iPhone For Seniors For Dummies. Dwight Spivey

app offers.For example, Figure 2-9 shows the Instagram quick actions menu, which offers some options that aren’t available in the Camera app’s quick actions menu.

      6 To remove an app from your Home screen (leaving it in App Library) or delete it from your iPhone, press and hold down on an app’s icon on the Home screen until the quick actions menu appears. Tap Remove App and then tap one of the selections shown in Figure 2-10. Tap Delete App to delete the app from your iPhone altogether, or tap Remove from Home Screen to remove the app from the Home screen but retain it in App Library.FIGURE 2-9FIGURE 2-10

      7 To hide an entire Home screen, press and hold down on any area on a Home screen until all the icons begin to jiggle. Tap one of the small white dots just above the dock to view thumbnails of each of your Home screens, as shown in Figure 2-11. Tap the circle below a Home screen to hide or display it. (A visible Home screen displays a check mark in the circle.) Tap Done when you’re finished.The Home screen remains in App Library, and you can display it again later.

       FIGURE 2-11

Display and Use the Onscreen Keyboard

      The built-in iPhone keyboard appears whenever you’re in a text-entry location, such as a search field or a text message. Follow these steps to display and use the keyboard:

      1 Tap the Notes icon on the Home screen to open the Notes app.

      2 Open a note you want to work in:Tap the New Note icon in the lower-right to create a new note.If you’ve already created some notes, tap one to display the page, and then tap anywhere on the note.

      3 Type a few words using the keyboard, as shown in Figure 2-12.FIGURE 2-12 To make the keyboard display as wide as possible, rotate your iPhone to landscape (horizontal) orientation. (If you’ve locked the screen orientation, you have to unlock the screen to do this.) QuickType provides suggestions above the keyboard as you type. You can turn this feature off or on by tapping and holding down on either the emoji icon (smiley face) or the international icon (globe) on the keyboard to display a menu. Tap Keyboard Settings and then toggle the Predictive switch to turn the feature off or on (green). To quickly return to Notes from Keyboard Settings, tap Notes in the upper-left corner of your screen.

      Keyboard shortcuts

      After you open the keyboard, you're ready to use it for editing text. A number of shortcuts for editing text are available:

       If you make a mistake while using the keyboard — and you will, especially when you first use it — tap the delete key to delete text to the left of the insertion point. (The delete key is near the bottom right, with an x on it.) To type a period and space, just double-tap the spacebar.

       To create a new paragraph, tap the Return key (just like the keyboard on a Mac, or the Enter key on a PC’s keyboard).

       To type numbers and symbols, tap the number key (labeled 123) on the left side of the spacebar (refer to Figure 2-12). The characters on the keyboard change (see Figure 2-13).FIGURE 2-13If you type a number and then tap the spacebar, the keyboard returns to the letter keyboard automatically. To return to the letter keyboard tap the ABC key on the left side of the spacebar.

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

      The Shift key

      Use the shift key (upward-facing arrow in the lower-left corner of the keyboard) to type capital letters:

       Tapping shift once capitalizes only the next letter you type.

       Double-tap (rapidly tap twice) the shift key to turn on the caps lock feature so that all letters you type are capitalized until you turn the feature off. Tap the shift key once to turn off caps lock.You can control whether caps lock is enabled by opening the Settings app, tapping General, tapping Keyboard, and then toggling the switch called Enable Caps Lock.

       To type a variation on a symbol or letter (for example, to see alternative presentations for the letter A when you press the A key on the keyboard), hold down on the key; a set of alternative letters or symbols appears (see Figure 2-14).

       FIGURE 2-14

      Emojis

      Tap the smiley-faced emoji key to display the emoji keyboard, which contains illustrations that you can insert, including numerical, symbol, and arrow keys, as well as a row of symbol sets along the bottom of the screen. Tapping one of these displays a portfolio of icons from smiley faces and hearts to pumpkins, cats, and more. Tap the ABC key to close the emoji keyboard and return to the letter keyboard.

      

If you’ve enabled multilanguage functionality in iPhone Settings, a small globe symbol will appear instead of the emoji key on the keyboard.

      QuickPath

QuickPath allows you to zip your finger from key to key to quickly spell words without lifting your finger from the screen. For example, as shown in Figure 2-15, spell the word path by touching p on the keyboard, and then quickly moving to a and then t and then h. Tada! You’ve spelled path without your finger leaving the screen.

       FIGURE 2-15

Flick to Search

      The Search feature in iOS helps you find suggestions from the web, Music, iTunes, and the App Store as well as suggestions for nearby locations and more. Here's how to use Search:

      1 Swipe down on any Home screen (but not from the very top of the screen) to reveal the Search feature (see Figure 2-16).

      2 Begin entering a search term.In the example in Figure 2-17, after I typed the word carpe, the Search feature displayed links and other search results. As you continue to type a search term or phrase, the results narrow to match it.

      3 Scroll down to view more results.

      4 Tap an item in the search results to open it in its appropriate app or player.

       FIGURE 2-16