iPhone All-in-One For Dummies. Hutsko Joe

Insert the end of a paper clip into the hole on the SIM card tray on the right side of your iPhone.

      The SIM card tray pops open.

      2. Place the SIM card in the tray, matching the cut corner of the SIM card to the cut corner in the tray.

      3. Push the SIM card tray closed.

      

If you spend a lot of time overseas, you can purchase a prepaid SIM in that country, which you put in your iPhone when you’re there. (Check with your U.S. service provider to see if unlocking has to be performed stateside first.) When you’re in the United States, you put the U.S. – based SIM in your iPhone.

      Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button (at the top right of iPhone 4s or 5 models; at the top right of iPhone 6 models) to turn it on. When you turn on your iPhone for the first time, the Setup Assistant takes you through a series of screens where you type in the requested information or choose from a list and tap Next or Done. You have to have a Wi-Fi or cellular network data connection to complete activation. The Setup Assistant asks for the following information:

      ✔ Language: Tap your selection in the list.

      ✔ Country: Tap your selection in the list.

      ✔ Wi-Fi network: A list of available Wi-Fi networks appears. Tap the one you use and enter the password. If Wi-Fi is unavailable, you can skip this step and do it later, or you can connect you iPhone to your computer with the USB connector cable and choose Connect to iTunes.

      ✔ Location Services: We recommend that you choose Enable Location Services, which lets various iPhone apps such as Maps and Reminders use your location to better perform operations.

      ✔ Set Up iPhone: If this is your first iPhone, you can choose Set Up as New iPhone or you can restore from a backup of your iPad or iPod touch, which puts your apps, data, and media on your iPhone. If you’re moving from an older iPhone to a newer model, first back up your old phone and then choose Restore from iCloud Backup or Restore from iTunes Backup (whichever you use). Learn all the details of syncing, restoring, and using iCloud in Book I, Chapter 5.

      ✔ Sign in or create an Apple ID: Although you can choose to skip this step, your Apple ID lets you

      • Store your iPhone backup on iCloud, Apple’s remote storage site.

      • Make purchases from the iTunes Store and the App Store.

      • Sign in to FaceTime.

      • Sync documents, calendars, notes, reminders, passwords, and more automatically across your iOS devices.

      You can have separate Apple IDs for iTunes and iCloud, but you need to follow the onscreen instructions to sign in to both. iCloud requires ID with an email format, such as [email protected], so you may have to create a new account to activate iCloud. The Setup Assistant asks you to create an ID and password and set up three security questions – questions only you know the answer to that Apple asks if you forget your password or if you call for customer service and the technician wants to verify your identity.

      

If you don’t have an Apple ID and aren’t sure what we’re talking about, skip this step and go to Book I, Chapter 4, where we explain how to create and use an Apple ID in more detail.

      ✔ Set Up Touch ID (only on models with this function): Tap Set Up Now to go through the process that allows an iPhone 5s, 6, or 6 Plus to memorize your fingerprint. (Tap Set Up Later if you prefer to postpone this action; we show you how in Book I, Chapter 4.) After setting up Touch ID, touching the Home button unlocks your iPhone and can also be used in place of your Apple ID password to authorize purchases.

      ✔ iTunes Store Sign in: Type your Apple ID and password and agree to the Terms and Conditions when asked.

      ✔ iCloud Setup: You can choose to use iCloud or decline and then set up iCloud later, as explained in Book I, Chapter 5.

      ✔ Messaging: Choose which phone number and email address other people can use to reach you on iMessage, iPhone’s text messaging service, and FaceTime, iPhone’s audio and video calling service. Both can use cellular data or Wi-Fi.

      ✔ Diagnostics: We recommend you choose Automatically Send. Tap Start Using iPhone after you complete the setup procedure.

Turning iPhone On and Off

      When you bought your iPhone, the salesperson probably showed you a few basic tasks, such as turning your iPhone on and off. For good measure, we review it here in our review of the iPhone’s external buttons. But first, throughout the book we use a few terms regarding your iPhone’s state of consciousness, or modes, that warrant an explanation because they could be a bit confusing:

      ✔ Sleep: Your iPhone is asleep when it’s on but the screen is dark. It can receive incoming calls, email, messages, and notifications, which push it into Wake mode.

      ✔ Wake: Your iPhone screen displays something, which could be the Lock screen (Figure 2-1) or the Home screen (Figure 2-2) or an app screen. It can receive incoming communications.

      ✔ Locked (or Lock screen): Your iPhone is awake, but you only see an image with some basic information (explained later in this chapter). You can open the Notification Center or the Control Center (Book I, Chapter 4) or slide the Camera icon up to use the camera, but you have to slide your finger across the screen or across a notification to go into Unlocked mode.

      ✔ Unlocked: Your screen is awake and active. You see either the Home screen or an app screen and interact with them with all the touchscreen gestures we explain in Book I, Chapter 3.

      Your iPhone is on in all four modes and in combination may be in Sleep/Locked mode, Wake/Locked mode, or Wake/Unlocked mode (but not Sleep/Unlocked).

      Figure 2-1: The Lock screen appears when you first wake your phone from its Sleep state.

      The Home button is found in the same place on all iPhone models. You find the Sleep/Wake button on the top of iPhone 5 and earlier models and on the right side of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. When you press and hold it, it turns iPhone on or off, and when you press and release it, it either wakes iPhone (and you see the Lock screen) or puts iPhone to sleep. Here are the specifics for those actions:

      ✔ To turn iPhone on: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button. The Apple logo appears in the center of the screen. After 30 seconds or so, the Lock screen appears (refer to Figure 2-1). Depending on whether you set a passcode, you see one of the following:

      • With Passcode: Drag your finger across the screen and then, on the keypad that appears (a keyboard if you used a complex passcode), tap the passcode you assigned during setup. After you enter the correct passcode, the last Home or app screen you were using appears.

      • Even if you have an iPhone with Touch ID, when you turn your iPhone on, you have to use your passcode.

      • Without Passcode: Drag your finger from left to right across the screen and the Home screen (or the last app you were using) opens.

      • If you have a SIM card, with a personal identification number (PIN), a message comes up with two buttons: OK and Unlock. Tap the right button to open a keypad where you enter the PIN of your SIM card to unlock it. Tap the left OK button, and you can use iPhone apps but