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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 callers

Most likely you'll get phone calls from people you don't want to talk to, either because you no longer like them anymore or because they're unsolicited calls from people you don't know.

When you get a phone call, the caller's name appears on the screen if you've added that phone number and the caller's name in the Contacts app. If you have not added both the phone number and caller's name in the Contacts app, only the caller's phone number appears on the screen.

Once you receive a call from someone, you can block that phone number. To block a call, follow these steps:

  1. Tap the Phone icon on the Home screen.
  2. Tap the Recents icon at the bottom of the screen. A list of recent calls appears where an i is shown inside a circle icon to the right of each call, as shown in Figure 4.25:

    Figure 4.25 – The information icon appears next to each received call

  3. Tap the i-inside-a-circle icon that appears to...