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The Ultimate iPhone 7 Handbook | Contents
Essentials
Next Steps
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Get to know your iPhone 7 105 essential iOS 10 tips Learn iOS 10’s Lock screen Using Touch ID Find your way around iOS Your Apple ID The basics of iCloud Pay for things more easily Work with Control Centre Stay informed about events Tailor your iPhone’s settings 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
Core Apps 50 54 56 57 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82
Make more of Messages Read and send email Find emails more easily Video calls with FaceTime Surf the internet with Safari The Contacts app Using the Calendar app Using Reminders Find your way with Maps Master iOS 10’s Music app Enjoy video on your iPhone Buy media on your iPhone Create useful notes Using iCloud Drive in iOS Stay abreast of the news Get a good night’s rest Get started with Apple Watch
Take control using Siri Search with Spotlight Declutter your Home screen Free up storage space Setting up iCloud Keychain When to use iCloud.com
Photography & Video 100 104 106 108 110 112
Shoot photos and videos Get to know the Photos app Photography tips & tricks Editing your photos Store your snaps in the cloud Record a time lapse video
Advanced 116 118 120 122 124 126 128 130 131 132 134 136 137 138 140 142 144
Work better across devices Get other devices online Call and message forwarding Connect your headphones Headphones for iPhones Stream music and video Share music, books and apps Locate a lost phone Find your friends Share with AirDrop Print from your iPhone Maximise battery life Troubleshooting your iPhone Improve your health Start your smart home Automate your smart home iPhone accessories
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Essentials | Touch ID
essentials | Touch ID
Using Touch ID iPhone fingerprint security made easy SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes
YOU’ll NEED
iPhone 7, iOS 10
hile it’s always a good idea to set up a security passcode for your iPhone, the latest models offer an even more secure and easier-to-use option: fingerprint recognition. The Home button in the iPhone 7 actually features a state-of-the-art fingerprint scanner (which debuted on the iPhone 5s), and once you train it to recognise your fingerprint, unlocking your phone or authorising App Store purchases is just a matter of pressing the Home button for a second or so. If someone else tries this their fingerprint will simply not be recognised.
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Getting in touch Before you begin with Touch ID you’ll need to ensure you’ve set up a numerical six-digit passcode for your iPhone. This is because if Touch ID
input fails for any reason (because you’re not recognised – or it’s not you!), the iPhone will fall back to asking for a standard passcode. A passcode is also necessary to set up further recognition if you want to be able to use different fingers to access your phone – either more of your own, or those of your family, friends and whoever else you trust to use it. For anyone worried about privacy, Apple is at pains to point out that fingerprint data stored on the iPhone isn’t going anywhere. In fact, the device doesn’t store an image of the fingerprint at all; rather, it creates a unique mathematical representation of it which can’t be ‘reverse engineered’ back into an image. This data is encrypted and stored on the phone, and only Touch ID itself can access it – it’s never transmitted or backed up.
HOW TO | set up touch id on iphone 7
1 Getting started
With a passcode set up, go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode. When prompted, touch (don’t press) the Home button, using the same thumb (or finger) that you normally use when unlocking the iPhone, and watch as the display builds up an image. When you feel a small vibration or when prompted on-screen, lift your thumb/finger and touch it down again, shifting its position very slightly.
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2 Recording your print
Repeat this process until the graphic on the display gradually fills in with red – the scanner is gathering more information. The final step is to capture the edges of your print, because it’s unlikely you’ll always press the Home button dead centre. So as the display suggests, hold the phone in the way you usually would when unlocking it and touch the outer areas of your thumb/finger, shifting it slightly.
3 Making purchases
Once it’s set up, you can also use Touch ID to buy from iTunes, the App Store and iBook Store. First, make sure that iTunes & App Store is enabled in Settings > Touch ID & Passcode. Now each time you purchase an item, you’ll be prompted for your fingerprint rather than your Apple ID password. If it’s not recognised five times in a row for any reason, you’ll have to enter your password instead.
