
Power Up
Charging your iPhone’s Battery
Unlock & Wake iPhone
Initial Setup
Upgrading your iPhone to iOS 15
Language & Region
Settings
Apple ID
FaceID
Passcode
Privacy
Notifications
Adding Email Accounts
Add Social Media Accounts
Connecting Devices
Take a look at the video resources, open your web browser and navigate to the following website.
elluminetpress.com/using-iphone
Insert your
SIM
Make sure your device is off before doing this. To insert a SIM card from your network provider. Find the SIM Card Tray. This is on the side edge of your phone, next to the volume buttons (or the opposite side button on older models).
Push the end of a paper clip into the release hole on the side of your device. The tray will pop out.
Pull out the little tray and insert your SIM.
The SIM will only go one way around, so make sure it clips firmly into the cutout in the tray.
Slide the little tray back into your phone, until it clips firmly into place against the side.
Power Up
To power on your iPhone, press and hold the side button on the right hand edge of the device until you see the Apple logo on the screen.
Once your iPhone powers up, you’ll land on the lock screen, see .
If you have a new iPhone, you’ll need to run through the initial setup. See .
Charging your iPhone’s Battery
Plug your iPhone directly into the charger to charge the battery. Plug one end of the lightning cable into the charger.
Plug the other end of the lightning cable into the port on the bottom of your iPhone.
Your battery will take a few hours to charge. Best practice is not to let your battery deplete completely, charge it up when you still have about 20% charge left.
Unlock & Wake iPhone
To unlock and wake your phone, press the side button while looking at the iPhone screen. This will allow the True Depth camera and Face ID to identify you to unlock your phone.
When you see the lock icon at the top unlock, swipe upwards on the white bar at the bottom of the screen.
If you haven’t set up your Face ID you’ll be prompted for your passcode. This is the code you enter during the initial setup procedure.
Initial Setup
To use iPhone, you need an internet connection and your Apple ID. In iOS 11, Apple introduced an automated setup feature that allows you to transfer settings from another device, such as an iPhone. Both devices must be running iOS 11 or later. If you don’t have this, you can still set up your iPhone manually. First lets take a look at the auto setup feature.
Auto Setup
If you have iOS 11 or later set up on another device such as another iPhone or iPad, you can use it to transfer your settings to your new iPhone.
On your iPhone, slide or press the home button to start, then select your language.
Scroll down the list, select your region or country.
Now, if you have iOS 11 or 12 set up on your old iPhone, bring it over to your new iPhone. You’ll see a prompt on your old iPhone. Tap ‘continue’.
Your new iPhone will display a strange pattern, like the one shown below.
Using the camera on your old iPhone, position the blue pattern in the circle shown on the bottom of your old iPhone’s screen.
Now leave your old iPhone next to your new iPhone until the set up process is complete. Your new iPhone will activate, you may need to enter your passcode, the same one you use to unlock your iPhone.
Follow the prompts on your iPhone to set up Face ID.
Manual Setup
Turn iPhone on and follow the Setup Assistant. This will guide you through the process
Swipe your finger across the bottom of the screen.
Select your language from the list. Scroll down, select your country or region.
Tap ‘set up manually’ at the bottom of the screen.
Tap on the name of your WiFi Network. Enter your WiFi password or network key when prompted.
Tap ‘Enable Location Services’. The location services allow your iPhone to determine your current physical location. Some apps require this; maps and other apps that provide local information.
Enter a passcode and set up Face ID. While looking straight at your phone, rotate your head around in a circular manner - to the left, up, to the right, and down - almost like doing neck exercises, until the green marker makes it all the way around the circle.
Tap ‘done’ to accept.
Tap ‘set up as New iPhone’. This will create a clean iPhone. If you have upgraded to a new iPhone, you can tap ‘restore from iCloud backup’ and select the latest backup. This will set up your iPhone using your previous settings and data.
Tap sign in with your Apple ID. Enter your username and password.
Hit ‘continue’ to set up Siri. Follow the instructions on the screen to initialise Siri.
Tap don’t send
or don’t share
on ‘Apple Diagnostics’ and ‘App Analytics’.
Tap OK to get started.
Upgrading your iPhone to iOS 15
Make sure your iPhone is plugged into a power charger and that it is connected to your WiFi.
Once you have done that, go to the settings app then tap ‘General’.
Select ‘Software Update’.
If there are any updates available, you’ll see them listed here, Tap ‘Download and Install’.
To update now, tap ‘download and install’. Enter your passcode when prompted. Your iPhone will restart and the update will install. This might take a while.
Adjusting Settings
To adjust any settings on your iPhone, you’ll need to use the settings app.
Opening the Settings App
You’ll find the icon on the home screen.
Settings are grouped into sections based on the feature the settings control. You’ll find a section for display, sound, or home screen settings among many others.