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Brad Miser

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My iPhone™, Second Edition Copyright © 2009 by Que Publishing

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Getting Started with iPhone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Touring iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Getting to Know iPhone’s External Features . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Knowing Why It’s Called a Multi-Touch Interface . . . . . . . .5 Preparing iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Using MobileMe with iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Using this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

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Making, Receiving, and Managing Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Configuring Phone Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Creating Your Own Ringtones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Setting Phone Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Configuring Phone Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Other Phone Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Making Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Dialing with the Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Dialing with Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Dialing with Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Dialing with Recents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Managing In-Process Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Receiving Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Answering Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Answering Calls When You’re Already on a Call . . . . . . . .48 Managing Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Working with Missed and Recent Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Adding Caller Information to Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Using iPhone’s Headset for Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Using Visual Voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Recording a Greeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Listening to and Managing Voicemails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Getting Information About Your Cell Account . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

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Managing Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Configuring How Contacts Are Displayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Getting Contact Information onto iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 Moving Contacts from MobileMe or Exchange Accounts to iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 Moving Contacts from a Windows PC to iPhone . . . . . . .69 Moving Contacts from a Mac to iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Creating New Contacts While Using iPhone . . . . . . . . . . .71 Creating Contacts on iPhone Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 Using Contacts on iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Changing or Deleting Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Changing Contacts via Syncs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Adding or Removing Information for an Existing Contact Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 Adding Information to an Existing Contact While Using iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Deleting Contacts Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

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Listening to Audio and Watching Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Using iTunes to Add Audio and Video Content to iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Importing Audio CDs to the iTunes Library . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Purchasing Audio and Video from the iTunes Store . . .100 Renting Movies from the iTunes Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Subscribing to Podcasts in the iTunes Store . . . . . . . . . .104 Building Audio and Video Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 Building Audio and Video Smart Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Moving Content from the iTunes Library onto iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111 Using the iTunes Store Application to Add Audio and Video to iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 Downloading Audio Content from iPhone’s iTunes Store Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Listening to Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 Using the Cover Flow Browser to Find and Play Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

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Using Playlists to Find Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 Using Artists to Find Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 Using Genres to Find Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126 Using the More Menu to Find Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128 Playing Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 Viewing Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131 Controlling Audio Content with the iPod Control Bar . . . .132 Configure the iPod Control Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132 Use the iPod Control Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133 Finding and Listening to Podcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134 Finding and Watching Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136 Finding Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136 Watching Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137 Deleting Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138 Customizing iPhone for iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 Building and Editing an On-The-Go Playlist . . . . . . . . . . .139 Using the iPhone Genius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142 Configuring iPhone’s iPod Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145 Configuring iPhone’s iPod Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

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Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth Devices, and VPNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Connecting to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154 Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi Networks . . . . . . .154 Connecting to the Internet via 3G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165 Connecting to the Internet via EDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167 Connecting to Bluetooth Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167 Connecting to VPNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

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Emailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Configuring Email Accounts on iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176 Using MobileMe to Configure Email Accounts on iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177 Syncing Email Accounts with a Windows PC . . . . . . . . . .179 Syncing Email Accounts with a Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

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Configuring Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, or AOL Email Accounts on iPhone Manually . . . . . . . . . .181 Configuring Other Email Accounts on iPhone Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183 Performing Advanced Configuration of Email Accounts on iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187 Configuring Exchange Email Accounts on iPhone Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 Configuring General Email Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194 Configuring How Email is Retrieved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194 Configuring Global Email Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196 Managing Email Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200 Changing Email Account Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . .200 Disabling Email Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201 Deleting Email Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202 Working with Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203 Receiving and Reading Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203 Sending Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207 Replying to Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211 Forwarding Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212 Viewing Messages in a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218

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Surfing the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Configuring Safari Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222 Moving Favorites or Bookmarks from a Windows PC to iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225 Moving Favorites or Bookmarks from a Windows PC onto iPhone via Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226 Moving Favorites or Bookmarks from a Windows PC onto iPhone Using MobileMe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227 Moving Bookmarks from a Mac to iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228 Moving Favorites from a Mac onto iPhone via Sync . . .229 Moving Bookmarks from a Mac to iPhone Using MobileMe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230 Browsing the Web on iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232 Moving to Websites via Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232 Moving to Websites by Typing a URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234

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Viewing Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236 Searching the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238 Returning to Previous Websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239 Saving and Organizing Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240 Creating a Bookmark on the Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . .247 Emailing a Link to a Webpage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248 Completing Web Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250 Opening and Managing Multiple Webpages at the Same Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251

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Text Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Configuring the New Text Message Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257 Sending Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258 Receiving and Replying to Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261 Working with Text Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262 Conversing in Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263 Clearing a Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265 Deleting a Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266

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Working with Date & Time and the Calendar . . . . . . . . 269 Configuring iPhone’s Date, Time, and Calendar Settings . .270 Using iPhone as a Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275 Telling Time with iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275 Using the Clock Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276 Setting and Using Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279 Changing Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282 Managing Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284 Using iPhone as a Stopwatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284 Working with Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287 Syncing a Calendar with MobileMe on a Windows PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288 Syncing a Calendar with MobileMe on a Mac . . . . . . . . .289 Syncing iPhone’s Calendar with a MobileMe or Exchange Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290 Configuring iPhone Push Calendar Syncing . . . . . . . . . .291

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Syncing iPhone’s Calendar with Outlook on Windows PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293 Syncing iPhone’s Calendar with iCal on Macs . . . . . . . . .294 Using iPhone’s Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295 Adding Events to the Calendar by Accepting Invitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304

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Taking, Storing, and Viewing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Taking Photos with iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309 Moving Photos from a Computer onto iPhone . . . . . . . . . . .312 Moving Photos from a Windows PC onto iPhone . . . . .313 Moving Photos from Email onto iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316 Viewing and Working with Photos on iPhone . . . . . . . . . . .318 Viewing Photos Individually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318 Viewing Photos as a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321 Deleting Photos from iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325 Using a Photo as Wallpaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326 Emailing a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327 Assigning a Photo to a Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328 Sending a Photo to MobileMe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331 Moving Photos from iPhone to a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . .332

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Working with iPhone Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Using iTunes to Find and Install iPhone Applications . . . .338 Downloading Applications from the iTunes Store . . . .338 Moving Applications from Your Library onto iPhone . .340 Using the App Store to Find and Install iPhone Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .341 Using iPhone Applications You Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346 Maintaining iPhone Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347 Removing Applications from iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351 Finding Your Way with Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353 Finding a Location by Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353 Finding a Location with Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356 Finding Your Current Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359

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Working with Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .361 Getting Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .364

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Customizing iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Customizing the Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370 Accessing iPhone Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373 Using Airplane Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373 Configuring General Sound Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .374 Setting Screen Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .376 Setting Wallpaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377 Configuring General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .378

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Maintaining iPhone and Solving iPhone Problems . . 391 Maintaining iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391 Maintaining iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .392 Maintaining iPhone’s Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394 Maintaining iPhone’s Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .396 Cleaning iPhone’s Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400 Solving iPhone Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400 Restarting iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401 Restarting the Computer and iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401 Resetting iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .402 Restoring iPhone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .404 Reinstalling iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .406 Getting Help with iPhone Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .407

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About the Author

About the Author Brad Miser has written extensively about technology, with his favorite topics being the amazing “i” gadgets, iPhone and iPod, that make it possible to take our lives with us while we are on the move. In addition to My iPhone, Brad has written many other books, including Absolute Beginner’s Guide to iPod and iTunes; Sleeping with the Enemy: Running Windows on a Mac (digital Shortcut); Special Edition Using Mac OS X Leopard; Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Homeschooling; Teach Yourself Visually MacBook Air; and MacBook Pro Portable Genius. He has also been an author, development editor, or technical editor on more than 50 other titles. He has written numerous articles and has been a featured speaker on various topics at Macworld Expo, at user group meetings, and in other venues. Brad is or has been a sales support specialist, the director of product and customer services, and the manager of education and support services for several software development companies. Previously, he was the lead proposal specialist for an aircraft engine manufacturer, a development editor for a computer book publisher, and a civilian aviation test officer/engineer for the U.S. Army. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and has received advanced education in maintainability engineering, business, and other topics. In addition to his passion for silicon-based technology, Brad likes to ride his steel-based technology, also known as a motorcycle, whenever and wherever possible. Originally from California, Brad now lives in Brownsburg, Indiana, with his wife Amy; their three daughters, Jill, Emily, and Grace; and a rabbit named Bun-Bun. Brad would love to hear about your experiences with this book (the good, the bad, and the ugly). You can write to him at [email protected].

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Dedication To those who have given the last full measure of devotion so that the rest of us can be free.

Acknowledgments To the following people on the My iPhone project team, my sincere appreciation for your hard work on this book: Laura Norman, my acquisitions and development editor, who enhanced the concept for this book and brought it to fruition. Marta Justak of Justak Literary Services, my agent, for getting me signed up for this project. Griff Partington, my technical editor, who did a great job to ensure that the information in this book is both accurate and useful. Chrissy White, my copy editor, who corrected my many misspellings, poor grammar, and other problems. Mandie Frank, my project editor, who skillfully managed the hundreds of files that it took to make this book. Anne Jones, for the interior design and cover of the book. Que’s production and sales team for printing the book and getting it into your hands.

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Soon you’ll wonder how you ever got along without it!

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P Getting Started with iPhone The good news is that getting started with an iPhone is a simple, painless process. You’ve got your hands on one, so it’s time to get going. Because iPhone was activated when you purchased it, there’s no need to do any set up work before you can start using iPhone for all the great things you can do with it. In this prologue, you’ll get a tour of iPhone so you can use its controls and work with its interface quickly and easily. You’ll also learn about installing iPhone’s required partner, iTunes, that you use to move content onto iPhone and keep it in sync. You’ll also learn about an optional, but very valuable partner for iPhone, which is Apple’s MobileMe service. Last, you’ll learn a bit about how you can get the most out of this book.

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Touring iPhone You’ll find that iPhone is one of the most amazing devices ever because of how well it is designed. It has only a few external features you need to understand. For most of the things you do, you’ll just use your fingers on iPhone’s screen (which just seems natural), and iPhone provides a consistent interface so you accomplish most tasks with similar steps.

Getting to Know iPhone’s External Features Take a quick look at iPhone’s physical controls and ports and learn to understand how you move around its screens.

Headphone port Wake/Sleep button Mute Off/On switch

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• Mute Off/On switch This switch determines whether iPhone makes sounds, such as ringing when a call comes in or making the alert noise for an event on a calendar. Slide it toward the front of iPhone to hear sounds; a bell icon appears on the screen to indicate that Mute is disabled. Slide it toward the back of iPhone to mute all iPhone sound; a red dot appears on the switch, and a bell with a line through it appears on iPhone’s screen to indicate that it is muted. When muted, iPhone vibrates to let you know something is happening (assuming vibrate is enabled). • Volume Press the upper part of the rocker switch to increase volume; press the lower part of the switch to decrease volume. The volume that is controlled depends on what you are doing. If iPhone isn’t busy, its ringer volume is controlled. If you are listening to music or watching video, the volume of what you are listening to or watching is controlled. If you are talking on the phone, the volume of the call is controlled. • Docking port Use this port to connect iPhone to a computer using the included USB cable. • Home button Press this button to move to the all-important iPhone Home screen. It can also perform other functions, such as displaying iPod controls when you press it twice. • Wake/Sleep button Press this to lock iPhone’s controls and put it to sleep. Press it again to wake iPhone from Sleep mode. Note that if you are using iPhone to listen to audio when you press this button, the music keeps playing while iPhone is locked. If you hold this button down for a few seconds while iPhone is on, you’re prompted to shut it down. If iPhone is turned off and you press this button, it starts up. • Headphone port

Plug iPhone’s earbud headphones into this port.

• Camera iPhone’s camera lens is located on the back of its case near the top.

Knowing Why It’s Called a Multi-Touch Interface Apple designed iPhone to be touched. The previous section describes the only physical controls iPhone has; as you saw, there aren’t many. Most of the time, you control iPhone by using your fingers on its screen to press buttons, select items on lists, scroll, zoom, type text, and so on. After you use it a while, you might want everything to work this way because it’s so easy and intuitive.

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Application buttons

Website bookmark Primary functions

Most iPhone activities start at the Home screen, which you get to by pressing the Home button located at the bottom of iPhone. Along the bottom of the Home screen, you see the four major function buttons. Above those, you see applications on iPhone that do all sorts of cool things; as you add applications, the number of buttons increases. You can also create bookmarks for websites and store them as buttons on the Home screen. As you add applications and bookmarks, the number of pages of the Home screen increases so you can store them all on it. You can organize the buttons on the pages of the Home screen in any way you’d like. The following figures highlight the major ways you control iPhone.

Press buttons to use them.

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Press an item to work with it.

Press a letter in the index to jump to it.

Drag your finger up and down to browse lists.

Drag your finger up, down, left, and right to scroll.

Unpinch your fingers or press twice to zoom in.

Pinch your fingers or press twice to zoom out.

Press a link to move to it.

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Drag your finger to the right to move to the previous screen.

Drag your finger to the left to move to the next screen.

Press controls to activate them.

Rotate iPhone to change the screen’s orientation.

There are lots of things you do with iPhone that require you to type, and iPhone’s keyboard is pretty amazing. Whenever you need it, whether it’s for emailing, entering a website URL, sending a text message, and so on, it pops up automatically. To type, just press the keys. As you press each key, the character you pressed pops up in a small window so you can see what you entered, which is useful feedback for you (you also hear audio feedback if you haven’t disabled it). The keyboard includes all the standard keys you expect. To change from letters to numbers and special characters, just press the .?123 key (press the ABC key to return to letters). It also has contextual keys that appear when you need

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them. For example, when you are entering a website address, the .com key appears so you can enter these four characters with a single press.

Use iPhone’s virtual keyboard to type.

iPhone tries to be helpful as you type.

If you type a word that iPhone doesn’t recognize, it makes a suggestion about what it thinks is the correct word in a pop-up box. To accept the suggestion, press the space key. To reject the suggestion, press the pop-up box to close it and keep what you typed. You can also use this feature for shorthand typing. For example, to type “I’ll” you can simply type “Ill” and iPhone will suggest “I’ll” which you can accept by pressing the space key. iPhone also attempts to correct the capitalization of what you type.

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Drag the magnifying glass until the cursor is next to the text you want to change.

The magnifying glass shows you where the cursor is. Press text you want to edit.

To edit text, press the text you want to edit. A magnifying glass icon appears on the screen, and within it you see a magnified view of the location of the cursor. Drag the magnifying glass to where you want to make changes and then lift your finger from the screen; the cursor remains in that location, and you can use the keyboard to make changes to the text. Wi-Fi, 3G, or EDGE connection

Time Battery charge

Cell network and strength of signal

At the top of the screen, you see various icons that provide you with information, such as the state of iPhone’s battery, Airplane mode status, the kind of network you are connected to, and so on. Keep an eye on this area as you use iPhone.

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Locked

Drag to the right to unlock iPhone.

When iPhone is asleep and you press the Wake/Sleep button or the Home button, iPhone wakes up, and its screen activates; you see the Unlock slider. Drag the slider to the right to unlock iPhone so that you can work with it. You move to the iPhone Home screen or to the last screen you were using.

The Time Is Always Handy If you use iPhone instead of a watch the way I do, just press the Wake/Sleep button. The current time and date appear; if you don’t unlock it, iPhone goes back to sleep after a few seconds.

In most cases, you should just put iPhone to sleep when you aren’t using it instead of shutting it off. It doesn’t use much power when it sleeps, and it wakes up quickly when you want to start using it again. (In fact, you seldom need to turn iPhone off.)

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Setting ringer volume

To change iPhone’s volume, press the up or down volume buttons. An icon pops up to show you which volume you are changing and the relative volume setting. When the volume is set, release the volume button.

Drag to the right to shut down iPhone.

If you want to turn iPhone off, press and hold the Wake/Sleep button until the red slider appears at the top of the screen. Drag the slider to the right to shut down iPhone.

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To restart iPhone, press and hold the Wake/Sleep button until the Apple logo appears on the screen. In a moment, you see iPhone’s Home screen, and it’s ready for you to use again.

Activating iPhone When you purchased iPhone, it was activated for you, and the initial setup was done so that you were ready to start using it. In some cases, you need to complete the initial configuration by connecting iPhone to your computer and following the onscreen instructions to complete those few steps. You’ll know if this is the case for you the first time you connect iPhone to your computer. If you see a setup prompt, just work through its instructions, and then you’ll be ready to roll. If not, you’re already ready to get on with things.

Preparing iTunes

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iTunes is the application you use to move content (music, podcasts, movies, and so on) and information (such as email account configurations) onto iPhone. You need to download and install iTunes on your computer or make sure that you are using the most current version if it’s already installed. To get started, jump into any of the following sections that apply to your particular situation.

iPHONE AND iTUNES This isn’t a book about iTunes, so I cover only the details you need to know to be able to use iPhone. iTunes is a powerful application that you can use to manage all your digital entertainment and, of course, to move content onto iPhone, CD, DVD, iPods, and so on. For more detailed information about iTunes, see my book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to iPod and iTunes, currently in its third edition. Even if you aren’t an absolute beginner, you’ll find lots of information there to help you get the most out of iTunes.

