Innholdsfortegnelse for The Complete iPhone 12 GuideBook i The Complete iPhone 12 GuideBook

On 13th October 2020, Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage in the Steve Jobs Theater once more for an important Apple keynote. Yet the seats were empty. Due to restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus epidemic, there was no live audience to watch the unveiling of the new iPhone, no whoops and cheers whenever a new feature was announced and no extended round of applause at the end. Instead, we all sat at home in front of our Macs, iPads and iPhones, watching as the event was streamed live around the world. “We’re once again pushing the boundaries… photography advancements, Super Retina XDR displays, new Ceramic Shield front cover, a new level in a new form factor that’s as beautiful as it is durable…”Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice…

What is 5G? 5G is the latest standard for getting onto the Internet with your smartphone. It follows previous standards 3G and 4G. Most major mobile phone networks offer 5G services, and if you’re somewhere where there isn’t 5G coverage, your iPhone can still use older 3G and 4G networks too. The new 5G standard is much faster than previous cellular technologies, making downloads faster, video streaming more reliable and online gaming snappier. It’s also much better at coping when there are lots of devices close by, all accessing cellular data networks at once. We’ve all had problems going online with mobile devices when in a crowd, right? With 5G, this is much less of a problem. “The arrival of 5G marks the beginning of a new era for iPhone,…

The 12-series iPhones are powered by a great new Apple-designed processor that’s streets ahead of its rivals. A14 Bionic is the first chip in the smartphone industry built on the five-nanometer process, making its transistors thinner and smaller than ever before. But why does this matter? According to Hope Giles, Apple’s Vice President of Engineering Program Management, Hardware Technologies, “The reduction in transistor size enables us to add features and increase performance, all while improving energy efficiency.” Apple’s engineering team has certainly been hard at work on the design. The A14 Bionic chip contains an incredible 11.8 billion transistors, an increase of almost 40 percent over the previous generation of chips. Its CPU (Central Processing Unit) has six cores, that is, six individual processors that can each work on specific…

“It’s remarkable to think about where iPhone started and where it is today. Now with support for high-performance 5G networks, the powerhouse A14 chip, super retina XDR displays with ceramic shield, MagSafe and breakthrough camera systems that even record Dolby Vision video and Pro models that take the experience further with four incredible cameras, a LiDAR scanner and the largest display we’ve ever shipped in an iPhone, we’ve come so far with a device that’s so important to our daily lives.”Tim Cook, CEO of Apple…

Capacity & Price: 128GB, £999/$999/1.112 € 256GB, £1099/$1099/1.137 € 512GB, £1299/$1299/1.461,20 € Screen Size: 6.1-inch Screen Tech: Super Retina XDR display Cellular: 5G Front Camera: TrueDepth camera, 12MP photos, Face ID Rear Cameras: Pro 12MP camera system (Ultra Wide, Wide, and Telephoto) Zoom: 2x optical zoom in, 2x optical zoom out; 4x optical zoom range, Digital zoom up to 10x Night Mode: Night mode portraits Video: Up to 4K. Dolby Vision HDR video recording up to 60 fps Processor: A14 Bionic chip (fastest chip in a smartphone) Battery: Up to 17 hours video playback Water resistance: Yes, to a depth of six meters for up to 30 minutes MagSafe Compatible: Yes Dimensions: 5.78x2.82x0.29 inches Weight: 6.66 ounces…

Learn more >…

Inserting your Nano-SIM card 1 To activate your iPhone, you must first insert the Nano-SIM card provided by your mobile phone network provider. An eSim card is non-removal as detailed below. 2 Use a SIM eject tool like the one pictured here, or maybe a straightened paper clip, and insert it into the small hole next to the SIM slot. The tray then pops out as shown. 3 Place the SIM card in the tray (there’s only one way it can go in) and slide the tray back in the slot. Push it in firmly so it snaps into place. Your iPhone should recognise it. eSIM explained. The dual sim functionality introduced with the 2018 iPhone models, enables users to access two sim cards in one iPhone. Unlike the standard…

Home Screen Widgets 1 A Widget is a small piece of an app which displays information drawn from the app in question, making it easily accessible. We’ve had them for years on the Today screen (to the left of the home screen) but their abilities have now been greatly extended. 2 To add a Widget to the Home screen, tap and hold an empty space until the app icons start wobbling. Tap the + icon in the top-left corner and you get a pop-up window, from where you can select a Widget. Tap the Widget you want to add and see a preview and description. 3 Swipe backwards and forwards through these previews and choose at what size you want the Widget to be shown. Widgets come in three sizes,…

Setting up accounts. For most of the popular web-based email services such as Gmail and Yahoo, the iPhone automatically enters most of the settings needed for you to access your account. We’ve put together these steps that cover each of the Internet’s key email providers. Just follow this guide and you’ll soon be emailing from your iPhone. Setting up an iCloud email account 1 Tap the Settings icon and scroll down. Tap the Mail option, then Accounts. From here tap Add Account then tap the iCloud link and enter your Apple ID and Password. If you don’t have an Apple ID, tap Create a New Apple ID instead and follow the instructions. Tap Next to automatically verify your details. 2 If you have Two-Factor Authentication on, you must authenticate now.…