Find your way around iOS Get to know the standard icons used everywhere on your iPhone he iPhone is renowned for its ease of use, and one key factor in this is consistency of design. The iPhone operating system iOS and your apps all use the same standard icons and buttons for standard functions, so once you’ve got to grips with these, you’ve mastered just about all you need to know. Where you do need to navigate through more complex menus, there are intuitive back and forward (or up and down) arrows. The one thing that often isn’t obvious is where you can scroll down for more content – scroll bars usually don’t appear until you actually try scrolling. Here’s a guide to the key symbols…
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Tap the three-dot ‘More’ button to see an app’s further options. Here in Dropbox there are some non-standard symbols, but all have text labels to help you out.
The three-line ‘More’ icon isn’t used consistently and hence can be confusing: in iBooks (above left) it takes you to a book’s table of contents; in the Weather app (above) it opens a list of the locations you’ve added; while in Write for iPhone (left) it opens a sidebar of options.
Standard iOS 10 symbols and buttons Fundamental commands are usually in words, including Done, Save, Undo, Redo, Edit and Cancel.
I n some apps, such as the iWork apps, this gives you access to Info or sometimes app settings.
Add a new item or create a new document – or, in tab view in Safari, open a new tab.
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Compose or create a new item or document, such as an email.
Refresh your view. Some apps, such as eBay and Twitter, use a ‘pull down to refresh’ gesture instead.
Insert a picture, either by using the camera to take a new one or by opening your Camera Roll. Organise or move the selected item. Used in Mail, for example, to file emails into folders.
Usually Reply – although in Mail and other apps you’ll also get options to Forward and Print. Close, Delete, or sometimes Stop or Cancel – for example, stop a webpage loading in Safari.
Share the selected item. Tap this for a range of sharing options, usually including Mail, Messages, Twitter, AirDrop and Print among others.
Delete an item. Often you can also swipe right-to-left across an item to reveal a Delete button.
Download an item, or sometimes view the items you’ve previously downloaded in the relevant app.
he universal symbol for Find, of T course. Tap this icon or the field near it to initiate a search.
I n lots of apps, including the Safari browser, you can save and later access bookmarks.
View Contacts – either opens the Contacts app or displays contact info saved in the current app.
I n the device’s status bar, this shows that Location Services is active. In Maps and other apps, tap to find or display your current location. This symbol appears whenever you have the option of opening Tabs. It’s mainly used in Safari but you may see it used in other apps. I f an app supports AirPlay and a suitable speaker is in range, tap this to route the app’s audio or video output to it. See page 126 for more. ap this (or else a flag icon) to mark T as a Favourite, or view favourites or top-rated or featured items. iew Recent Items, your browsing V history in Safari, or similar. iew or access More Options. The V panel that opens to display these should have a Cancel button; if not, tap outside the panel to close it. Some apps use an icon like this to show More Options, but it might take you to a Contents list, Most Viewed items, or something else!
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Essentials | Text and typing
Essentials | Text and typing
Using the iPhone keyboard Find your way around the on-screen keyboard and type more quickly SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes
YOU’ll NEED iPhone, iOS 10
Double-tap a word to select it, and you’ll get a pop-up menu of options (which may vary with the context or the app concerned). Select Replace… to see suggested alternatives. Tap the one you want, or tap elsewhere to keep what’s there.
our iPhone isn’t just for talking. Particularly with the vital role of social networking in our lives, text is what it’s all about these days. The iPhone’s on-screen virtual keyboard makes entering text as easy as any small touchscreen device can, whether for Twitter, Notes, Messages or entering blocks of text in apps such as Pages. Here we’ll look at some of the features and shortcuts offered by your iPhone’s virtual keyboard, which will pop up whenever you tap a text field in any app that permits text entry: the ‘To’ field or message body field in Mail or Messages, the address bar in Safari, and so on. Bear in mind that you can usually turn your iPhone on its side and use the keyboard in landscape orientation, which makes the keys that bit larger and less fiddly for fat fingers. This also makes it possible to hold your iPhone with two hands and type with your thumbs rather than your fingers. You can configure many aspects of the iPhone’s keyboard under Settings > General > Keyboard. There are lots of features to help you enter text here – have a look at the options and try them out to see how useful you find them.