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You might find yourself in one of two situations on the iTunes front. If you are a Windows user and have never used iTunes, you have to download and install it, which is covered in the next section (if iTunes is already installed, skip over that section). If you’re a Windows or Mac user and already have iTunes installed on your computer, update it to make sure that you are using the latest version; the section titled Updating iTunes covers how to do so. After iTunes is installed and updated, you should get an account at the iTunes Store, which enables you to purchase content or rent movies. As you might guess, there’s a section called Obtaining and Signing in to an iTunes Store Account if you don’t already have one.

>>>step-by-step Downloading and Installing iTunes on a Windows PC 1.

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>>>step-by-step Obtaining and Signing In to an iTunes Store Account 1.

Open iTunes.

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Click iTunes Store. You connect to the Internet and move into the iTunes Store.

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Click Create New Account. You move to the first screen in the account creation process.

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Using MobileMe with iPhone Apple’s MobileMe service provides you with a number of features including online disk space, an email account, online photo gallery, and more. When it comes to iPhone, MobileMe offers one primary benefit, and it is a really good one. With MobileMe, you can keep your contacts, calendar, Web favorites, and MobileMe email in sync between computers and your iPhone wirelessly. Instead of having to connect iPhone to a computer to move information over the USB cable, the information is moved directly from the Internet onto iPhone via its Internet connection. Not only is this easier, but your information remains much more current on all your devices. MobileMe works by moving information from a computer or iPhone to the MobileMe “cloud” on the Internet. The information is then downloaded from the cloud to each device so that all devices have the same information on them. MobileMe isn’t free. Currently, an individual MobileMe account is $99 per year, while the cost of a family account is about $149 per year. However, you can sign up for a free trial account that is available for 60 days. At the end of that period, you can choose to cancel the account if you don’t find it valuable. There are three general steps required to use MobileMe with iPhone. One is to obtain a MobileMe account. The second is to configure MobileMe on your computers; this task is slightly different on Windows PCs or Macs, so there’s a section for each kind of computer. The third step is to configure iPhone to access the information provided by MobileMe; these tasks are described in the relevant chapters (for example, using MobileMe to sync calendar information is described in Chapter 8,“Working with Date & Time and the Calendar”).

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>>>step-by-step Obtaining a MobileMe Account 1.

Use a Web browser to move to www.apple.com/mobileme/.

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Configuring MobileMe on a Windows PC 1.

Open the MobileMe Preferences control panel. (If you don’t have this control panel, you aren’t using the current version of iTunes. Go back to the section called Updating iTunes and update your version.)

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Enter your MobileMe member name and password.

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Click Sign In. Your computer connects to your MobileMe account. In the Account Status section, you then see information about your account, such as the amount of disk space you have, when the account expires, and so on.

Exchange Handled Separately If you have an Exchange account, you don’t use MobileMe to sync your calendar or contact information. Instead you configure the Exchange account on iPhone and choose which information to sync with it (this is explained in Chapter 5,“Emailing”). These tasks are described in the relevant chapters, such as Chapter 8 for accessing your Exchange calendar.

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Click the Sync tab.

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Check the Sync with MobileMe check box.

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On the top drop-down menu, choose how frequently the sync happens. For example, to have the sync performed hourly, choose Every Hour. Choose Automatically to have the sync performed every time data changes or Manually to perform the sync only when you click the Sync Now button.

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If you want your MobileMe contact information stored in Outlook to be included in the sync, check the Contacts check box.

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If you want your MobileMe calendar information stored in Outlook to be included in the sync, check the Calendar check box.

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To have your bookmarks moved into the MobileMe cloud, check the Bookmarks check box and perform step 10. If you don’t want this, skip to step 11.

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Choose the web browser where the bookmarks you want to sync are maintained (Internet Explorer or Safari).

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Click OK. If you selected any option but Manually in step 6, the information you selected is moved from the computer to the MobileMe cloud where you can access it on iPhone, and the process is repeated according to the schedule you set. If you selected Manually, click the Sync Now button to move the information.

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Configuring MobileMe on a Mac 1.

Open the System Preferences application and click the MobileMe icon.

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Enter your member name and password.

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Click Sign In. Your account information is configured , and the MobileMe pane updates to show that you have configured MobileMe.

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Click the Sync tab.

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Check the Synchronize with MobileMe check box.

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On the pop-up menu, select how you want synchronizations to occur. You can choose Manually to sync manually; choose a time, such as Every Hour, to sync at those times; or choose Automatically to have syncs performed whenever included data changes.

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Check the check box next to each item you want to include in the sync.

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Click Sync Now. The information you selected is copied onto the MobileMe cloud where you can access it from iPhone. Future syncs happen according to the schedule you set, or if you selected Manually, you have to click the Sync Now button to sync your information.

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Managing MobileMe Syncs The first time you sync information via MobileMe (or if you reset your sync options), you decide how you want information to be moved.You are prompted via the MobileMe Sync Alert dialog. 1.

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During syncs, you are prompted when the amount of data changes beyond the limits you set on the MobileMe Preferences control panel or the MobileMe pane of the System Preferences application. For example, you may choose to be notified when more than 5% of the computer’s data will change. When this happens, you see a dialog that enables you to make selections about how data is moved. You can use the controls in this dialog to review the changes and accept or prevent them as you see fit. When you’ve decided, you click the appropriate Sync button to allow the sync to proceed. If these prompts get too annoying, move back to the MobileMe preferences and increase the percentage of data change that triggers a notification or disable the notifications entirely.

There’s More to MobileMe If you get a MobileMe account, make sure you explore all it has to offer, including the great Web applications for email, contacts, and calendars. You may find that its iDisk online disk space is worth the cost of an account on its own.

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Using this Book This book has been designed to help you transform an iPhone into your iPhone by helping you learn to use it easily and quickly. As you can tell, the book relies heavily on pictures to show you how iPhone works. It is also task focused so that you can quickly learn the specific steps to follow to do all the cool things you can do with iPhone. Using iPhone involves lots of touching its screen with your fingers. When you need to press part of the screen, such as a button or keyboard, you see a callout with the step number pointing to where you need to press. When you need to drag or slide your finger along the screen, such as to browse lists, you see the following icon:

The directions you can drag are indicated with arrows. To zoom in or zoom out on screens, you unpinch or pinch, respectively, your fingers on the screen. These motions are indicated by the following icons:

When you need to press twice, such as to zoom out or in, you see the following icon:

When you need to rotate iPhone, you see this icon:

Because iTunes and iPhone work with both Windows computers and Macs, this book is also designed for both platforms. When there are significant differences, such as applications you use to store photos, you see task sections devoted to each type of computer. You can safely skip over sections focused on a type of computer you don’t use.

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iPhone hardware is now in its second generation, which is typically called iPhone 3G because it can use AT&T’s or other provider’s high-speed wireless networks. However, first generation iPhones are still very capable, and with software updated to the current release, original iPhones can do almost everything that the second-generation iPhones can do. When there is an exception to this and original iPhones can’t do what’s being described, you’ll see a note so stating. Just skip over that information (of course, you could always upgrade to the current version of iPhone too!).

These Tips Won’t Cost You 18% Tips provide shortcuts or alternative ways to do things.

It’s Not All Good

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As great as the iPhone is, there are a few areas in which it doesn’t excel. I use this element to point out some topics that I think are important for you to be aware of. When there’s a workaround to get by one of iPhone’s limitations, I’ll explain it. Sometimes, you’ll just have to wait for iPhone’s software to be updated or for new hardware to be released. Fortunately, you won’t see many of these sections in this book because iPhone is really a remarkable device.

THIS ISN’T A HUGE BOOK Because you’re looking at this book, I assume that you want to learn the most important things about iPhone as quickly and easily as possible rather than labor through a 1,000-page tome. So the book is designed to be short, sweet, and to the point. Occasionally, I make you aware of something that I didn’t have room to cover in the tasks. When you see this element, you find a summary of other tasks that you can do, but for which you won’t find detailed task descriptions. In most cases, you can figure out how to complete a task based on similarity to the detailed tasks, or you’ll find a reference that provides you with the details.

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Press here to configure phone settings. Press here to make calls, manage contacts, listen to voicemail, and more.

In this chapter, you’ll explore all the cell phone functionality that iPhone has to offer. The topics include the following: B B B B B B

Configuring phone settings Making calls Receiving calls Managing calls Using visual voicemail Getting information about your cell account

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Although it’s also a lot of other great things, such as an iPod, web browser, email tool, and so on, there’s a reason the word phone is in iPhone’s name. It’s a feature-rich cell phone that includes one of iPhone’s best features, which is visual voicemail. Other useful features include a speaker phone, conference calling, and easy-to-use onscreen controls. Plus, iPhone’s phone functions are integrated with its other features. For example, when using the Maps application, you might find a location, such as a business, that you’re interested in contacting. You can call that location just by pressing the number you want to call directly from the Maps screen. No need to fumble around switching to phone mode and dialing the number manually. iPhone makes your mobile phone use quicker, easier, and smarter in so many ways, as you’ll see in the pages that follow.

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Configuring Phone Settings Before jumping into iPhone calling, take a few minutes to configure iPhone’s phone functions to work the way you want them to. To start, move to iPhone’s Home screen by pressing the Home button at the bottom of iPhone. On the Home screen, press Settings. The Settings screen appears.

>>>step-by-step Creating Your Own Ringtones Of course, one of the most fun phone settings are the ringtones you hear when you receive calls. iPhone includes quite a collection of ringtones from which you can choose. To make your ringtones more custom, you can create them from selected songs you can purchase in the iTunes Store. There are two steps to this. In the first, you create the ringtone. In the second, you move the ringtone onto iPhone so you can select it.

iTunes Store Info You can find out how to access the iTunes Store to buy and download music in Chapter 3,“Listening to Audio and Watching Video.”

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Creating a Ringtone in iTunes To use a song as a ringtone, you must purchase it from the iTunes Store. (If you’ve imported a ringtone-enabled song from another source, such as a CD, you won’t be able to create a ringtone from it; you have to buy it from the iTunes Store.) Songs that are ringtone-enabled are marked with the ringtone icon, which is a bell. After you’ve purchased a ringtone-enabled song and downloaded it, you can convert it into a ringtone; note there is an additional charge of $.99 to do this. Here’s how to create a ringtone for a ringtone-enabled song in your library.

Ringtone-enabled songs

1. In iTunes, select a song that you want to use as a ringtone by searching or browsing your library. Ringtone-enabled songs are marked with the same icon that they are in the iTunes Store.You can easily find all your ringtoneenabled music by selecting Music on the iTunes Source list and ensuring All is selected in each column of the Browser.Then sort the list by the Ringtone-enabled column.

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Use the Looping pop-up menu to determine the amount of gap between the loops of the ringtone when it rings. The default is .5 seconds, but you can increase this if you want more of a pause between repetitions.

Creating ringtones from iTunes Store music is good, but it is somewhat limiting because you can only use tunes that are ringtone enabled. And you have to pay $.99 for each ringtone (even if you’ve already purchased the song). If you want to be able to use any song or audio as a ringtone, you need an application that provides this capability. Do a Web search to find one. One of my favorites for Macs is iToner by Ambrosia Software (www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/iToner/).

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>>>step-by-step Moving Ringtones onto iPhone After you’ve created a ringtone using iTunes, you can move it onto iPhone. 1.

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Click the Ringtones tab. The ringtones you’ve created are shown in the box below Selected Ringtones.

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To prevent iPhone from vibrating when you’ve silenced the ringer, press the Vibrate ON button. The status becomes OFF, and iPhone won’t vibrate when you have silenced it using the Mute switch. Press OFF to re-enable vibration.

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To increase the volume level of ringer sounds, drag the slider to the right; drag it to the left to lower the volume of ringer sounds.

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If you don’t want the correct prefixes added to U.S. phone numbers when you dial them from outside the United States, press ON. It becomes OFF to show you that you have to add any prefixes manually when dialing a U.S. number from outside the United States.

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Enter the number to which you want to forward calls. Include the number’s area code. You can use the special symbols located in the lower-left corner of the keypad to enter pauses and such.

10. Press Call Forwarding. iPhone saves the number, and you return to the Call Forwarding screen. The number to which iPhone will forward calls shows next to the Forwarding To text.

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Other Phone Settings TTY devices enable hearing-impaired people to use a telephone. To use TTY with iPhone, you need an adapter to connect iPhone to a TTY device. You also need to turn TTY support on by pressing the TTY OFF button, which becomes ON to show you that TTY support is active. The Change Voicemail Password command enables you to reset your voicemail password; this is covered at the end of the chapter. The SIM PIN setting enables you to associate a personal ID number, or PIN, with the SIM (subscriber identity module) card in iPhone. You can remove this card from iPhone and install it in other phones that support these cards to be able to use your account with a different phone. If you set a PIN, that PIN is required to be able to use the card in a different phone. The AT&T Services option (US markets) enables you to get information about your account. This is covered at the end of this chapter.

Which Network? Although iPhone currently supports only the default network for the country in which you purchased it, when you are in different countries, you might see something other than that network next to the strength bars. The specific network you see doesn’t really matter; what counts is the strength of the signal you receive. That is, the network you use doesn’t matter except for roaming charges, which can be significant depending on where you use iPhone and what your default network is. Before you travel outside of your default network’s coverage, check with that network to determine the roaming rates that apply to where you are going. Also see if there is a discounted roaming plan for that location. If you don’t do this before you leave, you might get a nasty surprise when the bill comes in and you see substantial roaming charges.

Making Calls There are a number of ways to make calls with iPhone, but after a call is in progress, you can manage it in the same way no matter how you started.

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>>>step-by-step Dialing with the Keypad The most obvious way to make a call is to dial the number. 1.

On the Home screen, press Phone. You move to the Phone screen.

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If you haven’t made a call from your current location before, check the signal strength to make sure that you can reach the network. As long as you see at least one bar, you should be able to make and receive calls.

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Dialing with Contacts iPhone has a complete contact manager so that you can store phone numbers for people and organizations. (You’ll learn how to configure your contacts in Chapter 2, “Managing Contacts.”) To make a call using a contact, follow these steps. 1.

On the Home screen, press Phone. You move to the Phone screen.

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If you haven’t made a call from your current location before, check the signal strength to make sure that you can reach the network. As long as you see at least one bar, you should be able to make and receive calls.

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Press the Contacts button. The All Contacts screen appears.

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Dialing with Favorites You can save contacts and phone numbers as favorites to make dialing them even simpler. (You learn how to save favorites in various locations later in this chapter and in Chapter 2.) 1.

On the Home screen, press Phone. You move to the Phone screen.

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Going Back To return to the Recents screen without making a call, press Recent Calls.

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Call status or duration

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Press to put call on speaker phone. Press to enter numbers during call.

Press to add another call to the current one.

Press to add another call via contact information. Press to put call on hold.

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Nobody’s Perfect If iPhone can’t complete the call for some reason, such as not having a strong enough signal, the Call Failed screen appears. Press Call Back to try again or press Done to give up. When you press Done, you return to the screen from which you came.

Some of the other things you can do while on a call might not be so obvious, as you’ll learn in the next few tasks.

>>>step-by-step Entering Numbers During a Call You often need to enter numbers during a call, such as to log in to a voice mail system, access an account, and so on. 1.

Place a call using any of the methods you’ve learned so far. The Call screen appears.

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Making Conference Calls iPhone makes it easy to talk to multiple people at the same time. You can have two separate calls going on at any point in time. You can have more calls going on by merging them together. 1.

Place a call using any of the methods you’ve learned so far. The Call screen appears.

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Receiving Calls Receiving calls on iPhone enables you to access the same great tools you can use when you make calls, plus a few more for good measure.

Answering Calls When iPhone rings, it’s time to answer the call—or not. If you configured the ringer to ring, you hear the general ringtone or one associated with the caller when a call comes in. If vibrate is turned on, iPhone vibrates whether the ringer is on or not. And if those two ways aren’t enough, a message appears on iPhone’s screen to show you information about the incoming call.

Information about who’s calling, including photo if available

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When you receive a call, you have the following options: • Answer Press Answer to take the call. You move to the Call screen and can work with the call like one you placed from iPhone. For example, you can add a call, merge calls, place the call on hold, end the call, and so on. • Decline If you press Decline, iPhone immediately routes the call to voicemail. You can also decline a call by pressing the Sleep/Wake button twice quickly on iPhone’s top. • Silence a call To silence the ringer without sending the call to voicemail, press the Sleep/Wake button on iPhone’s top once or press either the upper or lower part of the Volume button on iPhone’s left side. The call continues to come in, and you can answer it even though you shut the ringer off for the call.

