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The Ultimate iPhone 6s Handbook | Contents
Contents Essentials
Core Apps
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Get to know your iPhone 6s Make the most of 3D Touch 36 things you can do in iOS 9 Using the Lock Screen Master the Home button Find your way around iOS Using Touch ID Your Apple ID Using Control Centre Using Notification Centre Master iPhone 6s Settings Restrict iPhone usage Using the iPhone keyboard QuickType word suggestions Improve autocorrect Express yourself with emoji Using your iPhone as a phone Get more at the App Store iPhone and the Apple Watch
Read and send email The Contacts app Using the Calendar app Manage conversations Video calls with FaceTime Surf the Internet with Safari Extensions in Safari How to use the News app Using Reminders Master the Maps app Introducing Apple Music Enjoy video on your iPhone Buy music and video Wake up with the alarm clock Create useful Notes Using the iCloud Drive app Get started with Apple Pay
Next Steps 92 94 96 98 100 102 104 106 108
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Using Siri Voice Control Do more with Siri Add family relationships to Siri Search with Spotlight Declutter your Home Screen Free up some space The basics of iCloud Setting up iCloud Keychain When to use iCloud.com
112 The world’s most popular camera 114 Photography tips and tricks 116 The Camera app in iOS 9 118 The Camera app in-depth 120 Get to know the Photos app 122 Store your snaps in the cloud 126 Editing your photos 128 Record a time-lapse video 130 Video editing in iMovie
Get productive 158 160 161 162 164 166 168 170 173 176
Improve your health Listen to podcasts Move voice memos to Mac Read ebooks and PDFs Reclaim iPhone space Push iOS notifications away Automate tasks in Workflow Using Pages on iPhone Using Keynote Using Numbers on iPhone
Advanced 134 136 138 140 142 144 146 148 150 154 155
Be more mobile with Handoff Get other devices online Call and message forwarding Use Bluetooth accessories Share music, books and apps Share with AirDrop Print from your iPhone Stream music and video Hands on with CarPlay Maximise battery life Troubleshooting your iPhone
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Photography & Video
Essentials | Introducing the iPhone 6s
Essentials | Introducing the iPhone 6s
Get to know your iPhone 6s Your at-a-glance guide to the iPhone 6s design
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Ambient light sensor
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This enables your iPhone 6s to dim or brighten the screen to match lighting conditions. This sensor is present in all models, but has moved position since the iPhone 5s.
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Home button
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FaceTime camera
All iPhone models have both front- and rear-facing cameras. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus now feature a 5-megapixel FaceTime HD camera, which is perfect for shooting selfies, 720p HD videos and for making video calls between iOS devices using the FaceTime app. 2
Receiver/microphone
The front microphone is actually one of three mics on the iPhone 6s, for optimal call quality.
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SIM card tray
To open this, push a paperclip or the small metal prod supplied into the hole on the side of the phone. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus use the tiny Nano-SIM found in the previous iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models.
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Wi-Fi/3G/4G/Bluetooth Every iOS device has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth; iPhones also have 3G mobile connectivity, or 4G where available (though your phone service provider might charge extra for 4G). 4
Sensors
You’ve always been able to control iOS devices by touching the display with one or more fingers. Now the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus enable you to feel your way as well with 3D Touch. Full details on page 12. 5
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All iPhone models have a three-axis gyroscope and an accelerometer to detect movement (great for gaming, as well as rotating the display when you turn the device on its side) – plus a proximity sensor, so it knows when it’s being held up against your ear and turns off the screen. The iPhone 6s also has a motion coprocessor chip (M9) for handling motion data more efficiently. The M9 coprocessor measures data from the iPhone 6s’ accelerometer, compass, gyroscope and barometer. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus now have capacitive sensors built into the backlight behind the Retina HD display. These enable the iPhone to register presses as well as taps and swipes, giving you a new way to use it with 3D Touch. See page 12 for details. 9
3D Touch screen
Press and hold this button to start up your iPhone. Press briefly to send it to sleep, saving battery life and preventing accidental screen touches when playing music etc, or to wake it again. To turn your iPhone off, press and hold this button, then swipe the on-screen slider from left to right to power off.