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Trust autocorrect The biggest tip we can give is to leave autocorrect turned on, and learn to trust it. If it makes a suggestion you want to accept (in the middle of the bar above the keyboard, in blue), then carry on: it will be inserted when you type a space or punctuation mark. To accept another
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Fingers in a twist? No need to stop. The iPhone’s autocorrect feature will recognise common misspellings and, if one of its suggestions is in blue on a light background, will insert its correction as soon as you type a space or punctuation mark. What you actually typed is in inverted commas on the left; to keep this, tap it. of the predictive engine’s suggestions, tap the one you want. To keep what you actually typed, tap the word in inverted commas on the left-hand side of the QuickType bar – or, to avoid breaking the flow of your typing, suppress the urge to correct mistakes in the middle of a word: finish typing, then go back and tweak or replace if you need to. It might take a while to get used to typing this way, but it should ultimately save you a good deal of time and effort.
New sentence If you double-tap the spacebar when composing an SMS text or using textbased apps such as Notes or Mail, the app will insert a full stop followed by a space, and automatically capitalise the next letter you type. (This option is on by default but can be turned off in Settings > General > Keyboard.)
Manual Caps Lock If you don’t want to capitalise the first letter of a new sentence (say if you’re starting a sentence with the word “iPhone”), tap the Shift key. If you want to type a whole word in caps (say an acronym such as WYSIWYG), double-tap the Shift key and type away. Tap the Shift key again to turn it off.
More characters Numbers and punctuation marks are on a second screen, which you access by tapping the 123 key next to the spacebar. For additional punctuation and symbols, tap the #+= key on the second screen.
Slide to the right key Didn’t quite hit the right character? Keep your finger pressed down and just slide it over to the one you meant. In the
Tap within your text for the options to make a selection or to paste text you’ve previously copied. If you’ve installed multiple keyboards, tap the globe key to swap to the next, or tap-and-hold to pick from a pop-up. same way, you don’t have to tap the Shift key and then the character you want to capitalise: instead, tap and hold the Shift key and then slide your finger to the letter before releasing. This also works for typing characters from the second keyboard screen: tap and hold the 123 button to switch keyboards and then slide your finger to the correct symbol before releasing.
Alternative characters If you tap and hold on some characters on the keyboard you’ll see alternatives – accents for letters such as é and ç, and even more symbols on the second and third screens. For example, the hyphen
key offers the alternative of an em-dash (–), while the full stop on the second keyboard screen gives the option of an ellipsis (…). Tap and hold on the pound sign to find dollar, euro and yen symbols; tap and hold on the quotation marks if you want proper typeset curly quotes.
Tap and hold on a character in the on-screen keyboard to see alternatives. Slide your finger to the one you want, and then release to insert that character.
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If you need to position your cursor precisely in text – to correct a mistake or insert something – tap and hold on the text to bring up a magnifying glass and then slide your finger around to enlarge different areas as you move it.
To quickly select a word, double-tap it. In some apps, such as Pages, you can tap three times in quick succession to select an entire paragraph, but this can be a bit hit-and-miss (you have to tap pretty precisely on a single spot) and it doesn’t work in all apps.
Replace a word
Need to type accented characters or foreign alphabets on your iPhone? You can add keyboards for other languages and quickly switch between them. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard to activate them, then tap the globe icon that replaces the emoji in the bottom row of the keyboard to toggle between them, or tap-and-hold to view a list of all the installed keyboards and select one. The autocorrect dictionary will change to suit, but features like the predictive engine might not work in all languages.
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Selection tips
When you tap to select a word you’ll often see another option: Replace. Tap this and you’ll see some suggestions for alternative words. Not all apps support this, though, and the suggestions aren’t always much use. In the same way, you can often choose Look Up to bring up related searches, including definitions.
Clearing text fields
Tap-and-hold in your text, and a magnifying glass pops up to help you position the cursor more precisely.
