McFedries - IPhone 6s Portable Genius: Covers iOS9 and all models of iPhone 6s, 6, and iPhone 5

iPhone 6s Portable Genius

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Paul McFedries is a full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 85 books to his credit. Pauls books have sold more than four million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles iPad Portable Genius, Third Edition; Macs Portable Genius, Second Edition; MacBook Air Portable Genius, Fourth Edition; Switching to a Mac Portable Genius, Second Edition; Teach Yourself VISUALLY Complete Mac Pro; Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Yosemite; and The Facebook Guide for People Over 50. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy ( www.wordspy.com ), a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the English language. Paul encourages everyone to drop by his personal website at www.mcfedries.com , or to follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/paulmcf and www.twitter.com/wordspy .

Another year, another iPhone, and another edition of iPhone Portable Genius. I enjoy working on this book so much that I almost look forward to writing the new book more than using the new phone (almost!). Why? For starters, its just pure fun to write about whats new and noteworthy in the new iPhone, particularly the lesser-known features that can make your life easier and more efficient. More than that, however, I get to work with a great bunch of professionals at Wiley. Theres a list of all the people who contributed to the making of this book a couple of pages back, and I extend a hearty thanks to all of them for their hard work and competence. A few of those people I had the pleasure of working with directly, including Acquisitions Editor Aaron Black, Project Editor Maureen Tullis, and Copy Editor Scott Tullis. Many thanks to each of you for the skill, professionalism, sense of humor, and general niceness that made my job infinitely easier and made this a better book.

This book is dedicated to my beautiful wife, Karen, who is wise, funny, and smart, even in texts.

1. Table of Contents

The iPhone is a success not because over 750 million of them have been sold (or, I should say, not only because over 750 million of them have been sold; thats a lot of phones!), but because the iPhone, in just a few years, has reached the status of a cultural icon. Even people who dont care much for gadgets in general and cell phones in particular know about the iPhone. And for those of us who do care about gadgets, the iPhone elicits a kind of technological longing that can be satisfied in only one way: by buying one (or, in my case, by buying all nine versions!).

Part of the iconic status of the iPhone comes from its gorgeous design and remarkable interface, which makes all the standard tasks surfing, emailing, texting, scheduling, and playing easy and intuitive. But just as an attractive face or an easygoing manner can hide a personality of complexity and depth, so too does the iPhone hide many of its most useful and interesting features.

When you want to get beyond the basics of iPhone and solve some of its riddles, you might consider making an appointment with the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store. More often than not, the on-duty genius gives you good advice on how to get your iPhone to do what you want it to do. The Genius Bar is a great thing, but it isnt always a convenient thing. In some cases, you may even need to leave your iPhone for a while (No!) to get the problem checked out and, hopefully, resolved.