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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 4: Making Phone Calls

The iPhone is a combination of a music player, pocket computer, and mobile phone, but is sold as a phone, and so has the essential purpose of letting you make phone calls. While making and receiving calls sounds simple, there can be all kinds of variations involved in making and receiving calls.

For example, you might want to hold a conference call so you can chat with multiple people at the same time. Or, while on a call, you may get another call so you need to put one person on hold so you can answer the second call. You might also get calls from people you no longer want to hear from, so you block certain calls. Additionally, while on hold, you may be instructed to press a number to choose an option.

As you can see, just something as seemingly straightforward as making and receiving calls can range from simple to complicated, depending on what you want to do. In this chapter, you'll learn all the basics involved in making and receiving phone...