Every iOS device has a Home button to take you back to the Home screen at any time. Doublepressing the Home button brings up the multitasking view for quickly swapping between apps (see page 24); holding it down activates Siri, your voice-controlled virtual assistant (see page 92). The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus also include a new and improved Touch ID fingerprint sensor making it quicker and easier than ever to unlock your iPhone, pay for apps and other contents from iTunes and authorise Apple Pay purchases without entering a passcode. 7
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Mute switch
On the iPhone, this is a simple mute switch to silence the ringer and alert sounds. It does not silence clock alarms, audio apps such as Music, or games. (On an iPad, it can also be used to lock the orientation of the screen, so it doesn’t rotate when you tilt the device. On an iPhone there’s an orientation lock icon in Control Centre only – see page 30.)
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Volume buttons
The iPhone’s volume buttons mirror the current generation of iPads. Pressing these physical controls on the iPhone’s side when on the Home Screen changes the ringer volume. When you’re in a game, playing music or making a call, using them alters the speakers’ or headphones’ volume level. In the Camera app, press either to take a photo or start recording a video. 11
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iSight camera
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus camera features a new 12 megapixel image sensor as well as an f/2.2 aperture for speedier, brighter shots. Apple has also ramped up the camera’s image processing capabilities. Once again the sensor has pixels at 1.5µ, which affects the amount of light received, and thus the overall detail in the image. The camera is now capable of shooting 4K Ultra HD video as well as shooting 8MP stills and 4K video at the same time. 12
Rear microphone
The iPhone 6s has a third 13 microphone to improve audio quality when making calls, with extra noise-cancelling technology to reduce background noise.
the iPhone 5. As normal, Apple supplies its own branded earphones in the box with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.
the 4S. Plug it into the mains using the supplied cable and adaptor for charging, or connect to a computer’s USB port for syncing and charging your iPhone.
Bottom microphones
Present on all iPhone models. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have two microphones located between the headphone jack and mono speaker. 16
Speaker
iPhones output stereo sound through the headphone jack, but there’s only a single loudspeaker. 18
Dock connector
Both the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have the Lightning connector which has been standard since the iPhone 5. The Lightning connector can be plugged in either way up and is smaller than the 30-pin connector in older models such as 17
Flash
The iPhone 5s introduced a ‘True Tone’ flash, with an amber LED in addition to a white one, which adjusts the colour of the flash according to the lighting conditions in order to capture more accurate colours. The iPhone 6s’ True Tone flash features a new rounded design. 14
Headphone jack
The 3.5mm stereo headphone jack appears on all models, and moved from the top to the bottom on 15
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Introducing the iPhone 6s | Essentials
Essentials | Restrictions & parental controls
Essentials | Restrictions & parental controls
Restrict iPhone usage Ensure you breathe easy when your children are using your iPhone… hether you’re lending your iPhone to your children or setting up an iPhone of their own, you need to be sure that they’ll be safe using it. Particularly if they’re tech-savvy older children, you might want to ensure they won’t be visiting inappropriate websites, installing and playing unsuitable games, or running up huge bills buying extras as In-App Purchases (IAPs). The box below explains how IAPs work. On several occasions since early 2013, Apple has agreed to refund millions of dollars to parents who discovered that their children had made purchases without their permission, but don’t assume you’ll just get your money back if your kids splash out on IAPs – the onus is on you to keep an eye on how your own phone is being used, and if you find any transactions you do want to disown, you’ll have to prove that those purchases were made without your knowledge and consent.
