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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)

Protecting your privacy

The more you use your iPhone, the more likely it is that you'll store personal information, such as names and phone numbers in the Contacts app, personal and confidential messages in the Messages and Mail apps, or personal pictures in the Photos app that you may have captured through your iPhone's camera.

While using passcodes, Touch ID, and Face ID can keep unauthorized people from accessing this private data, none of these security measures can keep apps from accessing your private data.

For example, many apps may request permission to access your Contacts data to help you find contact information for your friends. Graphic-oriented apps may also request permission to access your pictures in the Photos app to use them.

If you're concerned that too many apps may have access to your private data, you can selectively block apps from specific data. That way, you can ensure that only the apps that are most important to you have access to...