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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)

Updating an iPhone

An iPhone is nothing more than a computer running an operating system. With the iPhone, the operating system is called iOS, which Apple updates annually with major changes and throughout the year with minor changes.

Generally, you want to keep your iPhone updated to the latest operating system version since that will offer the most features, along with fixing bugs from previous operating system versions. However, sometimes the latest software updates can prove buggy, which means if you install it on your iPhone, you could wreck its performance.

For that reason, you may want to turn off automatic updates. Automatic updates is designed to update your iPhone and keep it current without you having to consciously install the latest operating system yourself. However, you may want to wait before updating just in case people report troubles with the latest update.

To modify automatic updates, follow these steps:

  1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen...