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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…]
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 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…]
How to Hook Up an iPhone to a Computer
Your iPhone 5 doesn't need a computer at all, because you can directly download apps, music, and movies from the App Store and iTunes Store. However, if you do have a Mac or PC, [more…]
Your iPhone's Notification Center
Notification Center on your iPhone gives you an at-a-glance, timely view of everything you want to keep on top of: new e-mails, texts, the current temperature, appointments and reminders, Tweets, and more [more…]
How to Reply with Text Messages from Your iPhone
The handy new iOS 6 reply with a text message feature is for those times when you can't take a call on your iPhone. If you can’t take a call on your iPhone, you can still be polite or give callers a sense [more…]
How to Avoid Disturbances on Your iPhone 5
The Do Not Disturb feature on your iPhone 5 is new to iOS 6. In the middle of the night — or the middle of the day when you’re playing hooky — the last thing you want is to be bothered by a phone call. [more…]
