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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)

Deleting images and videos

When you no longer want to keep an item, delete it. If you change your mind, you can even recover a deleted item right away. By deleting images and videos, you can make sure your iPhone never runs out of storage.

To delete an image or video, follow these steps:

  1. Select the image or video you want to delete.
  2. Tap the delete icon (see Figure 7.40). A Delete and Cancel button appear at the bottom of the screen.
  3. Tap Delete (or Cancel).

If you delete an image or video by mistake, you can retrieve that item because the iPhone stores all deleted items in a special Recently Deleted album.

To retrieve a previously deleted image or video, follow these steps:

  1. Tap the Photos app icon on the Home Screen.
  2. Tap the Albums icon at the bottom of the screen.
  3. Scroll down and tap the Recently Deleted album, as shown in Figure 7.42:

    Figure 7.42 – The Recently Deleted album

  4. Tap on the image or video you want to retrieve. A Delete...