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iPhone User Guide

Welcome
- - iPhone models compatible with iOS 26
- Setup basics
- Make your iPhone your own
- Take great photos and videos
- Keep in touch with friends and family
- Share features with your family
- Use iPhone for your daily routines
- Expert advice from Apple Support
What’s new in iOS 26
- Turn on and set up iPhone
- Wake, unlock, and lock
- Set up cellular service
- View or change cellular data settings
- Use Dual SIM
- Connect to the internet
- - Sign in and manage your Apple Account
    - Use iCloud
    - Subscribe to iCloud+
- Find settings
- Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
- Learn the meaning of iPhone status icons
- - Charge the battery
- - Learn basic gestures
    - Learn gestures for iPhone models with Face ID
- Adjust the volume
- Turn the iPhone flashlight on or off
- Silence iPhone
- - Open apps
- Multitask with Picture in Picture
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- View Live Activities in the Dynamic Island
- Perform quick actions
- Search on iPhone
- Get information about your iPhone
- Manage storage on iPhone
- Travel with iPhone
- Change sounds and vibrations
- Use and customize the Action button
- Create a custom Lock Screen
- - Add an app
- Change the wallpaper
- Use and customize Control Center
- Record audio and video
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Keep the iPhone display on longer
- Use StandBy
- Customize the text size and zoom setting
- Change the name of your iPhone
- Change the date and time
- Change the language and region
- Change the default apps
- Change your default search engine
- Rotate your iPhone screen
- - View and respond to notifications
- Customize sharing options
- - Type with the onscreen keyboard
- Add or change keyboards
- Add emoji, Memoji, and stickers
- - Take a screenshot
    - Take a screen recording
    - Change the screen capture settings
- - Write and draw in documents
    - Add text, shapes, stickers, and more
- Fill out forms, sign documents, and create signatures
- Interact with content in a photo or video
- Identify objects in your photos and videos
- Lift a subject from the photo background
- - Camera basics
- Use the Camera Control
- Use the Camera Control to open another app
- Adjust the shutter volume
- Adjust HDR camera settings
- Record a video
- Take spatial photos and record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
- Change sound recording options
- Record ProRes video
- Record video in Cinematic mode
- Change video recording settings
- Save camera settings
- Customize the Main camera lens
- Change advanced camera settings
- View, share, and print photos
- Use Live Text
- Scan a QR code
- - Get apps
- - Buy books and audiobooks
- - Get started with Calculator
- - Create and edit events in Calendar
- - See the world clock
- Compass
- - Add and use contact information
- - Get started with FaceTime
- - Files basics
- - - Share your location
      * Meet up with a friend
      * Send your location via satellite
      * Add or remove a friend
      * Locate a friend
      * Get notified when friends change their location
      * Notify a friend when your location changes
- - Get started with Fitness
- - Get started with Freeform
- - Get started with the Apple Games app
- - Get started with Health
- - Intro to Home
- - Get music
    - Get ringtones
    - Manage purchases and settings
- - Get started
- - Magnify or describe things around you
    - Customize controls
    - - Detect people around you
        * Detect furniture around you
        * Detect doors around you
        * Detect text around you and have it read out loud
        * Set up shortcuts for Live Recognition
- - - Add and remove email accounts
      * Set up a custom email domain
- - Get started with Maps
- - Measure dimensions
- - Get started with Messages
- - Get started with Music
- - Get started with News
- - Get started with Notes
- - Use passwords
- - Make a call
- - Get started with Photos
- - Get started with Podcasts on iPhone
- - Get started with Preview on iPhone
- - Get started with Reminders
- - Get started with Safari
- Shortcuts
- - Check stocks
- Tips
- - Translate text, voice, and conversations
- - Subscribe to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass, or a channel
- - Make a recording
- - About Apple Wallet
- - Check the weather
- How to use Siri
- - Get information with Siri
- Turn on and activate Siri
- - Tell Siri about yourself
- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages, calls, and conversations
- Use visual intelligence
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Image Wand with Apple Intelligence
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- - Use Apple Intelligence in Mail
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
- Contact emergency services
- Set up and view your Medical ID
- Use Emergency SOS via satellite
- Request Roadside Assistance via satellite
- Use Check In
- Manage Crash Detection
- Reset privacy and security settings in an emergency
- Set up Family Sharing
- Add Family Sharing members
- Remove Family Sharing members
- Share subscriptions
- Share purchases
- Share locations with family and locate lost devices
- Set up Apple Cash Family and Apple Card Family
- Set up parental controls
- Set up a child’s device
- Share a child’s age range with apps
- Get started with Screen Time
- Protect your vision health with Screen Distance
- Create, manage, and keep track of a Screen Time passcode
- Set schedules with Screen Time
- Block apps, app downloads, websites, and purchases
- Block calls and messages with Screen Time
- Check for sensitive images and videos
- Set up Screen Time for a family member
- Respond to a Screen Time request
- Charging cable
- Power adapters
- MagSafe chargers and battery packs
- Qi-certified wireless chargers
- - Use AirPods
    - Use EarPods
- Apple Watch
- - Wirelessly stream videos and photos to Apple TV or a smart TV
    - Connect to a display with a cable
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- - Pair Magic Keyboard
- External storage devices
- Connect Bluetooth accessories
- Play audio from your iPhone on a Bluetooth accessory
- Printers
- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio from your iPhone
- Allow phone calls and text messages on your iPad and Mac
- Share your internet connection
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans on Mac
- Start SharePlay instantly
- Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
- Transfer files between devices
- Intro to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Use your vehicle’s built-in controls
- Get turn-by-turn directions
- Report traffic incidents
- Change the map view
- View Live Activities
- Customize widgets
- Make phone calls
- Play music
- View your calendar
- Send and receive text messages
- Announce incoming text messages
- Play podcasts
- Play audiobooks
- Listen to news stories
- Control your home
- Use other apps with CarPlay
- Rearrange icons on CarPlay Home
- Change settings in CarPlay
- Get started with accessibility features
- Use accessibility features during setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Quickly turn accessibility features on or off
- Share your Accessibility settings with another device
- - Overview of accessibility features for vision
- - Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- - Overview of accessibility features for mobility
- - Overview of accessibility features for hearing
- - Overview of accessibility features for speech
- - Overview of cognitive accessibility features
    - Lock iPhone to one app
- Control what you share
- - Set a passcode
    - Set up Face ID
    - Set up Touch ID
- Turn on Lock Screen features
- Block contacts
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- - Manage information sharing with Safety Check
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use Advanced Data Protection
- Use Lockdown Mode
- Use Stolen Device Protection
- Receive warnings about sensitive content
- Use Contact Key Verification
- Turn iPhone on or off
- Force restart iPhone
- Update iOS
- Back up iPhone
- Reset iPhone settings
- Erase iPhone
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone
- Install or remove configuration profiles
- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Ultra Wideband information
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Unauthorized modification of iOS
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You can choose different color, text size, and motion settings for certain apps or for the Home Screen and App Library.

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Per-App Settings.
Tap Add App, then choose an app from the list (or Home Screen & App Library).
Tap the name of the app (or Home Screen & App Library) to access its settings.

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