Edward C. Baig is a long-time technology columnist and author whose work has appeared in USA Today and aarp.org, among other outlets. He is also author of the latest edition of Macs For Dummies. Bob LeVitus writes the "Dr. Mac" column for the Houston Chronicle and has more than 85 technology books to his credit. The two have teamed up to write all previous editions of iPhone For Dummies as well as all editions of iPad For Dummies.
Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Meet Your iPhone 5 Chapter 1: Unveiling the iPhone 7 The Big Picture 8 The iPhone as a phone and a digital camera or camcorder 9 The iPhone as an iPod 10 The iPhone as an Internet communications device 11 Technical specifications 11 A Quick Tour Outside 12 On the sides 12 On the bottom 13 On the front 14 On the back 16 Status bar 16 Home Sweet Home Screen 18 The first Home screen 19 The second Home screen 20 The dock (all Home screens) 22 Chapter 2: iPhone Basic Training 23 Activating the iPhone 24 Turning the iPhone On and Off 25 Pointing a finger at Touch ID 26 Facing up to Face ID 28 Continuing the setup 29 Locking the iPhone 30 Mastering the Multitouch Interface 31 Discovering the special-use keys 33 One-handed keyboard 34 The incredible, intelligent, and virtual iPhone keyboard 34 Anticipating what comes next 34 Correcting mistakes 37 Choosing an alternative keyboard 38 Cutting, copying, pasting, and replacing 38 Multitasking 40 Navigating beyond the Home Screen 41 Organizing Icons into Folders 42 Visiting the App Library 43 Watching Widgets 44 Proactive Searching 45 Notifications and Today view 46 Chapter 3: Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPhone 51 A Brief iCloud Primer 52 The Kitchen Sync 54 First things first: About iPhone backups 54 Sync prep 101 56 Syncing Your Data with iTunes or Finder 61 Syncing contacts 62 Syncing calendars 63 Advanced syncing 63 Synchronizing Your Media 64 Music, movies, TV shows, and podcasts 64 Photos 67 Manual Syncing 68 Chapter 4: Understanding the Phone-damentals 71 Making a Call 72 Adding contacts 72 Setting up favorites 74 Viewing the Recents list 76 Dialing with the keypad 77 Accessing voicemail visually 77 Recording a greeting 80 Voice dialing 81 Receiving a Call 81 Accepting the call 81 Announcing the caller 81 Rejecting the call 82 Replying with a text message 82 Blocking callers 83 Silencing unknown callers 83 Avoiding disturbances 84 Choosing a ringtone 85 While on a Call 86 Juggling calls 87 Making conference calls 88 Handing off calls 89 Seeing is Believing with FaceTime 90 Part 2: The PDA iPhone 95 Chapter 5: Taking Control of Your iPhone 97 Controlling Control Center 98 Summoning Siri 101 Figuring out what to ask 103 Siri shortcuts 104 Using dictation 104 Correcting mistakes 105 Making Siri smarter 105 Typing to Siri 106 Chapter 6: Texting 1, 2, 3: Messages and Notes 107 Getting the iMessage 107 You send me: Sending text messages 109 Alert: You've got messages 110 Being a golden receiver: Reading and replying to text messages 110 MMS: Like SMS with media 113 Massive multimedia effects 114 Group messaging has never been better 118 Taking Note of Notes 119 Chapter 7: Twelve Indispensable Apps and Utilities 121 Working with the Calendar 121 Year view 122 Month view 122 Day view 122 Week view 124 List view 124 Adding Calendar Entries 125 Displaying multiple calendars 128 Responding to meeting invitations 129 Subscribing to calendars 129 Sharing a family calendar 129 Calculate This 130 Punching the Clock 130 World clock 131 Alarm clock 132 Stopwatch 133 Timer 133 Voicing Memos 134 Making a recording 134 Listening to recordings 135 Trimming recordings 135 Adding a title to a recording 136 Reminding me 138 It's a Wallet 141 Dropping in on AirDrop 142 Controlling Lights, Locks, and More 144 Using the iPhone in the Car 144 Unlocking the Car 145 Measuring Things 145 Translating Text or Speech 146 Keeping in Good Health 147 Part 3: The Multimedia iPhone 149 Chapter 8: Music to Your Ears: Audio on Your iPhone 151 Introducing Your iPhone's Music Player 152 It's music, just not your m