iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
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- iPhone models compatible with iOS 18
- 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
- iPhone 16
- iPhone 16 Plus
- iPhone 16 Pro
- iPhone 16 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 18
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- Adjust the volume
- Turn the iPhone flashlight on or off
- Silence iPhone
- Multitask with Picture in Picture
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- Use the Dynamic Island
- Perform quick actions
- Search on iPhone
- Get information about your iPhone
- Manage storage on iPhone
- View or change cellular data settings
- Travel with iPhone
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- Change sounds and vibrations
- Use and customize the Action button
- Create a custom Lock Screen
- Change the wallpaper
- Use and customize Control Center
- 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
- Customize sharing options
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- Use the Camera Control
- Use the Camera Control to open another app
- Adjust the shutter volume
- Adjust HDR camera settings
- Record videos
- Take spatial photos and record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
- Change sound recording options on iPhone 16 models
- Record ProRes videos
- Record videos in Cinematic mode
- Change video recording settings
- Save camera settings
- Customize the Main and Fusion camera lens
- Change advanced camera settings
- View, share, and print photos
- Use Live Text
- Scan a QR code
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- Create and edit events in Calendar
- Send invitations
- Reply to invitations
- Change how you view events
- Search for events
- Change Calendar settings
- Schedule or display events in a different time zone
- Keep track of events
- Use multiple calendars
- Use reminders
- Use the Holidays calendar
- Share iCloud calendars
- Compass
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- Get started with FaceTime
- Create a FaceTime link
- Take a Live Photo
- Record and transcribe an audio call
- 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
- Request or give remote control 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 and silence FaceTime calls from unknown callers
- Report a call as spam
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- Get started with Freeform
- Create a Freeform board
- Draw or handwrite
- Solve handwritten math problems
- Add text in sticky notes, shapes, and text boxes
- Add shapes, lines, and arrows
- Add diagrams
- Add photos, videos, and other files
- Apply consistent styles
- Position items on a board
- Navigate and present scenes
- Send a copy or PDF
- Print a board
- Share boards and collaborate
- Search Freeform boards
- Delete and recover boards
- Change Freeform settings
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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
- View electricity usage and rates
- 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 on iPhone or Apple Watch
- Configure a router
- Invite others to control accessories
- Add more homes
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- View maps
- Explore 3D maps
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- Get travel directions
- Change or add stops to 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 walking directions
- Save walks or hikes
- Get transit directions
- Get cycling directions
- Get traffic and weather info
- Book rides
- Estimate travel time and ETA
- Download offline maps
- Look around places
- Take Flyover tours
- Clear location history
- Delete recent directions
- Choose a default travel mode and units
- Report an issue with Maps
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- Set up Messages
- About iMessage
- Send and reply to messages
- Text via satellite
- Schedule a message to send later
- Unsend and edit messages
- Keep track of messages
- Search
- Forward and share messages
- Group conversations
- Share screens
- Collaborate on projects
- Use iMessage apps
- Take and edit photos or videos
- Share photos, links, and more
- Send stickers
- Create and send Memoji
- React with Tapbacks
- Style and animate messages
- Draw and handwrite messages
- Send and save GIFs
- Request, send, and receive payments
- Send and receive audio messages
- Share your location
- Turn read receipts on or off
- Change notifications
- Block, filter, and report messages
- Delete messages and attachments
- Recover deleted messages
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- Get music
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- Play music
- Use the music player controls
- Use Siri to play music
- Play lossless audio
- Play Spatial Audio
- Listen to radio
- Play music together using SharePlay
- Play music together in the car
- Adjust the sound
- Queue up your music
- Shuffle or repeat songs
- Sing along with Apple Music
- Show song credits and lyrics
- Tell Apple Music what you enjoy
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- Get started with Notes
- Create and format notes
- Use Quick Notes
- Add drawings and handwriting
- Enter formulas and equations
- Add photos, video, and more
- Record and transcribe audio
- Scan text and documents
- Work with PDFs
- Add links
- Search notes
- Organize in folders
- Organize with tags
- Use Smart Folders
- Share and collaborate
- Export or print notes
- Lock notes
- Add or remove accounts
- Change the Notes view
- Change Notes settings
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- Use passwords
- Find your password for a website or app
- Change the password for a website or app
- Remove a password
- Recover a deleted password
- Create a password for a website or app
- Show passwords in large text
- Use passkeys to sign in to websites and apps
- Sign in with Apple
- Share passwords
- Automatically fill in strong passwords
- See websites excluded from AutoFill
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- View your passwords and related information
- Find and share your Wi-Fi password
- Share passwords securely with AirDrop
- Make your 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
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- Make a call
- Record and transcribe a call
- Change your Phone settings on iPhone
- View and delete the call history
- Answer or decline incoming calls
- While on a call
- Have a conference or three-way call on iPhone
- Set up voicemail
- Check voicemail
- Change voicemail greeting and settings
- Select ringtones and vibrations
- Make calls using Wi-Fi
- Set up call forwarding
- Set up call waiting
- Block or avoid unwanted calls
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- Get started with Photos
- View photos and videos
- See photo and video information
- Customize the Photos app
- Filter and sort the photo library
- Back up and sync your photos with iCloud
- Delete or hide photos and videos
- Search for photos and videos
- Get wallpaper suggestions
- Make stickers from your photos
- Duplicate and copy photos and videos
- Merge duplicate photos and videos
- Import and export photos and videos
- Print photos
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- Find podcasts
- Listen to podcasts
- View podcast transcripts
- Follow your favorite podcasts
- Use the Podcasts widget
- Select your favorite categories and channels
- Organize your podcast library
- Download, save, remove, and share podcasts
- Subscribe to podcasts
- Listen to subscriber-only content
- Change download settings
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- Browse the web
- Search for websites
- See highlights
- Customize your Safari settings
- Change the layout
- Create multiple Safari profiles
- Use Siri to listen to a webpage
- Bookmark a website
- 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
- Clear your cache and cookies
- Enable cookies
- Shortcuts
- Tips
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- Get started with Apple Intelligence
- Use Writing Tools
- Use Apple Intelligence in Mail
- Use Apple Intelligence in Messages
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Get webpage summaries
- Get a summary of a phone call or audio recording
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create Genmoji with Apple Intelligence
- Use Image Wand with Apple Intelligence
- Use Apple Intelligence in Photos
- Use visual intelligence with Camera Control
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features in Screen Time
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- Work across devices using Continuity
- Use your iPhone from your Mac
- Receive iPhone Notifications on your Mac
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- 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 with Personal Hotspot
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans on Mac
- Start SharePlay instantly
- 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
- Use accessibility features during setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Quickly turn accessibility features on or off
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- Overview of accessibility features for vision
- Zoom in
- View a larger version of text you’re reading or typing
- Change display colors
- Make text easier to read
- Reduce onscreen motion
- Use iPhone more comfortably while riding in a vehicle
- Customize per-app visual settings
- Hear what’s on the screen or typed
- Hear audio descriptions
- Adjust CarPlay settings
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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
- Keep the screen off
- Use VoiceOver with an external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type braille on the screen
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Get live descriptions of your surroundings
- Use VoiceOver in apps
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- Overview of accessibility features for mobility
- 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
- Use Voice Control commands with CarPlay
- Adjust the side or Home button
- Adjust Camera Control settings
- Use Apple TV Remote buttons
- Adjust pointer settings
- Adjust keyboard settings
- Control iPhone with an external keyboard
- Adjust AirPods settings
- Turn on Apple Watch Mirroring
- Control a nearby Apple device
- Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes
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- Overview of accessibility features for hearing
- Use hearing devices
- Use Live Listen
- Use sound recognition
- Set up and use RTT and TTY
- Flash the indicator light for notifications
- Adjust audio settings
- Play background sounds
- Display subtitles and captions
- Show transcriptions for Intercom messages
- Get live captions of spoken audio
- Play music as taps, textures, and more
- Get notified about car horns and sirens in CarPlay
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- Control what you share
- Turn on Lock Screen features
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- 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
What’s new in iOS 18
Apple Intelligence. (iOS 18.1) Apple Intelligence combines the power of generative models with an understanding of your personal context to deliver intelligence that’s useful and relevant. Apple Intelligence can prioritize and summarize notifications, mail, and messages, let you interact with Siri in new and more natural ways, search your photo library when you describe what you want to find, draw from information on your iPhone to simplify everyday tasks, and more. (iOS 18.2) Use Image Playground to create entirely new images based on original descriptions, suggested concepts, or even a person from your photo library. Make Genmoji using your iPhone keyboard to enhance a conversation or match a friend in your photo library. In Notes, use the Image Wand to turn words or a rough sketches into illustrations. To get started, see Get started with Apple Intelligence on iPhone.
Personalize your Home Screen. Arrange apps and widgets on your Home Screen and change their size. Tint apps your favorite color, or have iPhone suggest a color that complements your wallpaper. See Customize apps and widgets on the iPhone Home Screen.
Lock and hide apps. Protect sensitive apps and the information inside them by locking or hiding them. When you lock an app on your Home Screen, you need to use Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode to open it. Hide an app from your Home Screen in a hidden apps folder that’s locked. Information stored in locked or hidden apps won’t appear in other places on your iPhone, such as notifications and search. See Lock or hide an app on iPhone.
Change Lock Screen controls. Swap out the controls at the bottom of the Lock Screen for other options—like Timer or Calculator. See Change the controls at the bottom of the Lock Screen.
Control Center. The redesigned Control Center features new groups of controls so you can quickly take actions on more features. The controls gallery displays all your options in one place, including controls from your favorite apps. See Use and customize Control Center on iPhone.
Photos. The redesigned Photos app puts your photo library at your fingertips, so you spend less time searching and more time enjoying your memories. Your photos are organized by topics such as Recent Days, Trips, People & Pets, and more. Use Pinned Collections to quickly access the collections or albums most important to you. And you can customize the app to make Photos even more personal and useful. See Get started with Photos on iPhone.