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Keep them safe The simplest and safest option is therefore often to disable IAPs entirely, which is easily done using your iPhone’s Restrictions options. You’ll find these by opening the Settings app and tapping General > Restrictions. As you’ll see opposite, these include the options to disallow access to a range of apps one by one and even to block internet access completely by blocking Safari (or any other browser apps you might have installed). This last option, however, won’t always be suitable, for example where the children involved are older or will need to use the
Setting up Restrictions is very easy, and you can tailor limitations for individual apps, prevent IAPs, and more.
iPhone to find information online. The alternative can be to set age-rating-based restrictions, which can apply to apps, web sites or content of various sorts – we’ll show you how. It’s important to note that it’s not possible to set up multiple ‘user accounts’ on one iPhone and switch between them, as you can on your Mac or PC: any restrictions will apply globally on that device until you change them (although we’ll show you how to ensure that only you can change them).
Make an allowance It is, however, possible to set up a separate App Store account for a child (aged 13 or over) and either set an allowance for this account or stop it downloading paid apps at all. This gives your kids a certain degree of independence and might be ideal if you’re setting up an iPhone for them to use on their own but want to prevent unexpected bills. See page 29 for how to set up a separate account like this. Again, though, note that you can’t swap between accounts: once you’ve logged in, you can’t change to another App Store account on the same device for 90 days. If you want your kids to have a paid-for app once you’ve set up an Apple ID for them, you can gift the app from another Apple ID. First sign in to the App Store with your own ID (ideally using another device, bearing in mind the 90-days rule). Now find the app, tap the Share button, then tap Gift and enter the email address of the children’s account. To set them an allowance, scroll down to the foot of the main Featured page in the Store, tap Send Gift, enter their email address and choose a value.
What are In-App Purchases? Simply put, an In-App Purchase (IAP) is any extra bundle of content or features that you can buy within an app, as distinct from in the App Store itself. IAPs are widely used to unlock added features, or to buy real or virtual goods. In games, for example, you might have to pay to unlock levels, acquire extra lives or power-ups, and so on. Some free apps turn out to be sparse samplers or
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more-or-less empty ‘containers’, requiring you to pay for the actual content. This is not to say that there’s anything inherently bad about IAPs – they can be a perfectly fair and reasonable way to offer you extra content or options that you might not need or want to pay for up-front, such as additional languages in a languagelearning app, for example. The catch is that
you’re spending real money, which might not be immediately obvious, particularly to young children or in the context of a game. As the US Federal Trade Commission noted, one person’s daughter spent $2,600 in the app Tap Pet Hotel and ‘other consumers reported unauthorized purchases by [their] children totaling more than $500 in the apps Dragon Story and Tiny Zoo Friends.’
HOW TO | Set up Restrictions in ios 9
1 Enable Restrictions
To access your iPhone’s parental controls, tap Settings > General > Restrictions, then tap Enable Restrictions. You’ll now be asked to set a Restrictions passcode, which you’ll need to enter if you want to make any changes to the restrictions later. Make sure it is NOT the same as the passcode you use to switch on or wake your iPhone – that’s the first thing your children will be likely to try!
2 Allow or disallow apps
You can now disable key apps and features, including Safari, Camera, Siri, FaceTime, AirDrop and CarPlay. You can also opt to block the three stores: you can disallow iTunes and the iBook Store by name; to block the App Store, disable Installing Apps. There are separate switches to prevent users deleting apps or making In-App Purchases, so you can disable exactly the combination of features you want. Set a switch to off and the relevant app will immediately vanish from the Home screen.
3 Set age rating limits
In the Allowed Content section you can set agerelated limits for different types of content on your iPhone, including apps. Every app has a rating – to find it, search for the app in the App Store, tap its icon and scroll down to the Information section. Limiting apps by age rating will hide those rated for older users from your Home screen, and also prevent users from downloading them from the App Store (though they’ll still show up in search results).
4 Require password immediately By default, when you buy an item in the App Store or via IAP, you can buy more without re-entering your password for 15 minutes. But if you buy something for your kids and then hand them the device, this means they have 15 minutes of free rein on your account. To prevent this, tap Password Settings and change the option from Require After 15 minutes to Always Require – now the password must be entered for every purchase, no matter how recently the last one was authorised.
