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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)

Setting up Siri

You can start talking to Siri as soon as you get a new iPhone. However, you may want to take a moment to customize Siri's settings so that Siri behaves the way you want.

The first way to customize Siri is by defining how to start Siri in the first place. Three common ways to start Siri are the following:

  • Press the Home button (for those iPhone models that have a physical Home button).
  • Say "Hey Siri" out loud.
  • Press the Side button (for newer iPhone models that do not have a Home button).

Another way to customize Siri is to define the voice and language. You can choose between a male or female voice with different types of accents, depending on your particular language. For example, English speakers can choose between several options, such as American, British, or Indian accents.

The language you choose will be whatever language you prefer speaking and hearing. Whatever language you choose, you'll likely have regional...