Keep an eye out for the x symbol in text fields (such as in Safari’s web address field): instead of tap-tap-tapping the Delete key to clear text, you can just tap this symbol to clear all the text at once. Alternatively, many text fields automatically clear when you start typing after tapping on them.
Copy and paste
Do you find yourself typing the same long phrase on a regular basis? Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts to define your own shortcuts that magically turn into whole phrases as soon as you’ve typed them.
To copy and paste text, you can tap-andhold, choose Select, then drag the colour-coded handles at the start and end to highlight the block of text you want, or choose Select All to highlight all the text. Tap Copy, go to your target location or app, tap-and-hold again, then choose Paste from the menu that appears. The copied text will be inserted at the cursor position. To replace some existing text, select it before pasting.
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Core Apps | Messages
Core apps | Messages
Make more of Messages Have a lot more fun with your communications SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes
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he Messages app is used to send text and multimedia messages using SMS and MMS, and it’s also packed with features for managing conversations and sending more than just text, photos and videos. Many of those features use Apple’s iMessage system. An iMessage is a type of message that can be sent only between Apple devices – iPhones, iPads, iPod touches and Macs – as long as they are connected to the internet. Messages save you having to use a social network such as Facebook to arrange meeting up with people. That’s because iMessage enables you to have a group conversation. In iOS 10, iMessage provides an app store for richer interactions. So, you can run a poll, book a restaurant, or share a to-do list with a group, say,
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without switching to another app. You can also download sticker packs to convey your feelings with more personality than emoji, or send one of several common responses with just three taps. You’re even able to share your location right in your conversation to help work out where’s easiest to meet. And when you need some peace and quiet, you can suppress notifications for individual conversations or block unwanted communications altogether.
Apple’s iMessage system only works on its own devices, but it’s packed with compelling features
HOW TO | get started with messages
1 Sign in to iMessage
Messages can send using three methods: SMS and MMS, just like most other phones, and iMessage, only on Apple devices. You don’t have to use iMessage, but it offers practical extras as long as people you want to reach have Apple devices and have enabled it. Go to Settings > Messages, turn on the iMessage switch, and then sign in with your Apple ID.
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2 Contact options
Tap Send & Receive to pick which email addresses linked to your Apple ID can be used by other Apple device users to reach you, rather than you having to give out your phone number. (Your phone number is permanently enabled as a contact method for iMessage.) Further down, choose whether your phone number or an email address is used to identify you to recipients.
3 Compose a message
Tap the pen and paper icon, then type a name from your contacts list (or tap + to browse it). If not all recipients are using iMessage, SMS or MMS will be used (confirm in the text above). With SMS and MMS on in Settings > Messages, the app uses them if iMessage is down. Unlike SMS/MMS, an iMessage sent to multiple people starts a group chat; everyone sees all responses.
HOW TO | Send photos and videos
1 Conversation settings 2 Send audio or a photo 3 Send with visual effects Tap ‘i’ at the top of a group conversation and give it a meaningful name in the top row. You can add participants here, or swipe left on one and tap Delete to stop them receiving your contributions. You can also leave a conversation you didn’t start, use Do Not Disturb to suppress its notifications, or share where you are right now, for a short period, or even indefinitely.
Hold a finger on the mic icon at the right of the message box to record audio, then slide your finger onto the send button and let go to send, or release then tap play to review. Tap the camera icon left of the message box, then the preview to take a pic (the top-right icon swaps camera); pick a recent pic to the right; or swipe right for older pics and full camera features.
Compose a message, then hold a finger on (or apply 3D Touch to) the send button to see a list of presentational effects; tap the dot next to one’s name to preview it, and again in that spot to send with that effect applied to the bubble that contains your message. Or, tap the Screen tab and then swipe left or right to pick a full-screen animation, then send the message.
HOW TO | Sketch with Digital Touch
1 Digital Touch sketches 2 Digital Touch effects To the left of the message box, tap the icon that shows two fingers over a heart. The bottom part of the screen changes to show a black sketchpad with icons either side. Tap the white circle with a black centre to pick an ink colour, then slide your finger on the sketchpad to draw. When you send your drawing, the recipient sees it build up just like you drew it.