You can specify age ratings for apps, sites and different content, such as explicit lyrics in music.
You can specify which apps can be privy to your whereabouts in Location Services.
covered elsewhere. If you tap Don’t Allow Changes in any category, apps and users won’t be able to add, modify or delete accounts or modify iCloud settings in that category.
7 Game Center options
The final set of Restrictions relate to Game Center, your iPhone’s social hub for games. Switch Multiplayer Games off and users won’t be able to request a match, send or receive invitations to play games, or add friends in Game Center. Switch Adding Friends off and they can’t make or receive friend requests in Game Center – but if Multiplayer Games is on, they can continue to play with existing friends.
5 Privacy options
Under the Privacy section, you can prevent apps from accessing your location, contacts, calendars, reminders, Twitter and Facebook information, or sharing data over Bluetooth. Tap Location Services, for example, to see a list of apps that have requested use of that service. If you want your kids to be able to find their location in Maps, say, set Maps to on but other apps to off. Then tap Don’t Allow Changes to lock these settings in place. Note that Don’t Allow Changes does not act as a blanket ‘disable’ switch; it just prevents users and apps from altering the settings you’ve made. Be aware too that some apps may already have imported and stored your contacts, so they might still show up in that app.
6 Disallow changes
In the Allow Changes section you can lock in the current settings for your personal accounts (Mail, Contacts and Calendars), Find Friends, and some other features not
Apple agreed to refund the parents of an eight-year-old boy who blew £980 on virtual doughnuts in the ‘freemium’ game Simpsons: Tapped Out. You may prefer to prevent your kids splashing out in the first place!
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Restrictions & parental controls | Essentials
Core Apps | Music
Core apps | Music
Complete guide to Apple Music Apple’s music streaming service brings big new features its Music and iTunes apps. Make the most of them… Apple has at last introduced a music streaming service that, for a monthly fee comparable to similar services such as Spotify, gives you access to millions of songs by artists big and small. For £9.99 a month – or £14.99 to allow up to five other family members to use it as well – you can explore hundreds of years of musical heritage, and listen to brand-new releases on your iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows PC and Apple Watch, as well as Apple TV and Android devices later this year. We’ve focussed the majority of our tips on the iPhone and iPad versions (which are almost identical) because of the popularity of accessing music on portable devices. The features we describe also apply to iTunes 12.2 (or later) on your computer, although there are a few things that are possible only on one type of device or the other. The service is about more than just giving you a massive library of music to explore at your own leisure. It also includes the Beats 1 internet radio station (which doesn’t require a subscription), and a number of genre-based radio stations (which do), as well as personalised stations that you create by selecting a song or artist that fits your mood.
A world of music Just as importantly, there’s a strong focus on discovering new things to listen to – both new releases and back catalogue material that fits your tastes. Apple Music tries to do this intelligently, based on some simple guidance from you when setting it up, explicit feedback that you give it by marking things as ‘loved’, and your listening habits. Apple Music also connects you to your favourite artists in the same way you might follow them on social networks. This doesn’t require a subscription, except to add audio from their posts to your library. You might already follow artists on other networks, and right now many we’ve followed seem not to be posting to Apple Music, but in time you might find it a useful way to keep your
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A huge vault packed with millions of songs and musical pieces is at your fingertips with Apple Music.
Apple Music has a strong focus on helping you to discover new things among a library of millions of tracks favourite artists’ musings separate from your actual friends. Unless they are your friends. One thing that might strike you as odd about Apple Music is that it’s so separated out from the iTunes Store. You’ll need to type into a search bar to reach most of what’s in its library, yet you can add things to your personal collection, where you can rate tracks, add them to playlists, and download them to play offline just like tracks you’ve bought. You’ll frequently see a heart icon in Music and iTunes, and on your iOS device’s Lock screen and in Control Centre, which enables you to ‘love’ tracks you particularly like. It’s crucial to getting the most out of Apple Music when it comes to listening recommendations.
