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How to Use the iPhone 4S Reminder App
The Reminders app on the iOS 5 software on your iPhone 4S isn’t just any ordinary to-do list: Reminders on the iPhone can be tagged to your location, and it also works nicely with iCal, Outlook, and iCloud [more…]
How to Activate Siri on Your iPhone 4S
When you first set up the iPhone 4S, you have the option of turning on Siri. If you did so, you’re good to go. If you didn’t, tap Setting→General→Siri and flip the switch so that On is showing. [more…]
The iPhone 4S: What Siri Can Do
The beauty of using Siri on your iPhone 4S is that there’s no designated protocol you must follow when talking to her. Asking, “Will I need an umbrella tomorrow?” [more…]
Dictating to Siri on Your iPhone 4S
In many instances where you’d otherwise use the iPhone 4S touchscreen keyboard, you can now use Siri instead. Instead of typing, tap the microphone icon on the keyboard and speak. Tap Done when you’re [more…]
How to Correct Siri’s Mistakes on Your iPhone 4S
As good as Siri is, she doesn’t get everything right the first time. Fortunately, your iPhone 4S makes it easy to correct her mistakes. The simplest way is to tap the microphone icon and try your query [more…]
How to Make Siri Smarter with Your iPhone 4S
From settings on your iPhone 4S, you can tell Siri which language you want to converse in. Out of the gate, Siri was available in English (United States, United Kingdom, or Australian), French, and German [more…]
How to Search the Web with Your iPhone 4S
Searching the web with your iPhone 4S usually involves accessing a search engine, the most commonly used being Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing. Although you can certainly use the virtual keyboard to [more…]
How to Set Up E-mail on Your iPhone 4S
First things first: To use Mail on your iPhone 4S, you need an e-mail address. If you don’t have an e-mail account yet, you can sign up for a free one from [more…]
How to Download Apps to Your iPhone 4S
Your iPhone 4S gives you a third option for downloading apps. In addition to getting and installing apps on your computer and on your iPhone, you can use the Automatic Downloads feature. After you switch [more…]
How to Download Periodicals to Your iPhone 4S with Newsstand
You can easily download magazines and newspapers to your iPhone 4S with iOS 5’s new Newsstand. Don’t look for periodicals in the iBooks app’s iBookstore. The handy Newsstand icon on your Home screen is [more…]
How to Create a Safari Home Page on Your iPhone 4S
You may have noticed that there’s no home page website on the iPhone 4S version of Safari. Instead, when you tap the Safari icon, you return to the last site you visited. However, if you want a home page [more…]
How to Use GarageBand to Create Free Ringtones for Your iPhone 4S
If you have a Mac, you have Apple’s GarageBand application and with that, you can create free ringtones for your iPhone 4S. iOS 5, the system that runs your iPhone 4S, lets you use ringtones as text tones [more…]
How to Activate Your iPhone 4S
Instead of activating your iPhone 4S all alone in your own home, as original iPhone owners did, you’re now supposed to activate the iPhone where you bought the thing, just as you do with other cell phones [more…]
Useful Websites for iPhone 4S Owners
After the iPhone 4S All-in-One For Dummies, your first stop for information about your iPhone 4S should be the Apple website. If you’re looking for new applications, go to the App Store by clicking the [more…]
Tips on Using Siri in iPhone 4S
The newest feature to be added to iOS and found only on the iPhone 4S, Siri can do some pretty surprising things. You can phrase the command for the same task in several ways; for example, you can ask [more…]
Identifying Apps on the iPhone 4S Home Screen
Your iPhone 4S's Home screen contains a treasure trove of useful apps you can tap to launch and use. This table offers a rundown of the apps you’ll find on the iPhone's Home screen, a brief explanation [more…]
The Different Uses of the iPhone 4S Home Button
Dorothy clicked her red-sequined heels three times to go home. You need only press the Home button to get to the iPhone 4S’s Home screen. Pressing the Home button twice performs a couple functions, depending [more…]
Tapping and Holding Buttons and Icons on Your iPhone 4S
On your iPhone 4S, if you want to open an app, fill in a text field, or choose a command such as Print or Message, you tap the appropriate icon, field, or button. The tap and hold gesture opens another [more…]
iPhone 4S All-in-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Your iPhone 4S is pretty easy to command — a tap here, a swipe there, and you’re on your way. However, you can use the “hidden” commands on your iPhone to do things faster and easier. These shortcuts, [more…]
How to Use Siri’s Clock
You can quickly set an alarm or timer on the iPhone 4S by asking Siri to set it for you. You can use Siri’s timer to tell you when it’s time for something like getting your cookies out of the oven, and [more…]
How to Convert Currency with Siri
With iPhone 4S and Siri, you will never be embarrassed because you don’t know currency exchange rates. Consider this scenario: You're on the phone with a hotel in Paris, France, and the desk clerk wants [more…]
What Is Siri?
Siri is a personal assistant that resides on your iPhone 4S. Siri responds to the words you speak rather than requests you type. Just as you can talk to your iPhone 4S to perform a range of tasks [more…]
How to Use Siri
Siri is a personal assistant built into the iPhone 4S, so you don't need to download anything to start using it. When you turn on the iPhone 4S for the first time, you're prompted to set up a few things [more…]
How to Use the Siri Calendar
Staying organized is easy with the Siri Calendar on your iPhone 4S. Siri makes it drop-dead simple to add or access calendar entries, without having to stop to type in all the information. By speaking [more…]
How to Change a Siri Calendar Entry
With Siri and your iPhone 4S, you can do more than just create a new appointment. You can also use Siri to review and change calendar appointments. The following are a few examples of what you can say [more…]
