iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for iPhone X and later
- Use 3D Touch for previews and shortcuts
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change the sounds and vibrations
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPhone
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPhone using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Accessories included with iPhone
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Control audio on multiple devices
- AirPrint
- Use Apple EarPods
- Apple Watch
- Use Magic Keyboard
- Wireless charging
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Use iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Share your iPhone Internet connection
- Transfer files with iTunes
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom in on the screen
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
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- Guided Access
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPhone software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Set which apps know your location on iPhone
With Location Services, you can choose which location-based apps—for example, Reminders, Maps, Camera, and Wallet—can gather and use data indicating your location. Your approximate location is determined using available information from cellular network data, local Wi-Fi networks (if you have Wi-Fi turned on), and GPS (if available). The location data collected by Apple isn’t collected in a form that personally identifies you. When an app is using Location Services, appears in the status bar.
Turn on Location Services
If you didn’t turn on Location Services when you first set up iPhone, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, then turn on Location Services.
Turn off Location Services
Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, then choose from the options to turn off Location Services for some apps and services, or for all of them.
If you turn off Location Services, you’re asked to turn it on again the next time an app or service tries to use it.
Review the terms and privacy policy for each third-party app to understand how it uses the data it’s requesting. See the Apple Support article About privacy and Location Services.
Change Location Services settings for system services
Several system services, such as location-based suggestions and location-based ads, use Location Services.
To see the status for each service, to turn Location Services on or off for each service, or to show in the status bar when enabled system services use your location, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services.
Delete significant locations
The Maps app keeps track of the places you’ve recently visited, as well as when and how often you visited them. Maps uses this information to provide you with personalized services like predictive traffic routing. You can delete this information.
Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations.
Do one of the following:
Delete a single location: Tap the location, tap Edit, then tap .
Delete all locations: Tap Clear History. If you’re signed in to iCloud, this clears all your significant locations on any devices that are signed in with the same Apple ID.