HOW TO | SET UP APPLE MUSIC ON A COMPUTER
1Choose a plan
iTunes prompts you about a three-month Apple Music trial. If you don’t accept right away, click For You at the top of the Music view later on. Otherwise, click the button that starts the sign-up process, then choose an individual or a family membership (the latter requires Family Sharing, but this is pretty simple too).
2 Account management 3 Say what you like You’ll be asked to accept Apple’s latest terms and conditions and confirm the purchase of a membership plan, as signing up for the trial enables recurring payment at the end of it. If your Apple ID is part of a family and you aren’t its organiser, an Ask to Buy request will be sent to them.
Get started It takes just a few minutes to sign up and start listening to millions of tracks hen you first open the new Music app on iOS or iTunes 12.2 (or later) on your Mac, you’ll be invited to enrol in a three-month trial of Apple Music. This requires that the Apple ID you use to sign into the iTunes Store has a bank card registered for payment, rather than just having credit on your account from iTunes gift cards, so that Apple has a means to take automatic payment for the monthly subscription past that trial period. You don’t have to take up an Apple Music subscription to keep using iTunes on your Mac, or the Music app on iOS devices, to play your previous iTunes Store purchases or music bought elsewhere. It’s also possible to hide almost all of the service’s features. If you later decide to try it out, you can make Apple Music visible in your apps once again and then go to the For You page to start your trial from there. If you have a subscription to iTunes Match, or were planning to sign up to it to make your music collection, including tracks not bought from the iTunes Store, available to download from all your devices, Apple continues to offer
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Click once on the circles of genres you like, twice on those you love, or put the pointer over those you dislike and click the cross that appears. Your choices influence the artists suggested when you click Next. Repeat the process, clicking More Artists if necessary, after which you can click Done.
iTunes Match Apple Music includes the capabilities of iTunes Match, making tracks in the iTunes library on your Mac available to stream to all your devices, no matter where those tracks came from. It does this by first matching tracks to those available in Apple’s library, and secondly uploading any it can’t match to your iCloud Music Library. All of those tracks are then available to play on all of your devices, but there’s still a 25,000-track limit on the latter type, just like in iTunes Match. Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, recently tweeted that Apple was “working to get to” 100,000 by the launch of iOS 9, which should have happened by the end of 2015.
that annual service. iTunes Match functionality is also part of Apple Music, so if you decide the extra features of the newer service are worth the total annual cost being more than five times as expensive, you should turn off automatic renewal of Match before the end of your current subscription period in the same place you manage your Apple Music subscription, otherwise you’ll end up paying twice!
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Next Steps | Managing apps
Next steps | Managing apps
Declutter your Home screen
It’s easy to add more apps, but what about keeping them organised? e’ve already seen how easy it is to find more apps for whatever you want to do, and install them on your iPhone. If you find you enjoy downloading and trying out new apps, then more and more Home screens are added automatically to accommodate your growing collection – but things can quickly get rather cluttered, and it becomes tricky to find your favourite apps when you want them. Even if you stick with the built-in apps for some time to come, the most obvious way you can save yourself loads of time is by arranging your apps so that the ones you use most are always close to hand. So, if you love your social networks, put
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To bring up the Search bar, swipe downwards on any Home screen – though not from the very top: doing that will open Notification Centre.
Facebook and Twitter on the first Home screen or in your Dock. You might also want to think about using folders to group similar apps to reduce clutter and help you find them more quickly, just as you might on a Mac or PC. Here we’ll show you a few more ways to keep your workspace clear – because there are always more apps to try… Two tips to note: First, if you’ve got multiple Home screens, pressing the Home button when viewing any of them takes you back to the first one – so you might wish to include your most-used apps there. Second, if you do have a lot of apps installed, rummaging through them all won’t be the fastest way to locate the one you want. Instead, on any Home screen, swipe downwards anywhere except the very top of the screen to type the name of the app you want into Spotlight Search (see page 98). Alternatively, say the app’s name to Siri (see page 92) to have it open the app for you just by holding a button instead of typing on the screen.