Silencio! To turn iPhone’s ringer off temporarily, slide the Ringer switch located above the Volume switch on iPhone’s left side toward the back so that the red dot appears. The no-ringer icon (a bell with a slash through it) appears on the screen to let you know that you turned the ringer off. To turn it back on again, slide the switch toward iPhone’s front. The bell icon appears on the screen to show you that the ringer is active again. To set the ringer’s volume, use the Volume switch on iPhone’s left side when you aren’t in a call and aren’t listening to music or video via its iPod functions.

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Answering Calls When You’re Already on a Call As you saw earlier, iPhone can manage multiple calls at the same time. If you are on a call and another call comes in, you have a number of ways to respond. Information about the new call coming in

Press to send incoming call to voicemail. Press to put current call on hold and answer.

Press to end current call and answer.

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Press Ignore to send the incoming call directly to voicemail.

• Place the first call on hold and answer the second Press Hold Call + Answer to place the current call on hold and answer the second one. After you do this, you can manage the two calls just as when you called two numbers from iPhone. For example, you can place the second call on hold and move back to the first one, merge the calls, add more calls, and so on. • End the first call and answer the second Press End Call + Answer to terminate the active call and answer the incoming call.

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>>>step-by-step Working with Missed and Recent Calls You can use iPhone’s Recents list to get information about the calls you’ve made with iPhone, well…recently.This includes both calls that were completed and calls that were missed. 1.

On the Home screen, press Phone. You move to the Phone page. At the bottom of the screen, on the Recents button, you see an indicator if you missed any calls since you last looked at the list, along with the number that you missed.

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To see only missed calls, press Missed. The list reduces to show only missed calls.

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Using iPhone’s Headset for Calls iPhone includes a set of earbud headphones with a microphone on one of its cords. The mic includes a button that you can use to do the following: • Answer • End a call

Press the mic button once to answer a call. Press the mic button while you are on a call to end it.

• Decline a call Press and hold the mic button for about two seconds. Two beeps sound when you release the button to let you know that iPhone sent the call to voicemail. • Put a current call on hold and switch to an incoming call and then press again.

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• End a current call on hold and switch to an incoming call Press once and hold for about two seconds. Release the button and you hear two beeps to let you know that you ended the first call. The incoming call is ready for you.

Ringing When you have headphones plugged into iPhone and you receive a call, the ringtone plays on both the iPhone’s speaker and the headphones.

Using Visual Voicemail Visual voicemail just might be the best of iPhone’s many great features. No more wading through long, uninteresting voicemails to get to one in which you are interested. You simply jump to the message you want to hear. And because voicemails are stored on iPhone, you don’t need to log in to hear them. If that isn’t enough for you, you can also jump to any point within a voicemail to hear just that part.

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Speak your greeting. As you record your message, monitor the sound level using the gauge at the bottom of the screen. You should attempt to keep the volume level of your greeting at the midpoint of the gauge.

Missing Password If something happens to the password stored on iPhone for your voicemail, such as if you restore iPhone, you are prompted to enter your password before you can access your voicemail. Do so at the prompt and press OK. iPhone logs you in to voicemail, and you won’t have to enter your password for a second time unless something happens to it again.

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Number of voicemails to which you haven’t listened

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Two Annoyances of Life Solved If you deal with lots of voicemails, iPhone solves two annoyances for you. (Well, they’re annoyances to me anyway.) The first annoyance involves people who speak too quickly or unclearly when they leave information you need, such as a phone number. With regular voicemail, you have to play the whole message just to hear the information you need. With iPhone, you can drag the Playhead to the point in the message containing the information of interest to hear it as many times as you need. The other annoyance is dealing with long voicemails. Because iPhone shows you how long each message is, you can decide to listen to a message based on how long it is. And, of course, you see who each message is from, so you can prioritize messages to listen to as you see fit.

>>>step-by-step Deleting Voicemails 1.

Move to the Voicemail screen.

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Press the message you want to delete to select it.

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Configuring How Contacts Are Displayed Before you start using contacts, make sure that contact information displays according to your preferences.

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On the Home screen, press Settings. The Settings screen appears.

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Getting Contact Information onto iPhone To be able to use contact information on iPhone, it has to exist there. Fortunately, there are many ways to configure contact information on iPhone.

>>>step-by-step Moving Contacts from MobileMe or Exchange Accounts to iPhone If you have a MobileMe account that syncs with a computer that contains contact information or you have an Exchange account, you can sync that information on iPhone and vice versa. (To learn how to configure a computer to sync contact information via MobileMe, see the Prologue. To learn how to configure an Exchange account on iPhone, see Chapter 5,“Emailing.”) 1.

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Moving Contacts from a Windows PC to iPhone If you use Outlook, Windows Address Book/Outlook Express, or Yahoo! Address Book, you can move your contact information from any of those applications onto iPhone. 1.

Connect iPhone to your computer.

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Moving Contacts from a Mac to iPhone If you use Address Book or Yahoo! Address Book, you can move your contact information from either of those applications onto iPhone. 1.

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Syncing with More than One Source If you configured iPhone to sync with more than one source of contact information, perhaps Outlook on a Windows PC and Address Book on a Mac, when you sync, you’re prompted to replace or merge the information. If you select Replace Info, the existing information in whatever you are syncing with replaces all the contact information on iPhone. If you choose Merge Info, the information you are syncing moves onto iPhone and merges with the existing contact information.

Importing SIM Contacts iPhone stores various information on its SIM card. This information can include contact information. If you move a SIM card to a different phone, you can import the contact information it contains by moving to the Mail, Contacts, Calendar settings screen and pressing Import SIM Contacts.

Creating New Contacts While Using iPhone As you use iPhone, you encounter many types of contact information. When you receive phone calls (Chapter 1,“Making, Receiving, and Managing Calls”), you deal with phone numbers. When you send emails (Chapter 5), you interact with email addresses. If you text message, you use phone numbers (Chapter 7,“Text Messaging”). When you use the Map application (see Chapter 10,“Working with iPhone Applications”), you view physical addresses. These are just examples of some of the places in which you encounter information you might want to use to create a contact. The steps you use to create contacts during any of these activities is similar, as several of the following examples demonstrate.

>>>step-by-step Creating a Contact from a Recent Phone Call You can capture a phone number associated with a recent call as part of a contact. 1.

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10. Press the label for the new information. 11. Press Add Phone. You return to the Add Phone screen.

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Creating a Contact from an Email When you receive an email, you can easily create a contact to capture the email address. 1.

On the Home screen, press Mail. The Mail screen appears.

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Use the Mail application to get to an email (see Chapter 5 for details).

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On the Home screen, press Text. The Text Messages screen appears.

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Creating Contacts on iPhone Manually Most of the time, you’ll manage contact information on a computer and move it to iPhone. Or you’ll use information on iPhone to create new contacts so that you don’t have to start from scratch. When you do have to start from scratch, you can create contacts manually and add all the information you need to them. 1.

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To associate a photo with the contact, press Add Photo. The photo dialog appears.

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11. Press Last First or First Last (the label you see depends on the preference you set). The Edit Name screen appears.

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21. To add another number, press Add new Phone and repeat steps 17 through 20. 22. To assign a specific ringtone to play when you receive a call from the contact, press Ringtone. The Ringtones screen appears. 23. Press the ringtone you want to associate with the contact. It plays, and iPhone marks it with a check mark to show you that this is the associated ringtone.

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Custom Labels You can create custom labels for various kinds of contact information. On the Label screen, scroll down the screen and press the Add Custom Label option. The Custom Label screen appears. Create the label and press Save. You can then choose your custom label for the new contact you are creating as well as for contacts you create or change in the future.

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32. Enter the URL. 33. Press the Label bar. The Label screen appears. 34. Press the label you want to associate with the URL. You return to the Edit URL screen.

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>>>step-by-step 1.

On the Home screen, press Contacts. (If you don’t see the Contacts button, drag your finger to the left on the Home screen to move to the next page.) You see the All Contacts screen with the contacts listed in the format you selected, such as last name, first name.

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Changing or Deleting Contacts Contact information changes as time passes. For example, perhaps you need to add more information to existing contacts, or you don’t need contact information anymore. In cases like these, you can make these changes or remove those contacts from iPhone.

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When you sync contacts with a computer, the changes go both ways. For example, when you change a contact on iPhone, the synced contact manager application, such as Outlook, makes the changes for those contacts. Likewise, when you change contact information in a contact manager, those changes move to iPhone when you sync it. If you add a new contact in a contact manager, it moves to iPhone during a sync operation and vice versa. When you sync, you see a dialog box that prompts you to tell iTunes how to handle the changes made on the computer with which you are syncing.

>>>step-by-step Changing Contacts via Syncs Using syncing, when you change contact information in one location, it is changed in the other locations the next time you sync. 1.

Connect iPhone to the computer or allow syncs to happen via MobileMe.

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Press a field to change its information. The related Edit screen appears, and you can make or save your changes. These Edit screens work just like when you create a new contact (see Creating Contacts on iPhone Manually earlier in this chapter).

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Adding Information to an Existing Contact While Using iPhone As you use iPhone, you’ll encounter information related to a contact but that isn’t part of that contact’s information. For example, a contact might call you on a different phone than the one you entered in that contact’s information. When that happens, you can easily add the additional information to an existing contact. 1.

Locate the information you want to add to an existing contact, such as a phone number, email address, or website.

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Even Easier In some cases, you don’t need to use the Info screen, such as when you are viewing a text message. In those cases, just click the Add to Contact button and choose Add to Existing Contact in the resulting dialog.

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Searching for Contacts When you want to find a specific contact, you can use the Contacts Search tool. Open the All Contacts screen and scroll to the top until you see the Search bar. Type information about the contact you are interested in; as you type, iPhone presents the contacts that meet your criterion on a list. To view a contact, press it on the Results list.

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Using iTunes to Add Audio and Video Content to iPhone Before you can listen to audio and watch video, you have to move content onto iPhone. One way to do this is to add content to your iTunes Library and then move that content from iTunes to iPhone. The most common ways to add content to the iTunes Library are by importing audio CDs or purchasing content from, renting movies from, and subscribing to podcasts in the iTunes Store. After you have stocked your iTunes Library, you can create playlists to organize content. When your content is ready, sync iPhone with the iTunes Library so that the content you want to be available is moved from the Library onto iPhone.

>>>step-by-step Importing Audio CDs to the iTunes Library Importing audio CDs is one of the most useful ways to get music and other audio content into iTunes. 1.

Launch iTunes by double-clicking its application icon, choosing it on the Windows Start menu, or clicking it on the Mac’s Dock.

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TAGGING YOUR MUSIC To be able to browse and find music in your iTunes Library, you must tag (label) the tracks you import. When iTunes finds a CD’s information on the Internet, it takes care of this for you, including the album artwork associated with that CD (as long as the music is available in the iTunes Store). If iTunes doesn’t find information for CD content you import, you should add tags manually. Do this by selecting a track and choosing File, Get Info. Use the Info dialog to update the track’s tags, including name, album, artist, and even artwork. If you select multiple tracks before you open the Info dialog, you can update the tags on the selected tracks at the same time.

>>>step-by-step Purchasing Audio and Video from the iTunes Store The iTunes Store has a very large selection of music, movies, TV shows, and other content that you can preview, purchase, and download. To do this, you must have an Apple Store account, also known as an Apple ID (you can preview content without an Apple ID). If you have an AIM/AOL screen name, you can use that as an Apple ID (you have to provide credit card information to be able to use that account to make purchases in the iTunes Store). 1.

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When you want to purchase and download content, click the Buy button. For example, when you are viewing music, this is the Buy Song or Buy Album button. When you are viewing TV shows, it is the Buy Episode or Buy Season button. The content you purchase is downloaded to your computer and added to your iTunes Library.

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One Place Only Unlike other content you get from the iTunes Store, rented movies can be on only one device at a time. So when you move a rented movie from the iTunes Library onto iPhone, it disappears from the iTunes Library (you can move it back if you choose).

>>>step-by-step Subscribing to Podcasts in the iTunes Store

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Click iTunes Store. The iTunes Store fills the Content pane.

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Building Audio and Video Playlists One of the best ways to collect content that you want to place on iPhone is to create a playlist and manually place content onto it. 1.

Click the New Playlist button. A new playlist is created with its default name selected for you to change.

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Select File, New Smart Playlist. The Smart Playlist dialog box appears.

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11. If you want to limit the playlist, check the Limit to check box. 12. Select the parameter by which you want to limit the playlist in the first menu; this menu defaults to items. Your choices include the number of items, the time the playlist will play (in minutes or hours), or the size of the files the playlist contains (in MB or GB). 13. Type the data appropriate for the limit you selected in the Limit to box. For example, if you selected minutes in the menu, type the maximum length of the playlist in minutes in the box.

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Check Please! Each item in iTunes has a check box. You use this to tell iTunes if you want it to include the item (such as a song or podcast) in whatever you happen to be doing. If you uncheck this box, iTunes ignores the item.

It’s Not All Good The iPhone’s storage capacity has improved over time (when the 3G was released, there were 8GB and 16GB models, which was a significant improvement over the first generation’s 4GB or 8GB models). Although this is impressive for such a small device, it’s not adequate to store all the content in large iTunes libraries, especially when a library includes lots of video. The only way to deal with this limitation is to pick and choose the content you want to be available on the iPhone. This isn’t hard, but it is a bit of a nuisance. Hopefully future iPhone versions will include even more storage capacity, such as the 32GB available on the current generation of iPod Touch. Ideally, iPhone users want to be able to store all of their iTunes content on the iPhone, so more memory is better.

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>>>step-by-step Moving Content from the iTunes Library onto iPhone To move iTunes content onto iPhone, you need to choose the content you want to move there and then synchronize iPhone. You can set up iPhone so that content is moved automatically or manually. 1.

Connect the iPhone to your computer using its USB cable. iPhone is mounted on your computer and appears in the iTunes Source list.

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Do It Yourself? If you check the Manually manage music and videos check box, you can plan content on the iPhone by dragging it from the iTunes Content pane onto the iPhone icon on the Source list.

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iTunes Library Not So Large? If you have a relatively small amount of content in iTunes, select the All Songs and Playlists option so that iTunes attempts to move all your music onto iPhone. As I mentioned earlier, iPhone has limited storage, so unless you have a library that takes less space than is available on your iPhone, you have to choose the content you want to place on iPhone.

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Click the Video tab. In the Rented Movies section, you see the movies you are currently renting.

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Check the Sync check box to move TV shows onto iPhone.

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Choose the number of episodes that should be moved on the popup menu. One useful option here is all unwatched, which moves all episodes that you haven’t yet watched onto iPhone.

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28. Click Apply. iTunes moves the selected content from the Library to iPhone. If there’s enough space on iPhone, then the process continues until all the content has been moved (and you can skip the rest of these steps). If you’ve selected more content than there is room for on iPhone, you see a warning dialog explaining how much content you selected versus how much is available. It also gives you options to remove selected content, such as podcasts. 29. If you want iTunes to remove content, click Yes; if not, click No. If you elected to let iTunes remove content, the content is removed, and the sync is attempted again. If there still isn’t enough space available or you clicked No, you see another dialog box that explains there isn’t enough room on iPhone.

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Check First, then Unplug Wait until the “iPhone sync is complete” message appears in the iTunes Information window located at the top of the iTunes window before removing iPhone from the computer. If you remove it during the sync process, some of the content might not be moved onto iPhone correctly.

Using the iTunes Store Application to Add Audio and Video to iPhone You can use the iTunes Store application to download audio content from the iTunes Store directly onto iPhone, where you can play it just like content you’ve moved onto iPhone using iTunes. The next time you sync iPhone, the content you purchase is moved into your iTunes Library so you can enjoy it there, too.

You Need an Internet Connection To be able to use the iTunes Store application on the iPhone, you need to have an Internet connection via a Wi-Fi network. For help connecting iPhone to Wi-Fi networks, see Chapter 4,“Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth Devices, and VPNs.”

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>>>step-by-step Downloading Audio Content from iPhone’s iTunes Store Application To add audio content from the iTunes Store directly onto the iPhone, you use the iTunes application. 1.

Move to the iPhone’s Home screen.

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Press the iTunes button. You move to the iTunes Store application. At the bottom of the screen, you choose how you want to look for content by pressing one of the following buttons: Featured shows featured content in the store, Top Tens takes you to various top ten lists, and Search enables you to search for content. The Featured area breaks down content into New Releases, What’s Hot, and Genres tabs. The Top Tens categories show you various top ten lists; you press a list to see its content. The rest of these steps explain how to use the Search tool because using Featured or Top Tens is straightforward; you simply press on content in which you are interested.

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When you see something of interest on the results list, press it. For example, press an artist’s name. You see a list of content related to your search.

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To explore the contents of an album, press it. At the top of the screen, you see the album’s general information, such as when it was released and how many songs it contains. In the lower part of the window, you see the tracks on that album.

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To preview a track, press it. A 30-second preview plays. While it’s playing, the track’s number is replaced by the Stop button, which you can press to stop the preview.

10. To buy an album, press its Buy button, which shows the price of the album. The button becomes the Buy Now button. 11. To buy a song, press its Buy button, which shows the price of the song. The button becomes the Buy Now button.

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Listening to Music After you move audio content to iPhone, you can enjoy it while on the move. There are two fundamental steps to listening to audio content. First, find the content you want to listen to; from the Cover Flow Browser to artists and genres, iPhone offers many ways to find what you want to hear. Second, after you select what you want to hear, use iPhone’s playback controls to listen to your heart’s content.

>>>step-by-step Using the Cover Flow Browser to Find and Play Music The Cover Flow Browser simulates what it’s like to flip through a stack of CDs; you can quickly peruse your entire music collection to get to the right music for your current mood. 1.

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Using Playlists to Find Music Accessing the iTunes playlists that you moved to iPhone is simple. 1.

On the Home screen, press the iPod button.

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Press the Playlists button. The list of all playlists on iPhone appears.

Shuffle Off to Musical Bliss To hear the songs in a playlist in random order, press Shuffle. It always appears at the top of a playlist’s screen.

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Using Artists to Find Music You can always find music on iPhone by artist. 1.

On the Home screen, press the iPod button.

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Press Artists. The list of all artists whose content is on iPhone appears. Artists are grouped by the first letter of their first name or by group name.

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Using Genres to Find Music Like the other categories, using Genres to find music is simple. 1.

On the Home screen, press the iPod button.

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Press to return to the start of the current track, press and hold to rewind, or press twice to move to previous track. Drag to the right to increase volume or drag to the left to decrease it.

Playing Music As you have seen, the Now Playing screen appears whenever you play music. This screen provides several controls for the music, and you can use them to navigate back to wherever you came from. 1.

Find and play a song or album. The Now Playing screen appears, and you can use its controls.

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Press the Track List view button or double-tap the album cover. The Album Cover view is replaced by the Track List view. Here you see the list of all tracks from which the current song comes, even if you aren’t listening to the album itself (such as when you are listening to a playlist). You see the order of tracks on the album along with their names and playing times.

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Viewing Albums As soon as you play a song from the Track List view screen, you jump to Album mode. From that point on, you are working with the album from which the current song came only. For example, if you play a playlist, switch to Track List view and play a different song on the same album. You change the content to only that album, so the next song that plays is the next one on the album, not the next one in the playlist. When you press the Return button, you move to the album’s screen instead of the playlist’s screen. If you view only the song’s information or give it a rating in Track List view, when you move back to the Cover view, you are still working with the original source, such as a playlist.

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Controlling Audio Content with the iPod Control Bar Because you can do so much more on iPhone than just listen to music, you’ll often be doing something else, such as browsing the Web while music is playing. It would be a nuisance to have to move back into the iPod functions to perform basic actions, such as pausing music. Fortunately, with the iPod control bar, you don’t have to.

>>>step-by-step Configure the iPod Control Bar First, configure how you want to activate the control bar. 1.

On the Home screen, press Settings. You see the Settings screen.

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Use the iPod Control Bar Use the control bar to do the following tasks. 1.

Play music.

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Finding and Listening to Podcasts iPhone is a great way to listen to your podcasts. Like all other iPod functions, you first find the podcast you want to listen to and then use iPhone’s audio playback controls to hear it.

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Finding and Watching Video iPhone is a great way to enjoy video content as well, such as movies or TV shows, while you’re on the move. Like music and other content, the first step is to find the video you want to watch. Then you use iPhone’s video tools to watch that video.

>>>step-by-step Finding Video Finding video content on iPhone is similar to finding the other kinds of content we’ve already discussed. 1.

On the Home screen, press the iPod button.

Going Back Again When content is playing and you press the iPod button, you move to the Now Playing screen. To get back to the iPod screen, press the Return button until the iPod buttons appear at the bottom of the screen.

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Watching Video When you play video, it is always oriented in landscape mode so that it can fill the screen. 1.

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Scale This If native scale of the video is not the same proportion as the iPhone screen and you play it in its original scale, the video might not fill the screen. When you scale the video, it fills the screen, but some content might be cut off.

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Customizing iPhone for iPod You could use iPhone as an iPod just fine without performing any of the steps in this section. However, because this book is named My iPhone, you should explore these options to make iPhone your own.

>>>step-by-step Building and Editing an On-The-Go Playlist You can build a special playlist on iPhone. This is called the On-The-Go playlist because, well, you build it while you are on the go.

Creating and Listening to an On-The-Go Playlist 1.

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Add from Anywhere While you’re in Playlist-building mode, you can add content from any iPod screen. For example, to add content by artist instead of by song, press the Artists button. The Artists screen appears. Press the artist whose music you want to add to the playlist and add the songs by that artist by pressing those songs or clicking the Add buttons. You can add content by genre, composer, and so on in the same way.

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SAVING THE ON-THE-GO PLAYLIST When you sync iPhone, the On-The-Go playlist moves into your iTunes Library where you can work with it just like playlists you create in iTunes. For example, you can change its name, its content, and so on. Each time you change the On-The-Go playlist on iPhone, a new version is created. When you sync, that version moves into iTunes, and its name is updated with a sequential number, as in On-The-Go1, On-The-Go2, and so on. Each version becomes a new playlist in your iTunes Library.

Using the iPhone Genius The Genius features build a playlist based on music you already have. How the Genius selects songs that sound good with other songs is a bit of a secret, but it seems to work pretty well. You can have the Genius build a playlist for you in a couple of ways, and then work with the Genius playlist similar to how you can use the On-the-Go playlist.

>>>step-by-step Creating a Genius Playlist Based on the Current Song 1.

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Drag the button you want to add to the toolbar to the location of one of the buttons currently there. As you get over the current button, it lights up to show you that it will be the one replaced when you lift your finger. The button you dragged replaces the button over which you placed it. The original button is moved onto the Configure screen.

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10. Scroll the screen to see all the equalizers available to you. 11. Select the equalizer you want iPhone to use when you play music; the current equalizer is indicated by the check mark. To turn the equalizer off, select Off.

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In this chapter, you’ll explore how to connect iPhone to networks and Bluetooth devices. Topics include the following: B Connecting to the Internet B Connecting to Bluetooth devices B Connecting to VPNs

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Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth Devices, and VPNs Even if you’ve read this book in sequential order, you know that iPhone is unlike any other personal digital device. If all it contained were the cell phone and iPod functionality, it would still be amazing. However, iPhone is just getting started. It really begins to shine when you use its Internet functions, such as email, web browsing, maps, weather, and…well, you get the idea. As you can probably guess, to use iPhone’s Internet functions, you have to connect it to the Internet. You might also want to connect iPhone to Bluetooth devices, such as a Bluetooth headset. Or you might want to connect iPhone to a virtual private network (VPN) so that you can use it to access the resources available on that network. This chapter teaches you the techniques for accomplishing all of that and more.

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Connecting to the Internet When it comes to connecting iPhone to the Internet, you have three options. One is to connect via a Wi-Fi broadband connection that is very, very good, and you’ll enjoy the iPhone’s Internet functionality at amazing speeds. When a Wi-Fi network isn’t available, iPhone connects to AT&T’s 3G network, which offers very good performance, and Internet functions are fast enough to be very useful indeed. When the first two options aren’t available, iPhone connects through AT&T’s EDGE network, which is so slow you might not be able to stand it for some functions, such as web browsing; still, there are some situations in which connecting, even at a snail’s pace, is better than no connection at all.

Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi Networks You can connect iPhone to a variety of Wi-Fi networks, including those available in your home or business or in public places, such as airports and schools.

Automatic Prompting to Join By default, when you access one of iPhone’s Internet functions, such as Safari, iPhone automatically searches for networks to join if you aren’t already connected to one. A dialog appears showing all the networks available to you. You can select and join one of these networks similar to how you join one via Settings, as you learn how to do in the following steps. If you don’t want iPhone to do this, use the Settings button to move to the Wi-Fi Networks screen and turn off Ask to Join Networks. When it’s off, you need to manually connect to networks each time you want to join as described in the following steps.

>>>step-by-step Connecting to an Open Network Many Wi-Fi networks broadcast their information so that you can easily see them when searching with iPhone; these are called open networks because anyone who is in range can attempt to join them because they appear on Wi-Fi devices. These are the easiest to join.

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On the Home screen, press Settings.The Settings screen appears. Next to Wi-Fi, you see the status of your Wi-Fi connection, which is Not Connected if you aren’t currently connected to Wi-Fi.

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Review the networks that iPhone finds. For each network, you see its name, whether it is secure (the padlock icon indicates you need a password to join the network), and its signal strength (the number of waves next to the More button). I’ve found that the signal strength icon on this screen isn’t very reliable; you won’t really know how strong a signal is until you actually connect to the network. Press the network you want to join. (If you recognize only one of the networks, you’ve probably used it before, so it is a good choice.) You also need to consider the security of the network; if you see the padlock icon next to the network’s name, you need a password to join the network, and you have to do the following two steps. If the network is not marked with the padlock icon, it is not secure, and you can skip to step 8. If you select a network that requires a password, the Enter Password screen appears.

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10. Scroll the screen to review the network’s information. The most important item is the IP Address. If there is no number here or the number starts with 169, the network is not providing an IP address, and you must find another network. You can safely ignore the rest of the information on the screen in most situations. If you want to access some of the more advanced settings, such as HTTP proxy, you need information from the network administrator to be able to access the network. 11. Press Wi-Fi Networks to return to the Wi-Fi Networks screen.

Was Connected but Now I’m Not If you’ve been using a network successfully, and at some point, iPhone cannot access the Internet but remains connected to the network, move to the network’s Info screen and press Renew Lease. This sometimes refreshes iPhone’s IP address so that you can access the Internet again.

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Wi-Fi connection 12. Move to the Home screen. You should see the Wi-Fi connection icon next to AT&T, which also indicates the strength of the signal. If you see 3G or EDGE instead, you’re connected to one of those networks, meaning that you didn’t connect to the Wi-Fi network successfully or that you have moved out of that network’s range. In this case, iPhone automatically connects to the next best available network. (“Next best” means a WiFi network if another network is available, followed by the 3G network, and last, the EDGE network.)

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Connecting to a Closed Network Some networks don’t broadcast their names or availability; these are called closed networks because they are hidden to people who don’t know they exist. To connect to one of these networks, you must know the network’s name because it won’t show up on the network list. You also need to know the type of security the network uses and its password. You have to get this information from the network’s provider. 1.

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Press the type of security the network uses. The options are None, WEP, WPA, WPA2, WPA Enterprise, or WPA2 Enterprise. You don’t need to worry about what each of these options means; you just need to pick the right one for the network. You’ll need to get the type of security from the person who manages the network. (The None option is for unsecured networks, but it’s unlikely that a hidden network wouldn’t require a password.) When you select an option, it is marked with a check mark.

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Security Key Index Some private networks require a key index in addition to a password. Unfortunately, there’s no way to enter a specific key on iPhone. If a network requires this key, you can’t connect iPhone to it. You might be able to join the network, but you probably won’t be able to get an IP address from it—and you must have one to get to the Internet. If you are unable to join a Wi-Fi that you know is available, check with the administrator to make sure that you have the right configuration information and don’t need a key index.

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Connecting to the Internet via 3G One of the best things about the iPhone 3G is that it connects to AT&T’s 3G high-speed wireless network so you can get fast Internet access from many locations. (Note: The 3G network is not available in all locations but is available near most major cities.) To connect to the 3G network, you don’t need to do anything. If you aren’t connected to a Wi-Fi network and iPhone isn’t in Airplane mode, iPhone automatically connects to the 3G network if it is available in your current location. When you are connected to the 3G network, you see the 3G indicator at the top of the iPhone screen. 3G network

Whenever you are connected to the 3G network, you can access the Internet for web browsing, email, and so on. While the speed won’t be quite as good as with a Wi-Fi network, it is relatively fast, certainly enough to be very usable. This is probably the biggest area in which the original iPhone falls short of its descendents. The original iPhone can only use Wi-Fi or the very slow EDGE network to connect to the Internet. If you have an original iPhone, you can skip this section because it doesn’t apply to you. If you do use the Internet a lot while you don’t have access to a Wi-Fi network, you may want to upgrade to the current generation of iPhone because the network speed is much better.

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>>>step-by-step Disabling 3G While the 3G network is fast, it does come with a price, which is shorter battery life. If you want to disable access to the 3G network to increase the amount of time between charges, perform the following steps: 1.

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Connecting to the Internet via EDGE When a Wi-Fi or the 3G network isn’t available, you are reduced to using the EDGE network (the original iPhone can only use Wi-Fi or the EDGE). When no better network is available (assuming iPhone isn’t in Airplane mode), iPhone connects to the EDGE network automatically so that you can still use iPhone’s Internet functionality. There’s a reason the EDGE is the last resort; the speed is so slow that you’ll need much more patience than I have to use the Web. The EDGE network can work okay for email and some of the other less data-intensive functions, however. And sometimes an EDGE connection is better than no connection. When iPhone is connected to the EDGE network, the E icon appears at the top of the screen. EDGE network

Connecting to Bluetooth Devices iPhone includes built-in Bluetooth support so that you can use this wireless technology to connect to other Bluetooth-capable devices. The most likely device to connect to iPhone in this way is a Bluetooth headset, but there might be times when you connect other devices to iPhone, too. Connecting any device to iPhone using Bluetooth is similar to the following steps that demonstrate how to connect iPhone to a standard Bluetooth earpiece for hands-free calling.

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It Takes Two to Pair In Bluetooth, pairing is the lingo for two Bluetooth devices connecting. This always requires one thing and sometimes requires two. The “always” requirement is that the devices can communicate with each other via Bluetooth. The “sometimes” requirement is a pairing code or PIN. Sometimes you enter this code on both devices, while for other devices, you enter the first device’s code on the second device. Some devices don’t require a PIN at all, in which case you don’t even have to think about it.

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PIN Required? For most Bluetooth headsets, you can pair the headset with iPhone just by pressing the headset on the Bluetooth screen. Some devices require a PIN to be able to pair the device with iPhone. If this is the case, you’ll be prompted to enter the device’s PIN. Do so, and the device will be paired with iPhone.

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Connecting to VPNs Many organizations use a VPN to provide access to a local network from devices outside that network. For example, many businesses enable employees to connect to internal resources from outside their local networks so that those employees can have access to the same resources they do when they are “on the inside.”You can connect to VPNs on iPhone as well. To connect to a VPN, you must know specific information as well as the various settings you have to enter to be able to connect. You must obtain this information from the network’s administrator. After you have that information, you can configure iPhone to connect to the VPN.

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To configure another VPN, press Add VPN Configuration. When you move back to the Network screen, you see the VPN to which you are connected in the VPN field. Once you’ve configured VPN, you see a VPN control on the Settings screen. You can use this to enable or disable VPN.

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No Roaming Please! When you move outside of your primary network (such as outside the United States if that is where you live), you are in roaming territory, which means that a different provider provides both cellular and data access. Roaming charges can be associated with calls or data exchanges that happen. These charges are often quite expensive. The roaming charges associated with phone calls are easier to manage given that it’s more obvious when you make or receive a phone call. However, data roaming charges are much more insidious, especially if the push functionality (where emails are pushed to iPhone from the server) are active. Because data roaming charges are harder to notice, iPhone is configured by default to prevent data roaming. When you leave your primary network, you’ll no longer be able to access either the EDGE, 3G, or other wireless data networks that you primarily use (you can still use Wi-Fi networks). If you want to allow data roaming, move to the Network screen and press the Data Roaming OFF button. Its status becomes ON, and when you move outside your primary network, data will come to iPhone via the available network. This can be very, very expensive, so you should disable it again by pressing ON as soon as you’re done.

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For most of us, email is an important way to communicate with others, both in professional and personal life. Fortunately, iPhone has great email tools so that you can work with email no matter where you are. You can read, send, reply, and do all the other email actions you might expect from the comfort and convenience of your iPhone. You can configure multiple email accounts on iPhone so that you can access all of them there. Even better, you can sync iPhone’s email accounts with your computers so that you access the same email from multiple devices.

Get Connected It probably goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, to use email, you must have an Internet connection. To learn how to connect iPhone to the Internet, see Chapter 4,“Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth Devices, and VPNs.”

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Configuring Email Accounts on iPhone Before you can start using iPhone for email, you have to configure the email accounts you want to access with it. iPhone supports a number of standard email services including MobileMe, Gmail, Yahoo!, and AOL. You can also configure any email account that uses POP (Post Office Protocol and no, I’m not making that up) or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol); this is good because almost all email accounts provided through ISPs (Internet service providers) use one of these two formats. One of the major improvements made with the iPhone version 2.0 software is that iPhone also supports Exchange email, which is the dominant email system used in business. There are many ways to configure email accounts on iPhone. The specific methods you should use depend on the kind of email accounts you work with. The following options are explained in this section: • Using MobileMe just a few steps.

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• Syncing with computers You can configure email accounts on iPhone by syncing with both Windows PCs and Macs. • Configuring Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, or AOL email accounts manually iPhone is designed to work with these email accounts and has specific account configuration tools for them. • Configuring other email accounts manually If you have an account that isn’t configured on a computer and isn’t one of those listed in the previous bullet, you can add it to iPhone manually with just a bit more work. After you have created the base email account on iPhone, you can do some advanced configuration to tweak the way it works. And, as noted earlier, you can also configure Exchange email accounts on iPhone.

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>>>step-by-step Using MobileMe to Configure Email Accounts on iPhone If you have a MobileMe account, it is very simple to access your email (along with your contacts, calendar, and bookmarks) on iPhone (for information about obtaining and configuring a MobileMe account, see the Prologue). 1.

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Syncing Email Accounts with a Windows PC You can sync POP and IMAP email accounts from Outlook or Outlook Express on a Windows PC with iPhone to quickly configure it to work with email for those accounts.

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7. Check the check box for each account you want to move onto iPhone.You can choose to move any or all of your email accounts in the selected application onto iPhone. 8. If you want the email accounts to replace the accounts currently on iPhone, check Mail Accounts; if you leave this unchecked, the selected email accounts are added to iPhone, leaving those already configured on it unchanged. 9.

Click Apply. The sync process runs, and the email accounts you selected move onto iPhone and are ready for you to use there.

10. Configure the accounts you synced using the steps in Performing Advanced Configuration of Email Accounts on iPhone, later in this chapter.

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Configuring Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, or AOL Email Accounts on iPhone Manually iPhone is designed to work easily with email accounts from these providers. Setting up one of these accounts is similar to setting up a MobileMe account.

GMail POPs Is for Me If you don’t have a GMail account, you can sign up for a free one at mail.google.com. When you set up the account, make sure that you select the POP option. If you already have an account, log in to your Google account, choose GMail settings, click the Forwarding and POP tab, choose the Enable POP for all mail option, and save your changes. If your GMail account is not POPenabled, it won’t work on iPhone.

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10. Press Save. Your account information is verified. When that process is complete, you see the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen, which shows the account you configured on the Accounts list. The account is ready to use. 11. If you want to perform advanced configuration of the account, refer to Performing Advanced Configuration of Email Accounts on iPhone, later in this chapter.

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Configuring Other Email Accounts on iPhone Manually If you don’t configure an email account via syncing, and it isn’t one of the “standard” types shown previously, you can still configure it to work on iPhone with only slightly more work. When you obtain an email account, such as accounts that are part of your Internet service from an ISP, you should have received a document with all of the information you need to configure that account. If you don’t have this information, visit the provider’s website and look for information on configuring the email account on an email client. If you already have the account configured on an email client that you aren’t syncing for some reason, you can copy the information from the configuration screens in that application.You must have this information to be able to configure the account on iPhone.

Sync ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em If you have an email account already configured on a computer, there’s really no need to configure it manually on iPhone. It’s much easier just to sync the account onto iPhone.

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15. Check the information in the Incoming Mail server section, including the Host Name, your user name, and the password (the user name and password should be fine if you entered them correctly in the previous steps). iPhone attempts to create the appropriate host name based on the email address you entered; sometimes this is correct, sometimes it isn’t. 16.

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20. If the SSL prompt appears again, and the account doesn’t use SSL, press Yes to set it up without SSL. Once the account information is verified, the account is created, you move back to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen, and you see the new account on the Account list.

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PROBLEMS SENDING MAIL? You may have trouble sending email from some kinds of email accounts provided by an ISP when you aren’t using a network that isn’t provided by that ISP. For example, many email accounts provided by an ISP require that any mail being sent come from the IP address associated with that account, which means you can only send mail when you are accessing the Internet from a network with an IP address that the ISP’s network recognizes (such as your home network). This won’t be the case when you are out and about with iPhone using the 3G or Wi-Fi networks so you can’t send email from these accounts on iPhone. You’ll still be able to receive email for these accounts, but you won’t be able to send it. There are several possible solutions. The easiest one is to select an account from which you can send email when you are outside of your network when you compose or reply to email (how to do this is explained later in this chapter). In some cases, you can configure email to be sent by using a specific port (you usually have to search the ISP’s help information to find out what this is). To do this, you need to use the advanced configuration settings for the email account with which you are having trouble sending email; these are explained in the following section. The third option is to configure a different email account SMTP server (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)—the server that sends email—that you can send email from for the account that you can’t send email from; you use steps 17 through 19 or the information in the next section to do this. Finally, you can enable the SMTP server that your iPhone provider includes if it does provide one; this is also covered in the next section.

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Performing Advanced Configuration of Email Accounts on iPhone Different kinds of email accounts have different sets of advanced configuration options, but you access those options in a similar way for all accounts. The following steps show details for a MobileMe account. To do advanced configuration of other accounts you use similar steps, but the details for the specific accounts you are configuring will differ. 1.

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In the On the Server section, which appears only after you press INBOX in step 6, press the folder in which you want draft messages stored. The advantage of storing drafts on the server is that you can work on them from any location that can access your MobileMe account, such as a computer. If you save them on iPhone, you can only work on them using iPhone.

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18. To turn the server off for the account, press ON; the status becomes OFF, and that server will not be used to send email from the account.

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>>>step-by-step 1.

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17. Press the amount of time over which Exchange information should be synced. For example, to have one week of Exchange information on iPhone, press 1 Week. 18. Press the account button labeled with your email address.

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get email. This approach doesn’t retrieve email as fast as pushing, but it does use much less battery power. You can set iPhone to fetch email at specific intervals, or you can fetch email manually.

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13. Press Show To/Cc Label to see the To and Cc labels in email headers. 14. If you don’t want to have to confirm when you delete messages, press Ask Before Deleting ON. Its status becomes OFF, and you don’t have to confirm that you want to delete a message when you press its Delete button. 15. If you want to receive a blind copy of each email you send, press Always Bcc Myself OFF. Its status becomes ON, and each time you send a message, you also receive a copy of it, but your address is not shown to the other recipients. 16. Press Signature. The Signature screen appears.

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Managing Email Accounts There are a number of ways in which you can manage your email accounts.

Changing Email Account Configurations As you work with your email accounts, you might need to make changes from time to time. The specific changes you can make depend on the type of account you are changing. The general steps to change an account follow. 1.

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Working with Email After you configure email accounts on iPhone, you’re ready to start using those accounts for all your email needs. When you move to the Home screen, you see the number of new email messages you have in the Mail button. Even if you don’t have any new email, the Mail button leads you to iPhone’s email application.

>>>step-by-step Receiving and Reading Email iPhone’s Mail application enables you to receive and read email for all the email accounts configured on it that are active. 1.

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2. To read messages, press the account that contains messages you want to read.You move to that account’s screen; the name of the account is the account’s description, which defaults to the email address.You see all the folders within that account.The number and type of folders you see depends on the type of account it is.

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subject along with time and date it was sent. Under that, you see the body of the message. If the message has an attachment, you see it at the bottom of the screen. 6. Unpinch or double-press your finger on the message to zoom in. If you double-press on a column of text, it resizes to fit the screen.

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12. Type the subject of the message. 13. Scroll down the screen until you see the body area. 14. Press in the body and type the body of the message above your signature. As you type, iPhone attempts to correct spelling and makes suggestions to complete words. To accept a proposed change, press the spacebar when the suggestion appears on the screen; to ignore a correction, press the x in the suggestion box.

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Saving Your Work in Progress If you want to save a message without sending it, press Cancel. A prompt appears; choose Save to save the message. When you want to work on the message again, move to the account’s screen and open the Drafts folder. Press the message, and you move back to the New Message screen as it was when you pressed the Cancel button. You can make more changes to the message and then send it or save it again.

Sending Email from All the Right Places You can send email from a number of different places on iPhone. For example, you can share a photo with someone by pressing the Email button. Or you can press a contact’s email address to send an email from your contacts list. For yet another example, you can share a YouTube video. In all cases, iPhone creates a new message that includes the appropriate content, such as a photo or link, and you use Mail’s tools to complete and send the email.

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>>>step-by-step Replying to Email Email is all about communication, so Mail makes it simple to reply to messages. 1.

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Get new mail.

You can check for new mail from any Inbox or message screen by pressing the Get New Mail button. iPhone gets and downloads all the email for that account since iPhone last checked it. If you get new mail from the Accounts screen, messages in all your accounts are retrieved. The bottom of the Mail screens always shows the status of the most recent check.

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Delete the message.

To delete a message while viewing it, press the Trash can. If you’ve configured the warning preference, confirm the deletion, and iPhone deletes the message. If you’ve disabled the confirmation, iPhone deletes the message immediately.

Dumpster Diving As long as an account’s trash hasn’t been emptied (you learned how to set that earlier in the chapter by configuring the Remove setting for an account), you can work with a message you’ve deleted by moving to the account’s screen and opening the Trash folder.

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It’s Not All Good You can’t create new mail folders on iPhone. To create a new folder for an account, use another tool, such as an email application on your computer or the account’s website. New folders become available on the account’s screen on iPhone after you sync iPhone.

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Get on the Web wherever you are.

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Speed Matters Remember that there can be several ways you can connect iPhone to the Internet to surf the Web.The specific methods you can use depend on your location. For example, in the United States, there are three options. In the order of speed they are: Wi-Fi, 3G, and EDGE. When available, you want to use a Wi-Fi connection because that will provide you with the best performance.The 3G network is a bit slower but still plenty fast for a good Web experience.The last option is the EDGE network, which is really too slow for many websites, but it’s better than no Web access at all. See Chapter 4,“Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth Devices, and VPNs,” to learn how to connect iPhone to the Internet with all of these methods. In other countries, you may have different options for the high- or low-speed cell access to the Web, but you always want to use the fastest connection possible.

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Configuring Safari Settings Before you surf, take a couple of minutes to configure iPhone’s Safari settings.

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10. To configure how cookies are handled, press Accept Cookies. The Accept Cookies screen appears. 11. Press the kind of cookies you want to accept.The None option blocks all cookies.The From visited option accepts cookies only from sites you visit.The Always option accepts all cookies. Most people should choose the From visited option because it enables websites you visit to store information on iPhone they need to work properly. 12. Press Safari.

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17. To clear the web browser’s cache, press Clear Cache. The cache stores information from websites so that you can return to that information without downloading it from the Web again. 18. When prompted, press Clear Cache to confirm the action. The next time you visit a site, its content is downloaded to iPhone again.

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Moving Favorites or Bookmarks from a Windows PC to iPhone You can move your Internet Explorer favorites or Safari bookmarks from another browser to iPhone so that you can use them to access the same websites on iPhone that you do on your computer. There are two ways to do this. One is by synching your iPhone. The other is by using MobileMe.

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It’s Not All Good If you prefer Firefox as your web browser, you are out of luck when it comes to moving your bookmarks to iPhone with either method; you can only sync Internet Explorer favorites or Safari bookmarks. That’s really too bad and is quite annoying for those of us for whom Firefox is our browser of choice. There’s currently just no simple way to move bookmarks to or from iPhone from or to Firefox. Hopefully, Apple will remove this web browser discrimination in an update to its software soon.

>>>step-by-step Moving Favorites or Bookmarks from a Windows PC onto iPhone via Sync Moving favorites onto iPhone by syncing it is a lot like moving other kinds of information onto it. 1.

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It’s Not All Good If you prefer Firefox as your web browser, you are out of luck when it comes to moving your bookmarks to iPhone with either method. That’s really too bad and is quite annoying for those of us for whom Firefox is our browser of choice. There’s currently just no simple way to move bookmarks to or from iPhone from or to Firefox. Hopefully, Apple will remove this web browser discrimination in an update to its software soon. If you want to build an initial set of bookmarks on iPhone based on your Firefox bookmarks, you can import Firefox bookmarks into Safari and then move your Safari bookmarks onto iPhone. To do this, open Safari’s File menu and choose Import Bookmarks. Using the Import Bookmarks dialog, move to the Library folder within your Home folder. Then move to Application Support followed by Firefox, Profiles, and your profile’s folder. Select the bookmarks.html file and click Import. Your Firefox bookmarks are moved into Safari. Unfortunately, they are moved into one folder that is labeled imported date, where date is the date on which you imported them. If you don’t want them to be moved onto iPhone like this, you need to use Safari’s bookmarks tools to reorganize them as you want them to be on iPhone. When you’re done, you can move them onto iPhone. Unfortunately, you’d have to go through the same drill each time you make changes in Firefox (or the reverse order if you make changes on iPhone), which is a lot of hassle. However, it might be worth doing once, just to get your initial set of bookmarks on iPhone. You then have to make changes to bookmarks on iPhone manually.

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MobileMe Revealed To sync favorites via MobileMe, you must have a MobileMe account and configure MobileMe syncing on your computer. Details about MobileMe are provided in the Prologue.

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Browsing the Web on iPhone If you’ve used a web browser on a computer before, using Safari on iPhone will be a familiar experience. If you’ve not used a web browser before, don’t worry because using Safari on iPhone is simple and intuitive.

>>>step-by-step Moving to Websites via Bookmarks Using bookmarks that you’ve moved from a computer onto iPhone makes it easy to get to websites that are of interest to you. You can also create bookmarks on iPhone (you learn how later in this section) and use them just like bookmarks you’ve imported from a computer. 1. 2.

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10. Use the information in the section titled Viewing Websites to view the webpage.

iPhone Webpages Some websites have been especially formatted for iPhone. These typically have less complex information on each page so they load faster (which is helpful if you are using the EDGE network). When you move to a site like this, you’ll be redirected to the iPhone version automatically. There is typically a link that takes you to the “regular” version too (it’s sometimes called the classic version).

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Viewing Websites Even though iPhone is a small device, you’ll be amazed at how well it displays webpages designed for larger screens. Unlike most smart phones, you can view and work with standard webpages about as well as you can with a computer. 1.

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Searching the Web Earlier you learned that you can use Safari to search the Web using Google or Yahoo!. Whichever search engine you choose, you search the Web in the same way. 1.

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Location Is Everything Remember that you can move the icons on the Home screen to be where you want. See Chapter 11, “Customizing iPhone,” for details.

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Emailing a Link to a Webpage Sometimes when you visit a webpage, you want to share it with others. Using Safari, you can quickly email links to webpages you visit. 1.

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Configuring the New Text Message sound Sending text messages Receiving and replying to text messages Working with text messages

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It’s Not All Good There is one definite and another potential problem with iPhone’s text messaging. The definite problem is that it is a lot more expensive than it should be on many networks. For example, under the current AT&T plan in the United States, you must pay $5 per month for 200 text messages (if you are a heavy user of text messaging, that isn’t very many messages), while for a FamilyTalk plan, unlimited text messaging is $30 per month, which is outrageous based on how little data is required to be communicated for text messages. If you don’t have any text messaging in your plan, it’s even worse at a cost of $.20 per message. (All these figures are for the AT&T network in the United States; if you use iPhone on a different network, you may have other text messaging options.) The potential problem depends on how much you use text messaging and the kind of features you need. Since iPhone was originally released, I’ve read and heard from iPhone users who tell me the text messaging capabilities provided by iPhone’s SMS application are a bit limited, and with the iPhone 2.0 software, these capabilities are not much improved. I think it does a reasonable job for short, brief messages that are meant to be very temporary; anything more complicated should be moved elsewhere, such as to email or a phone call. If you rely on text messaging as an important form of communication, I recommend that you explore an Internet-based text messaging application instead of iPhone’s cell phone-based SMS application. For example, at press time, you can download and use the AOL AIM instant messaging application for free. Because this uses the Internet for text chatting, there is no limit or cost to the number of messages you can send, and the AIM application has many more features than iPhone’s SMS application. Even better, you aren’t limited to chatting through cell phone applications; you can communicate with anyone who uses an AIM-compatible chat application on computers or other devices. For more information about finding, installing, and using iPhone applications, see Chapter 10,“Working with iPhone Applications.”

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Configuring the New Text Message Sound When you receive a new text message, iPhone plays an alert tone so that you know a message has arrived. You can choose the alert sound you want to hear or disable this sound if you don’t want to hear it.

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Sending Text Messages You can send text messages by entering a number manually or by choosing a contact from your contacts list. (For help configuring your contacts, see Chapter 2,“Managing Contacts.”)

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Receiving and Replying to Text Messages When you receive a new text message, you hear the new message sound (unless you’ve turned it off or muted iPhone) and see the new message window on iPhone’s screen.

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Clearing a Conversation Old text conversations never die, nor do they fade away. All the messages you receive from a person stay in the same conversation. Over time, you can build up a lot of messages in one conversation. When a conversation gets too long, you can clear it. 1.

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Deleting a Conversation If a conversation’s time has come, you can delete it. 1.

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Go here to get all the time you need.

Press here to configure time and date settings.

In this chapter, you’ll explore all the time and calendar functionality that iPhone has to offer. Topics include the following: B Configuring iPhone’s date, time, and calendar settings

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Configuring iPhone’s Date, Time, and Calendar Settings You should configure a few time and date settings before you start using iPhone to manage your time.

