iPhone For Seniors For Dummies. Dwight Spivey

a shortcut menu to your most frequently used items, saving you time and effort.

Say Hello to Tap and Swipe

      You can use several methods for getting around and getting things done in iPhone by using its multi-touch screen, including

       Tap once. To open an application on the Home screen, choose a field (such as a search box), choose an item in a list, use an arrow to move back or forward one screen, or follow an online link, tap the item once with your finger.

       Tap twice. Use this method to enlarge or reduce the display of a web page (see Chapter 12 for more on using the Safari web browser) or to zoom in or out in the Maps app.

       Pinch. As an alternative to the tap-twice method, you can pinch your fingers together or move them apart on the screen (see Figure 2-3) when you’re looking at photos, maps, web pages, or email messages to quickly reduce or enlarge them, respectively. This method allows you to grow or contract the screen to a variety of sizes rather than a fixed size, as with the double-tap method. Use a three-finger tap to zoom your screen even larger or use multitasking gestures to swipe with four or five fingers. This method is handy if you have vision challenges. Go to Chapter 10 to discover how to turn on this feature using Accessibility settings.

       Drag to scroll (known as swiping). When you touch your finger to the screen and drag to the right or left, the screen moves (see Figure 2-4). Swiping to the left on the Home screen, for example, moves you to the next Home screen. Swiping up while reading an online newspaper moves you down the page; swiping down moves you back up the page.

       Flick. To scroll more quickly on a page, quickly flick your finger on the screen in the direction you want to move.

       Tap the status bar. To move quickly to the top of a list, a web page, or an email message, tap the status bar at the top of the iPhone screen. (For some sites, you have to tap twice to get this to work.)

       Press and hold down. If you’re using Notes or Mail or any other application that lets you select text, or if you’re on a web page, pressing and holding down on text selects a word and displays editing tools that you can use to select, cut, or copy and paste the text.

      

When you rock your phone backward or forward, the background moves as well (a feature called parallax). You can disable this feature if it makes you seasick. From the Home screen, tap Settings ⇒ Accessibility ⇒ Motion and then turn on the Reduce Motion setting by tapping the toggle switch (it turns green when the option is enabled).

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Your iPhone enables you to perform bezel gestures, which involve sliding left to right from the very outer edge of the phone on the glass to go backward and sliding right to left to go forward in certain apps.

      You can try these methods now:

       Tap the Safari icon on the dock at the bottom of any iPhone Home screen to display the Safari web browser.

       Tap a link to move to another page.

       Double-tap the page to enlarge it; then pinch your fingers together on the screen to reduce its size.

       Drag one finger up and down the page to scroll.

       Flick your finger quickly up or down on the page to scroll more quickly.

       Press and hold down your finger on a word that isn’t a link. (Links take you to another location on the web.) The word is selected, and the tools shown in Figure 2-5 are displayed. (You can use this tool to either get a definition of a word or copy it.)

       Press and hold down your finger on a link or an image. A menu appears (shown in Figure 2-6) with commands that you select to open the link or picture, open it in a new tab, open it in a tab group, download a linked file, add it to your reading list (see Chapter 12), copy it, or share it. If you press and hold down on an image, the menu also offers the Add to Photos command. Tap outside the menu to close it without making a selection.

       Position your fingers slightly apart on the screen and then pinch your fingers together to reduce the page. With your fingers already pinched together on the screen, move them apart to enlarge the page.

       Press the Home button or swipe up from the bottom of the screen (iPhone without a Home button) to go back to the Home screen.

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Introducing App Library

      App Library is an organizational tool that houses every app on your iPhone and organizes them automatically according to categories (defined by Apple). This allows you to hide apps from your Home screens, reducing the number of them you have to scroll through to find an app. You can even hide entire Home screens too! And if you want to display the apps or Home screens again, it’s simple to do so. Follow these steps to get around in App Library:

      1 Swipe from right to left on any Home screen until the App Library screen appears.App Library (shown in Figure 2-7) always resides on the screen immediately following the last Home screen.App Library organizes apps according to categories, such as Suggestions, Recently Added, and Social. Note that each category displays three larger app icons and four smaller app icons, with the exception of Suggestions, which displays four larger icons.

      2 Tap one of the large apps to open it. When finished, press the Home button (or for iPhones without a Home button, swipe up on the screen) to exit the app and return to the App Library screen.

      3 Tap one of the smaller apps to expand the category, and then tap the app you want to open. Tap near the top or bottom of the screen when viewing an expanded category to return to the App Library’s main screen.

      4 Tap the search field at the top of App Library to see all apps listed alphabetically, as shown in Figure 2-8. To find a specific app, type its name using the keyboard.FIGURE 2-7FIGURE 2-8

      5 To perform a quick action on an app icon in App Library, press and hold down on an app icon to open the quick actions menu, the contents of which