iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
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- Supported models
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone X
- 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
- What’s new in iOS 16
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- Adjust the volume
- Multitask with Picture in Picture
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- View activities in the Dynamic Island
- Perform quick actions
- Search from the Home Screen or Lock Screen
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular data settings
- Travel with iPhone
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- Change sounds and vibrations
- Personalize your iPhone Lock Screen
- Change the wallpaper
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Keep the iPhone display on longer
- Magnify the screen
- 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
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- Calculator
- Compass
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- Set up FaceTime
- Make and receive calls
- 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 and listen together
- Share your screen
- Hand off a FaceTime call to another device
- Change the video settings
- Change the audio settings
- Add camera effects
- Leave a call or switch to Messages
- Block unwanted callers
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- View maps
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- Search for places
- Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
- Get information about places
- Mark places
- Share places
- Rate places
- Save favorite places
- Explore new places with Guides
- Organize places in My Guides
- Get traffic and weather info
- Delete significant locations
- Quickly find your Maps settings
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- Use Siri, Maps, and the Maps widget to get directions
- Select other route options
- Set up electric vehicle routing
- Get driving directions
- Get directions to your parked car
- Report traffic incidents in Maps on iPhone
- Get cycling directions
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- Delete recent directions
- Get rides
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- Set up Messages
- Send and receive messages
- Unsend and edit messages
- Keep track of messages and conversations
- Start a group conversation
- Add photos and videos
- Send and receive content
- Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
- Collaborate on projects
- Animate messages
- Use iMessage apps
- Use Memoji
- Send a Digital Touch effect
- Send, receive, and request money with Apple Cash
- Change notifications
- Block, filter, and report messages
- Delete messages
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- View photos
- 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 Portrait mode photos
- Use photo albums
- Edit and organize albums
- Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
- Duplicate and copy photos and videos
- Find and delete duplicate photos and videos
- Search for Photos
- Find and identify people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Share photos and videos
- View photos and videos shared with you
- Use Live Text to interact with content in a photo or video
- Use Visual Look Up to identify objects in your photos
- Lift a subject from the photo background
- Watch memories
- Personalize your memories
- Manage memories and featured photos
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- 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, App Clips, and Safari
- Use Apple Cash
- Use Apple Card
- Manage payment cards and activity
- Pay for transit
- Use digital keys
- Use your driver’s license or state ID
- Use student ID cards
- Apple Account Card
- Add and use passes
- Manage passes
- Use COVID-19 vaccination cards
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- Share your internet connection
- Allow phone calls on your iPad, iPod touch, and Mac
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Wirelessly stream video, photos, and audio to Mac
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPhone and other devices
- Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
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- Intro to transferring files
- Transfer files with email, messages, or AirDrop
- Automatically keep files up to date with iCloud
- Transfer files with an external storage device
- Use a file server to share files between your iPhone and computer
- Share files with a cloud storage service
- Sync content or transfer files with the Finder or iTunes
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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
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- 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 onscreen braille
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver for images and videos
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Use built-in security and privacy protections
- Keep your Apple ID secure
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- Sign in with passkeys
- Sign in with Apple
- 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 on iPhone
- Manage two-factor authentication for your Apple ID
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Lockdown Mode
- Use a private network address
- Copyright
What’s new in iOS 16
Lock Screen. Personalize your Lock Screen with your favorite photos, add filters and widgets, and even change the font of the date and time. Widgets and Live Activities make it easy to stay up to date on information from your favorite apps and receive updates in real time. Notifications appear at the bottom of the Lock Screen and can be viewed in different ways. You can also create more than one Lock Screen and switch between them. See Personalize your iPhone Lock Screen.
Focus. Link a Focus to your Lock Screen to match how you want to use your iPhone in the moment. Expand your Focus filters across Apple apps such as Calendar and Messages, as well as third‑party apps, to hide distracting content. See Link a Focus to your Lock Screen and Add Focus filters.
iCloud Shared Photo Library. (iOS 16.1) Use an iCloud Shared Photo Library to share a library of photos and videos with up to five other family members. Participants can add photos to the Shared Library from their Personal Library, directly from Camera, or when other members of the Shared Library are nearby. See Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library.
Messages. Edit or unsend a message you just sent, or mark a message as unread if you want to come back to it later. Collaborate on notes, reminders, and other files you share right in Messages. Use SharePlay in Messages to chat with friends while you watch the latest episode of your favorite show or listen to a new song. See Unsend and edit messages, Collaborate on projects with Messages, and Enjoy content together live using SharePlay.
