What You Need to Use the iPhone
At a minimum, you need to be able 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 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 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 by using a wireless Wi-Fi connection to your computer.
Your iPhone will probably arrive registered and activated. If you bought it in a store, the person helping you can usually handle those tasks.
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, 12 Pro Max, 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro, and 13 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), Finder on Mac’s running macOS Catalina (10.15) and newer, 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 down the side button (found a little bit below the top of the upper-right side of newer iPhone models) or the top button (on the first-generation iPhone SE and earlier models) until the Apple logo appears.A screen appears, asking you to enter your Apple ID.
2 Enter your Apple ID.If you don’t have an Apple ID, 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.
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, you see a colorful background and two sets of icons, as shown in Figure 2-1.
One set of icons appears on the dock, which is 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. (I cover all these icons in Chapter 3.) Different icons appear in this area on each Home screen. You can also nest apps in folders, which gives you the ability to store even more apps on your iPhone, depending on your phone's memory.
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 by using a mouse or keyboard. You hear more about the touchscreen in the next task, but for now, go ahead and play with it — really, you can’t hurt anything. Use the pads of your fingertips (not your fingernails) and try the following:
Tap the Settings icon. The various settings appear, as shown in Figure 2-2. (You read more about these settings throughout this book.) To return to the Home screen, press the Home button or, 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.To flip the screen back, just turn the device so that it’s short side is up again (portrait mode). Some apps force iPhone to stay in one orientation or the other.FIGURE 2-2
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. Then drag up (iPhones with a Home button) or swipe down from the top-right corner to the center (iPhone without a Home button) to display Control Center, which contains commonly used controls and tools.
DISCOVER HAPTIC TOUCH AND QUICK ACTIONS
Haptic touch uses your iPhone’s built-in taptic engine to provide haptic (or touch) feedback when you press and hold down on an area or item on your iPhone’s screen. For example, if you press and hold down on 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 and hold down on 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 and holding down on an icon on the screen to see items you’re likely to want to select. For example, if you press and hold down on (rather than tap) the Phone icon, you’ll get a shortcut list of several call-related options, as