conditions, and even the location of a nearby pizza joint. This app is among our favorites.
Weather: Monitors the six-day weather forecast for as many cities as you like.
Reminders: Integrates with Calendar, Outlook, and iCloud, so to-do items and reminders sync automatically with your other devices, both mobile and desktop. This app may be the only to-do list you’ll ever need. You’ll read much more about this great app and its shiny location-based reminders, but you have to wait until Chapter 7.
Notes: Enables you to type notes while you’re out and about. You can send the notes to yourself or anyone else through email or save them on your iPhone until you need them. Notes can be synced with your other devices via iCloud if you so desire and are easily shared with others.
Stocks: Monitors your favorite stocks, which are updated in near real-time.
News: Delivers the news you want to read in a beautiful, uncluttered format. You read more about News in Chapter 15.
Books (formerly iBooks): Enables you to purchase and read e-books.
App Store: Enables you to connect to and search the iTunes App Store for iPhone apps you can purchase or download for free over a Wi-Fi or cellular data network connection.
Podcasts: Manages podcasts on your iPhone.
TV: Stores your movies, TV shows, music videos, video podcasts, and some iTunes U courseware. It’s also a path to streamed programming available from myriad sources, including Comedy Central, HBO, and every major TV network.
Health: Gathers info from fitness devices and other health apps to provide a clear and current overview of your health on an easy-to-read dashboard.
Home: Controls HomeKit-compatible lights and appliances.
Wallet: Stores Apple Pay credit cards as well as gift cards, coupons, tickets, boarding passes, and other passes, all in a single convenient location.
Settings: Adjusts your iPhone’s settings. If you’re a Mac user, think System Preferences; if you’re a Windows person, think Control Panel.
The second Home screen
You probably won’t find the icons we’re about to describe on your Home screen — at least not on the first (main) one. These apps usually appear on the second Home screen (which you find out about in Chapter 2). If you just can’t wait to see them, swipe your finger across the screen from right to left and they’ll appear like magic.
Outside the Utilities folder
In addition to the Utilities folder, you find several additional icons on the second Home screen:
Files: Displays documents saved on your iPhone or saved in the cloud to iCloud, Dropbox, or several other cloud-based storage services.
Find My (formerly Find My iPhone and Find My Friends): Displays a map with the last known locations of your family’s iPhones and other Apple devices (assuming the feature was enabled on each misplaced device before it was misplaced). It can also display the locations of friends who have consented to being tracked by Find My.
Shortcuts: Create multistep shortcuts you can trigger with your voice.
iTunes Store: Accesses the iTunes Store, where you can browse, preview, and purchase songs, albums, movies, and more.
Translate: Introduced with iOS 14, this app provides a quick (and mostly accurate) translation of voice or text for 11 languages.
Contacts: Stores contact information, which can be synced with iCloud, macOS Contacts, Yahoo! Address Book, Google Contacts, and many more.
Watch: Manages features on your Apple Watch. It’s useless unless you have an Apple Watch.
Tips: Provides tips for using your iPhone and iOS 14.
Inside the Utilities folder
In the Utilities folder, you find these icons:
Voice Memos: Turns your iPhone into a convenient handheld recording device.
Compass: Adds a magnetic needle compass inside your iPhone, but better.
Measure: Measures things. To use this cool virtual reality-measuring tool, you just point it at an object and see its dimensions!
Calculator: Performs addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Give the phone a quarter turn, however, and you’ll find a nifty scientific calculator that does all that and much more.
App library and Home screen widgets
The dock (all Home screens)
Finally, four icons at the bottom of the Home screen are in a special area known as the dock. When you switch Home screens (see Chapter 2), all the icons above the dock change. The four items on the dock, which follow, remain available on all Home screens:
Phone: Lets you use the iPhone as a phone. What a concept!
Safari: Opens Safari, your web browser. If you’re a Mac user, you know that already. If you’re a Windows user, Safari is kinda like Internet Explorer only (much) better.
Messages: Exchanges text messages (SMS) and multimedia messages (MMS) with almost any other cellphone user. The app also lets you exchange Apple-exclusive iMessages with anyone using any Apple device with iOS 5 or higher (iDevice) or a Mac running Mountain Lion (macOS 10.8) or higher, as described in Chapter 6. We’ve used a lot of mobile phones in our day, and this app is as good as it gets.
Music: Unleashes all the audio power of an iPod right on your phone.
Last, but certainly not least: Although you couldn’t delete
