The iPhone is cool and perfect for many seniors because it provides a very simple, intuitive interface for making and receiving phone calls and doing things like checking e-mail and playing music. With the easy-to-use tables in this guide, you can get up to speed with various iPhone settings. In no time, you’ll start mastering the skills you need to become a confident iPhone user.
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What Can You Do with iPhone General Settings?
Use iPhone’s General settings to set up basic functionality for your everyday use. You access the General settings in the following table by tapping the Settings app icon on the Home screen and then tapping General.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| About | Shows information about downloaded content, apps, memory, iPhone serial number and model, and your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth addresses, plus support and legal and regulatory jargon. |
| Software Update | Use this setting to check for available updates to iOS via iCloud. |
| Usage | Check the items that are backed up to iCloud and buy additional storage. Also turn on the display in the status bar for indicating the percentage of your battery power available. |
| Network | Configure and turn on and off Wi-Fi and virtual private (VPN) networks. |
| Bluetooth | Turn Bluetooth (enabling you to connect to other Bluetooth devices) on/off. |
| iTunes Wi-Fi Sync | Sync wirelessly with the copy of iTunes on a nearby computer when connected to a Wi-Fi network. |
| Spotlight Search | Access settings for what types of content the iPhone search feature returns in search results. |
| Auto-Lock | Set the amount of time for inactivity at which iPhone automatically locks the screen. |
| Passcode Lock | Set a passcode and turn the feature on to require a passcode to unlock iPhone. Set iPhone to erase all data after ten failed attempts to enter the correct passcode. |
| Restrictions | Set restrictions on Safari, YouTube, and iTunes, as well as restrict installation of applications and location services. Specify allowed content for music, podcasts, movies, TV shows, and apps. |
| Date & Time | Choose 24-hour time and a time zone and set the correct date and time. |
| Keyboard | Set keyboard correction features such as Auto-Capitalization and Check Spelling. |
| International | Specify the language for onscreen information and keyboards. Choose a region format for date, time, and phone numbers. |
| Accessibility | Set features for using an iPhone for people with visual, hearing, or dexterity challenges. |
| Reset | Reset all settings or selected settings, such as network or keyboard, to factory defaults. |
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iPhone Mail, Contacts, and Calendars Settings
For the social and organizational parts of your brain, iPhone makes available Mail, Contacts, and Calendar apps; the settings for these apps are covered in the following table. You access the settings listed here by tapping the Settings app icon on the Home screen and then tapping Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| iCloud | Choose to sync mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, bookmarks, notes, photos, and documents and data from an e-mail account wirelessly using iCloud. Set up the Find My iPhone service. |
| Add Account | Add and manage e-mail accounts. |
| Fetch New Data | Turn on/off the feature that pushes new e-mails and contacts and calendar info for Microsoft Exchange and MobileMe accounts to you automatically. |
| Show | Set how many recent messages to show in Mail. |
| Preview | Set how many lines of e-mail messages are to be shown in the Inbox preview. |
| Minimum Font Size | Specify the minimum font size for e-mails. |
| Show To/Cc Label | Turn display of the To/Cc label on or off in e-mails. |
| Ask Before Deleting | Turn on to display a confirmation dialog before deleting e-mails. |
| Load Remote Images | Control whether images on websites are displayed; displaying such images can allow a site to gather some information about you and your iPhone. |
| Organize by Thread | Turn on a feature to organize e-mail messages to and from the same person so those messages appear together in a sub-folder. |
| Always Bcc Myself | Turn on to send a copy of every e-mail to yourself. (This is in addition to saving a copy in the Sent folder.) |
| Increase Quote Level | Add one level of indentation to text when you reply to a message. |
| Signature | Change the signature at the end of all your messages. ("Sent from my iPhone" is the default message.) |
| Default Account | Specify which account other apps use by default when sharing data via e-mail. |
| Sort Order | Specify the sort order for contacts (first/last or last/first names). |
| Display Order | Specify the display order for contacts (first/last or last/first). |
| My Info | Access a list of contacts to choose one to base your info on. |
| Import SIM Contacts | Imports contacts saved to your phone’s SIM card to the Contacts app. |
| New Invitation Alerts | Turn on alerts when you get a new invitation in Mail. |
| Sync | Control how far back in time events are synced when you connect to your computer and iTunes. |
| Time Zone Support | Turn on time zone support to show event data and times in your time zone; set your time zone. |
| Default Alert Times | Set up the default time increment for alerts (such as on the day, 1 day before, and so on) before a birthday, event, or all-day event. |
| Default Calendar | Choose whether to use the built-in Calendar program or a calendar from a synced program such as Gmail or AOL. |
| Sync | Set how far back to sync reminders, such as 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months, or sync all reminders regardless of date. |
| Default List | Specifies where reminders that you create outside of a particular list will be saved. |
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Customizing Browser Settings with Your iPhone and Safari
Getting on the Internet with your iPhone is easy using its Wi-Fi or 3G capabilities. Once you’re online, the built-in browser, Safari, is your ticket to a wide world of information, entertainment, education, and more. You can customize and enhance your Safari experience by accessing and modifying the settings in the following table; simply tap the Settings app icon on the Home screen and then tap Safari.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Search Engine | Choose among Google, Bing, and Yahoo! search engines. |
| AutoFill | Turn on AutoFill to automatically complete contact information, names, or passwords as you type. |
| Open Links | Control whether linked pages open in a new page or in the background. |
| Private Browsing | Turn the Private Browsing feature, which prevents Safari from storing information about your browsing activities, on or off. |
| Accept Cookies | Specify whether to accept cookies only from sites you’ve visited, never, or always. |
| Clear History | Tap to clear the history of websites you’ve visited in the browser. |
| Clear Cookies and Data | Clear any website cookies and data that have been stored on your iPhone. |
| Fraud Warning | Turn on the feature to warn you when you go to suspicious websites. |
| JavaScript | Turn this on to enable JavaScript-based features such as rollover and pop-up menus and some other browser-generated content to run in Safari. |
| Block Pop-Ups | Turn this on to block pop-up windows from displaying in the browser. |
| Advanced | Review data stored on your device by individual websites and allow Debug Console to display information to help you resolve errors when displaying web pages. |
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Cool Free Apps for Your iPhone
You'd be amazed at the apps available for your iPhone. You can download any of these fun, free apps through the App Store to get you going with your iPhone:
Reading/Drawing
Magic Drawing Pad for iPhone
Short Stories eReader
iBooks
Stanza
Bookmark
Music
TuneIn Radio
Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD
Pandora Radio
Games
Jump Out!
Solitaire Classic
Hit Tennis 2
Poker Free HD
Sudoku Loaded Free
Just Guess It! Lite
Reference
IMDb (movie listings)
Dictionary.com
Yellow Pages
FreeSaurus
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