HOW TO | organise your apps
1 Move and arrange
Want to arrange your apps in a different order? Tap and hold on any icon until they all start to jiggle. You can now drag any of them to a new position on the screen – the others will slide out of the way. When you’re done with any procedure on these pages that leaves the icons jiggling, press the Home button.
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2 Multiple screens
Newly installed apps automatically get added on a second page of the Home screen (or a later one if that’s full). The dots above the Dock at the foot of the screen indicate how many pages there are and which of them you’re currently looking at. To see the next one, just swipe one finger across the screen.
3 Move between screens To move an app to another page, tap and hold an icon as in step 1, then drag it to the edge of the screen. After a brief pause, the next page will slide into view. You can have up to 15 pages on the Home screen. To create a new page, drag an icon to the right-hand edge of the last page.
4 Dock your favourites
Want to keep some apps on hand at all times? The Dock at the foot of the screen can hold up to four favourite apps and stays the same on every one of your Home screens. To make room in it, tap and hold as before, then drag an icon out of it; to add an app, tap and hold the icon, then drag it to the Dock.
5 Creating folders
You can also organise apps into folders. To create a folder, tap and hold an icon to start the icons jiggling, like in step 1, then drag one icon on top of another. The folder will be given a name based on the apps’ genres; to rename it, start the icons jiggling, tap the folder to open it, then its name field, and type a new name.
6 Using folders
If a folder contains apps that show badges on their icons (such as Mail, which shows a count of unread messages), the badge will also appear on the folder’s icon. To access things in a folder, tap the folder to open it, then tap the app you want. To exit the folder, tap the screen outside it or press the Home button.
delete an app
7 Modifying folders
Just like the Home screen, the items in a folder can be organised across several pages. To add more apps to a folder, start the icons jiggling, then drag the icons you want onto the folder. To remove items, start them jiggling, open the folder, and then simply drag icons out of it and drop them onto the Home screen.
8 Folders in the Dock
You can even add folders to your Dock, not just individual apps, so you can have whole groups of apps accessible from every Home screen. Note, though, that you must create the folder first and then drag it to the Dock – if you try to drag an app on top of another already in the Dock, it will just slide out of the way.
9 Undoing and resetting 10 Work in iTunes If you get in a muddle or want to undo a change, your options are limited. If you go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Home Screen Layout, this restores the Home screen to its original layout – but it also removes all folders you’ve created and applies the default wallpaper to your Home screen.
Organising things can feel fiddly on an iPhone, but you can also do it on your computer. Connect your phone to the computer and open iTunes. Click the iPhone icon (top-left), then click Apps on the left. Here you can drag the Home screen pages to reorder them, and double-click a page or folder to manage its contents.
To delete an app, tap and hold on any icon until they all jiggle, then tap the X in the top-left corner of the unwanted app’s icon. Note that ‘built-in’ apps can’t be deleted. To delete a folder, drag all the contents out of it – it will be deleted automatically when it’s empty, as are Home screen pages.
11Managing screens
To see larger previews, drag the scale slider above the Home screen pages to the right. To move apps between pages, drag their icons between the previews. To add a new page to the Home screen or a folder, click the plus sign to the right. When done, click the Apply button (bottom-right) to commit your changes.
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Managing apps | Next steps
Advanced | Personal hotspot
advanced | Personal hotspot
Get other devices online Share your internet with Personal Hotspot SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE Five minutes
YOU’ll NEED
A call plan that allows Personal Hotspot, a Mac or PC, a Lightning cable, or another device with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi
Personal Hotspot enables your iPhone’s internet connection to be shared with other devices. The connection can be shared over USB to a Mac or a PC, and wirelessly over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to other devices. Up to five devices can be connected to the hotspot at the same time. Personal Hotspot has been a feature of iOS for a long time, but you should check with your network whether your tariff allows its use. The most flexible tariffs impose no restrictions on it, but some limit how much data it can use to just a portion of your allowance, while others don’t allow it at all – although you may be able to unlock it for an extra charge. In iOS 9, it’s even easier to connect to Personal Hotspot from
other devices running that system version, and from Macs running OS X 10.10 or higher. Those devices can connect to the hotspot without needing its Wi-Fi password at all. They only need to be signed into the same iCloud account as your iPhone to recognise that a nearby Instant Hotspot, as it’s known, belongs to you. This doesn’t exclude family and friends from borrowing your internet connection – they can connect to the hotspot using traditional methods.
Instant Hotspot makes it even easier to get online from devices running iOS 9
HOW TO | get a Mac online
1 Enable Hotspot
In the Settings app, you may already see Personal Hotspot in the top group of items, between ‘Mobile Data’ and ‘Carrier’. If it isn’t there, tap Mobile Data and it should be between Data Roaming and SIM applications. Tap it to see its two settings. The first is a switch that turns on the hotspot (doing so also adds the item between ‘Mobile’ and ‘Carrier’).
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2 Connecting your Mac 3 Test the connection With the hotspot turned on, the simplest way to get your Mac online is to connect it to your iPhone using a Lightning-to-USB cable. The iPhone will emit its usual chime sound, and the Mac should say it has found a new network interface. The iPhone’s status bar should turn blue, double in height, and display the number of devices using the hotspot in its bottom half.
Visit a website on your Mac. If this stalls or says you aren’t online, go to the Network pane in System Preferences. ‘iPhone USB’ should be listed on the left with a green dot and ‘Connected’ next to it. If other active network connections are above it, click the cog at the foot of the list, choose Set Service Order, and drag iPhone USB to the top so it is used whenever it’s available.
HOW TO | get a device online using Bluetooth
1 Become discoverable 2 Make the connection 3 Connecting in future Bluetooth devices need to be paired with your iPhone to use Personal Hotspot. On the iPhone, turn on Personal Hotspot (see step 1 opposite) and then go to Settings > Bluetooth and stay there. On a Mac, open System Preferences, click the Bluetooth icon and wait for nearby Bluetooth devices to be listed. Turning on Bluetooth should be similar on other devices.
Your iPhone will be listed using the name that appears in Settings > General > About. When it appears on a Mac, it’ll have a Pair button next to it. On other devices, you may have to tap it or use buttons to select it. Whatever the method, after you initiate the pairing process, a prompt on the iPhone will ask you to confirm this one-time pairing request. Tap Pair.
After being paired, your iPhone and the other device will remember each other. When you return to the iPhone’s Bluetooth settings, the paired device will be listed even when it’s out of range. You’ll see something similar on the other device. To get the other device online, switch on Bluetooth both on it and on the iPhone, then tap the other device’s name to reconnect them.
HOW TO | get a device online using Wi-Fi
1 Instant Hotspot
Macs with OS X 10.10 or higher and other iOS 9 devices, when signed into the same iCloud account as your iPhone, can use your hotspot without a password. Click the Wi-Fi icon on the Mac’s menu bar or open Settings > Wi-Fi on iOS. The hotspot is listed in a separate group above others, along with connection and power details, so you don’t even need to unlock the iPhone.
2 Connect other devices 3 Check data usage On other Wi-Fi devices, select your hotspot’s name from the list of nearby networks. You’ll need to provide its Wi-Fi password, which you can find under Settings > Personal Hotspot on your iPhone (you can tap it to change it if you like). The network adopts your iPhone’s name, which itself can be changed under Settings > General > About > Name.
You may want to monitor data usage, especially if your tariff has a limited amount of data in each billing period. Many networks tell how much you’ve used via their website, but you can also view a running total under Settings > Mobile Data > Mobile Data Usage. Tap System Services (at the very bottom) to see how much data Personal Hotspot has used.
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Personal hotspot | advanced
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