iPhone: The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box

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About This Book

Let’s be sincere: Apple is discovering it tougher to say ‘no’ to new options lately. iOS has turn out to be a really dense working system, with extra options than you possibly can grasp in years.

Then once more, the public might not care about simplicity the method it as soon as did. People who acquired their first smartphones as youngsters grew up together with iOS and Android – and advanced together with them – so the sheer complexity doesn’t hassle them a lot. It’s normally solely their mother and father who complain.

But by no means thoughts. iOS 11 is healthier, smarter, quicker, clearer, and extra refined than what got here earlier than. It takes tons of of steps ahead, and solely a few tiny steps again. That’s loads of tweaks, sharpening, and finesse – and loads to be taught. Fortunately, 650 pages of directions now await you.

You don’t get a printed handbook if you purchase an iPhone. Online, you’ll find an digital PDF handbook, nevertheless it’s largely freed from particulars, hacks, workarounds, tutorials, humor, and any acknowledgment of the iPhone’s flaws. You can’t simply mark your home, underline, or learn it in the lavatory. The goal of this book, then, is to function the handbook that should have accompanied the iPhone.

Note: If you have an iPhone 5 or an earlier mannequin, then you really want considered one of this book’s earlier editions. And in the event you do have an iPhone 5s or later mannequin, this book assumes that you’ve put in iOS 11.2 or later.

Outline of Topics Covered

iPhone: The Missing Manual is split into 5 elements, every containing a number of chapters:

Part One, The iPhone as Phone, covers all the things associated to telephone calls: Dialing, answering, voice management, voicemail, convention calling, textual content messaging, iMessages, MMS, and the Contacts (tackle book) program. It’s additionally the place you possibly can examine FaceTime, the iPhone’s video-calling characteristic; Siri, the voice-operated ‘digital assistant’; and the surprisingly wealthy array of options for folks with disabilities – a few of that are helpful even for folks with out them.

Part Two, Pix, Flix & Apps, is devoted to the iPhone’s built-in software program, with a particular emphasis on its multimedia talents: Playing music, podcasts, films, and TV reveals; taking and displaying images; capturing images and movies; utilizing the Maps app; studying ebooks; and so forth. These chapters additionally cowl a few of the commonplace methods that most apps share: Installing, organizing, and quitting them; switching amongst them; and sharing materials from inside them.

Part Three, The iPhone Online, is an in depth exploration of the iPhone’s means to get you onto the Internet, both over a Wi-Fi hotspot connection or through the mobile community. It’s all right here: Email, internet searching, and Personal Hotspot (letting your telephone function a type of Internet antenna in your laptop computer).

Part Four, Connections, describes the world past the iPhone itself – like the copy of iTunes in your Mac or PC that can replenish the iPhone with music, movies, and images; and syncing the calendar, tackle book, and mail settings. These chapters additionally cowl Apple’s iCloud service, Continuity (the wi-fi integration of iPhones and Macs), and the Settings app.

Part Five, Appendixes, accommodates two reference chapters. Appendix A walks you thru the setup course of; Appendix B is a grasp compendium of troubleshooting, upkeep, and battery data.

Missing Manuals are witty, well-written guides to laptop merchandise that don’t include printed manuals (which is nearly all of them). Each book encompasses a handcrafted index; cross-references to particular web page numbers; and an ironclad promise by no means to place an apostrophe in the possessive pronoun its.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1491999500
Publisher ‏ : ‎ O’Reilly Media; eleventh version (January 30, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 675 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781491999509
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491999509
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.32 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches