iPhone User Guide
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Welcome
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Supported iPhone models
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What’s new in iOS 14
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Wake and unlock
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Adjust the volume
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Change sounds and vibrations
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Access features from the Lock Screen
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Open apps
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Take a screenshot or screen recording
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Change or lock the screen orientation
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Change the wallpaper
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Make screen items more reachable
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Search with iPhone
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Use AirDrop to send items
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Perform quick actions
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Use and customize Control Center
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Add widgets to the Home Screen
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Charge and monitor the battery
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Learn the meaning of the status icons
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Travel with iPhone
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Calculator
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Compass
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Collect health and fitness information
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Maintain a health profile
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View health and fitness information
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Track your menstrual cycle
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Track headphone and environmental sound-level exposure
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Set up sleep schedules
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Share health and fitness data
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Download health records
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Create and share your Medical ID
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Manage health with the Health Checklist
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Register as an organ donor
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Back up your Health data
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View maps
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Use Siri, Maps, and widgets to get directions
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Choose your preferred type of travel
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Get driving directions
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Find your parked car
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Get cycling directions
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Find places to stop
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Get walking directions
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Get transit directions
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See an overview of your route or its directions in a list
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Change audio settings for turn-by-turn directions
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Select other route options
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Get directions between places other than your current location
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Delete recently viewed directions
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Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
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Get rides
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Help improve Maps
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View photos and videos
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Delete and hide photos and videos
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Edit photos and videos
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Edit Live Photos
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Edit Portrait mode photos
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Organize photos in albums
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Search in Photos
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Share photos and videos
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View Memories
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Find people in Photos
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Browse photos by location
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Use iCloud Photos
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Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
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Use My Photo Stream
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Import photos and videos
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Print photos
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Shortcuts
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Stocks
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Tips
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Translate
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Weather
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Charging cable
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Power adapters
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MagSafe Chargers
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Qi-certified wireless chargers
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Set up AirPods
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Charge AirPods
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Start and stop audio playback
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Change the AirPods volume
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Make and answer calls with AirPods
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Switch AirPods between devices
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Use Siri with AirPods
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Listen and respond to messages
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Share audio with AirPods and Beats products
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Change noise control modes
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Control spatial audio
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Restart AirPods
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Change the name of your AirPods and other settings
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Use other Bluetooth headphones
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Use EarPods
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Check headphone and environmental sound levels
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Apple Watch
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HomePod and other wireless speakers
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Magic Keyboard
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MagSafe cases and sleeves
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Printers
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Share your internet connection
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Allow phone calls on your iPad, iPod touch, and Mac
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Hand off tasks between iPhone and your Mac
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Cut, copy, and paste between iPhone and other devices
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Connect iPhone and your computer using USB
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Sync iPhone with your computer
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Transfer files between iPhone and your computer
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Intro to CarPlay
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Connect to CarPlay
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Use Siri
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Use your vehicle’s built-in controls
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Get turn-by-turn directions
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Change the map view
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Make phone calls
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Play music
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View your calendar
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Send and receive text messages
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Play podcasts
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Play audiobooks
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Listen to news stories
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Control your home
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Use other apps with CarPlay
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Rearrange icons on CarPlay Home
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Change settings in CarPlay
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Get started with accessibility features
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Turn on and practice VoiceOver
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Change your VoiceOver settings
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Learn VoiceOver gestures
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Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
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Control VoiceOver using the rotor
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Use the onscreen keyboard
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Write with your finger
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Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
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Use a braille display
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Type onscreen braille
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Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
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Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
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Use VoiceOver in apps
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Zoom
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Magnifier
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People detection
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Display & Text Size
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Motion
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Spoken Content
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Audio Descriptions
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Important safety information
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Important handling information
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Get information about your iPhone
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View or change cellular settings
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Find more resources for software and service
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FCC compliance statement
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ISED Canada compliance statement
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Ultra Wideband information
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Class 1 Laser information
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Apple and the environment
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Disposal and recycling information
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Copyright
Sync iPhone with your computer
You can use iCloud to automatically keep your photos, files, calendar, and more updated across all your devices where you’re signed in with your Apple ID. (You can even use a Windows PC to access your iCloud data on iCloud.com.) Other services like Apple Music allow you to access additional content across all of your devices. With iCloud and services like Apple Music, no syncing is required.
If you don’t want to use iCloud or other services, you can connect iPhone to your Mac or Windows PC to sync the following items:
Albums, songs, playlists, movies, TV shows, podcasts, books, and audiobooks
Photos and videos
Contacts and calendars
With syncing, you can keep these items up to date between your computer and your iPhone.
Note: If you use iCloud or other services like Apple Music, options for syncing with your computer might not be available.
Set up syncing between your Mac and iPhone
In the Finder sidebar on your Mac, select your iPhone.
Note: To use the Finder to sync content, macOS 10.15 or later is required. With earlier versions of macOS, use iTunes to sync with your Mac.
At the top of the window, click the type of content you want to sync (for example, Movies or Books).
Note: For information about using the Files option, see Transfer files between iPhone and your computer.
Select “Sync [content type] onto [device name].”
By default, all items of a content type are synced, but you can choose to sync individual items, such as selected music, movies, books, or calendars.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each type of content you want to sync, then click Apply.
Your Mac syncs to your iPhone whenever you connect them.
To view or change syncing options, select your iPhone in the Finder sidebar, then choose from the options at the top of the window.
Before disconnecting your iPhone from your Mac, click the Eject button in the Finder sidebar.
See Sync content between your Mac and iPhone or iPad in the macOS User Guide.
Set up syncing between your Windows PC and iPhone
In the iTunes app on your PC, click the iPhone button near the top left of the iTunes window.
Select the type of content you want to sync (for example, Movies or Books) in the sidebar on the left.
Note: For information about using the File Sharing option, see Transfer files between iPhone and your computer.
Select Sync to turn on syncing for that type of item.
By default, all items of a content type are synced, but you can choose to sync individual items, such as selected music, movies, books, or calendars.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each type of content you want to include on your iPhone, then click Apply.
By default, your Windows PC syncs to your iPhone whenever you connect them. You can have iTunes ask you before syncing, and if there are some items you never want sync, you can keep them from being synced. See Sync iTunes content on PC with your devices in the iTunes User Guide for Windows.
Turn on Wi-Fi syncing
Do one of the following:
In the Finder sidebar on your Mac: Select your iPhone, click General at the top of the window, then select “Show this [device] when on Wi-Fi.”
Note: To use the Finder to turn on Wi-Fi syncing, macOS 10.15 or later is required. With earlier versions of macOS, use iTunes to turn on Wi-Fi syncing.
In the iTunes app on a Windows PC: Click the iPhone button near the top left of the iTunes window, click Summary, then select “Sync with this [device] over Wi-Fi” (in Options).
Click Apply.
By default, whenever iPhone is plugged into power and is connected over Wi-Fi to your Mac or to iTunes on your Windows PC, the computer syncs your selected content to iPhone.
See Sync content between your Mac and iPhone or iPad over Wi-Fi in the macOS User Guide or Sync iTunes content on PC with devices on Wi-Fi in the iTunes User Guide for Windows.
WARNING: If you delete a synced item from your computer, the item is also deleted from your iPhone the next time you sync.