1 Once you’ve opened the keyboard, you can enter text by simply tapping on the keys as you would on any similar typing device. It’s really easy and intuitive to use. 2 To add digits and punctuation to your text, just tap the 123 key located on the lower-left side of the keyboard. An additional tap on the key above brings up more symbols. 3 When you start to type a word, the iPhone tries to complete it for you and displays its predictions in a bar above the keyboard. Tap one of the suggestions to finish the word. 4 When sending messages or emails, predictive text learns your choice of language and suggests the correct word for the tone of what it is you’re writing. Tap on the word…

Mail in Focus 1 This screen, in Mail, shows your Inbox. Tap the Mailbox link to go back and choose another mailbox, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk or VIP emails. 2 The Edit link puts an empty circle to the left of each email. You can tap these circles to add a tick, and then action multiple emails at once. 3 These are your emails, listed in the order they arrived. Tap on one to open and read it. Emails with blue dots to their left have not yet been opened and read. Pull down on the screen to get new mail. 4 Tap here to search your emails. You can type a name, a subject or something from the body of an email, and suggestions are offered as you…

Messages in Focus 1 Tap here to take you back to the list of message conversations. Tap one of them to open, and if you wish continue, that conversation, such as the chat you see here. 2 This is the person you’re chatting to. The picture is drawn from your Contacts app and is replaced by an initial if it’s not available. Tap this pic to open the three icons below, numbered ‘3’ here. 3 Tap the first two icons here to initiate a phone call or video chat respectively. Tap the ‘i’ icon for a window showing various details about the person you’re talking to, including images and attachments sent by them. 4 Your outgoing messages are on the right, incoming ones on the left. Received messages are grey.…

Calendar in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to the month view, showing the whole of the month. 2 Here you see the days of the month, with the currently displayed day highlighted. So here we’re looking at 12th November. 3 This icon gives you a list of upcoming events, displayed according to their date and time. 4 Tap here to search the Calendar app, looking at titles and content in your calendar entries. 5 Tap here to create a new calendar event, setting the date, time and title, as well as whether it repeats (for example, with birthdays and anniversaries), which calendar it’s in, when it starts and ends and more. 6 The day, date, month and year currently open are shown here for easy reference. 7…

The latest high-end iPhones have excellent cameras, and a revised interface for the Camera app to help you make the most of them. The Zoom function is implemented a little differently; there’s a QuickTake feature to let you quickly film a video without changing modes and the Burst Mode needs a new gesture too. There are extra controls, including the famous Night Mode, and you can take a wider image using Capture Outside the Frame. While most of the Camera app is just like it is on other iPhones running iOS 13 or later, these are the new features and interface changes and how to use them. Those Cameras in Focus 12MP Wide Camera 26 mm f/1.8 Seven-element lens Optical image stabilisation 100% Focus Pixels 12MP Telephoto Camera 52mm focal…

Introduced with iOS 14, the iPhone’s Translate app harnesses the power and language capabilities of Siri to transcribe the spoken word into text and then translate it to a language of your choice. It can also translate typed text too. But Translate isn’t merely about words and phrases. It also lets you translate entire conversations on the fly. Just choose your language pair, turn your iPhone into a landscape orientation and tap the microphone icon. You can then speak in your own language and have it translated into your companion’s home tongue, both in text and as speech. Your friend then answers in their own language and it’s translated into yours, again being spoken out loud as well as offered as text. Translate usually works online, sending your words to…

How to store credit and debit card information 1 To use Apple Pay, you need at least an iPhone 6, 6 Plus or SE; or an Apple Watch connected to a compatible iOS device. Apple Watches are compatible with the iPhone 5 or later, including the iPhone SE and require at least iOS 8. You can make Apple Pay payments online with an iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 or an iPad Mini 3. 2 Credit or debit cards are added to Apple Pay through the Wallet app. To add a new card, use your iSight camera to take a photograph of the card in question. Just keep it in the frame as advised on screen, and the card is photographed and its information stored. Or type the information in manually.…

Finding and viewing TV shows 1 From the main screen, tap the top right icon (silhouette or your photo) for this window, from where you can manage your account (tap your name), manage services to which you’ve subscribed, or add funds or gift cards to your Apple account, to spend on apps and media. 2 Tapping Connected Apps shows the TV and catch-up apps you downloaded from the App Store, and that are linked to your TV app. Tap the switch to unlink an app and stop its content appearing in your TV app. If you don’t have any, download some now. 3 Tap Account in the top left corner to go back to the previous window. Then tap Done, in the top right corner, to get to here. This…

News in Focus 1 Today’s date, which is always important on a digital news app. 2 This is Today, the News app’s main page. Scroll for top stories, trending stories and more. 3 You can watch videos directly from the News app. Just tap the Play button and the video plays, right there in the story. 4 Stories in the News app are tagged with how long ago they were uploaded to the Internet, so you know how recent your stories are. 5 Front-page news stories are usually illustrated with photos, videos or other such graphics. If you scroll the page, you get to see a range of news stories, trending stories, top videos and articles selected especially for you. 6 This is the Today icon. It takes you back…

iTunes in Focus 1 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you filter music according to its genre. Available genres include Blues, Classical, Country, jazz, metal, rock, greatest hits and more. Choose the Tones option to view ringtones. 2 Tap the Featured tab to see what’s hot and what’s new. The Charts tab gives you the best selling songs, albums and music videos on the iTunes Store. 3 Tap here for your wish list, songs you’ve identified using Siri (see the Siri guide for more details) and tracks you listened to as previews. 4 Scroll this line of albums left and right for more options, or tap See All to open the New Music page. 5 The iTunes Store’s shop window. Tap a price to buy a song or…

The People tab 1 The Find My app is divided into three sections, represented by icons at the foot of the screen; People, Devices, and Me. Unsurprisingly, the People tab is for finding your friends. If it isn’t already selected, tap it. 2 To start sharing your location with friends or family members, tap the large Start Sharing Location button. You should then enter the name, Apple ID email, or phone number of the person with which you want to share locations. 3 As is usual, you can tap the + sign to the right and select a person from your Contacts app. Add as many people as you wish, and tap the Send link. Then you can choose whether to share for an hour, the rest of the day,…

Downloading and updating iOS 1 To check for a new version of iOS, first of all open the Settings app from the Home screen. It’s the silver-coloured icon showing a series of cogs. From the next screen, scroll up until you see the General link and then tap it. 2 In General, tap Software Update. Your iPhone checks with Apple to see if there is a newer version than the one you’re running. If there isn’t, you’re told you’re up to date, but if there is, you can install it now. 3 If an update’s available, tap the Download and Install link. You may need to plug your iPhone into a mains power supply if the battery’s low. After entering your passcode, the update downloads to your iPhone. 4 When…

1 While watching a video or in a FaceTime video call, swipe the screen up or tap the Home button to get back to the Home screen. The video continues to play in a floating window on top of whatever is open on your screen. 2 Tap screen for controls; play, pause, 15 secs and scrub through the video. Tap the video to hide and show on-screen controls. The icon in the middle lets you pause and play the video and you can skip forward and backward 15 seconds too. 3 Close window or back to full size You can drag the floating window into any corner of the screen. Tap the X icon in the top-left to close it or tap the Picture-in-Picture icon in the top-right to return…

How to activate and speak to Siri 1 To open Siri, hold down the Home button or the Side button on Face ID iPhones. Siri now appears at the foot of the screen; as you can see here. 2 Begin speaking and the coloured icon reverberates to let you know that Siri can hear you. If it doesn’t, tap it to talk to Siri again. 3 You can also access Siri by saying “Hey Siri” and then speaking your request. Tap the answer to open the app that created it. Siri learning. The more you use Siri, the more it learns about you, your voice and the sort of words you use. The digital assistant gets used to your accent and also your way of speaking. Over time, Siri has…

Changing your Wallpaper 1 Go to Settings > Wallpaper and tap Choose a New Wallpaper. Choose from Dynamic, Stills, Live, or a pic from the Photos app. Dynamic wallpapers are lightly animated, Stills are static and Live wallpapers give more movement. 2 Tap the pictures found under the Dynamic, Stills and Live options to navigate your way through your Photos app’s images. Choose a photograph by tapping on it, then drag and pinch to move and scale it to fit your screen. 3 If the wallpaper is animated, the icon next to Cancel switches the animation off. The icon next to the Set button turns the Perspective Zoom on and off. Tap Set, and choose to use the new wallpaper on the Home screen, Lock screen, or both Changing your…

CarPlay brings iOS to the car. If you have a compatible vehicle, you can view Maps, play music from your iPhone, check Calendar appointments, use Siri and more; all from a touchscreen embedded into your car’s dashboard. It takes the information and media from your connected iPhone, and displays them right where they’re needed, giving you access to your iPhone’s apps and features without taking your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road. iOS 14 brings a new feature to CarPlay. Digital car keys let you unlock and start your car using your iPhone or Apple Watch. You can use the Messages app to share your digital car keys with another iPhone user, and if you lose your smartphone, you can disable the digital keys using iCloud.…

AirPods are Apple’s own wireless earbuds. They connect to your iPhone through Bluetooth, are Siri-compatible and if you need to pause the music to listen to something going on in the room, just take one of the buds out of your ear. Some great new features are coming to AirPods with a software update too. If you have your AirPods paired with several Apple devices, when you put one down and pick up another, the AirPods’ connection is automatically transferred. For example, if you’re watching a movie on your Mac and you get a phone call, as soon as you pick up, the AirPods’ connection moves from the Mac to the iPhone. You might then want to call someone on FaceTime using your iPad. Again, the AirPods’ connection is seemingly…

Learn more >…

You’d expect the iPhone 12, and its smaller stable mate the iPhone 12 mini, to have good cameras. They’re iPhones, after all. Even so, some of the advances made by the new advanced dual camera system took us by surprise. Harnessing the camera’s dual lens system and the computational power of the A14 Bionic chip, with the latest iPhones excellent photos are within anyone’s range. Dual Cameras The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini have two cameras. The upper-most camera is a 12MP Ultra Wide device, featuring an ƒ/2.4 aperture, a five-element lens, 13 mm focal length and a 120-degree field of view. Below it is the new Wide camera with an ƒ/1.6 aperture, seven-element lens, 26 mm focal length and more. It’s the fastest camera yet on the iPhone,…

League of Legends from Riot Games is a very widely respected online action title, and is often used in esports tournaments. In fact, it’s currently the world’s most popular PC game. Players from all over the globe compete in online multiplayer mashups. The only drawback is it’s very hard on its host machine’s performance. In fact, to be competitive in an online game of League of Legends, you need a powerful PC. Soon, all that will change. With the fast processing and graphics speeds offered by the 12-series iPhones, coupled with the lag-reducing power of 5G Internet, the time is right for bringing the title to iOS. The game was demoed by Apple during the launch keynote, and it already looks very good indeed. Detail and frame rates are beyond…

Capacity & Price: 64GB, £799/$799/876,30 € 128GB, £849/$849/925,05 € 256GB, £949/$949/1.042,05 € Screen Size: 6.1-inch Screen Tech: Super Retina XDR display Cellular: 5G Front Camera: TrueDepth camera, 12MP photos, Face ID Rear Cameras: Dual 12MP camera system (Ultra Wide and Wide) Zoom: 2x optical zoom out, Digital zoom up to 5x Night Mode: Night mode Video: Up to 4K. Dolby Vision HDR video recording up to 30 fps Processor: A14 Bionic chip (fastest chip in a smartphone) Battery: Up to 17 hours video playback Water resistance: Yes, to a depth of six meters for up to 30 minutes MagSafe Compatible: Yes Dimensions: 5.78x2.82x0.29 inches Weight: 5.78 ounces…

Capacity & Price: 128GB, £1099/$1099/1.217,50 € 256GB, £1199/$1199/1.334,45 € 512GB, £1399/$1399/1.558,65 € Screen Size: 6.7-inch Screen Tech: Super Retina XDR display Cellular: 5G Front Camera: TrueDepth camera, 12MP photos, Face ID Rear Cameras: Pro 12MP camera system (Ultra Wide, Wide, and Telephoto) Zoom: 2x optical zoom in, 2x optical zoom out; 4x optical zoom range, Digital zoom up to 10x Night Mode: Night mode portraits Video: Up to 4K. Dolby Vision HDR video recording up to 60 fps Processor: A14 Bionic chip (fastest chip in a smartphone) Battery: Up to 20 hours video playback Water resistance: Yes, to a depth of six meters for up to 30 minutes MagSafe Compatible: Yes Dimensions: 6.33x 3.07x 0.29 inches Weight: 8.03 ounces…

1 Open the Settings application from your iPhone’s Home screen and scroll to the top of the screen. Tap the Sign in to your iPhone option right at the top of the list, then in the pop-up window, tap ‘Don’t have an Apple ID or forgot it?’. 2 Tap Create Apple ID in the next window and, when instructed, enter your name in the fields provided. In the next field, Date of Birth, set your date with the wheels, and then tap Next to move on to the next step. 3 Then, you’re asked whether you want to use your current email address (if you have one) for your Apple ID. Tap Do not have an email address? if you want to use the free iCloud address that comes with…

Dialling a number from the keypad 1 Tap the Phone app icon and then select the keypad link from the five options at the bottom of the screen. Enter the phone number by tapping the on-screen digits; the number is shown as you enter it. 2 If this number is important and is likely to be used often, tap the Add Number link found under the phone number at the top of the screen to add it to your contacts list. If not, tap the green button to make the call. 3 The call automatically connects when your contact answers the phone at their end. To end the call, tap the End Call button, the red one; you’re returned to the keypad screen and the call is terminated. If you’re…

Control Centre in Focus 1 In this box, you can turn on and off (clockwise, from top left) Airplane Mode, Mobile Data, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. If you have 3D Touch, deep press the main box for more options. 2 This box shows what you’re currently listening to. Here we’re listening to the radio, so we can play/pause and skip forward or backward ten seconds. Deep press for more options, including volume control and external speakers. 3 Tap here to lock the screen in its current orientation, so it doesn’t switch between landscape and portrait mode when you turn the iPhone. Tap it again to switch off the screen orientation lock. 4 Tap here to activate and deactivate the Do Not Disturb mode. 5 This is the brightness control. Run your…

Safari in Focus 1 This icon gives access to the Website View Menu. It offers a range of options for viewing the website you’re currently browsing, including increasing and reducing text size, switching to Reader View or Desktop version, hiding the toolbar, and turning off content blockers. 2 This is your URL and search field. In here, type a web address to go to its page, or type a search term to explore the worldwide web for pages on that subject. Here it’s showing the URL for the currently viewed page. If you try to open a page that’s already open in another tab, Safari now switches to this tab instead of opening the page again. 3 Tapping the curly arrow here reloads the page you’re currently looking at. It’s…

Making a Memoji 1 Open the Messages app. Tap the Memoji icon in the app drawer and scroll all the way to the right until you see the Plus icon. Tap it to start your Memoji. Note: if the Memoji icon isn’t there, your iPhone is likely too old and cannot use Memojis. 2 Under a blank face you see a slider. Using this slider, the colour options and diagrams, build your Memoji any way you wish. Choose a hairstyle and colour, add glasses if you wear them, and more. You can make as many Memojis as you like so have fun and get creative. 3 When you’re finished, tap Done. Your Memoji is added to your Animoji collection, from where it can be used in the usual way, just…

Contacts in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to your list of contacts, arranged in alphabetical order. 2 The name and picture of your currently open contact. If you don’t yet have a picture here, the person’s initials are shown on a grey background. 3 Tap Edit to add, remove or change information on the contact card. You can add things like birthdays and social media addresses as well phone numbers, street addresses and more. 4 These icons let you communicate with your contact directly from the Contacts app. Tap to send a message, make a call, make a video call or send an email. A greyed icon means the feature is unavailable. 5 Phone numbers for the contact. You can add numbers for home, work, mobile and…

Photos in Focus 1 This is the name of the Photos album you have open (or in this case, where the pics were taken, as we’re looking at all the photos and not a single album), and the dates between which the photos contained in that album were all taken. 2 Tap here to select photos. You can pick out as many as you like, and dragging your finger will select multiple photos more easily. 3 Tap the three-dots icon for a pop-up that lets you zoom in and out, set the thumbnails, filter pictures, show them on a map and more. 4 These are your pictures. Tap the Select link, then tap photos to select and unselect them. Tap and hold a picture for a pop-up that lets you…

1 First of all, set up your Health Profile. It should appear automatically the first time you open the app, but if it doesn’t, tap the icon in the top right corner of the Summary screen and add your information and details. Tap Done when finished. 2 The main Summary screen, accessed by tapping the Summary icon at the bottom, starts with your Favourites. To configure, tap the Edit link and choose the items you want to use. Note the Existing and All tabs. 3 In the Browse tab, tap Activity and then Activity again for your Activity data, which is taken from your Apple Watch. It shows how you’re getting on filling your rings today, and how your activity level compares over the last week, month and year. 4…

Music in Focus 1 This is the main page of the Apple Music streaming service, where albums, artists and playlists tailored to your tastes are suggested for your listening. 2 Tap here to see your account details. You can change your username to a specific Music app nickname, choose more of your favourite artists, replace the silhouette with a photo and add some personal details. 3 A radio station built around songs Apple Music thinks you might like. Tap it to play. You can scroll the page to see more playlists, suggested artists, recently played music and more. 4 The mini-player shows the track you’re currently playing. You can tap it to expand it to full-screen size, with all the usual audio controls available to use. 5 You can use…

Books in Focus 1 Tap the chevron to close the a book and go back to your eBooks library. When you open the book again, it’s on the last page you viewed. 2 This icon gives you access to the book’s contents and also any bookmarks and notes you made whilst reading it. 3 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you change the font and font size, adjust the brightness, change the page colour, set the text to scroll up and down rather than turn pages like a physical book, and toggle the automatic Night Theme option. 4 Tap here to search for a word, phrase or page number in the book you currently have open. 5 Tap here to place or remove a bookmark. The book stays…

1 Press the FaceTime camera at the top of a contact card to for a video call, or select the FaceTime phone icon further down for an audio only FaceTime call. In the FaceTime app, previous calls are listed; tap one to repeat the call. 2 In video chats, you’re in the small window, while your contact is in the main screen. Tap the screen to get the controls. To switch between the front and rear cameras, tap the Camera icon. Tap the big red button to end the video call. 3 Tap the screen to show the controls, and swipe it up, using the handle at the top, to see the full range of options. You can mute the mic, turn off the camera, send a message, switch between…

App Store in Focus 1 The App Store’s Today screen gives you the pick of the best of the new releases, chosen every day by Apple’s editors. Scroll up for the apps that were chosen on previous days. 2 Tap here to get to your account details, redeem a card, send an app as a gift, update apps, and check on the apps you’ve previously purchased, or sign out of the App Store. 3 These are the apps, and a feature highlighting a range of apps, that have been chosen by Apple’s editors as the choice of the day. Tap one for information on that particular app, and the opportunity to get it. 4 Tap here to get to the Today screen, as seen here. The Today screen is a…

An introduction to iCloud Drive and the Files app 1 In the Settings app, tap your name at the top of the screen, tap iCloud and scroll down to iCloud Drive. If it isn’t on already, turn it on. You can now save your files in the cloud and access them from any Internet device. 2 Open the Files app and under Locations, tap iCloud Drive. Here you see the files stored on your iCloud Drive, arranged by their apps. iCloud Drive is also accessible through other Apple devices, and www.icloud.com. 3 You can open an iCloud document on your iPhone, if you have the iPhone version of the app that created it. Just open the folder for the app in question (here we’re looking at Pages) and tap a…

First of all, open Settings > Mobile Data > Personal Hotspot or Settings > Personal Hotspot, depending on what version of iOS you’re using. Make sure it’s switched on, and Allow Others to Join is on. Make a note of the Wi-Fi password, which you might need later. Now you must connect the device you wish to take online through your iPhone, using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB. Using Wi-Fi. On the computer or tablet you wish to take online, open your Wi-Fi settings and look for the name of your iPhone in the list of available networks. Connect to it, and use the Wi-Fi password shown on your iPhone’s screen; the one you made a note of earlier. If you’re using an Apple device logged into the same Apple ID…

First Steps Make sure your iPhone is running iOS 12.3 or later and your Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD is running tvOS 11.4 or later. Both devices must be on the same network. Play video from your iPhone with AirPlay Open the video you wish to AirPlay to your Apple TV and tap the AirPlay icon. In some apps, such as the Photos app, you need to go through the Sharing icon to get to the AirPlay icon. From the next screen, on your iPhone, choose your Apple TV on the menu to start streaming. You can pause, fast-forward and rewind from the controls on your iPhone; just tap the screen and they appear. To stop streaming, tap the AirPlay icon on your iPhone to get back to…

1 To set up and use Dark Mode, open System Preferences (the app with the grey icon showing cogs), and scroll up. Tap the Display and Brightness link; it’s in the third set of links, and has a blue double-A icon. 2 At the top of the screen, you see the Light and Dark options; tap one to choose it, immediately making the screen light or dark. This is the option you use to change the screen between Light and Dark Mode on a permanent basis. 3 Under the Light and Dark pictures, there’s a switch labelled ‘Automatic’. If you want the light and dark modes to toggle automatically, turn it on by tapping this switch. Do so and an Options link appears under the Automatic switch. 4 By default,…