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27. To have iPhone display meeting and event times on its calendar based on your current location, press Time Zone Support ON; it becomes OFF to show you that time zone support is disabled. Skip to step 31.

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Using iPhone as a Clock iPhone is quite a powerful clock. In addition to showing you the time and date where you are currently located (and if you travel a lot as I do, this isn’t always obvious), you can set clocks for a variety of locations and set multiple alarms. With iPhone, you might never need a watch or bedside clock again.

Keeping Up with the Time In the previous section, you learned how to configure iPhone to set its time automatically or allow you to set the time manually. If iPhone sets the time automatically, the current time and date of your location are always shown. If you set the time manually, iPhone continues to display the time and date based on the settings you configured. Unless you have a very specific reason for not wanting iPhone to keep its time and date set to the current cell network, you should leave the time to be set automatically. You can easily configure clocks to show you the current time in specific locations.

Telling Time with iPhone iPhone displays the current time at the top of most of its screens for easy viewing. When iPhone is locked and you press the Sleep/Wake button, iPhone shows the current time and date. If you don’t unlock iPhone, it goes to sleep again in a few seconds, making this a very easy way to check the current time without using much battery power.

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Using the Clock Application You can set iPhone to display a number of clocks with each clock having a specific time zone associated with it. This makes it possible to know the time in several locations at once. Even better, you can configure multiple alarms to remind you of important events, such as getting out of bed. The Clock also provides a basic but very serviceable stopwatch and timer.

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How iPhone Alarms Are Like Those on Bedside Clocks You can’t set an alarm for a specific date; they are set only by day of the week, just like a bedside alarm clock. To set alarm for a specific date, configure an event on the calendar and associate an alarm with that event. You’ll learn about working with calendar events later in this chapter.

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Managing Alarms When at least one alarm is active, you see the Alarm Clock icon in the upper right corner of the screen next to the Battery icon. When an alarm triggers, you see an onscreen message and hear the sound associated with it. If the alarm is snooze-enabled, press Snooze to dismiss it; it returns in 10 minutes. To dismiss the alarm, press OK. At least one alarm is active.

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Browse the action and sounds available. At the top of the screen, you see the Sleep iPod command which shuts down iPod actions when the timer expires. Under that, you see a collection of your custom ringtones. In the Standard section, you see iPhone’s standard sounds.

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Sleep iPhone Sleep If you choose the Sleep iPod action, when the timer ends, any iPod functions pause. This is useful when you want music or video to stop playing after a specific time. This works like a sleep timer on a TV.

Working with Calendars iPhone can help you manage your calendar. In most cases, you’ll be moving calendar information from a computer onto iPhone, but you can add events directly to iPhone’s calendar. (And when you do, they move to the computer’s calendar the next time it syncs.) There are a number of ways to sync iPhone’s calendar to calendars on your computers. You can use MobileMe on a Windows PC or on a Mac to move calendar information to the MobileMe cloud from where it can be pushed onto iPhone through your MobileMe account. You can also configure an Exchange email account on iPhone and include calendar information in the sync with that account. Or, you can use the standard iTunes sync process to move calendar information between a Windows PC and iPhone or between a Mac and iPhone. Each of these methods is explained in the following sections.

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It’s Not All Good If you don’t use Outlook or iCal, you’re out of luck on the calendar syncing front. If you don’t use one of these calendar applications but you can access your calendar on the Web, access it using the Safari web browser instead of iPhone’s Calendar application.

>>>step-by-step Syncing a Calendar with MobileMe on a Windows PC Make Me Mobile To use MobileMe for calendar syncing, you have to obtain a MobileMe account and configure syncing on your Windows PC. See the Prologue for details on MobileMe setup.

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It’s Not All Good The current version of iPhone’s email application can’t do anything with attachments that are event invitations (.ics files). That means when you receive an email invitation to an event, you can’t add it to iPhone’s calendar by opening the attachment (which is what should happen and what does happen when you use a computer email client). If the invitation is from an iCal user, you can see the event information in the subject line of the email message so you can create an event on your calendar manually, but invitations from other email applications don’t have this information so they are useless to you on iPhone. The only kind of events that come as invitations are meeting requests from Outlook that come in through an Exchange account. However, even these invitations don’t seem to maintain the appropriate status. When you accept an invitation in Outlook instead of iPhone, the status shown on iPhone is Maybe instead of Accepted. Hopefully, these issues will be resolved with a future iPhone software update, and all invitations will work like those via Exchange and the issues with event status will be solved. In the current version, working with invitations is very limited, and you’ll have to rely on your calendar applications on a computer to manage them properly.

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Moving Photos from a Computer onto iPhone As you saw in the last section, iPhone is a great way to take and view your photos while you are on the go. In addition to taking photos to view them on iPhone, you can also move photos from a computer onto iPhone so that you can view them individually and as slideshows. As you might guess, the steps to move photos from a computer to iPhone are slightly different between Windows PCs and Macs. See the section that applies to your computer.

Syncing Photos It’s a fact that iPhone’s memory is somewhat limited, especially if you have a lot of music and video on it. During the sync process, photos take a back seat to other kinds of content, meaning that if there isn’t room on iPhone for everything you’ve selected for a sync, photos are skipped first. It’s likely that you won’t have enough memory on iPhone for all of your photos. Consider creating specific photo albums for the photos you want on iPhone and then choose to sync only those photo albums. Use the memory gauge at the bottom of the iTunes window to get an idea of how much room iPhone has.

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>>>step-by-step Moving Photos from a Windows PC onto iPhone You can use iTunes to move photos you’re storing on your PC using Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 or later or Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 or later onto iPhone. 1.

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Other Sync Options If you choose My Pictures on the Sync photos from pop-up menu, you can move photos stored in your My Pictures folder onto iPhone. If you select Choose Folder, you are prompted to select a folder of photos that you want to move onto iPhone. Depending on the option you choose, you might or might not be able to select specific photo albums to move onto iPhone.

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10. Click Apply. The photos you selected move onto iPhone. If you make changes to the photo albums or to the photos in your iPhoto Library (if you can store all of them on iPhone), the updates move onto iPhone the next time you sync it. If there’s not enough memory to store the photos you selected, you’re warned; you’ll need to remove some of the photos from the sync or remove other kinds of content to make more room.

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Moving Photos from Email onto iPhone In Chapter 5,“Emailing,” you learned all about the great email capabilities of iPhone. When you receive email that has photo attachments, you can view those photos using iPhone’s email application. You can also move those photos from the email into iPhone’s Photo tool at which point you can view them or move them onto a computer just like photos you’ve taken with iPhone’s camera.

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iPHONE SCREENSHOTS There are times when it is very useful to be able to capture screen images of the iPhone’s screen (such as when you are writing a book about iPhone). iPhone includes a screen capture utility that you can use to take a picture of whatever is on iPhone’s screen at any point in time. When the screen you want to capture appears, hold the Home button down and press the Wake/Sleep button. The screen flashes white to indicate that the capture has been taken. The resulting image is stored in the Camera Roll album. You can view the captures you take, email them, or move them onto a computer as you can with other kinds of photos.

Viewing and Working with Photos on iPhone After you’ve loaded iPhone with great (and maybe a few not-so-great) photos, you can use the Photos application to view them individually and as slideshows. You can also use the photos on iPhone for a number of tasks, such as setting iPhone’s wallpaper or emailing them.

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>>>step-by-step Viewing Photos as a Slideshow You can view photos in slideshows. Before you start watching your own slideshows, take a few moments to configure iPhone’s slideshow settings to set your slideshow preferences.

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>>>step-by-step Moving Photos from iPhone to a Windows PC How you move photos from iPhone to a Windows PC depends on the specific application you use to manage your digital photos. Most applications designed to import photos from a digital camera should also work with iPhone. One example is Adobe Photoshop Elements. 1.

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Connect iPhone to a Mac. iPhoto opens automatically and moves into Import mode. iPhone is selected as the import source. In the iPhoto window, you see thumbnails for images you’ve captured using iPhone’s camera (you only see empty boxes for screenshots), and at the bottom of the window, you see how many photos are available for import.

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Working with iPhone Applications If you’ve read through this book to this point, you’ve already learned enough great iPhone tricks that you’re probably convinced iPhone is one of the most useful, not to mention one of the coolest, gadgets ever. Here’s where you get some icing on that nice iPhone cake. iPhone comes with a powerful set of applications that you can use out-of-the-box, such as Mail, Safari, Calendar, Contacts, and so on. However, these are really only the starting point for your iPhone; there are thousands of other applications that you can download and use. And any discussion of iPhone applications isn’t complete without including one of the most useful default applications, Maps.

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Using iTunes to Find and Install iPhone Applications The iTunes Store has many applications that you can download and install on iPhone. Many of these are free, while others have a license fee (which you pay through your iTunes Store account). Downloading applications from the iTunes Store is similar to downloading audio and video content (that topic is covered in detail in Chapter 3,“Listening to Audio and Watching Video”). Like moving other kinds of content onto iPhone from the iTunes Store, there are two steps to this process. The first is to download applications to your iTunes Library. The second is to move those applications onto iPhone by syncing it with your computer.

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Searching for Apps in all the Right Places You can also search for iPhone applications. Click the Power Search link located on the top, right side of the iTunes Store Home page. Choose Applications on the Power Search drop-down list and then enter a title or description, developer name, or category. On the Device Compatibility drop-down list, choose iPhone. If you want to limit the results to include only free applications, check the Search for free applications check box. Click Search. Any applications that meet your criteria are shown.

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Gotta Share? If you decide an application is one someone you know should know about, move to the application’s Info screen and press Tell a Friend. An email message is created with a link to the application. Complete and send the email (see Chapter 5,“Emailing,” for help emailing).

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Keep the Home Screen Organized As you add application icons to the Home screen, you can organize your icons on the pages of the Home screen to organize them in a way that makes the screen layouts the most efficient for you to use. To learn how, see Chapter 11, “Customizing iPhone.”

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If iPhone can use GPS for your location, you see the blue GPS locator dot on the map. The dot pulses to show you that it is a dynamic display, meaning the dot moves as you do. Because GPS is more accurate, iPhone uses it first. GPS signals are usually blocked by buildings, so if you are inside, it’s unlikely GPS will be available. When you are using GPS with a route, pressing the My Location button—such that it is dark blue—keeps the GPS marker centered on the screen This is helpful, so you can always see your current location as you move.

More on Location Services Other applications in addition to Maps can use location services to determine your current location; when they attempt to do so, you are prompted to allow it or not. If you allow access to your location, the application can do what it was trying to do. If you don’t want iPhone to be able to locate you in any situation, move to the General settings screen and press Location Services ON to turn off this capability. Neither GPS nor cell network location functionality will work.

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It’s Not All Good In its current release, iPhone's GPS functionality is pretty good, but it's not a full-fledged turn-by-turn navigation system with audible driving instructions like most dedicated GPS devices and some smart phones are. iPhone's GPS shows you your location on a map and tracks your motion with GPS. However, the GPS indicator on the screen isn't linked to the route you are following, and Maps does little to keep you on track; you have to watch the GPS marker and keep yourself on track visually (not the safest thing to do while you are driving). You have the option to keep the GPS marker centered on the screen, but because it isn’t linked to the route, if you get too far off track, you might see the route or the indicator, but not both. And iPhone doesn’t generate new routes for you automatically, you have to manually reset your current location and generate a new route. That's not good to do while you're driving either. Hopefully soon, iPhone's software will be upgraded to provide verbal turn-by-turn driving directions, rerouting, and so on. While it can be tough to use iPhone's GPS while you are driving because of how much you have to manipulate it to keep on track, it does work pretty well when you are walking. Because your motion is relatively slow, it's much safer to manipulate the map while you are walking than while driving. Google Maps on the Web currently has a walking option in beta; hopefully that will be moved onto iPhone Maps so you can choose to create walking directions or driving directions.

>>>step-by-step Getting Directions The Maps application can generate driving directions between two locations along with an estimate of how long the trip will take. Using Location services (GPS or cell network), you can see where you are along a route or how to get back to a route if you get off it.

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Customizing iPhone If you’ve read earlier chapters, such as the chapters on iPod or email functionality, you already have experienced customizing iPhone by using its Settings application. Many of those settings relate directly to functionality discussed in other chapters, which is why they are covered in the context of those topics. However, a number of iPhone settings are more general in nature, which is where this chapter comes into play. One of most important things you can do to customize your iPhone is to configure the Home screen so it is most convenient for you (which doesn’t involve the Settings application, but this seemed the best place to talk about it). Some examples of general settings you want to become familiar with include Airplane mode (sets iPhone in “silent running” so that you can use iPod and other functions while you fly); sound settings (controls the noises iPhone makes); screen brightness (controls the brightness of the screen); and so on. While you might not use these functions everyday, they come in handy from time to time.

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Customizing the Home Screen iPhone’s Home screen is the starting point for anything you do because this screen contains the icons that you use to access the various functions iPhone has to offer. The Home screen comes configured with icons in default locations. You can change the location of these icons to be more convenient for you; and as you add applications (see Chapter 10,“Working with iPhone Applications”) and create your own web page icons (see Chapter 6,“Surfing the Web”), it becomes even more important that you organize your Home screen so you can quickly get to the items you use most frequently. You can move icons within the same screen, and you can move icons between the pages of the Home screen.

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To get to iPhone’s settings, move to the Home screen and press the Settings button. The Settings screen appears; scroll to see and use all the settings available. The following sections describe various setting options and show you how to configure them. (Remember that most settings were explained in the context of where they take effect, such as the Mail settings, which were explained in Chapter 5,“Emailing.” If settings you are interested in aren’t covered here, see the chapter on the related topic.)

Using Airplane Mode Although there’s a debate whether devices such as iPhone pose any real danger to the operation of aircraft, there’s no reason to run any risk by using iPhone while you are on an airplane. (Besides, not following crew instructions on airplanes can lead you to less-than-desirable situations.) When you place iPhone in Airplane mode, its transmitter and receivers are disabled so that it poses no threat to the operation of the aircraft. While it is in Airplane mode, you can’t use the phone, email, the Web, or any other functions that require communication between iPhone and other devices or networks. Of course, when you have permission to do so, you can use iPhone for iPod functions as well as all the other features that don’t require connections to networks.

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To put iPhone in Airplane mode, move to the Settings screen and press the OFF button next to Airplane Mode. The OFF button becomes ON to show you that Airplane mode is enabled; all connections to network servers and the cell network stop, and iPhone goes into quiet mode in which it doesn’t broadcast or receive any signals.

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In Airplane mode, you can use iPhone for various functions, such as iPod, photos, games, and so on. To turn Airplane mode off, move to the Settings screen and press the Airplane Mode ON button, which then becomes the OFF button to show you Airplane mode is disabled. iPhone resumes transmitting and receiving signals.

Configuring General Sound Settings You learned about most of iPhone’s sound settings in Chapter 1,“Making, Receiving, and Managing Calls,” and Chapter 3,“Listening to Audio and Watching Video.”Two sound settings are more general to iPhone, and the following steps describe how to access and change them.

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Setting Screen Brightness Because you’re continually looking at iPhone’s screen, it should be the right brightness level for your eyes. However, the screen is also the largest single drain on battery power, so the less bright iPhone’s screen is, the longer its battery lasts. You have to find a good balance between viewing comfort and battery life. Fortunately, iPhone includes a brightness feature that adjusts for current lighting conditions automatically.

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Setting Wallpaper When iPhone is awake, but locked, you see its wallpaper. You can set the wallpaper for iPhone using either the default wallpaper collection or by choosing a photo you’ve moved onto iPhone. To use one of iPhone’s default images as your wallpaper, perform the following steps.

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Using Your Photos as iPhone Wallpaper To learn how to add photos to iPhone so that they are available as wallpaper, see Chapter 9,“Taking, Storing, and Viewing Photos.”You can select any of the sources of your photos on the Wallpaper screen to use any of the photos they contain as wallpaper by pressing the source you want to use instead of Wallpaper in step 2. You can also scale and move your own images to customize how they appear as wallpaper.

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Press the image you want to use as wallpaper. You see a preview of the image you selected.

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To set the wallpaper, press Set Wallpaper. You move back to the Settings screen. The next time iPhone is awake but locked, you see the wallpaper you selected.

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Review the information in which you are interested, such as current period call time, which you can use to monitor the minutes you’ve used under your calling plan. Note that the usage and standby information is from the time of your last full battery charge. The other values are from the last reset of the statistics you’ve done.

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17. Re-enter the passcode. If the two passcodes match, you see the Passcode Lock screen. 18. To disable the passcode, press Turn Passcode off and enter the passcode. You move back to the General screen, and the passcode is removed from iPhone; if you want to set it again, you need to repeat steps 15 through 17.

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50. Press the region whose formats you want to use. Some regions have alternate format choices; you can choose from among the format options that are used in those regions. 51. Press International. At the bottom of the International screen, you see examples of the format you selected.