If you want more room for sketching, tap the upwards-pointing arrow to expand the sketchpad so it almost fills the screen. Tap the downwards-pointing arrow to return the pad to its original size. When the sketchpad is small, tap the group of three icons to its right to see five more gestures you can perform on the pad to send a special animation to someone.
3 Sketch on a photo/video Tap the heart icon, then the camera icon to the left of the sketchpad. Use the camera icon at the bottom right to switch between the front and rear cameras. Tap the white concentric circles to take a photo, or the red and white ones to record video, then sketch on top of it. The recipient sees your drawing build over the photo or video with your original timings.
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Messages | Core apps
Core Apps | Notes
Core apps | Notes
Create useful Notes Learn to use the flexible tools in the Notes app SKILL LEVEL
Anyone can do it
IT WILL TAKE A few minutes
YOU’ll NEED iPhone, iOS 10
otes got a radical revamp in iOS 9, turning from a simple app into something much richer, with many options for creating useful notes or scrapbooks. It can even be used to manage small projects, thanks to its versatile tools. Now in iOS 10, it has an additional benefit – the ability to share changes to your notes and projects using the Collaboration tool. Open the app and tap the icon that looks like a piece of paper with a pencil to create a new note – it’ll be ready for
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The Notes app has gone from being quite a simple little app into something much richer and useful
you to start typing. The first line you write will be the note’s title in the app’s main menu, so make sure it’s something nice and clear. Most of Notes’ power comes from its tools, which you access by tapping the plus symbol in a grey circle, on the right-hand side above the keyboard. This brings up a series of icons, which you’ll need to use many of the tools in the rest of these steps. In no time at all, you’ll find yourself adding images, interactive to-do lists, hand-drawn diagrams and much more to your notes, making them useful for all sorts of needs, from simple personal reminders to mood boards, projects and more. Then you can press Done and share your notes with family, friends and work colleagues.
HOW TO | GET STARTED WITH NOTES
RULER TOOL
The ruler tool in the Notes drawing screen can help you manage angles as well as draw straight lines – you can rotate it with two fingers, and it will display the current angle, and lock to 45- or 90-degree angles.
1 Add an image
You can add easily an image to your note if it’s already stored in your iPhone’s Photo Library. Tap the icon just above the keyboard that looks like a camera – you can choose to browse your library, or take a new photo if there’s something in front of you that you want to capture. In the library, browse the thumbnails, tap one to view it fullscreen, then tap Choose to add it to your note wherever the text cursor was.
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2 Use the Share sheet
You can also add images directly from many other apps, such as the Photos app or third-party camera apps, using the iOS Share button. When viewing the image you want to add, tap the Share button, then select Notes from the pop-up menu. Add some text if you like, then tap where it says ‘New note’ to choose whether to create a new note for the image, or select one of your existing notes.
HOW TO | GET STARTED WITH NOTES
3 Add a web link
You can embed a web link in Notes, keeping relevant information handy without it clogging up space in your note. These links appear in a box, with a little icon thumbnail and the page’s title – just tap to open the site, or use a deep press to get a peek of it. To add a link to a note, go to the page your want in Safari, tap the Share button, then choose Notes, and follow the same process as in the previous step.
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Hierarchical lists are where items on your list will have their own sub-lists, which should be visibly separate to other items on your list. You can achieve this with indenting in the Notes app, pushing these items to the right.
4 Create a checklist
To-do checklists can be really useful. They’re easy to add – place the text cursor on a new line, then tap the circle icon with the tick in it just above the keyboard. This adds an empty circle at the start of the line, and then you type a relevant task next to it. Press return to add a new task. You can also highlight text and tap the icon to turn it into a to-do. When a task is completed, tap its circle to check it off!
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5 Style text
You can now choose styles for things like titles and headings for new sections, and can also create different list types, including numbered lists with automatic numbering. You can even indent list items to create a hierarchy: highlight a line, and in the pop-up menu, tap the arrow on the right, then Indent. You can also embolden, italicise and underline words – use the pop-up, then tap the ‘BIU’ button.