Mail. Unsend an email you just sent, schedule emails to be sent at specific times, and get reminders to follow up or come back to an email later. Mail search results are more accurate and provide suggestions before you start typing. See Unsend email with Undo send in Mail, Schedule an email with Send Later, and Use Remind Me to come back to emails later.
Maps. Add multiple stops along your driving route. Add and replenish your transit cards, and see the total cost of your trip, all in one place. See Find stops along your route in Maps and Pay for transit with your iPhone.
Safari. Share Tab Groups, send messages, and start FaceTime calls right from Safari. See Share Tab Groups and collaborate in Safari.
Visual Look Up. Lift the subject from the background of a photo or image by removing the background, and then copy the subject into a new document. See Lift a subject from the photo background.
Live Text. Now available in videos—pause a video on any frame that contains text to copy, translate, look up, share, and more. Quick actions make it easier to interact with text found in photos, videos, and Camera. See Use Live Text to interact with content in a photo or video.
Wallet. Track Apple Pay purchases made in apps and on the web from participating merchants and present your ID in apps to verify your identity. See Use Apple Pay in apps, App Clips, and Safari and Share your license or ID in an app.
Health. Use the Medications feature to manage the medications, vitamins, and supplements you take. Invite loved ones to share their Health app data securely with you. See Track your medications in Health and Ask another person to share their health data with you.
Fitness. Get help setting and meeting fitness goals with the Fitness app, even if you don’t have an Apple Watch. Keep track of your steps, distance, and workouts to give you an estimate of calories to contribute to your daily move goal. Subscribe to Apple Fitness+ to access video and audio workouts and guided meditations (iOS 16.1). See Track daily activity in Fitness and Subscribe to Apple Fitness+.
Home. The redesigned Home app makes it easier to navigate, organize, view, and control all your accessories. Categories for lights, climate, security, speakers, TVs, and water let you quickly control the relevant accessories organized by room, along with more detailed status information. See Control accessories with Home.
Family Sharing. Use your iPhone to set up a new device for your child with parental controls and age-appropriate suggestions for media restrictions. Receive and approve your child’s screen time requests right in the Messages app. See Set up a device for a child with Family Sharing and Set up parental controls with Family Sharing.
Privacy and Security. Use Safety Check to review and reset the access you’ve granted others, reset system privacy permissions for apps, and restrict the use of Messages and FaceTime to the device on hand. The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in the Photos app are locked by default and can be unlocked using your iPhone authentication method. See Manage information sharing with Safety Check and Delete or hide photos and videos.
Accessibility. Use Door Detection to navigate the final few feet to a destination by locating the door, identifying how far away it is, and learning how to open it. Turn audio into text in real time to follow along more easily with conversations and media, use assistive features on iPhone to control your Apple Watch, and more. See Detect doors around you using Magnifier and Display subtitles and captions.
Photos. Copy the edits you make to one photo and paste them onto another photo or multiple photos. Quickly clean up your library using duplicate detection, sort people in your People album alphabetically, undo and redo edits, and more. See Edit photos and videos, Merge duplicate photos and videos, and Find and identify people in Photos.
Notes. Take a Quick Note in any app on your iPhone, lock a note using your device passcode, and filter notes in a Smart Folder based on creation date, attachments, checklists, and more. See Create Quick Notes anywhere, Lock your notes, and Organize your notes using Smart Folders.
Reminders. Save, create, or share lists as templates for routines like packing and grocery lists. Pin your favorite lists for easy access and collaborate on lists with others. See Work with templates in Reminders, Pin a list for easy access, and Share lists and collaborate in Reminders.
Stocks. Organize the stocks you follow into watchlists, and keep track of upcoming earnings reports. See Manage multiple watchlists in Stocks and Add earnings reports to your calendar in Stocks.
News. Get all the news about teams, leagues, and athletes in Apple News with My Sports. See Follow your favorite teams with My Sports.
Memoji. Express yourself with new Memoji stickers and customization options like nose shapes, headwear, and hairstyles that represent more natural hair textures and curl patterns. See Use Memoji in Messages.
Translate. Translate text around you using the camera in the Translate app. Read translations overlaid on text in a photo and zoom in to get a closer look, or translate text in photos from your Photos library. See Translate text with the camera view in Translate.
Weather. Get more details on forecast conditions like air quality, humidity, and UV index. View hourly forecasts for the next 10 days, receive notifications of government-issued severe weather alerts, and more. See Check the weather.
Learn tricks for iOS 16 The Tips app adds new suggestions frequently, so you can get the most from your iPhone. See Get tips.
Note: New features and apps may vary depending on your iPhone model, region, language, and carrier.