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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)

Chapter 17: Getting Time, Weather, and Stock Information

One reason why the iPhone has proven so popular is that it can be almost anything you want it to be. Besides letting you make phone calls and send text messages, an iPhone can also be a timepiece and a source for news. Two common types of news that people often want are weather forecasts and stock quote information.

An iPhone comes with the Clock app for not only helping you keep track of time in other parts of the world, but also to serve as a timer and stopwatch so that you can keep track of minutes or seconds to time yourself for exercising, cooking, or any other activity that involves keeping track of time.

The Weather app lets you get the forecast not just for your own area but for any city around the world. This way, you can know the temperatures and climate in another part of the world that you may be traveling to soon so that you can dress appropriately.

Finally, the iPhone includes the Stocks app to let you...