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The iPhone Manual - Tips and Hacks

By : Wallace Wang
Book Image

The iPhone Manual - Tips and Hacks

By: Wallace Wang

Overview of this book

The iPhone is the most popular smartphone available on the market, renowned for its sophisticated design, immersive UI, and user safety. And even if you’ve bought an iPhone for its impressive specifications, you may still be unaware of many of its features, which you’ll discover with the help of this book! The iPhone Manual is your practical guide to uncovering the hidden potential of iPhones, and will leave you amazed at how productive you can be by learning tips and hacks for customizing your device as a communication, entertainment, and work tool. You’ll unearth the complete range of iPhone features and customize it to streamline your day-to-day interaction with your device. This iPhone manual will help you explore your iPhone’s impressive capabilities and fully understand all the features, functions, and settings that every iPhone owner should know. With this book, you’ll get to grips with not only the basics of communication but also best practices for accessing photos, videos, and music to set up your entertainment using your iPhone. In addition to this, you’ll learn about serious work tools that will make you productive in your everyday tasks. By the end of this iPhone book, you’ll have learned how to use your iPhone to perform tasks and customize your experience in ways you probably didn’t realize were possible.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Making a FaceTime call

Once you have set up FaceTime, you can make calls to anyone you know who also has an iPhone, an iPad, or a Macintosh. (If someone uses an Android smartphone or tablet, or a computer that runs Windows, Linux, or Chrome OS, you will not be able to contact them using FaceTime.)

Since FaceTime calls use the camera, make sure you're in an area where your camera won't accidentally capture images that you'd rather not broadcast to others. For example, it's easy to talk on a regular phone call while going to the restroom, but you probably wouldn't want to do that with a FaceTime call since someone could see exactly where you are and what you might be doing.

To make a FaceTime call, follow these steps:

  1. Tap the FaceTime app on the Home Screen. The FaceTime screen will appear. If you have made or received FaceTime calls in the past, a list of all your previous calls appears, as shown in Figure 11.4:

    Figure 11.4 – The FaceTime...