6 Add a drawing
Tap the squiggly line just above the keyboard and you can create a custom drawing to add to your note, which is embedded just like an image in step 1. You can draw freehand, with the 3D Touch display sensing pressure, so you can draw lighter or harder lines as you choose. There are various drawing tools available, including a ruler to draw straight lines, as well as an eraser. You can also select colours.
The one thing Notes is missing is a tool for annotating images that you embed into a note. Of course, there are lots of great tools on the App Store for this – try the free Skitch app, or the excellent premium iAnnotate PDF.
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Next Steps | iCloud.com
next steps | iCloud.com
When to use iCloud.com
Find out how to recover deleted files, set up email rules and much more ver the years, it’s been pretty clear that Apple loves the web. However, it doesn’t want you to live in a web browser – and that is a distinction that’s quite important. An exception, of sorts, is iCloud.com. This website contains Apple’s browser-based app suite, the majority of which mirrors apps you already have on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac. This means that whenever you have access to a Mac or PC with a compatible web browser (http://apple.co/1K7jWdz), you can use web-based versions of Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Photos, Notes and Reminders, along with Apple’s trio of office SKILL LEVEL apps (Pages, Numbers and Anyone can do it Keynote). The iCloud website also contains three utilities: IT WILL TAKE iCloud Drive, Find My iPhone 10 minutes and Settings. And if you’re YOU’ll NEED keen to have your work Mac or PC with featured on Apple’s News app compatible web (see page 78) you can get browser access to an app called News Publisher (http:// bit.ly/2cLZvsQ) – a Content Management System (CMS), which enables you to create original articles and have them published in the News app. While the online version of iCloud isn’t something you’ll use often it can come in useful for a number of reasons: One is that it can be a handy place for performing tasks when you’re away from your iPhone or it has run out of power – checking emails and fetching documents on a work computer, for example. Or for tracking down devices that have gone missing. Secondly, iCloud has a number of settings and configuration options that aren’t accessible on your iPhone, and some of these are covered here. Note that while you can access the site from an iOS device, the options you have are limited, so we’ve assumed you are using either a Mac or PC.
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Find and restore One of the most frustrating things about using any device is when you accidentally delete a file you didn’t mean to. If that happens to a file you have stored on iCloud Drive, icloud.com makes it easy to get back. To find it, login, select Settings and click Data & Security. Choose Recover Documents and sort your files by date or name. Choose the item you’d like to recover by clicking its checkbox, then select Recover File. To see if it has worked, head to the iCloud Drive app on icloud.com, and look inside the folder where the file was previously stored.
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Contacts 1Mail, and Calendar Login to iCloud using your Apple ID and you’ll be able to catch up on your emails, check your diary and look up your favourite people too. iCloud.com also gives you access to features that aren’t contained in either the Mac or iOS versions of apps. Go to iCloud.com > Mail > Preferences, for example, and you’ll be able to set server-side rules, create up to three email aliases (handy for internet shopping and social media accounts) and set up an auto-reply vacation message. You can also arrange for your iCloud emails to automatically be forwarded to another address.
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The iCloud.com version of Photos reveals which images and videos you currently have stored online, along with any shared albums you have created. Head to iCloud.com > Photos > Settings to change what is uploaded from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, etc. Or you can just do that from your device, using System Preferences > iCloud on the Mac, or Settings > iCloud on iOS. For more on Photos, both online and off, turn to page 106.
3 iCloud Drive
The iCloud.com version of iCloud Drive works just like the version on iOS (see page 76). You’ll see folders for specific applications, such as Keynote and Pages as well as any custom folders you have created. You can use the icons at the top of the iCloud Drive window to create new folders, upload content from your Mac or PC and download it too. You can also delete any unwanted files or folders using the Trash option. And, of course, you can also share everything with friends, family and co-workers using the Mail app built right into icloud.com
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If you need to customise your Apple ID, add or remove a device, tweak Family Sharing or restore accidentally deleted files, Settings is the place to go.
Create, edit and share home and work documents using these fully-featured icloud.com versions of Apple’s famous productivity apps. With the arrival of iOS 10 and macOS, Pages, Numbers and Keynote give you the ability to work on projects with friends and co-workers in real time – provided you have an internet connection, of course.
