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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)

Blocking out disturbances

No matter how much you may love your iPhone and your friends, you may need to focus on a task and you don't want your iPhone to keep beeping or making noises while you're trying to get something done. One simple solution is to turn your iPhone off completely or leave it in another room so that you can't hear it.

Yet a simpler solution is to use the iPhone's Do Not Disturb features to temporarily quiet your iPhone. The iPhone gives you two options for blocking out disturbances through the Do Not Disturb feature:

  • Manually turning Do Not Disturb on and off.
  • Automatically turn Do Not Disturb on and off at a specific time every day.

Manually turning on the Do Not Disturb feature takes a conscious effort but can be handy when you temporarily need to block out potential disturbances. Automatically turning the Do Not Disturb feature on and off can be handy to encourage you to set aside a specific time when you won't...