Screen Time in Focus 1 To open Screen Time, go to Settings > Screen Time. You can also get to the Widgets screen by swiping right from the Lock screen, or the Home screen, and tapping the Screen Time widget near the bottom. 2 Here, you see a summary of how you’ve been using your iPhone on each day of the week. Tap a bar to see how much you used it on that day. You’re also shown your daily average time, and whether this is up or down compared to the previous week. 3 This link takes you to a more detailed breakdown of what you’ve been doing with your phone, and when, arranged according to either weekly or daily summaries. 4 Tap here to schedule downtime for your…

On 13th October 2020, Apple lifted the lid on the new 12-series iPhones, including the go-to model, the iPhone 12. Featuring a beautiful new design and packed with innovative features such as the A14 Bionic processor, an advanced dual-camera system and a Super Retina XDR display with the Ceramic Shield front cover, it takes Apple’s smartphone range to the next level. Throw in 5G compatibility, MagSafe wireless charging and an awesome range of colours, and you have a very desirable product indeed. Across the next few pages, we take an in-depth look at the iPhone 12 and its stunning new features. Getting Into Shape. The iPhone 12 features a return to the straightedged, flat-screen format last seen on the iPhone 5s. This allows the aluminium frame and glass to stay…

Apple has certainly worked hard on the screen for the 12-series iPhones. The company’s key display technology, Super Retina XDR screens, was developed for the monitor that goes with the latest Mac Pro, but now it’s found its way into the iPhones. It’s this that has allowed Apple to reduce the size of the bezel, allowing a bigger screen without enlarging the phone’s footprint. “Our new custom Apple OLED [Organic Light Emitting Diode] has many advantages over LCD [Liquid Crystal Display],” explained Kaiann Drance, VP, iPhone Product Marketing. “Each OLED pixel has its own light which can be individually controlled, giving us pixel-precision brightness, rich colours and an amazing two million-to-one contrast ratio.” All iPhone 12-series models feature an immersive HDR viewing experience for high-definition video, photos with more detail,…

When charging your iPhone wirelessly, using a Qi-charger, it’s easy to misalign the phone and the charging mat so your phone charges slower, or not at all. The 12-series iPhones take wireless charging to the next level and do away with this problem using a new technology called MagSafe. MagSafe improves the wireless charging experience. Apple’s industry-unique wire-wound coil now accommodates magnets, so any MagSafe charging accessory can simply snap onto the back of the phone. There’s no danger of misalignment, and if a MagSafe charging mat is knocked, chances are the iPhone won’t slide off. Compatibility with existing Qi chargers is maintained; you can still use a 12-series iPhone on an existing charging mat. As well as allowing Mag-Safe charging, the magnets housed within the iPhone make possible a…

Capacity & Price: 64GB, £699/$699/778,85 € 128GB, £749/$749/827,55 € 256GB, £849/$849/944,55 € Screen Size: 5.4-inch Screen Tech: Super Retina XDR display Cellular: 5G Front Camera: TrueDepth camera, 12MP photos, Face ID Rear Cameras: Dual 12MP camera system (Ultra Wide and Wide) Zoom: 2x optical zoom out, Digital zoom up to 5x Night Mode: Night mode Video: Up to 4K. Dolby Vision HDR video recording up to 30 fps Processor: A14 Bionic chip (fastest chip in a smartphone) Battery: Up to 15 hours video playback Water resistance: Yes, to a depth of six meters for up to 30 minutes MagSafe Compatible: Yes Dimensions: 5.18x2.53x 0.29 inches Weight: 4.76 ounces…

Memoji iOS 14’s Memojis offer ten new hairstyles, 18 new hats and headgear, six new age options and even a doctor’s mask. 11 Languages The Translate app supports 11 languages; English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Arabic. Cycling in Maps If you like to get from A to B on your bike, the Maps app now includes Cycling as a means of transport. Siri The Siri personal digital assistant now knows over 20 times as many facts as it did just three years ago. Search Emoji When picking out your emojis, in iOS 14 you can search for them directly from the keyboard. Speedy Safari According to testing by Apple using industry standard benchmarking tools, the iOS 14 version of Safari is the…

iPhones with a top-to-bottom screen The latest iPhones have a top-to-bottom screen. These include the iPhone 12 series models, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 11, iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. So basically, all iPhone X-series models and later. The Lightning Connector. Current iPhones use a Lightning connector for charging, syncing, and (on the latest iPhones) for connecting cabled earbuds using an adapter. Plus/Max Sizes. Some iPhone models come in two sizes: a large version, known as the Plus or the Max, and a regular version that lacks this suffix. The larger-sized iPhones, known as ‘phablets’, are halfway between a phone and a tablet. A comparison with iPhones with a Home Button Older iPhones, and cheaper models, have a Home button at the…

Setting Up Face ID 1 Open the Settings app and scroll down the list of apps and features until you get to the one called Face ID & Passcode. Tap it to open these settings. 2 If you’ve set up a passcode on your iPhone, whether four-digit, six-digit or alphanumeric, you must enter it now to get to the main Face ID settings screen. 3 Tap Set Up Face ID and on the next screen read the instructions; then tap Get Started. You can add more than one face to Face ID if you wish. 4 Position your face within the frame, as instructed, then move your head in a circle until the small lines around your face are all green, as shown. 5 Tap Continue. You’re then asked to…

