chapter 1 How Do I Configure My iphone? 2 Customizing the Home Screen to Suit Your Style 4 Creating an app folder 5 Adding a Safari web clip to the Home screen 6 Resetting the default Home screen layout 7 Working with App Notifications 8 Displaying the Notification Center 9 Customizing notifications 9 More Useful iphone Configuration Techniques 11 Turning sounds on and off 11 Customizing the keyboard 13 Configuring Siri 15 Creating text shortcuts 16 Signing in to your Twitter account 17 Resetting the iphone 18 Protecting Your iphone 19 Locking your iphone with a passcode 20 Configuring your iphone to sleep automatically 22 Backing up your iphone 23 Configuring parental controls 23 Locating and protecting a lost iphone 25 Activating Find My iphone 25 Locating your iphone on a map 26 Locating your iphone using the Find My iphone app 26 Locating your iphone using icloud 27 Getting an e-mail message when your iphone comes online 27 Sending a message to your iphone 27 Remotely locking the data on your iphone 28 Remotely deleting the data on your iphone 29 COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
Enhancing Your iphone with Apps 30 Accessing the App Store on your computer 30 Accessing the App Store on your iphone 31 Syncing apps 33 Viewing and updating your apps 34 Multitasking apps 35 Pairing Your iphone to Bluetooth Devices 37 Making your iphone discoverable 38 Pairing your iphone with a Bluetooth keyboard 38 Pairing your iphone with a Bluetooth headset 39 Selecting a paired headset as the audio output device 40 Unpairing your iphone from a Bluetooth device 40 chapter 2 How Do I Connect My iphone to a Network? 42 Setting Up Your iphone as an Internet Hub 48 Activating the Personal Hotspot 49 Connecting to the Personal Hotspot using Wi-Fi 50 Connecting to the Personal Hotspot using Bluetooth 50 Connecting to the Personal Hotspot using USB 52 Keeping an Eye on Your Data Usage 52 Controlling Network Data 53 Turning off 3G 54 Turning off cellular data 54 Turning off data roaming 55 Switching your iphone to Airplane mode 56 Creating a VPN Connection 57 chapter 3 How Can I Get More Out of the Phone App? 60 Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network 44 Making your first connection 44 Connecting to known networks 45 Stopping incessant Wi-Fi network prompts 45 Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network 46 Forgetting a Wi-Fi network 47 Turning off the Wi-Fi antenna 48 Working with Outgoing Calls 62 Making calls quickly 62 Voice dialing a call with Siri 63 Configuring your iphone not to show your caller ID 65
Handling Incoming Calls 65 Silencing an incoming call 65 Sending an incoming call directly to voicemail 66 Turning off Call Waiting 66 Forwarding calls to another number 67 Juggling Multiple Calls and Conference Calls 67 Managing Your Favorites List 70 Converting a Phone Number into a Contact 72 Video Calling with FaceTime 73 Initiating a FaceTime call 74 Disabling FaceTime 76 chapter 4 How Can I Make the Most of iphone Web Surfing? 78 Saving a page to read later 88 Retracing your steps with the handy History list 89 Filling in Online Forms 90 Turning on AutoFill for faster form input 92 Saving website login passwords 93 Getting More Out of Safari on Your iphone 94 Maintaining your privacy by deleting the History list 94 Deleting website data 95 Browsing privately 96 Tweeting a web page 96 Changing the default search engine 97 Dialing a phone number from a web page 97 Setting the web browser security options 98 Searching web page text 99 Printing a web page with AirPrint 101 Searching the web with Siri voice commands 101 chapter 5 How Do I Maximize iphone E-mail? 104 Touchscreen Tips for Websites 80 Browsing Tips for Faster Surfing 82 Opening and managing multiple browser pages 82 Opening a page in the background 84 Viewing a page without distractions 84 Adding bookmarks manually 86 Managing your bookmarks 87