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54. To reset all settings to the defaults, press Reset All Settings and then press Reset All Settings again to confirm. All of iPhone’s settings are returned to the default states. 55. To reset all settings and delete all content (such as music), press Erase All Content and Settings; press Erase iPhone at the prompt. All of iPhone’s settings are returned to defaults, and all content you’ve added is erased. 56. To return only the network settings to defaults, press Reset Network Settings and then Reset Network Settings again at the prompt. You’ll need to reconfigure iPhone to connect to your networks (see Chapter 4). 57. To return iPhone to its default dictionary, press Reset Keyboard Dictionary followed by Reset Dictionary at the prompt. Any words you’ve added to iPhone’s dictionary are removed, and it returns to its default state. 58. To return the Home screen to the default layout, press Reset Home Screen Layout and Reset Home Layout again at the prompt. Icons on the Home screen are retuned to their default locations. 59. To reset the warnings iPhone has sent you when you use the location finder features, press Reset Location Warnings, and then Reset Location Warnings again at the prompt. 60. Press General. You return to the General screen.

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iPhone is easy to maintain and isn’t likely to give you much trouble.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to keep iPhone in top shape and to know what to do should problems happen. Topics include the following: B Maintaining iPhone B Solving iPhone problems

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Maintaining iPhone and Solving iPhone Problems You see that this is a short chapter, and there is a good reason for that: iPhone works very well, and you are unlikely to have problems with it, especially if you keep iTunes’ and iPhone’s software current. When problems do occur, you can usually solve them with a few simple steps. If that fails, there’s lots of help available for you on the Internet.

Maintaining iPhone Some basic maintenance tasks keep iPhone in top working condition. Even better, you can do most of these tasks with just a couple of mouse clicks because you can configure iTunes to do most of the work for you.

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Maintaining iTunes As you’ve learned in this book, iTunes is a vital partner for iPhone. You should keep iTunes current to ensure that you have the latest bug fixes, new features, and so on. Fortunately, you can configure iTunes to maintain itself.

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Check for Updates Now Mac To check for updates at any time, open the Apple menu and choose Software Update. The Software Update application runs. If it finds an iTunes update, it prompts you to download and install it.

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>>>step-by-step Maintaining iPhone’s Software One of iTunes’ iPhone functions is to maintain iPhone’s software, which is one of the reasons you should keep iTunes current. Periodically, iTunes checks for new iPhone software. When iTunes finds updates, it installs them for you. 1.

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Auto Updates When you connect iPhone to your computer and an update for iPhone is available, you are automatically prompted to allow iTunes to download and install it. If you don’t allow it, you can always install it later with the following steps.

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Maintaining iPhone’s Power Battery status

Obviously, an iPhone with a dead battery isn’t good for very much. As you use iPhone, you should keep an eye on its battery status. As long as the battery status is green, you’re okay. As iPhone gets low on power, the battery on the status icon becomes empty and eventually turns red. Two separate warnings will alert you when the battery lowers to 20% and then again at 10%. If you keep going from there, iPhone runs out of power and shuts down. Of course, it gives you plenty of warning through onscreen messages before this happens. This iPhone is charging.

The obvious way to prevent battery problems is to keep iPhone charged. The good news is that all you have to do is to connect iPhone to your computer,

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and its battery charges. While this is occurring, you see the charging icon in the upper-right corner of the screen, and if you wake iPhone up, a large battery icon showing the relative state of the battery appears on its screen. When charging is complete, the battery status icon reappears, the large battery icon disappears, and you see iPhone’s wallpaper if it’s locked, or you see whatever screen you happen to be using if it isn’t locked. You can also connect iPhone to the external charger included in its box if your computer isn’t handy.

Keeping iPhone Topped Off It’s a good idea to keep your iPhone’s battery topped off; this type of battery actually does better if you keep it charged rather than letting it run down all the way before recharging. Periodically, say every month or two, you might want to let iPhone run completely out of power to maximize its life.

With all of iPhone’s capabilities in constant use (accessing the 3G network, push email, and so on), its battery runs out of power relatively quickly; in my typical use while on business travel, I do well to make it through an entire day without having to recharge iPhone. But I have email push turned on with several accounts, use the Web constantly, and often am talking or playing music at the same time. (At press time, Apple released version 2.1 of the iPhone software. One of the benefits touted for this version is a significant improvement in battery life. Hopefully, this will reduce iPhone’s power consumption, so it can go longer between charges.) To make the battery last as long as possible, consider the following recommendations: • Put iPhone to sleep when you aren’t using it by pressing the Sleep/Lock button. • Set Auto-Lock to a small interval, such as 1 Minute. When iPhone locks, it goes to sleep immediately, which puts it in low-power mode (Settings, General, Auto-Lock).

• Set the brightness of the screen to a low but comfortable level and leave Auto-Brightness turned on (Settings, General, Brightness).

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• Use a Wi-Fi connection to the Internet whenever you can (see Chapter 4, “Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth Devices, and VPNs”). Wi-Fi uses less power than the 3G network. • Disable features you don’t use, especially those that communicate with other devices. Specific suggestions follow.

• If you don’t use Bluetooth devices, make sure Bluetooth is turned off (Settings, General, Bluetooth OFF).

• If you don’t need the speed offered by the 3G network, turn it off (Settings, General, Network, Enable 3G OFF).

• If you don’t need email to be pushed to any email accounts (see Chapter 5,“Emailing”), disable email push (Settings, Fetch New Data, Push OFF).

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• If you do need email pushed to some accounts, disable push for the accounts you don’t need email pushed to (Settings, Fetch New Data, Advanced, email account, Manual).

• Set email to be manually fetched instead of automatically fetched. (Settings, Fetch New Data, Manually).

• Inactivate email accounts you don’t need to use at all (Settings, Mail, Contacts, Calendars, email account, Account OFF).

• Run in Airplane mode when you can. When iPhone is in Airplane mode, all the features that require connections to the Internet or other devices are disabled, which are also the features that use power most quickly. It’s fast and easy to move in and out of Airplane mode (Settings, Airplane mode OFF or ON). So, when you want to conserve battery power and don’t need the functions that connect to the Internet or the cell network, enable Airplane mode, whether you happen to be on an airplane or not.

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Cleaning iPhone’s Screen iPhone’s onscreen controls are amazing. But because you use them by pressing and dragging your fingers on the screen, the screen gets smudged. You can clean the screen using the cloth included with iPhone by rubbing it carefully. You should never spray any cleaners directly onto iPhone’s screen. However, you can apply a slight amount of glass cleaner to a very soft cloth and gently wipe iPhone’s screen to clean it. In most cases though, you can get the screen clean with the provided cloth by itself.

Keeping a Clean Screen If the smudges on iPhone screen bother you, consider adding a clear plastic protector to the screen. There are many kinds of these available (some cases come with one), but they all work in the same way in that they have a side that clings to the screen. You touch the other side, which is more resistant to smudges than is iPhone’s glass screen. Using a protector sheet does change the feel of using and the look of iPhone so you might or might not like to use one. These protectors also help guard against scratches. While iPhone’s screen is pretty tough, it can be scratched.

Solving iPhone Problems Even a device as good as iPhone can sometimes run into problems. Fortunately, the solutions to most problems you encounter are simple. If those simple solutions don’t work, there’s lots of detailed help available from Apple, and there’s even more available from the community of iPhone users. The problems that you can address with the simple steps described in this section vary and range from such issues as the iPhone hanging (won’t respond to commands) to iPhone not being visible in iTunes (can’t be synced). No matter which problem you experience, try the following steps to solve them.

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Resetting iPhone If restarting iPhone or the computer doesn’t help, try resetting iPhone using the following escalation of steps. 1.

If you are using an application and it freezes, press and hold the Home button down for at least 6 seconds. The application quits, and you return to the Home screen.

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Reset Specific Areas If you are experiencing problems in a specific area, such as connecting to a network, try resetting just that area (for example, Reset Network Settings) before you pull out the big gun by erasing iPhone.

Restoring iPhone The most severe action you can take on iPhone is to restore it. When this happens, iPhone is erased, so you lose all its contents, and its current software is overwritten with the latest version. If you have added information to iPhone since it was last backed up (when you last connected it to the computer), that information is lost when you restore iPhone so be careful before doing this. If none of the other steps corrected the problems, restoring iPhone should. 1.

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10. Click OK in the completion dialog. iPhone appears on the Source list in iTunes. 11. Using the steps in previous chapters in this book, reconfigure iPhone’s settings, including synchronization options. You do this the same way you did when iPhone was new.

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How Does It Remember My Phone Number? You might wonder how iPhone can be restored. It’s because iTunes backs up critical iPhone settings, such as activation information and some configuration settings, on your computer. Each time you sync, this information is backed up on the computer so that it is available again when it is needed, such as when you restore iPhone.

Reinstalling iTunes If iTunes continues to be unable to see iPhone and iPhone appears to be working, reinstall iTunes on your computer. (This is much more likely to be necessary on a Windows PC than on a Mac.) See the Prologue for instructions on downloading and installing iTunes on your computer.

No iTunes Content Worries iTunes stores content, such as music and video, in a different location than the application itself. You can reinstall iTunes without disturbing your iTunes content. Of course, you should always have your iTunes content backed up, such as storing it on a DVD, in case something happens to your computer.

Trouble Sending Email from iPhone? If you are sure you’ve configured an email account correctly, and you can receive email to that address, but you can’t send any from that address, the provider of the account probably doesn’t allow sending email from any IP address except those it provides. This is most common when the email is provided through an Internet Service Provider, such as a cable company. You have a couple of solutions. One is to access your email through the provider’s web email interface. The other is to add a second email account (such as a Gmail account) to iPhone and use that account when you want to send mail. See Chapter 5 for information about choosing the account through which you are sending email.

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Getting Help with iPhone Problems If none of the previous steps solved the problem, you can get help in a number of ways: • Apple’s website Move to www.apple.com/support/. On this page, you can access all kinds of information about iPhone and other Apple products. You can browse for help, and you can search for answers to specific problems. Many of the resulting articles have detailed, step-by-step instructions to help you solve problems as well as links to more information. • AT&T’s website Move to www.wireless.att.com. You can get help with problems you’re having with your connection to the AT&T network, and you can log in to your AT&T account to get information about it. • Web searches One of the most useful ways to get help is to do a web search for the specific problem you’re having. Just open your favorite search tool, such as Google, and search for the problem. You are very likely to find many resources to help you, including websites, forums, and such. If you encounter a problem, it’s likely someone else has, too, and they’ve probably put the solution on the Web. • Me You’re welcome to send email to me for problems you’re having with iPhone. My address is [email protected]. I’ll do my best to help you as soon as I can.

Index NUMBERS 24-hour clock, 270 3G networks, 165-166

A account information, finding, 61-63 Address bar, 237 Airplane mode, 373-374 alarms configuring, 279-283 deleting, 282 disabling/enabling, 283 dismissing, 284 editing, 282 event alarms, 307 naming, 280 snooze function, 280 albums, viewing in iTunes, 131 alerts events, 302 new text message sound, 257 voicemail, 55 answering phone calls, 46-48 AOL AIM instant messaging application, 256 App Store (iTunes Store), 341-344

Apple ID, 16, 100-101 Apple website, 407 applications App Store (iTunes Store) finding in, 341-343 installing with, 344 iPhone deleting from, 351-352 moving to, 340 iTunes Store downloading with, 338-339 reviewing in, 343 searching in, 340 installed applications, using, 346-347 Tell a Friend option, 343 updating, 347, 349 artists, searching music by, 124-125 AT&T networks AT&T EDGE network connections, 221 roaming charges, 36 website, 407 attachments (email), viewing, 205 audio CDs, importing in iTunes, 98-99

configuring

audio files C downloading from iTunes Store, 100-102, caches, clearing, 225 calendars 116-118 events playing with iPod adding by accepting Control Bar, 133 invitiations, 304-305 Auto-Brightness feature, adding manually, 376 299-302 Auto-Capitalization feaalert sounds, 302, 307 ture, 385 deleting, 297 Auto-Lock settings, 380 editing, 298 viewing, 296 B support for, 287 battery, charging, 396, 398 synchronizing with blind copies of email mesExchange, 290 sages, 198 iCal, 294 Bluetooth connections, MobileMe, 20, 167-168 288-290 bookmarks (Safari). See multiple calendars, also favorites (Internet 292 Explorer) Outlook, 293 adding, 247, 362 push calendars, 291 browsing, 356-358 viewing, 295-296 deleting, 246, 357 call forwarding, 34 moving call waiting, 35 MobileMe accounts caller ID, hiding, 35 to iPhone, 20 camera to iPhone, 228-231 landscape mode, 310 to websites, 232-234 lens, 5 organizing, 242-245 photos renaming, 358 deleting, 311 saving, 241-242 taking with, 309, 312 sorting, 357 viewing, 310 BootP, network connecCaps Lock key, tions with, 164 enabling/disabling, 385 brightness, configuring, cell account information, 376 finding, 61-63 broadcast Wi-Fi network charging batteries, connections, 154-158, 396-398 161-162 cities, associating with browsers (web). See clocks, 277 Internet Explorer; Safari cleaning screen, 400

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clearing cache, 225 cookies, 224 location searches, 355 Recents list, 50 website history, 224 clocks 24-hour clocks, 270 alarms, 279-284 associating cities with, 277 configuring, 276-278 current time, viewing, 275 date and time settings, 11, 270-275 deleting, 278 renaming, 278 reordering, 278 sleep timer, 287 stopwatch, 284-285 timer, 285-287 Closed Captioning, 150 company contacts, 79 conference calls, 43-45 configuring alarms, 279-283 clocks, 276-278 contacts display, 65-66 date and time settings, 270-275 email accounts, 176 advanced configuration, 187-189 changing configurations, 200 manually, 181-186, 192-193 retrieval settings, 195 synchronizing with Mac, 180 synchronizing with Windows, 179 with MobileMe, 177

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configuring

Exchange accounts for iPhone, 19 global email settings, 196-199 iPod Control Bar, 132 settings, 146-150 toolbar, 145-146 MobileMe accounts for MAC, 21 Windows PC, 19-20 phone settings, 28, 31-36 Safari settings, 222-225 settings Airplane mode, 373-374 general settings, 378-380, 383, 386-388 screen brightness settings, 376 sound, 374 wallpaper, 377-378 time zone, 271 contacts adding to favorites, 51, 89 addresses, viewing, 89 associating photos with, 78-79 ringtones with, 82 websites with, 83 calling, 89 changing adding additional information, 93-94 by synchronizing, 90-91 manually, 91-92 company contacts, 79 configuring display of, 65-66

creating from email messages, 74-75 from maps, 76-77 from recent phone calls, 71-72 from text message conversations, 75-76 manually, 78-86 custom labels, 82 deleting, 95 dialing with, 38 duplicates, handling, 68 Exchange contact information, moving to iPhone, 67-68 information fields, adding to, 86 MobileMe contact information, moving to iPhone, 20, 67-68 photos assigning to, 328, 330 associating with, 78-79 deleting, 330 sending email messages to, 89, 208 text messages to, 89, 259 SIM contacts, importing, 71 synchronizing with Mac OS, 70 Windows, 69 viewing, 88 Control Bar (iPod), 132-133 conversations (text messaging), 263-264 clearing, 265 contacts, creating from, 75-76 deleting, 266

cookies, 223-224 Cover Flow browser, searching music with, 119-121 current location, finding with Maps application, 359-360 current time/date, displaying, 11, 275 custom labels, creating, 82

D date and time settings. See also clocks configuring, 270-275 displaying, 11, 275 Debug Console, 225 default email accounts, setting, 199 default search engine, changing, 222 deleting alarms, 282 applications from iPhone, 351-352 bookmarks, 246, 357 calendar events, 297 clocks, 278 contact photos, 330 contacts, 95 conversations (text messages), 266 email accounts, 202 email messages, 198, 214-215 Home screen icons, 371 photos, 325 videos, 138-139 voicemail, 58-59 DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), 164

events (calendar)

dialing phone numbers E with EDGE network conneccontacts, 38, 89 tions, 167 favorites, 39 editing keypad, 37 alarms, 282 Recents list, 40-41 calendar events, 298 directions (driving), driving directions, 367 364-367 text, 10 disabling email 24-hour clock, 270 accounts Airplane mode, 374 configuring, 176, alarms, 283 181-189, 192-193, Auto-Brightness fea200 ture, 376 deleting, 202 Auto-Capitalization feadisabling, 201 ture, 385 global settings, call waiting, 35 196-199 Caps Lock key, 385 retrieval settings, 195 email SMTP server settings, accounts, 201 190 sounds, 199 synchronizing with JavaScript, 222 Mac, 180 passcodes, 381 synchronizing with plug-ins, 223 Windows, 179 pop-up blocking, 223 with MobileMe, 177 snooze function addresses (alarms), 280 removing from email TTY support, 36 messages, 208 vibrations (phone settyping for sending tings), 32 email messages, dismissing alarms, 284, 208 307 viewing/hiding infordocking port, 5 mation, 205-206 downloading from iTunes Internet connections Store for, 175 applications, 338-339 messages audio files, 100-102, attachments, 205 116-118 blind copies of, 198 video, 100-102 checking for new, 213 driving directions, 364-367 creating contacts Drop Pin command (Maps from, 74-75 application), 367 creating folders in, duplicate contacts, han218 dling, 68 deleting, 198, 214-215

