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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)

Creating favorite locations

You likely have a favorite restaurant, nightclub, gas station, and supermarket. To make it easy to find your favorite locations, you can save them in a list. That way, when you want to visit one of your favorite locations, you can get directions with a minimal amount of searching.

The first step is to find your favorite location and then save it in your favorites list. Once you've done that, you can then open this favorites list and get directions to a specific location with one tap.

To save a location in your favorite list, follow these steps:

  1. Tap the Maps app on the Home Screen.
  2. Search for a location that you want to save as a favorite until you see a blue Directions button.
  3. Swipe up on the handle near the bottom of the screen to reveal the entire list of options, as shown in Figure 16.17:

    Figure 16.17 – Revealing the Save to... button

  4. Tap the Save to... button. A list of collections appears. If you have not created...