Managing Your iphone E-mail Accounts 106 Adding an account by hand 106 Specifying the default account 109 Temporarily disabling an account 109 Deleting an account 110 Switching to another account 111 Configuring E-mail Accounts 111 Managing multiple devices by leaving messages on the server 111 Fixing outgoing e-mail problems by using a different server port 113 Configuring authentication for outgoing mail 114 Configuring E-mail Messages 115 Setting the number of messages to display 115 Processing e-mail faster by identifying messages sent to you 116 Placing a phone call from an e-mail message 117 E-mailing a link to a web page 118 Creating icloud message folders 119 Formatting e-mail text 120 Setting a minimum message font size 121 Creating a custom iphone signature 122 Disabling remote images in messages 122 Preventing Mail from organizing messages by thread 123 Deleting Gmail messages instead of archiving them 124 Configuring your Exchange ActiveSync settings 125 Controlling e-mail with Siri voice commands 126 chapter 6 How Do I Synchronize My iphone? 128 Connecting Your iphone to Your Computer 130 Connecting via USB 130 Connecting via Wi-Fi 130 Synchronizing Your iphone Automatically 131 Bypassing the automatic sync 131 Troubleshooting automatic syncing 132 Synchronizing Your iphone Manually 133 Syncing Your iphone Via Wi-Fi 134 Synchronizing Information with Your iphone 134 Syncing your contacts 135 Syncing your calendar 137 Syncing your e-mail account 138 Syncing your bookmarks 139 Syncing your notes 141 Merging data from two or more computers 141 Handling sync conflicts 142 Handling large iphone-to-computer sync changes 143 Replacing your iphone data with fresh info 144
Synchronizing Media with Your iphone 146 Syncing music and music videos 146 Syncing podcasts 150 Syncing audiobooks 152 Syncing movies 153 Syncing TV show episodes 154 Syncing ebooks 156 Syncing computer photos to your iphone 157 Syncing iphone photos to your computer 158 Syncing photos via icloud 161 Preventing your iphone from sending photos to your computer 161 Syncing media with two or more computers 163 chapter 7 How Can I Get More Out of My iphone s Audio Features? 166 Using Audio Accessories with Your iphone 168 Getting More Out of the Music App 169 Rating a song 169 Browsing music with Cover Flow 170 Controlling music with Siri voice commands 171 Turning off the Shake to Shuffle feature 172 Answering an incoming call while listening to music on the headset 173 Listening to a Shared itunes Library 173 Using AirPlay to stream iphone audio 174 Getting More Out of the itunes App 175 Creating a custom itunes menu bar 175 Redeeming an itunes gift card 177 Creating a Custom Ringtone 177 Using itunes to create a custom ringtone 178 Using GarageBand to create a custom ringtone 179 Syncing ringtones 181 Working with Playlists 181 Creating a favorite tunes playlist for your iphone 182 Creating a playlist on your iphone 183 Creating a Genius playlist on your iphone 185 Customizing Your Audio Settings 186
chapter 8 How Do I Max Out the iphone Photo and Video Features? 188 Getting More Out of iphone Photos 190 Understanding the iphone camera features 190 Taking High Dynamic Range photos 192 Scrolling, rotating, zooming, and panning photos 194 Adding an existing photo to a contact 195 Taking a contact s photo 195 Enhancing a photo 197 Removing red-eye 197 Cropping and straightening 198 Sending a photo via e-mail 199 Texting a photo 200 Sending a photo to your Flickr account 201 Tweeting a photo 201 Saving a photo from a text message 202 Creating a custom photo slide show 202 Playing a slide show with background music 203 Creating a photo album 203 Deleting a photo 204 Getting More Out of iphone Video Features 205 Playing iphone videos on your TV 205 Streaming iphone video to Apple TV 206 Mirroring the iphone screen on your TV 207 Watching videos from a shared itunes library 207 Converting a video file to iphone format 208 Recording video with an iphone camera 209 Editing recorded video 210 Sending a video via e-mail 211 Texting a video 212 Uploading recorded video to YouTube 212 Customizing your iphone video settings 213 Editing Video with imovie for iphone 214 Creating a new imovie project 214 Opening a project for editing 214 Importing media into your project 215 Importing a video from an iphone camera 216 Importing existing video 216 Importing a photo from the camera 216 Importing an existing photo 217 Working with video clips 217 Moving a clip 217 Trimming a clip 217 Changing the transition between two clips 218 Adjusting a photo s Ken Burns effect 219 Adding a title to a clip 220 Removing a clip 220
