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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)

Defining notification settings

Certain apps may need to notify you when certain events occur. For example, the Calendar app may notify you of an upcoming appointment and the Clock app may need to notify you when you've set an alarm.

Notifications allow apps to alert you when certain events occur, but you likely don't want every app to display notifications, or else they could prove annoying if notifications appear too often. You can set turning notifications on or off. If you turn notifications on, you can also define one or more of the following, as shown in Figure 3.21:

  • Alerts: Pops a window in the middle of the screen to block everything until you dismiss the alert.
  • Banners: Displays a skinny pane at the top of the screen that either appears temporarily or permanently until you tap to dismiss it.
  • Sounds: Plays a distinctive noise when a notification appears.
  • Badges: Displays a little red dot with a number (to define the number of alerts, such as...