Joining a Wi-Fi network 1 To activate Wi-Fi go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn it on. The iPhone searches for all networks in range. If at home, pick your home network and enter the security details, the password should be supplied with your router. 2 If you’re at a public hotspot that has no security, you can just connect. If it’s password protected, which is far more likely, you need to get the network name and the passcode from whoever is providing the Wi-Fi service. 3 From now on, whenever you’re in range of this Wi-Fi service the iPhone automatically connects without any prompting. If more than one is in range, the iPhone rejoins the last network it joined. You can follow these tips for joining a public Wi-Fi…

Touch The iPhone has a capacitive touchscreen, which means it’s sensitive to the tiny electrical charges in our bodies. You only have to tap the screen, not press down hard. To activate items on the screen such as applications and settings icons, type using the on-screen keyboard or to press on-screen buttons, you simply touch them with your finger. Swipe or scroll Menus or web pages often require you to scroll. To do this, drag your finger across the screen in the direction you wish to move. For example, the main Photos app lets you slide the screen left to right to scroll through your pics, and in Safari, you can drag a web page up and down to see off-screen portions of the site. Touch and hold You touch…

If there’s something you need to change in one of your apps, such as the preferred language, whether Siri can learn from it or if it can send you notifications, you go to the Settings app. You can also customise the iPhone’s key features such as the phone, Screen Time and Control Centre too and if you didn’t set up Siri, Wallet and more during your initial iPhone setup, it’s Settings to where you should look. Your personal Apple ID settings, such as iCloud, Family Sharing and Find My, are also found in the Settings app. There’s far more in the Settings app than we can cover here, so instead, we’ll give you an overview of its key features. If you familiarise yourself with the Settings functions covered here, mastery…

Reminders in Focus 1 Use the Search field to search your reminders. Titles, notes, people, locations and more are searched. 2 Tap this link and you can edit your lists; delete them with the minus sign, reorder by dragging the Three-line icon up and down and tap the ‘i’ icon to rename a list, change its colour and choose a new icon. 3 These are your smart lists. ‘Today’ is all your reminders scheduled for that day, ‘Scheduled’ shows reminders that are scheduled for any day, ‘All’ lists all of your reminders, and ‘Flagged’ shows reminders to which you’ve added a flag. 4 These are your lists. They can be called anything you like. Tap one to open it and see the individual reminders you’ve added, mark reminders you’ve done…

Notes in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to the folder containing the currently open note. As you can see, that’s the iCloud folder, which is synced across your Apple devices, including your iPhone. You can then tap another folder on the Folders screen to open it, and look at the notes inside. 2 At the top of a note, you can see the date and time when the note in question was last edited. Drag the note down to get this information. 3 The three-dots icon opens a window containing a lot of options, including sharing the note, inviting people to collaborate on it and deleting it from your Notes app; all of which were previously available directly from this screen. 4 Various typographic options are available.…

Camera in Focus (older iPhone’s interfaces may vary) More Controls Tap the chevron (3) for a row of icons that give you greater control over some of the camera’s functions. These are (left to right); Flash; Night Mode; Live Photos; Aspect Ratio; Change Exposure; Shutter Timer; Camera Filters; High Dynamic Range. Capturing still photographs and video explained 1 Open the Camera app. To flip between the front and back cameras, tap the circular icon (bottom right). To switch between video and stills, use the slider under the image; moving between Time-lapse, Slo-Mo, Video, Photo, Portrait and Pano. 2 Zoom in and out using pinch and spread gestures on the screen. To take a photo, tap the big white button or a Volume button. For Burst Mode, (multiple images at once),…

Maps in Focus 1 Tap the ‘i’ for the Maps Settings pop-up window, where you can switch between a normal, Transport or Satellite view, mark your location, add a feature or report an issue. 2 Tap this arrow icon to focus the map on your current location. Tap it again and the map rotates as you move, so the direction your travelling is always ‘up’. 3 The blue dot shows your current location on the map. The smaller the blue circle around it, the more accurate this location placement is. 4 Use the search bar found here to look for a location or nearby feature; here we looked for Fast Food. Tap the Search field without typing anything for a list of recent searches and popular search options such as…

Activity in Focus 1 This is the main page of the Activity app and it shows you a summary of your recent activities. It also shows you today’s date. 2 The Activity section features information drawn from your Apple Watch. It starts afresh each day, so what you see are today’s figures. 3 Here you can see how many calories you’ve used up today, how many minutes you’ve spent exercising and how many times you’ve stood up and moved around for at least two minutes. 4 This is the same information discussed in ‘3’, but represented as part-completed rings. You can set up your Apple Watch to display these rings on the watch face if you wish. 5 Your recent workouts are displayed here. Again, the information is gleaned from…

Measure App in Focus 1 The back arrow undoes the last command but doesn’t clear all the points of a multi-point measurement. 2 The Clear button gets rid of all the current measurements so you can move on to the next one. 3 Measure is designed to calculate the distance between fixed points such as the length of a table or width of a chair. 4 You will need to direct Measure to the object you’d like to measure by hovering over it. 5 The + button is used to specify the start and end points that Measure should use when measuring your object. 6 The onscreen Shutter button is used to take a photo of what you’ve just measured for future reference. 7 Tap the ruler icon to access…