Working with your project 220 Adding a music track 221 Changing the project theme 221 Naming your project 222 Exporting your project 223 chapter 9 How Can I Use My iphone to Manage Contacts and Appointments? 224 Managing Your Contacts 226 Creating a new contact 226 Editing an existing contact 227 Assigning phone numbers to a contact 227 Assigning e-mail addresses to a contact 228 Assigning web addresses to a contact 229 Assigning social network data to a contact 230 Assigning physical addresses to a contact 231 Creating a custom label 232 Adding extra fields to a contact 233 Keeping track of birthdays and anniversaries 234 Creating a new contact from an electronic business card 236 Managing contacts with Siri voice commands 237 Tracking Your Appointments 238 Adding an event to your calendar 238 Editing an existing event 240 Setting up a repeating event 241 Converting an event to an all-day event 242 Adding an alert to an event 243 Setting a birthday or anniversary alert 244 Controlling events with Siri voice commands 245 Displaying a list of your upcoming events 246 Handling Microsoft Exchange meeting requests 247 Subscribing to a calendar 248 Creating Reminders 250 Setting a reminder for a specific time 250 Setting a reminder for a specific location 251 Setting reminders with Siri voice commands 252
chapter 10 How Do I Use My iphone to Navigate My World? 254 chapter 11 How Do I Manage My ebook Library? 270 Finding Your Way with Maps and GPS 256 Viewing your destination 256 Displaying your current location 258 Displaying a map of a contact s location 259 Saving a location as a bookmark for easier access 259 Specifying a location when you don t know the exact address 261 Getting directions to a location 261 Showing alternate routes 263 Getting live traffic information 264 Controlling Maps with Siri voice commands 264 Configuring Location Services 265 Controlling app access to GPS 265 Enabling or disabling system location services 266 Sharing Map Data 267 Getting Your Bearings with the Compass App 268 Installing the ibooks App 272 Getting Your Head around ebook Formats 273 Syncing ebooks via icloud 275 Managing Your ibooks Library 276 Browsing books in the ibookstore 277 Adding a PDF attachment to your library 278 Working with collections 278 Adding other EPUB ebooks to your library 279 Editing the ibooks Bookshelf 280 Creating a custom ebook cover 281 Reading ebooks with the ibooks App 282 Controlling ebooks on the reading screen 282 Formatting ebook text 283 Adding a bookmark 284 Looking up a word in the dictionary 284 Highlighting text 285 Adding a note 285 Reading Other ebooks 286 Reading Magazines with Newsstand 287
chapter 12 How Do I Keep My Life in Sync with icloud? 288 chapter 13 How Do I Fix My iphone? 298 Understanding icloud 290 Understanding icloud Device Support 291 Configuring icloud on Your iphone 291 Setting up your icloud account on your iphone 292 Setting up icloud synchronization on your iphone 293 Configuring icloud on Your Mac 293 Setting up an icloud account on your Mac 293 Setting up icloud synchronization on your Mac 294 Configuring icloud on Your Windows PC 295 General Techniques for Troubleshooting Your iphone 300 Troubleshooting connected devices 301 Updating software 302 Restoring data and settings 303 Putting your iphone in Device Firmware Upgrade mode 305 Taking Care of the iphone Battery 306 Tracking battery use 306 Tips for extending battery life 307 Solving Specific Problems 309 Your battery won t charge 309 You have trouble accessing a Wi-Fi network 310 itunes doesn t see your iphone 311 itunes won t sync your iphone 312 You have trouble syncing music or videos 312 You can t get your iphone serial number 312 An app is taking up a large amount of space 314 Glossary 316 Index 320