iPhone For Seniors For Dummies. Dwight Spivey

it in a store, the person helping you can usually handle that procedure.

For an iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, X, XR, XS, XS Max, 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max, 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, and 12 Pro Max, Apple recommends that you have

       A Mac or PC with a USB 2.0 or 3.0 port and one of these operating systems:macOS version 10.11.6 (El Capitan) or newerWindows 7 or newer

       iTunes 12.8 or newer on a Mac running macOS El Capitan (10.11.6) through macOS Mojave (10.14.6), the Finder on Mac’s running macOS Catalina (10.15), and iTunes 12.10.10 or newer on a PC, available at www.itunes.com/download

       An Apple ID

       Internet access

Turn On iPhone for the First Time

      The first time you turn on your iPhone, it will probably have been activated and registered by your cellular carrier or Apple, depending on whom you’ve bought it from. Follow these steps:

      1 Press and hold the Side button (found a little bit below the top of the upper-right side of newer iPhone models) or the Top button (for iPhone SE (1st generation) and earlier models) until the Apple logo appears. In another moment, a series of screens appears, asking you to enter your Apple ID username and password.

      2 Enter your Apple ID. If you don’t have an Apple ID, you can follow the instructions to create one.

      3 Follow the series of prompts to set up initial options for your iPhone. You can make choices about your language and location, using iCloud (Apple’s online sharing service), whether to use a passcode, connecting with a network, and so on.

You can choose to have personal items transferred to your iPhone from your computer when you sync the two devices using iTunes, including music, videos, downloaded apps, audiobooks, e-books, podcasts, and browser bookmarks. Contacts and Calendars are downloaded via iCloud, or (if you’re moving to iPhone from an Android phone) you can download an app from the Google Play Store called Move to iOS (developed by Apple) to copy your current Android settings to your iPhone (Apple provides more information about migrating from Android to iOS at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201196). You can also transfer to your computer any content you download directly to your iPhone by using iTunes, the App Store, or non-Apple stores. See Chapters 14 and 16 for more about these features.

Meet the Multi-Touch Screen

When the iPhone Home screen appears (see Figure 2-1), you see a colorful background and two sets of icons.

       FIGURE 2-1

One set of icons appears in the Dock, along the bottom of the screen. The Dock contains the Phone, Safari, Messages, and Music app icons by default, though you can swap out one app for another. You can add new apps to populate as many as 10 additional Home screens for a total of 11 Home screens. The Dock appears on every Home screen.

      Other icons appear above the Dock and are closer to the top of the screen. (I cover all these icons in the “Take Inventory of Preinstalled Apps” task, in Chapter 3.) Different icons appear in this area on each Home screen. You can also nest apps in folders, which almost gives you the possibility of storing limitless apps on your iPhone. You are, in fact, limited — but only by your phone’s memory.

      

Treat the iPhone screen carefully. It’s made of glass and it will break if an unreasonable amount of force is applied.

      The iPhone uses touchscreen technology: When you swipe your finger across the screen or tap it, you’re providing input to the device just as you do to a computer using a mouse or keyboard. You hear more about the touchscreen in the next task, but for now, go ahead and play with it for a few minutes — really, you can’t hurt anything. Use the pads of your fingertips (not your fingernails) and try these tasks:

       Tap the Settings icon. The various settings (which you read more about throughout this book) appear, as shown in Figure 2-2. To return to the Home screen, press the Home button for many iPhone models. If you have an iPhone without a Home button, swipe up from the very bottom edge of your screen.

       Swipe a finger from right to left on the Home screen. This action moves you to the next Home screen. The little white dots at the bottom of the screen, above the Dock icons, indicate which Home screen is displayed.

       To experience the screen rotation feature, hold the iPhone firmly while turning it sideways. The screen flips to the horizontal (or landscape) orientation, if the app you’re in supports it.FIGURE 2-2To flip the screen back, just turn the device so that it’s oriented like a piece of paper again (this is called portrait mode). (Some apps force iPhone to stay in one orientation or the other.)

       Drag your finger down from the very top edge of the screen to reveal such items as notifications, reminders, and calendar entries. Drag up from the very bottom edge of the Home screen to hide these items, and then drag up on iPhone models with Home buttons to display Control Center (containing commonly used controls and tools and discussed later in this chapter). If your iPhone doesn’t have a Home button, swipe down from the top right corner of the screen towards the center to open Control Center.

DISCOVER HAPTIC TOUCH AND QUICK ACTIONS

      Haptic Touch uses your iPhone’s built-in Taptic Engine to provide haptic feedback when you touch-and-hold an area or item on your iPhone’s screen. For example, if you touch-and-hold an icon on the Home screen, a menu of options and tasks will appear, and you’ll also feel a tap from your iPhone. Another of my favorite examples of Haptic Touch is when you press the Flashlight icon in the lower-right of the Lock screen. This action causes the flash on the back of your iPhone to turn on or off, and the haptic feedback feels almost like pressing the button on an actual flashlight.

Quick Actions involve pressing an icon on the screen to see items you’re likely to want to select. For example, if you press (rather than tap) the Phone icon, you’ll get a shortcut list of commonly called contacts and several other call-related options, as shown in Figure 2-3. If you press the Maps app, you see a list of places you often go, such as your home, to quickly display a map of that location. Quick Actions provide a shortcut menu to your most frequently used items, saving you time and effort.

       FIGURE 2-3

Say Hello to Tap and Swipe

      You can use several methods for getting around and getting things done in iPhone using its Multi-Touch screen, including

       Tap once. To open an application on the Home screen, choose