Podcasts in Focus 1 This is your Library which is the collection of podcasts to which you’re currently subscribed. Tap one of the links under this title to see shows you’re subscribed to, a show’s individual episodes and more. 2 Tap the Edit link and you can customise your main Library screen, dragging categories into a position of your choosing and hiding ones you don’t need to use any more. 3 Tap one of these two links and your podcasts are listed according to individual episodes or by release date, rather than by the series they’re from. 4 Tap this link for a list of podcast episodes that are downloaded, and are ready to be listened to in the Podcasts app. 5 These are the podcasts that have recently been…

1 Tap the home icon in the top left corner of the screen for a pop-up allowing you to access your Home Settings and your Room Settings. Home Settings cover the whole of the house, while Room Settings let you set up specific rooms and groups of rooms. 2 The Plus icon gives another pop-up, from which you can add a HomeKit-compatible accessory; or add a scene or group of instructions to your accessories activated with a single tap. 3 This is the current name of your home. To change it, tap the Home icon (1), Home Settings and then tap the Name field to edit or change the current name. 4 These status icons give important information gleaned from your HomeKitcompatible accessories. You can tell at a glance, for…

Learn more >…

Features of the Files app 1 When you first open the Files app, you see two icons at the foot of the screen. The Recents icon shows you documents you’ve recently opened, and also gives access to those you’ve shared and tagged with a colour. The Browse icon lets you look through your files. 2 The Files app has an improved search facility. You can restrict your search to recents, files on iCloud Drive, or the specific app whose folder you’ve opened, and can also add ‘tokens’ to restrict the search to (for example) specific file types or production dates (e.g. ‘last week’) 3 The first four options on the Browse screen are On My iPhone (documents you’ve stored locally) iCloud Drive (documents stored on your iCloud service), Shared Documents…

Arranging apps 1 To change the order of the app icons on your home screen, first of all, tap and hold on an individual app. A pop-up window appears. 2 Tap Edit Home Screen. The app icons wobble and show a X in the corner. You can drag them to rearrange. Tap Done when you’ve finished. Deleting apps 1 The simplest way to delete an app or widget is to tap and hold its icon and, from the pop-up menu, select the Delete App option. It disappears. 2 If you have several to delete, tap Edit Home Screen instead. Tap the - on every app or widget you want to delete, then tap Done (top right). Offloading apps If you need to delete an app without losing its data, go…

Setting up Do Not Disturb 1 Open Settings and tap on Do Not Disturb. From here, you can switch Do Not Disturb on manually or set it to automatically turn on and off according to a preset schedule that you can set up for your requirements. Switch on the Scheduled option if you wish to do this 2 To change the times, after turning on the Scheduled button, use the from/to time link that appears underneath it. Then tap From and use the dials to set the time it switches on, and then To, and set the time it ends. When finished tap to go back to the main app settings. 3 Tap Allow Calls From and you can choose to allow calls from certain groups in your Contacts app…

1 When setting up a new account, some apps and websites let you sign in with your social media and online accounts such as Facebook, Google and Windows Live. Where available, you can also sign in using your Apple ID. 2 You sign in with Apple using your Face ID our Touch ID. Your account is created on the website or app in question, without you having to type in your details and come up with a password. It’s very convenient and quick. 3 If you’re signing in to an app and you don’t want to give them your email address, you can register using a random address generated by Apple, and forwarded to your iCloud email. This can be deleted whenever you choose. Security control. Sign in with Apple…

Using the Notification Centre 1 To access the Notification Centre, swipe your finger down from the top of the screen. Notifications are arranged in stacks according to the app that sent them. Tap one of these stacks to open it and see its notifications. 2 To clear a single notification, swipe it left and tap the Clear button. To delete all notifications received on a given day, tap the X next to the day and then the Clear button that replaces it. All that day’s notifications go. 3 Swipe left and tap Manage to customise your notifications without opening Settings. From the pop-up window, you can have notifications from that app arrive quietly, without making a sound, or switch them off altogether Swipe a notification to the right and you…

Using AirDrop for file transfer 1 Send files to other Apple devices using AirDrop. Switch on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, then go to Settings > General > AirDrop and decide whether receiving via AirDrop is on or off, share only with Contacts, or share with everyone 2 Select a file, photo, or video you want to send by AirDrop, and open it. Tap the Sharing icon (the page with the up-pointing arrow), and then tap AirDrop in the pop-up window. Tap the person to which you want to send the file, and it’s sent. 3 If you accept AirDrops from everyone, when you’re sent an AirDrop file, you have to accept it first. AirDropped files are accessible from their host apps: Safari links open via Safari, photos via the Photos app,…

Close an application If an application has frozen or is running very slowly, try forcing it to quit. On an iPhone with no Home button, on the Home screen swipe from the bottom to half-way up the screen. If your phone has a Home button, Quickly press it twice. Either way, you get to a screen showing your open apps. Find the faulty one and swipe it off the top of the screen. Restart your iPhone This tip solves most iPhone issues, and indeed, most tech issues in general, so always start with this if you’re having a problem.To restart an iPhone with no Home button, press and hold the Side and top Volume buttons. On older iPhones, press and hold the side or the top button. This screen appears,…