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forwarding, 212 HTML in, 206 organizing, 216-217 photos, 205, 219 receiving/reading, 203-206 removing email addresses from, 208 replying to, 211 saving without sending, 210 sending, 89, 207, 210 signatures, 198 photos, 205, 219, 316-317, 320, 327 sending, troubleshooting, 186, 406 spam filtering, 219 webpage links with Safari, 248 enabling 24-hour clock, 270 alarms, 283 Auto-Brightness feature, 376 call forwarding, 34 email sounds, 199 snooze function (alarms), 280 TTY support, 36 vibrations (phone settings), 32 ending calls, 45 erasing iPhone, 403 events (calendar) adding, 303 accepting invitations, 304-305 manually, 299-302 alert sounds, 302 deleting, 297 dismissing event alarms, 307 editing, 298 viewing, 295-296

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Exchange accounts

HTML email messages, 206 general settings, configur- Hybrid view (Maps appliing, 378-380, 383, cation), 367 386-388 Genius playlists, creating, I 142-145 genre, searching music by, iCal, synchronizing with Calendar application, 126-128 294 global email settings, conicons, changing in main figuring, 196-199 toolbar, 372 GMail, POP enabling, 181 F IM (instant messaging), GPS functionality fast-forwarding voicemail, AOL AIM application, 256 current location, find57 images. See photos ing, 359-360 favorites (Internet driving while using, 364 incomplete phone calls, Explorer), transferring to greetings (voicemail), 42 iPhone, 225-228. See information fields, adding recording, 53-54 to contacts, 86 also bookmarks installing applications favorites (iPhone) with adding contacts to, 51, hanging up (conference App Store (iTunes 89 calls), 45 Store), 344 dialing with, 39 headphone port, 5 applications, 346-347 finding headsets, 52 applications in iTunes iTunes, 14 help, resources for, 407 Store, 340 hidden Wi-Fi network con- Internet connections cell account informaBootP or static addressnections, 159-160 tion, 61, 63 ing, 164 hiding current location with 3G networks, 165 caller ID, 35 EDGE networks, 167 Maps application, email address informaemail, 175 359-360 tion, 205 options for, 154 folders (email), creating, message previews, 383 roaming in, 172 218 histories Wi-Fi networks font size (text), setting for Safari, clearing, 239 automatic prompts email messages, 197 websites formatting webpages for to join, 154 clearing, 224 iPhone, 234 broadcast networks, returning to websites forms (Safari), completing, 154-158, 161-162 with, 239-240 250 changing networks, Home screen forwarding email mes162-163 bookmarks (Safari), cresages, 212 forgetting networks, ating on, 247 163-164 customizing, 370, 372 hidden networks, settings, accessing, 373 159-160 viewing, 5 troubleshooting, 157 Exchange accounts calendar synchronization, 290 contact information, moving to iPhone, 67-68 email accounts, configuring manually, 192-193 iPhone configuration, 19

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managing

Internet Explorer, transferinstalling, 14 ring favorites to iPhone, iTunes Store Accounts, 225-228 16 invitations (events), labeling music, 100 304-306 playlists, creating, IP addresses, Wi-Fi net106-110 work connections, 157 reinstalling, 406 iPhone ringtones, creating activating, 13 with, 28-30 battery, charging, smart playlists, 107-110 396-398 tagging music, 100 checking for updates, transferring content to 394 iPhone, 111-115 cleaning, 400 updating, 15, 392-393 erasing, 403 iTunes Store help, resources for, 407 App Store, applications interface, 5-6, 9 finding in, 341-343 locking, 380-381 installing with, 344 resetting, 402-403 configuring settings, restarting, 13, 401 102 restoring, 404-405 downloading synchronizing content applications from, from iTunes Store, 118 338-339 transferring iTunes conaudio files from, tent to, 111-115 100-102, 116-118 troubleshooting, video, 100-102 401-407 movies, renting, 103 turning on/off, 12 podcast subscriptions, unlocking, 11, 381 104-105 iPhoto, moving photos to reviewing applications iPhone, 315-316 in, 343 iPod searching for applicaControl Bar, 132-133 tions, 340 muting for phone calls, synchronizing content, 48 118 settings, configuring, updating applications, 146-150 350 toolbar, configuring, 145-146 J-K-L Widescreen button, 150 JavaScript, disabling, 222 iTunes, 13 albums, viewing, 131 downloading, 14 key indexes for Wi-Fi netimporting audio CDs, work connections, 162 98-99

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keyboard (virtual), 8 keypad, dialing with, 37

labels custom labels, creating, 82 email headers, viewing in, 198 iTunes music, 100 landscape mode camera, 310 web pages, 237 links (web pages), moving to, 236 Location Services, 360 locking iPhone, 380-381 logins, iTunes Store Accounts, 16

M Mac iTunes updates, checking for, 393 MobileMe account configuration, 21 photos, moving to iPhone, 315, 335 synchronizing with contacts, 70 email accounts, 180 MobileMe calendars, 289 maintenance (iPhone) charging batteries, 396-398 checking for software updates, 394 cleaning screen, 400 managing conference calls, 44 deleted voicemail, 58-59

414

managing

phone calls, 41-42 Recents list, 49-50 manually changing contact information, 91-92 manually configuring email accounts, 181-186, 192-193 manually creating contacts, 78-86 Maps application bookmarks adding, 362 browsing with, 356-358 contacts creating from, 76-77 viewing addresses in, 89 driving directions, 364-367 Drop Pin command, 367 finding current location with, 359-360 Hybrid view, 367 scrolling in, 361 searches in, 353-355 Show Traffic command, 367 unpinching locations, 361 viewing location information, 361 multiple locations, 362 zooming in/out of locations, 361 merging phone calls, 44 synchronized contacts, 71 messages (email). See email, messages

messages (voicemail). See movies voicemail Closed Captioning, 150 messages (instant), 256 iTunes Store, renting messages (text) from, 103 clearing, 265 Widescreen button conversations, 263-266 (iPod settings), 150 deleting, 266 moving. See also synchronetwork plan costs, 256 nizing new message sound, applications to iPhone, enabling/disabling, 340 257 Exchange contact number of, 263 information to receiving, 261-262 iPhone, 67-68 replying to, 261-262 MobileMe bookmarks sending, 258-260 to iPhone, 20 signatures, 198 MobileMe calendar minutes (conference calls), information to charges for, 45 iPhone, 20 missed calls, viewing, 50 MobileMe contact MobileMe accounts information to bookmarks, moving to iPhone, 20, 67-68 iPhone, 20, 231 photos from calendar synchronizaemail to iPhone, tion, 20, 288-290 316-317 contact information, iPhone to a Mac, 335 moving to iPhone, 20, iPhone to a Windows 67-68 PC, 332-334 email accounts, configiPhoto to iPhone, uring with, 177 315-316 Internet Explorer Macs to iPhone, 315 favorites, transferring Windows PC to to iPhone, 227-228 iPhone, 313-314 MAC configurations, 21 ringtones to iPhone, 31 member names, importo links on web pages, tance of, 18 236 obtaining, 18 to previous/later web photos, sending to, 331 pages, 237 Sync Alert dialog, 22 to websites synchronizing, 22 with bookmarks Windows PC configura(Safari), 232-234 tions, 19-20 with URLs, 234-235 More menu, searching multi-touch interface (iPhone), 5-6, 9 music by, 128-129

playlists

music iPod muting in, 48 On-the-Go playlists, 139-141 playing with Control Bar, 133 iTunes creating playlists, 106-110 importing audio CDs, 98-99 labeling music, 100 searches by Cover Flow browser, 119-121 searches by playlist, 122-123 smart playlists, 107-110 transferring music to iPhone, 106-110 viewing albums in, 131 iTunes Store, downloading audio files from, 100-102, 116-118 playing, 129-131 searches by artists, 124-125 Cover Flow browser, 119-121 genre, 126-128 More menu, 128-129 playlists, 122-123 mute on/off switch (iPhone), 5

N-O NTSC format, iPod settings, 150

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during phone calls, 42 Recents list dialing with, 40-41 managing, 49-50 swapping, 45 photos On-the-Go playlists, contacts 139-141 assigning to, 328-330 organizing associating with, bookmarks (Safari), 78-79 242-245 deleting, 311, 325, 330 email messages, email messages, 205, 216-217 316-317, 320, 327 Outlook, synchronizing landscape mode, 310 with Calendar applicaMobileMe, sending to, tion, 293 331 moving from P email to iPhone, pairing (Bluetooth), 168 316-317 passcodes, enabling/ iPhone to a Mac, 335 disabling, 381 iPhone to a Windows passwords PC, 332, 334 voicemail, 54, 60-61 iPhoto to iPhone, Wi-Fi network connec315-316 tions, 155-156 Macs to iPhone, 315 pausing voicemail, 56 Windows PC to people. See contacts iPhone, 313-314 phone calls screenshots, 318 answering, 46-48 slideshows, 320-324 conference calls, 43-45 synchronizing, 312 contacts, creating from, taking, 309-312 71-72 viewing, 310, 318-320, dialing with 328 contacts, 38, 89 wallpaper, setting as, favorites, 39 326, 378 keypad, 37 PIN settings (SIM), 36 Recents list, 40-41 playlists headset usage, 52 Genius playlists, managing, 41-42 142-145 merging, 44 iTunes, creating in, numbers (phone), 106-110 entering On-the-Go playlists, as text, 8 139-141 numbers (phone), entering as text, 8 during phone calls, 42

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playlists

searches, 238-239 settings, configuring, 222-225 URL, moving to websites with, 234-235 web forms, completing, 250 web pages emailing links, 248 opening multiple webpages, 251-252 websites, viewing, 236-237 saving bookmarks (Safari), 241-242 email messages without sending, 210 photos attached to email messages, 219 screen Q-R brightness, configuring, Recents list 376 creating contacts from, cleaning, 400 71-72 screenshots, 318 dialing from, 40-41 scrolling S managing, 49-50 map locations, 361 recording voicemail greet- Safari web pages, 236 ings, 53-54 bookmarks search engines (default), refreshing web pages, 237 adding, 247, 362 changing, 222 removing browsing, 356-358 searches callers from conference deleting, 246, 357 applications in iTunes calls, 45 moving MobileMe Store, 340 email addresses from accounts to iPhone, locations, 353, 355 email messages, 208 20 clearing searches, 355 renaming moving to iPhone, current location, bookmarks, 358 228-231 359-360 clocks, 278 moving to websites with bookmarks, renting movies from with, 232-234 356-358 iTunes Store, 103 organizing, 242-245 music with reordering clocks, 278 renaming, 358 artists, 124-125 repeating saving, 241-242 Cover Flow browser, alarms, 279 sorting, 357 119-121 events (calendar), 301 history list, 239-240 genre, 126-128 replaying voicemail, 58 Home screen, 247

searching music with, 122-123 smart playlists, 107-110 plug-ins, disabling, 223 podcasts listening to, 134-135 subscribing from iTunes Store, 104-105 POP enabling, GMail accounts, 181 pop-up blocking, 223 prefixes (U.S. phone numbers), 34 private conversations during conference calls, 45 problems. See troubleshooting push calendar synchronization, 291

replying to email messages, 211 resetting iPhone, 402-403 restarting iPhone, 401 restoring iPhone, 404-405 retrieving email, configuring settings, 195 reversing driving directions, 366 reviewing applications in iTunes Store, 343 rewinding voicemail, 57 ringtones associating with contacts, 82 iPhone, moving to, 31 iTunes, creating with, 28-30 setting, 32 silencing, 47 volume, adjusting, 32 roaming, Internet connections, 172 roaming charges, 36, 172

transferring

More menu, 128-129 playlists, 122-123 Safari, clearing from, 239 videos, 136-137 web searches, 238 security, Wi-Fi network connections, 155-156 Show Traffic command (Maps application), 367 signatures (email messages), 198 silencing ringetones, 47 SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) contacts, importing, 71 PIN setting, 36 Sleep mode, 5, 11 sleep timer, iPhone as, 287 slideshows, 320-324 smart playlists, creating in iTunes, 107-110 SMS (Short Message Service). See text messaging SMTP servers, changing settings, 190 snooze function (alarms), 280 sounds, configuring, 374 alerts, calendar events, 302 alarms, selecting for, 280 email settings, 199 phone settings, 31-33 spam filtering, 219 special characters, entering as text, 8 SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), 184 static addressing, network connections with, 164 stopwatch, iPhone as, 284-285

suggestion feature (text entering), 9 swapping phone calls, 45 Sync Alert dialog (MobileMe), 22 synchronizing. See also moving calendars iCal, 294 MobileMe accounts, 288-290 multiple calendars, 292 Outlook, 293 push calendars, 291 contacts changing contact information with, 90-91 with Mac OS, 70 with Windows, 69 email accounts Mac, 180 MobileMe, 177 Windows, 179 iTunes Store content with iPhone, 118 MobileMe accounts, 22 photos, 312

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creating contacts from, 75-76 deleting, 266 network plan costs, 256 new message sound, 257 number of, 263 receiving, 261-262 replying to, 261-262 sending, 89, 258-260 time/date settings. See also clocks configuring, 270-275 current time, viewing, 275 displaying, 11 time zones associating cities with clocks, 277 configuring, 271 Time Zone Support feature, 273 timer, iPhone as, 285-287 toolbar (main), changing icons in, 372 traffic, Show Traffic command (Maps application), 367 transferring. See also synchronizing applications to iPhone, T 340 tagging music in iTunes, Exchange contact 100 information to Tell a Friend option (appliiPhone, 67-68 cations), 343 MobileMe bookmarks text, entering in iPhone to iPhone, 20 editing, 10 MobileMe calendar numbers, 8 information to special characters, 8 iPhone, 20 suggestion feature, 9 MobileMe contact text messages information to conversations, 263-264 iPhone, 20, 67-68 clearing, 265 photos from

418

transferring

email to iPhone, 316-317 iPhone to a Mac, 335 iPhone to a Windows PC, 332-334 iPhoto to iPhone, 315-316 Macs to iPhone, 315 Windows PC to iPhone, 313-314 ringtones to iPhone, 31 to links on web pages, 236 to previous/later web pages, 237 to websites with bookmarks (Safari), 232-234 with URLs, 234-235 troubleshooting email, sending, 186, 406 iPhone reinstalling iTunes, 406 resetting iPhone, 402-403 resources for help, 407 restarting iPhone, 401 restoring iPhone, 404-405 Wi-Fi network connections, 157 TTY support, enabling/disabling, 36 turning on/off. See disabling, enabling TV shows, 150

U-V unlocking iPhone, 11, 381 unpinching map locations, 361

unread email messages, 204 updates applications, 347-349 iPhone, 394 iTunes, 392-393 URL (Uniform Resource Locators), moving to websites with, 234-235 USB ports, 403

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Wake/Sleep button, 5 wallpaper photos as, 326, 378 selecting, 377-378 web browsers. See Internet Explorer; Safari web forms (Safari), completing, 250 web pages iPhone formats, 234 landscape mode, 237 vibrations (phone setlinks, emailing with tings), enabling/ Safari, 248 disabling, 32 loading, stopping from, video 237 deleting, 138-139 moving to iTunes links on, 236 creating playlists in, revious/later pages, 106-110 237 transferring to multiple web pages, iPhone, 106-110 opening in Safari, iTunes Store, down251-252 loading from, 100-102 refreshing, 237 playing, 137-138 scrolling, 236 searching for, 136-137 zooming in/out of, virtual keyboard, 8 236-237 voicemail, 52 web searches, 238, 407 alerts for, 55 websites deleting, 58-59 associating with congreetings, recording, tacts, 83 53-54 help resources, 407 listening to, 56-57 histories managing, 58-59 clearing, 224 passwords for, 54, 60-61 returning to websites replaying, 58 with, 239-240 sending phone calls to, moving to with 47 bookmarks (Safari), volume, adjusting, 5, 12 232-234 alarms, 281 URLs, 234-235 ringtones, 32 viewing, 236-237 VPN (Virtual Private Network) connections, 170-171

zooming in/out of

Wi-Fi network connections AT&T EDGE network connections versus, 221 automatic prompts to join, 154 broadcast networks, 154-158, 161-162 changing networks, 162-163 forgetting networks, 163-164 hidden networks, 159160 troubleshooting, 157 Widescreen button (iPod settings), 150 Windows PC iTunes installing in, 14 updates, 392 MobileMe account configuration, 19-20 moving photos to, 313-314, 332-334 synchronizing with contacts, 69 email accounts, 179 MobileMe calendars, 288 wireless connections. See Bluetooth connections; Wi-Fi network connections

X-Y-Z zooming in/out of map locations, 361 web pages, 236-237

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