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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)

Adding pictures to a note

The whole purpose of notes is to capture your ideas and information. Sometimes, typing text is fine, but other times, you may want to capture a picture either from the iPhone's camera or using a picture stored in your photo library.

The Notes app offers three ways to add a picture to a note, as shown in Figure 15.23:

Figure 15.23 – Three options for adding pictures to notes

The options are as follows:

  • Scan Documents – Lets you crop an image taken with a camera, but does not save it in the Photo Library
  • Take Photo or Video – Captures a photo or video from the iPhone camera, but does not save it in the Photo Library
  • Choose Photo or Video – Retrieves an image or video stored in the Photo Library

Cropping images into a note

The Scan Documents option is meant to capture images of important papers and let you crop them, but you can use this option to capture any image with the...