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and 4 Notes Reminders The icloud.com versions of these two apps perform exactly as you’d expect from their iOS and macOS counterparts… you can even use icloud.com to invite others to share and edit your notes – perfect for working on projects together. You and your family and friends can also create, edit and share reminders with each other… important dates, shopping lists…
5 Find My Friends
Find My Friends is an iOS-only app that easily lets you find the location of the people you love, provided they’ve previously shared their location with you. While there’s no equivalent of the app on macOS, you can still find each other using the browser-based version. More details on page 131.
6 Find My iPhone
Lost your iPhone, iPad or Mac? Track it down with this browser-based version of the iOS app. You can even use it to remote wipe the device if you need to. See page 130.
Use the desktop site on an iPhone Visiting icloud.com on your iPhone shows links that help with setting up iCloud and installing a couple of apps that use it. It’s tempting to open Safari’s Share sheet and tap Request Desktop Site, but the site is designed to be used on a computer, and works poorly on the iPhone.
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PHOTOGRAPHY & Video | Camera
Shoot photos and videos Get to know all the features of the built-in Camera app
1 Switch cameras
Your iPhone features two cameras: a 12-megapixel iSight one on the back for shooting landscapes and the like, and a 7-megapixel FaceTime HD one on the front for taking selfies. To switch between them, just tap this camera-switching icon. The rear camera will give better results, and features such as the flash, HDR mode and Panorama can be used only with the rear camera. Both cameras feature face detection, though, to make sure that people are properly focused and exposed in your shots.
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Tap this button to bring up options for a countdown after the shutter button is pressed, after which a photo is taken. The timer is fairly limited in options (just threeand 10-second durations), but it should give you the extra time you need in a pinch.
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This kind of photo cleverly combines a still image with a total of three seconds of video and sound captured before and after you press the shutter button. Live Photos come to life when you apply 3D Touch to them, can be shared as iMessages and posted to Facebook for other iOS users to see in the official app, and even set as your Lock screen wallpaper and played there, too.
4 HDR mode
To activate High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode, tap this button. (There’s more about HDR mode on the next page.) When it’s off or set to auto, the text is white; when it’s active, it’s yellow. When you take an HDR shot, the camera is a bit slower and needs extra time to process the image, so turn it off when taking shots quickly is important.
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Tap here to bring up the different options for the flash on your device. You can choose to have it on Auto mode, where it will fire only if your device detects that the scene is dark enough to warrant it; you can force the flash on, so that it fires every time you take a photo, which can help fill deeplyshadowed areas; or you can turn it off.
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The app devotes most of the screen to showing what you’re about to photograph. Tap on the view to set a point for the focus and exposure. If you’re snapping people, you can let face detection and autofocus handle things; any faces identified will be marked with yellow boxes. To zoom in, spread apart two fingers or swipe from this icon; it’s a digital zoom that reduces image quality – except on iPhone 7 Plus, where the telephoto lens enables a limited optical zoom.
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Burst mode If you hold down the shutter button instead of just tapping it once, the camera will keep taking photos at a very fast speed, with a little counter in the viewfinder telling you how many it’s taken so far. Your iPhone will analyse the whole batch and select the best for you; when viewing the burst photo in the Camera Roll that’s the one you’ll see, but you can tap Select to review the others: tap any shots you like (they’ll be marked with a tick in a blue circle), then tap Done and confirm that you want to delete the photos you didn’t tap, or you can choose to keep everything.
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7 Shooting mode Burst mode can help you catch fleeting action, but ensure you take time to review which shots in a batch can be deleted to free up storage space.
Swipe across the camera modes to switch between them: Photo and Square shoot normal or square-shaped pics; Pano lets you take super-wide panoramic shots; Video lets you shoot 720p, 1080p or 4K Ultra HD video; Slo-Mo takes video at very high speed (you can choose 120fps or 240fps in Settings > Photos & Camera); and Time Lapse takes a series of photos over time and turns them into a video.
