If you step back a pace or two to take in the big picture, you see that your iPhone deals with two broad types of data: media - all that audio and video stuff - and information such as contacts, appointments, e-mail, websites, and notes. Read more...
Your iPhone comes stocked with 25 predefined ringtones. Although some of them are amazingly annoying, you ought to be able to find one you can live with. Read more...
The brainy Phone app and the sleek Safari browser may earn the lion's share of kudos for the iPhone, but many people reserve their rave reviews for its Music app. The darn thing is just so versatile! It can play music, of course, but it also happily crank Read more...
By default, the Mail app displays the 50 most recent messages in an e-mail account Inbox. If you want to see more messages, you must scroll to the bottom of the message list and then tap Load More Messages. Read more...
Setting up an e-mail account on your iPhone is one thing, but making that account do useful things - or sometimes, anything at all - is quite another. The next few sections take you through a few useful settings that help you get more out of e-mail and tr Read more...
As a good housekeeper you've deleted all your old text messages, and then realised that you do in fact need some or all of your old messages. Fear not: you can recover deleted text messages from your iPhone. Read more...
If you're like me, the biggest problem you have with the web is that it's just so darned huge. We spend great big chunks of our day visiting sites and still never seem to get to everything on that day's To Surf list. Read more...
Your iPhone is configured to use a wireless technology called Bluetooth, which enables you to make wireless connections to other Bluetooth-friendly devices. Read more...
Your iPhone gives you fairly precise control over your network data. For example, you can toggle just the LTE data, all cellular data, data roaming, or all your iPhone antennas. The next few sections provide the details. Read more...
Connections to a cellular network are automatic and occur behind the scenes. As soon as you switch on your iPhone, it checks for an LTE signal. If it finds one, it connects to the network and displays the LTE icon in the status bar, as well as the connect Read more...
You can zoom in and out, scroll through lists, drag items here and there, and even type messages. Amazingly, the touchscreen requires no external hardware to do all this. Read more...
One of the paradoxes of modern life is that as contact information becomes more important, you store less and less of it in the easiest database system of all - your memory. Read more...
Although the iPhone 5s sports a faster processor and fingerprint scanner, and the 5c a bold new design, the feature that everyone is still talking about is Siri. Siri enables you to speak commands to your phone and have it do your bidding. Read more...
You have seen lots of great Safari tips and techniques, but you are up for even more, because you have got a ways to go. In the rest of this tip, you learn such useful techniques as maintaining your privacy, tweeting a web page, changing the default searc Read more...
Your iPhone is at its most efficient when the numbers you call are part of your Contacts list. Then, not only can you add contacts to the Favorites list for quick, speed-dial-like access, but you can also use the index (the letters A, B, C, and so on that Read more...