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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElluminet Press
    Release dateJan 15, 2019
    ISBN9781911174851
    Essential iPhone iOS 12 Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using iPhone
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    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

      Copyright © 2019 Elluminet Press

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      While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.

      Publisher: Elluminet Press

      Director: Kevin Wilson

      Lead Editor: Steven Ashmore

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      Indexer: James Marsh

      Cover Designer: Kevin Wilson

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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

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