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Tap here to bring up the filter options – you’ll be given a screen of filter thumbnails, with a live view from the camera in each. Tap one that you like to view the effect applied live to the viewfinder, so you’ll know exactly how the photo will look with the filter applied. For more information on filters, see the next page.
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Tap here to review shots in the Camera Roll, where you can edit them, delete or mark shots as favourites, and even share them by email, other messaging services or on social networks. If you accessed the camera from the Lock screen, only photos taken recently are shown; tap All Photos and unlock your device to see older ones as well.
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8 Exposure controls 9 The shutter button Once the focus is set, you can drag your finger up and down on the screen to manually adjust the exposure level to be brighter or darker as needed; if you locked focus and exposure earlier, that just means the app won’t alter it automatically. This can be a little fiddly to get right at first – ensure you swipe pretty much as soon as your finger is on the screen, so you don’t cause a refocus.
Tap this to take a photo! If you’re using Photo mode, hold a finger on the the button to take a burst photo (see the facing page). In Video, Slo-Mo or Time Lapse mode, the button is red to indicate you’re about to record video rather than snap a still image. While recording in Video or Slo-Mo mode, a white shutter button appears to one side, so you can also take a photo.
Shooting shortcuts There are a couple of handy shortcuts for the Camera app. First, when you want to start shooting in a hurry, you can jump to the Camera app from the Lock screen by swiping left. Next, instead of using the on-screen shutter button to take a photo, you can press either of the volume buttons on the side of your iPhone. If you’re using headphones that have an inline remote control, you can take a shot by pressing a volume button on it; this can reduce camera shake, especially in low light.
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Advanced | Headphones
advanced | Headphones
Headphones for iPhones Team your iPhone 7 with our choice selection of headphones 1
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1. Sennheiser PXC 550 Wireless
2. Bowers Wilkins P7 Wireless
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These are some of the most comfortable over-ear headphones we’ve ever tried, thanks to their naturally shaped and very light ear cups, plus an adjustable headband that collapses so the cans can be stowed away. Sound quality is excellent too, thanks in part to the PXC 550’s Active Noise Cancellation (ANC).
These over-ear Bluetooth headphones are perfect partners for the new iPhone 7, delivering incredible sound quality at a premium price. Their only real shortcomings are a lack of true sound isolation and a slightly uncomfortable fit – at least until the headband loosens up – but otherwise they’re a brilliant buy.
3. Parrot Zik 3.0 parrot.com £250 Designed by the renowned Philippe Starck these are some of the most tricked-out over-ear cans around, with a range of custom finishes and nifty features such as Qi-combatible wireless charging. What makes these headphones stand out though are their noise cancellation and fantastic sound quality, although their battery life is a little short.
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5 4. Bowers & Wilkins C5 Series 2 bowers-wilkins.co.uk £120 Deeply impressive from design to presentation, the B&W C5 Series 2 in-ear-headphones are very good indeed. They deliver an expansive soundstage with excellent separation and powerful bass. They’re also comfortable with three pairs of differently sized silicone tips supplied in a quilted purse-shaped case.
6. Blue Lola blue-headphones.com £200 Their steampunk-esque design may make them look like they’ve from a Mad Max movie set, but there is method in the Blue Lola’s madness. The multi-jointed headband of these over-ear headphones offers a snug and comfortable fit and great sound isolation. They also deliver deeply satisfying and resonant bass from their 50mm drive units.
5. Audeze Sine audeze.com £450 Designed with the recent iPhones in mind, these on-ear headphones come with an amplifier, digital signal processor and a digital-toaudio converter (DAC) within the supplied ‘Cipher’ Lightning cable. The result is amazing sound quality, full of attack, warmth and detail. There’s a regular 3.5mm headphone jack cable included, so you can use them with a Mac too.
7. Master & Dynamic ME05 masterdynamic.co.uk £159 Winner of a recent group test in our sister title MacFormat, the Master & Dynamic ME05 are in-ear headphones to treasure. That’s because they not only offer an incredibly dynamic and faithful performance with just about any type of music, but they’re also incredibly light and comfortable to wear to boot.
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