iPhone For Seniors For Dummies. Dwight Spivey
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IN THIS CHAPTER
See what you need to use iPhone
Turn on iPhone for the first time
Meet the multi-touch screen
Say hello to tap and swipe
Meet the App Library
Display and use the onscreen keyboard
Flick to search
I won’t kid you: You’re about to encounter a slight learning curve if you’re coming from a more basic cellphone (but if you’ve owned another smartphone, you’ve got a good head start). For example, your previous phone might not have had a Multi-Touch screen and onscreen keyboard.
The good news is that getting anything done on the iPhone is simple, once you know the ropes. In fact, using your fingers to do things is a very intuitive way to communicate with your computing device, which is just what iPhone is.
In this chapter, you turn on your iPhone, register it, and then take your first look at the Home screen. You also practice using the onscreen keyboard, see how to interact with the touchscreen in various ways, get pointers on working with cameras, and get an overview of built-in applications (more commonly referred to as “apps”).
Although the iPhone’s screen has been treated to repel oils, you’re about to deposit a ton of fingerprints on your iPhone — one downside of a touchscreen device. So you'll need to clean the screen. A soft cloth, like the microfiber cloth you might use to clean eyeglasses, is usually all you’ll need to clean things up. There's no need to use harsh chemicals.
What You Need to Use iPhone
You need to be able, at a minimum, to connect to the Internet to take advantage of most iPhone features, which you can do using a Wi-Fi network (a network that you set up in your own home through an Internet service provider or access in a public place such as a library) or a cellular data connection from your cellular provider. You might want to have a computer so that you can connect your iPhone to it to download photos, videos, music, or applications and transfer them to or from your iPhone through a process called syncing. (See Chapter 4 for more about syncing.) An Apple service called iCloud syncs content from all your Apple iOS devices (such as the iPhone or iPad), so anything you buy on your iPad that can be run on an iPhone, for example, will automatically be pushed (in other words, downloaded and installed) to your iPhone. In addition, you can sync without connecting a cable to a computer using a wireless Wi-Fi connection to your computer.
Your iPhone will probably arrive registered and activated, or if you buy 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 athttps://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.
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