Make the most of your iPhone with this witty, authoritative, full-color guide to iOS 14.
Apple has sold over 2.2 billion iPhones—but not one has come with a user guide. And with each annual update of iOS, Apple piles on more and more features; at this moment, the Settings app alone bristles with over 1,000 options.
In iPhone Unlocked, the #1 bestselling iPhone author David Pogue offers a curated guide to the essential and useful features of the new iPhone 12 family—and all other models that can run the iOS 14 software. A former New York Times tech columnist and bestselling how-to author, no one is better equipped than Pogue to offer expert instruction to this complicated iPhone.
With his trademark humor, crystal-clear prose, and 300 full-color illustrations, Pogue guides readers through everything in iOS 14: Home-screen widgets, the new App Library, the all-new Translate app, the redesigned Search, FaceTime, and calling screens, and much more. Whether you’re a new iPhone user or a seasoned veteran, iPhone Unlocked is a gorgeous, authoritative, all-in-one master class on all things iPhone.
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The very first iPhone, which Steve Jobs unveiled onstage in 2007, was a Model T by todayâs standards. There was so much it was missing! It didnât have a front camera, or a flash for the back camera. It couldnât shoot video. It couldnât cut, copy, or paste. It had no GPS. You couldnât send pictures as text messages. You couldnât dial by voice. There was no autocomplete or autocorrect. There was no app store, eitherâyou got 16 apps, and you were happy.
Technology has surged ahead since that day, and yet, incredibly, the essential layout of the iPhone hasnât changed much at all. It still has a multitouch screen on the front, earpiece at the top, camera on the back, microphone and charging connector at the bottom. The volume buttons and silencer switch are still in the same places on the left edge.
And you still have to recharge the thing pretty much every day.
Whether youâve got a shiny new (and shiny expensive) iPhone 12 Pro Max, or an iPhone 6s thatâs been soldiering on since 2015, the fundamental hardware design is the same.
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On, Off, and Asleep
When your iPhone comes from the factory, itâs turned off; Apple didnât want it to arrive with a dead battery.
You turn it on by pressing the side button for a few seconds. When the
logo appears, you can let go. It takes about 15 seconds for the full startup process to bring you to the lock screen, where youâre supposed to enter your password, supply your fingerprint, or use face recognition to unlock your iPhone.
NOTE: On the iPhone SE, the power button is on the top edge instead. And it has a different name: the top button.
That ecstatic moment of unboxing a new iPhone is one of the few times youâll ever arouse the iPhone from its fully off state. For the rest of its life, when youâre not actually looking at the iPhone, you arenât supposed to turn it off. Youâre supposed to put it to sleep.
To do that, just give the side button a quick click.
TIP: The iPhone also goes to sleep on its own if you ignore it long enough. You can specify how long that takes in SettingsâDisplay & BrightnessâAuto-Lock.
When the iPhone is asleep, the screen goes black and the machine uses very little power. But everything youâve been doing is still open in the phoneâs memory; all your apps are still running. Your music keeps playing, your audiobook keeps reading, your GPS keeps guiding you, your email keeps downloading.
Waking the phone once again doesnât take much. Just tapping the screen, pressing the home button (on the older models), or even picking up the phone brings the screen to life. (Technically, it brings up the lock screen; see page 34.)
The lesson here: When youâre finished using the phone for now, donât shut it down; put it to sleep. It costs you almost no battery power, and the phone will be immediately ready to go next time you need it.
That side button, by the way, has a thousand uses. Itâs involved in commanding Siri, taking screenshots, silencing an incoming call, and so on. But for your very first iPhone lesson, itâs enough to understand that you press it to put the phone to sleepâor to wake it up again.
NOTE: If you do need to turn the phone fully offâif, for example, you donât plan to use it for a weekâthe side button is involved with that process, too. Press the side button and the top volume buttonâdirectly across the screen from itâsimultaneously for a few seconds, until you see the message slide to power off. Do as it saysâswipe your finger across that slider; the phone is now fully off.
On the 2016 iPhone SE, you hold down the top button by itself for a few seconds.
The Left-Side Buttons
On the skinny left edge of the phone, three more buttons await your inspection. At top: the silencer switch.
Itâs a little flipper. When you use your fingernail or the pad of your thumb to click it toward the back of the phone, so a little patch of orange appears in the flipper socket, the phone will make no unbidden sounds. Youâll never be embarrassed by the phone ringing, a text-message chime, or some social-media notification. Thatâs probably what you want in a meeting, in a theater, or in a church. (Flip it forward, toward the screen, when you want to hear the rings, chirps, and chimes again.)
Note, by the way, that the silencer switch doesnât silence everything. It does not silence the following types of sounds:
Alarms. Even when youâve got the silencer on, your phone still rings for any alarms youâve set. Apple figures that if youâve gone to the trouble of setting an alarm, you really want to hear it. You wouldnât want to oversleep, now, would you?
Sounds you play. If you request a soundâif you play a video, listen to a podcast, play some music, play back a voicemail, start an audiobookâyouâll hear it, even if you have âsilencedâ the phone. Apple calculates that if youâve tapped a
button, you probably want to hear something.
Below the silencer switch are two other buttons: volume up and volume down. Mostly, of course, youâll use them to adjust the phoneâs speaker volume. But thereâs a little more nuance to them than that:
When youâre not on a call, they adjust the volume of sound effects: the phone-ringing sound, alarms, the voice of Siri, and so on.
NOTE: That statement is true as long as you havenât turned off SettingsâSounds & HapticsâChange with Buttons.
When a call comes in, press one of these buttons to make the ringing or vibrating stop.
When youâre on a call, these buttons control the speaker or earbud volume.
When youâre playing music or podcasts, they adjust the playback volume. They work even when the screen is off.
When youâre taking a photo or video, you can press one of these volume keys to snap the photo or start/stop the video.
The Screen
If Apple is going to design a computer thatâs all screen and no keys, it had better provide one amazing screen. And sure enough: Every year, the iPhone screen gets better, brighter, an...
Below the silencer switch are two other buttons: volume up and volume down. Mostly, of course, youâll use them to adjust the phoneâs speaker volume. But thereâs a little more nuance to them than that: