iPhone: The Missing Manual, Eleventh Edition BY DAVID POGUE
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The Missing Credits
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 www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes feedback about his books by email at david@pogueman.com, and you can sign up to get his columns by email at authory.com/davidpogue.
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 terrific 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: little_media@yahoo.com.
Rich Koster (technical reviewer) bought his first iPhone on the first evening it was available. 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 Manualand hired him as the tech editor of subsequent editions. For this edition of the book, all the work involved was accomplished on the iPhone X. Rich is a husband, father, graphic artist, writer, and Disney fan (@DisneyEcho on Twitter).
Phil Simpson (book 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 several great felines. Email: phil.simpson@pmsgraphics.com.
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.
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 Apples Jacqueline Roy for chasing down dozens of technical answers; to Kellee Katagi for her sharp-eyed proofreading; to Judy Le for assisting with cross-references and illustrating the iPhones many icons; and above all, to Nicki, Kell, Tia, and Jeffrey. They make these booksand everything elsepossible.
David Pogue
Also by David Pogue
macOS High Sierra: The Missing Manual
Windows 10: The Missing Manual
David Pogues Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
The World According to Twitter
Pogues Basics: Tech
Pogues Basics: Life
Pogues Basics: Money
Part I. PART ONE The iPhone as Phone
Chapter 1. Introduction
How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is use statistics1 billion sold, 2.2 million apps on the App Store, 200 billion downloads. Trouble is, those statistics get stale almost before youve finished typing them.
Maybe its better to talk about the aftermath. How the invention of the iPhone changed society, business, and culture forever. With the iPhone (and Googles imitator, Android), we became, for the first time, a society of people who are online continuously, wherever we go. Our communications blossomed from text messages to video calls, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Skype. Billion-dollar businesses like Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram sprang into existence. Distracted driving, distracted walking, distracted eating, distracted dating, and even distracted sex all became things.
Apple introduces a new iPhone model every fall. In September 2017, for example, it introduced the 11th and 12th iPhone models, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, andto celebrate the iPhones 10th birthdaythe state-of-the-art, $1,000 iPhone X.
Theres also a new, free version of the iPhones software, called iOS 11.
You can run iOS 11 on older iPhone models without having to buy a new phone. This book covers all the phones that can run iOS 11, from the iPhone 5s through the iPhone X.
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 multimedia player, 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.
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