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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)

Communicating through the Contacts app

The Contacts app does more than just store names and contact information. You can also use the Contacts app as a way to communicate with others. Normally, if you want to send an email, make a phone call, or send a text message, you'd have to type in that person's contact information.

Since the Contacts app already contains a person's contact information, all you need to do is open the Contacts app, find the person you want to reach, and then choose the best method to reach that person, such as by email, FaceTime, phone call, or text message.

To see how to use the Contacts app to contact someone, follow these steps:

  1. Tap the Contacts app on the Home Screen. The Contacts app screen appears.
  2. Tap the name of the person you wish to contact. That person's contact information appears on the screen, as shown in Figure 13.5:

    Figure 13.5 – Viewing a person's contact information

  3. Tap a phone number or...