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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 5: Sending Text Messages

Talking on the iPhone is just one of many ways you can communicate with others. Besides talking, another popular way to communicate is through text messages. Unlike phone calls, which require both parties to be free to chat at the same time, text messages allow you to carry on a conversation by typing in messages to each other and responding when it's convenient. Best of all, text messaging works for everyone who has a smartphone.

Text messaging was originally called Short Message Service (SMS) and was designed as a cheaper way to communicate. Sending audio over cellular networks required large amounts of data but sending text required far less data, making it faster and cheaper to use.

Text messaging has grown beyond alphanumeric characters to include pictures, audio, and video as well as emoji symbols, such as a smiling face. Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is an expanded version of text messaging that lets you share all types of data...