iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
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- iPhone models compatible with iOS 17
- iPhone XR
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone SE (2nd generation)
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 13 mini
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 13 Pro
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- iPhone SE (3rd generation)
- iPhone 14
- iPhone 14 Plus
- iPhone 14 Pro
- iPhone 14 Pro Max
- iPhone 15
- iPhone 15 Plus
- iPhone 15 Pro
- iPhone 15 Pro Max
- 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
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- What’s new in iOS 17
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- Change sounds and vibrations
- Use the Action button on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
- Create a custom Lock Screen
- Change the wallpaper
- 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
- Use and customize Control Center
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Customize sharing options
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- Calculator
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- Adjust the shutter volume
- Adjust HDR camera settings
- Record videos
- Record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
- Record ProRes videos
- Record videos 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
- Compass
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- Get started with FaceTime
- Create a FaceTime link
- Take a Live Photo
- Turn on Live Captions in a FaceTime call
- Use other apps during a call
- Make a Group FaceTime call
- View participants in a grid
- Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
- Share your screen in a FaceTime call
- Collaborate on a document in FaceTime
- Use video conferencing features
- Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
- Change the FaceTime video settings
- Change the FaceTime audio settings
- Change your appearance
- Leave a call or switch to Messages
- Block unwanted callers
- Report a call as spam
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- Get started with Fitness
- Track daily activity and change your move goal
- See your activity summary
- Sync a third-party workout app
- Change fitness notifications
- Share your activity
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- Subscribe to Apple Fitness+
- Find Apple Fitness+ workouts and meditations
- Start an Apple Fitness+ workout or meditation
- Create a Custom Plan in Apple Fitness+
- Work out together using SharePlay
- Change what’s on the screen during an Apple Fitness+ workout or meditation
- Download an Apple Fitness+ workout or meditation
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- Intro to Home
- Upgrade to the new Home architecture
- Set up accessories
- Control accessories
- Control your home using Siri
- Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
- Set up HomePod
- Control your home remotely
- Create and use scenes
- Use automations
- Set up security cameras
- Use Face Recognition
- Unlock your door with a home key
- Configure a router
- Invite others to control accessories
- Add more homes
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- View maps
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- Get travel directions
- Select other route options
- Find stops along your route
- View a route overview or a list of turns
- Change settings for spoken directions
- Get driving directions
- Get directions to your parked car
- Set up electric vehicle routing
- Report traffic incidents
- Get cycling directions
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- Delete recent directions
- Get traffic and weather info
- Get rides
- Estimate travel time and ETA
- Download offline maps
- Look around places
- Take Flyover tours
- Find your Maps settings
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- Set up Messages
- About iMessage
- Send and reply to messages
- Unsend and edit messages
- Keep track of messages
- Search
- Forward and share messages
- Group conversations
- Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
- Collaborate on projects
- Use iMessage apps
- Take and edit photos or videos
- Share photos, links, and more
- Send stickers
- Request, send, and receive payments
- Send and receive audio messages
- Share your location
- Animate messages
- Change notifications
- Block, filter, and report messages
- Delete messages and attachments
- Recover deleted messages
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- Get music
- View albums, playlists, and more
- Play music
- Show song credits and lyrics
- Queue up your music
- Listen to broadcast radio
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- Subscribe to Apple Music
- Play music together in the car with iPhone
- Listen to lossless music
- Listen to Dolby Atmos music
- Apple Music Sing
- Find new music
- Add music and listen offline
- Get personalized recommendations
- Listen to radio
- Search for music
- Create playlists
- See what your friends are listening to
- Use Siri to play music
- Change the way music sounds
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- Get started with Notes
- Add or remove accounts
- Create and format notes
- Draw or write
- Add photos, videos, and more
- Scan text and documents
- Work with PDFs
- Add links
- Create Quick Notes
- Search notes
- Organize in folders
- Organize with tags
- Use Smart Folders
- Share and collaborate
- Export or print notes
- Lock notes
- Change Notes settings
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- View photos and videos
- Play videos and slideshows
- Delete or hide photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Trim video length and adjust slow motion
- Edit Cinematic mode videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit portraits
- Use photo albums
- Edit, share, and organize albums
- Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
- Make stickers from your photos
- Duplicate and copy photos and videos
- Merge duplicate photos and videos
- Search for photos
- Identify people and pets
- Browse photos by location
- Share photos and videos
- Share long videos
- View photos and videos shared with you
- Watch memories
- Personalize your memories
- Manage memories and featured photos
- Import and export photos and videos
- Print photos
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- Browse the web
- Search for websites
- Customize your Safari settings
- Change the layout
- Use Safari profiles
- Use Siri to listen to a webpage
- Bookmark favorite webpages
- Save pages to a Reading List
- Find links shared with you
- Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
- Automatically fill in forms
- Get extensions
- Hide ads and distractions
- Clear your cache
- Shortcuts
- Tips
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- Keep cards and passes in Wallet
- Set up Apple Pay
- Use Apple Pay for contactless payments
- Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
- Track your orders
- Use Apple Cash
- Use Apple Card
- Use Savings
- Pay for transit
- Access your home, hotel room, and vehicle
- Add identity cards
- Use passes
- Use COVID-19 vaccination cards
- Check your Apple Account balance
- Use Express Mode
- Organize your Wallet
- Remove cards or passes
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- Share your internet connection
- Allow phone calls on your iPad and Mac
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPhone and other devices
- Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPhone
- Start SharePlay instantly
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
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- Intro to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Use Siri
- Use your vehicle’s built-in controls
- Get turn-by-turn directions
- Report traffic incidents
- Change the map view
- 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
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Turn on accessibility features for setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Open features with Accessibility Shortcut
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- Overview
- Zoom in
- Change color and brightness
- Make text easier to read
- Reduce onscreen motion
- Customize per-app visual settings
- Hear what’s on the screen or typed
- Hear audio descriptions
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Use VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone when VoiceOver is on
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type braille on the screen
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver for images and videos
- Use VoiceOver in apps
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- Overview
- Use AssistiveTouch
- Adjust how iPhone responds to your touch
- Back tap
- Use Reachability
- Auto-answer calls
- Turn off vibration
- Change Face ID and attention settings
- Use Voice Control
- Adjust the side or Home button
- Use Apple TV Remote buttons
- Adjust pointer settings
- Adjust keyboard settings
- Adjust AirPods settings
- Turn on Apple Watch Mirroring
- Control a nearby Apple device
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- Use built-in privacy and security protections
- Keep your Apple ID secure
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- Use passkeys to sign in to apps and websites
- Sign in with Apple
- Share passwords
- Automatically fill in strong passwords
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- View your passwords and related information
- Share passkeys and passwords securely with AirDrop
- Make your passkeys and passwords available on all your devices
- Automatically fill in verification codes
- Automatically fill in SMS passcodes
- Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
- Use two-factor authentication
- Use security keys
- 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
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- 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
- Copyright
Solve crossword puzzles in Apple News on iPhone
In iOS 17 and later, Apple News+ subscribers can solve daily crossword and crossword mini puzzles. Nonsubscribers may be able to play a few puzzles for free.
