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David Pogue (author, illustrator) is the tech columnist for Yahoo Finance ( yahoofinance.com ), the worlds biggest business publication. He was groomed for that job by 13 years of writing the weekly tech column for The New York Times . Hes also a monthly columnist for Scientific American , a four-time Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning , the host of 20 NOVA specials on PBS, and the creator of the Missing Manual series.

David has written or cowritten more than 100 books, including dozens in the Missing Manual series, six in the For Dummies line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music ), two novels (one for middle-schoolers called Abby Carnelias One and Only Magical Power ), The World According to Twitter, and three books of essential tips and shortcuts: Pogues Basics: Tech , Pogues Basics: Life , and Pogues Basics: Money .

In his other life, David is a former Broadway show conductor, a magician, and a funny public speaker. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Nicki, and three awesome children.

Links to his columns and videos await at .

Julie Van Keuren (editor, indexer, layout) spent 14 years in print journalism before deciding to upend her life, move to Montana, and live the freelancing dream. She now works for a variety of clients who understand that skilled editing, writing, book layout, and indexing dont have to come from inside a cubicle. She and her husband, sci-fi writer M.H. Van Keuren, have two teenage sons. Email: .

Rich Koster (technical reviewer). The iPhone became Richs first cellphone the very first evening it was sold. He began corresponding with David Pogue, sharing tips, tricks, and observations; eventually, David asked him to be the beta reader for the first edition of iPhone: The Missing Manual and hired him as the tech editor of subsequent editions. For this edition of the book, Rich is glad to say all the work involved was accomplished on the iPhone 7 Plus. Rich is a husband, father, graphic artist, writer, and Disney fan (@DisneyEcho on Twitter).

Phil Simpson (original design) runs his graphic design business from Southbury, Connecticut. His work includes corporate branding, publication design, communications support, and advertising. He lives with his wife and some great felines. Email: .

Acknowledgments

The Missing Manual series is a joint venture between the dream team introduced on these pages and OReilly Media. Im grateful to all of them, especially to the core of the iPhone Missing Manual team introduced here.

The work done on previous editions lives on in this one; for that, Im grateful to Jude Biersdorfer, Matt Gibstein, Teresa Brewer, Brian Jepson, Apples Trudy Muller, Philip Michaels, OReillys Nan Barber, and my incredible assistant Jan Carpenter, who keeps me from falling apart like wet Kleenex. Thanks to David Rogelberg and Tim OReilly for believing in the idea; to Kellee Katagi for proofreading; and above all, to Nicki, Kell, Tia, and Jeffrey. They make these books and everything else possible.

David Pogue

Also by David Pogue

• macOS Sierra: The Missing Manual
• Windows 10: The Missing Manual
• Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, El Capitan Edition
• David Pogues Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
• The World According to Twitter
• Pogues Basics: Tech
• Pogues Basics: Life
• Pogues Basics: Money

Chapter 1. Introduction

How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is use statistics 1 billion sold, 2 million apps available on the iPhone App Store, 140 billion downloads.... Trouble is, those statistics get stale almost before youve finished typing them.

Maybe its better to talk about the aftermath. How since the iPhone came along, cell carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and so on) have opened up the calcified, conservative way they used to consider new cellphone designs. How every phone and its brother now have a touchscreen. How Google (Android) phones, Windows phones, and even BlackBerry phones all have their own app stores. How, in essence, everybody wants to be the iPhone.

Apple introduces a new iPhone model every fall. In September 2016, for example, it introduced the tenth iPhone models, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, with more features and faster guts.

More importantly, theres a new, free version of the iPhones software, called iOS 10. (Why not iPhone OS anymore? Because the same operating system runs on the iPad and the iPod Touch. Its not just for iPhones, and saying the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch OS takes too long.)

You can run iOS 10 on older iPhone models without having to buy a new phone. This book covers all the phones that can run iOS 10: the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, iPhone SE, and iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.

About the iPhone

So what is the iPhone? Really, the better question is what isnt the iPhone?

Its a cellphone, obviously. But its also a full-blown iPod, complete with a dazzling screen for watching videos. And its a sensational pocket Internet viewer. It shows fully formatted email (with attachments, thank you) and displays entire web pages with fonts and design intact. Its tricked out with a tilt sensor, a proximity sensor, a light sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, a gyroscope, a barometer, and that amazing multitouch screen.

For many people, the iPhone is primarily a camera and a camcorder one thats getting better with every years new model.

Furthermore, its a calendar, address book, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, stock tracker, traffic reporter, RSS reader, and weather forecaster. It even stands in for a flashlight and, with the screen off, a pocket mirror.

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Tip

If you want a really good pocket mirror, you can also use the Camera app in self-portrait mode. Its a brighter view (and you dont have to actually take a selfie).

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And dont forget the App Store. Thanks to the 2 million add-on programs that await there, the iPhone is also a fast, wicked-fun pocket computer. All those free or cheap programs can turn it into a medical reference, a musical keyboard, a time tracker, a remote control, a sleep monitor, a tip calculator, an ebook reader, and more. Plus, the App Store is a portal to thousands of games, with smooth 3D graphics and tilt control.