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Making a Call on Your iPhone
You have several options for making a phone call from your new iPhone. First tap the Phone icon on the Home screen, and then tap on one of these icons: [more…]
Managing Your iPhone Contacts
You access your iPhone address book by tapping the Phone icon on the Home screen of your iPhone. Some of the things you can do with contacts in the Phone application include the following: [more…]
iPhone For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Your iPhone can be so much more than a communication tool to talk into. Aside from making calls and creating your contacts, you need to get familiar with the many options available on the iPhone touchscreen [more…]
Tapping, Flicking, Pinching, and Dragging on Your iPhone 4S
Rice Krispies has Snap! Crackle! Pop! Apple’s response for the iPhone 4S is Tap! Flick! Pinch! And, oh yeah, add Drag! Fortunately, tapping, flicking, pinching, and dragging are not challenging gestures [more…]
Virtual Keyboards and the iPhone 4S Multitouch Interface
Like other iPhones, the iPhone 4S dispenses with the physical dialing keypad and more complete QWERTY-style keyboard in favor of a multitouch display. This display is the heart of many things you do on [more…]
The iPhone 4S Special Use Keys
The virtual keyboard of the iPhone 4S contains five keys that don’t actually type a character. Along with using the Shift key to type capital letters, you can press a key to activate Siri and start dictating [more…]
How to Cut, Copy, and Paste on Your iPhone 4S
With the iPhone 4S you finally have the ability to copy and paste text (or images) from one place to another. This right granted to every computer user took awhile to make it to the iPhone, but Apple has [more…]
Multitasking Features of Your iPhone 4S
The software in your iPhone 4S offers a bevy of important features, with the long-overdue multitasking feature arguably the most significant. So, you can play music from a third-party app such as Slacker [more…]
Organizing Your iPhone 4S Apps with Folders
Finding the single app you want to use on your iPhone 4S among apps spread out over 11 screens is a daunting task. But Apple felt your pain, and with iOS 4, the company introduced a handy organization [more…]
Getting Notifications on Your iPhone 4S
When you stop to think about it, a smartphone is smart because of all the things it can communicate. Your iPhone 4S has a Notification Center that gives you an at-a-glance, timely view of everything you [more…]
How to Set Up Your New iPhone 4S
Your iPhone 4S runs iOS 5, which doesn’t requireyou to connect your iPhone to a computer — PC or Mac — running iTunes. However, certain tasks — such as rearranging icons on your Home screens and managing [more…]
How to Accept and Reject Calls on Your iPhone 4S
When someone calls you on your iPhone 4S, you can choose to take the call or choose not to take it and send the caller directly to voicemail.
You have three options for accepting a call: [more…]
How to Make a Call with Your iPhone 4S
With everything else you can do with your iPhone 4S, you may forget that you can actually make calls. To call someone, start by tapping the Phone icon on the Home screen. Choose your method by tapping [more…]
Using the iPhone 4S Visual Voicemail Feature
Hate waiting through voicemail after voicemail before getting to the message you really want to hear? Well, the iPhone 4S’s clever visual voicemail presents a list of your voicemail messages in the order [more…]
How to Use FaceTime with Your iPhone 4S
The promise of video calling has been around since LBJ occupied the White House, and with the introduction of FaceTime on the iPhone 4S, the reality of seeing and being seen as you talk on the phone is [more…]
FaceTime Features on Your iPhone 4S
FaceTime, Apple’s video calling feature, puts your iPhone 4S in a whole different class when it comes to making phone calls. Plus, FaceTime comes with at least two major benefits, [more…]
iCloud Basics for Your iPhone 4S
Apple’s iCloud service, which comes free with your iPhone 4S, is more than just a wireless hard drive in the sky. Rather, iCloud is a complete wireless storage and data synchronization solution. In a nutshell [more…]
How to Sync Your iPhone 4S with Your Computer
To sync your iPhone 4S with your computer, you use either the included dock connector–to–USB cable or connect wirelessly over Wi-Fi. However, if you want to sync wirelessly, you’ll still have to connect [more…]
How to Sync Address Book Contacts with Your iPhone 4S
The Sync Address Book Contacts section of the Info pane of your iPhone 4S determines how synchronization is handled for your contacts. One method is to synchronize all your contacts, as shown in the following [more…]
How to Sync E-mail Accounts with Your iPhone 4S
You can sync account settings for your e-mail accounts in the Sync Mail Accounts section of the Info pane of your iPhone 4S. You can synchronize all your e-mail accounts [more…]
How to Sync Music, Movies, TV Shows, and Ringtones with Your iPhone 4S
Your iPhone 4S has a variety of panes you use to specify the media that you want to copy from your computer to your iPhone. To view any of these panes, make sure that your iPhone is still selected in the [more…]
How to Sync Podcasts, E-books, and iTunes U Content with Your iPhone 4S
With your iPhone 4S, you can sync podcasts, educational content from iTunes U, and two types of books — e-books for reading and audiobooks for listening: [more…]
How to Sync Photos with Your iPhone 4S
Syncing photos to your iPhone 4S is a little different from syncing other media because your iPhone has a built-in camera — two cameras, actually — and you may want to copy pictures or videos you take [more…]
Cellular Carriers for Your iPhone 4S
AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and most recently C Spire have started selling versions of the iPhone 4S. Sprint and C Spire offer unlimited data plans starting at around [more…]
How to Use the iPhone 4S Voice Recorder
With your new iPhone 4S, Apple includes a built-in digital voice recorder, which is handy for recording lectures, notes to yourself, your spouse snoring — whatever audio you find interesting. [more…]