Messages. Add text effects such as bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough to emphasize your messages, or apply animated effects to any letter, word, phrase, or emoji—many of which are automatically suggested as you type. React to messages in new ways by using any emoji or sticker as a Tapback. Schedule a message to send at a specified time and use satellite capabilities to stay connected when you’re without Wi-Fi or cellular coverage. See Style and animate messages on iPhone, React with Tapbacks in Messages on iPhone, Schedule a message on iPhone to send later, and Send a text message via satellite on iPhone.
Mail. (iOS18.2) Mail organizes your inbox into useful categories so you can easily find the messages that you’re looking for. The Primary category helps you focus on what matters most, like time-sensitive messages and emails from friends, family, or colleagues. The Transactions, Updates, and Promotions categories help you reference everything else. Messages in these categories are bundled by sender and you can view snippets of messages for easy scanning. See Use categories in Mail on iPhone.
Safari. Safari automatically detects relevant information on a page and highlights it as you browse. Highlights display helpful information like maps, translations, and links to learn more about what you’re viewing. A redesigned reader view includes a table of contents and high-level summary to get the gist of an article before reading on. See See a webpage’s highlights in Safari on iPhone and Hide distractions when reading articles in Safari on iPhone.
Passwords. A new app that safely stores all of your passwords, account credentials, and verification codes in one place. If you use AutoFill, the passwords you generate are automatically added to the Passwords app. See Find your password for a website or app on iPhone and View your passwords and related information on iPhone.
Maps. View topographic maps with detailed trail networks and hikes, including all 63 U.S. national parks. Save hiking maps to your iPhone to access them offline with turn-by-turn voice guidance. You can create custom walking and hiking routes with different route options, such as one way, out and back, or loop. See Get walking directions in Maps on iPhone and Save walks or hikes in Maps on iPhone.
FaceTime. Help friends and family with their devices by tapping and drawing on your screen to point out what they should do on theirs. Or ask for permission to control their device remotely. See Share your screen in a FaceTime call on iPhone and Request or give remote control in a FaceTime call on iPhone.
Wallet. Use Tap to Cash to send and receive Apple Cash by holding your iPhone or Apple Watch near the other person’s iPhone or Apple Watch, without having to share phone numbers. Event tickets include an event guide about the venue with recommendations from Apple apps. View your rewards or points balances in Wallet and use Apple Pay to pay with rewards or installments. See Send Apple Cash with Tap to Cash, Use passes in Wallet on iPhone, and Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web on iPhone.
Notes. You can record live audio in a note and have the speech transcribed to text. Make text stand out with color, use collapsible headers in text-heavy sections, and solve mathematical equations instantly with Math Notes. See Record and transcribe audio in Notes on iPhone, Create and format notes on iPhone, and Enter formulas and equations in Notes on iPhone.
Journal. Log your state of mind in the Journal app and automatically add the time you spend journaling as mindful minutes in the Health app. Search in Journal to find and sort past entries, and view your writing streaks and other stats to help you reach your journaling goals. See Journal for your wellbeing on iPhone, View and search your journal entries on iPhone, and Change your Journal settings on iPhone.
Voice Memos. (iOS 18.2) On supported models, you can record and add a vocal layer on top of an instrumental recording. See Add a second layer to a Voice Memos recording on iPhone.
Apple TV. Use InSight to learn more about the actors and music as a show or movie is playing and Enhance Dialogue to help hear what’s being said onscreen. See Stream content and control playback in the Apple TV app on iPhone.
Home. Give guests scheduled access to specific controls in your home such as garage openers, alarm systems, and door locks. See Invite others to control accessories in your home on iPhone.
Privacy and Security. Redesigned Privacy and Security settings help you manage how much information you share with apps, and you can decide specific contacts you want to share with an app instead of your entire contact list. See Control access to information in apps on iPhone and Control access to your contacts on iPhone.
Accessibility. Eye Tracking makes it possible for people to control iPhone with just their eyes. Music Haptics syncs the iPhone Taptic Engine with the rhythm of songs and Vocal Shortcuts helps people with severe atypical speech record sounds that trigger specific actions on iPhone. See Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes, Play music on iPhone as taps, textures, and more, and Use Vocal Shortcuts on iPhone.
Emergency SOS Live Video. Share streaming video and recorded media during emergency calls, making it easier and faster to get the help you need. See Use SOS to contact emergency services on your iPhone.
Freeform. Scenes let you organize and present your board section by section. Send a copy of your board to anyone with just a link. An improved diagramming mode makes it easier to form connections on your canvas. See Navigate and present scenes in your Freeform boards on iPhone, Send a copy or PDF of a Freeform board on iPhone, and Add diagrams to a Freeform board on iPhone.
Calculator. Use new tools like history and unit conversions. Type or write out math with Math Notes to evaluate expressions, assign variables, plot graphs, and more. See See previous calculations in Calculator on iPhone, Convert units or currency in Calculator on iPhone, and Solve math with Math Notes in Calculator on iPhone.
Calendar. A redesigned Month view makes it easier to get an overview of your month ahead. And you can create, view, edit, and complete reminders from the Reminders app right in Calendar. See Change how you view events in Calendar on iPhone and Use reminders in Calendar on iPhone.
Learn tricks for iOS 18. The Tips app adds new suggestions regularly, 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.