Note: Puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions.
View the Puzzles feed
To view the Puzzles feed, do one of the following:
Tap Following, then tap Puzzles.
Tap Today, then tap the Puzzles group.
Follow the feed for a puzzle type
After opening the Puzzles feed, tap Crossword or Crossword Mini, tap , then tap Follow.
A Puzzles category appears in Following, with the puzzle types appearing below. To make them favorites, tap Edit, tap next to a puzzle type, then tap Done.
Choose a puzzle
Apple News+ subscribers can solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles. You can choose to solve new puzzles or puzzles from the archive. Each puzzle has a difficulty rating—easy, moderate, or challenging.
Go to one of the following areas to find a puzzle:
the Puzzles group in the Today feed
the Puzzles feed
the feed for a puzzle type (crossword or crossword mini)
Tap a puzzle to open it.
The Puzzles group in the Today feed may display a featured clue, and squares for the letters in the corresponding word. You can enter your answer right in the Today feed, and when you’re done, tap to open the puzzle.
Solve puzzles
You can navigate and solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles in multiple ways. For example, you can display puzzles in the traditional grid view, or instead choose to show clues and answers in a list. You can tap squares to select words, or hide the keyboard and choose clues from a list.
Grid view: Tap a square to show the clue below the puzzle, then use the keyboard to enter the answer. You move to other squares as you type. You can also tap < or > next to the clue to move to the previous or next clue.
With the keyboard showing, switch from across to down, or vice versa, by tapping the selected square again or tapping the clue.
To hide the keyboard and show a scrollable list of all the clues, tap . Tap a clue to show the keyboard and select the corresponding answer in the grid.
List view: To show clues and answers in a list rather than the traditional grid, tap . Tap Across or Down to show those clues. Tap to return to grid view.
Note: You don’t have to solve puzzles all at once; you can return at any time. The timer pauses while you’re away.
Puzzle options
If you’re unsure of an answer you’ve entered, you can get a little help. Tap , where you find the following options:
Autocheck: Tap Autocheck to check the letters you’ve entered, and any letters you enter later. Any incorrect letters are marked with a slash.
Check Square, Check Word, Check Puzzle: Tap an option to see any incorrect letters, as indicated by slashes.
Reveal: Tap Reveal, then tap Square, Word, or Puzzle to display the correct answer.
Note: When you reveal the entire puzzle, it’s completely filled in and considered to be solved.
Clear Puzzle: If you’d like a fresh start, you can clear a puzzle’s answers and reset the timer.
Puzzle settings
Tap , then tap Settings to change these settings:
Show Timer: Tap Show Timer to show or hide the timer that appears above each puzzle. (You can also tap to show or hide it.)
Highlight Linked Clues: Some puzzles have clues that reference other clues. You can choose whether to highlight the words that correspond to these clues.
Always Autocheck: If you turn on Autocheck while solving a crossword or crossword mini, it stays on for all puzzles of that type until you turn it off.
Skip Filled Squares: By default, after entering a letter, the next empty square in the puzzle is selected. Turn this off to select the square to the right or the square below, whether or not it’s filled.
At End of Word: Choose Advance If Complete, Always Advance, or Don’t Advance.
You can also tap to learn more about the puzzle, and share it with Messages, Mail, and more.
View past puzzles
View puzzles from the archive: Open the Crossword or Crossword Mini feed, then swipe up to view the most recent puzzles in the archive.
View the complete puzzle archive: Open the Crossword or Crossword Mini feed, swipe up, then tap next to Archive. You can also tap , then choose Crossword Archive or Crossword Mini Archive.
To show sorting and filtering options for the archive, tap .You can sort both archives from newest to oldest or oldest to newest. You can filter the crossword archive by completeness and difficulty level. You can filter the crossword mini archive by completeness only.
Get Puzzles notifications
Tap Following, swipe to the bottom of the screen, then tap Notifications & Email below Manage.
Turn on notifications for Puzzles.
Remove the Puzzles group from Today
In Today, swipe up to Puzzles, then tap .
Tap Block from Today.
When you block Puzzles, the group no longer appears in your Today feed.