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    iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
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- iPhone models compatible with iOS 26
 - 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
 - iPhone 16e
 - iPhone 17
 - iPhone 17 Pro
 - iPhone 17 Pro Max
 - iPhone Air
 
 - 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 26
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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
 - 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
 
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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
 - Record audio and video
 - Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
 - Keep the iPhone display on longer
 - Use StandBy
 - Adjust iPhone display and text settings
 - 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 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
 
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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
 - Use FaceTime audio call tools
 - Take a Live Photo
 - Use Live Captions
 - Use other apps during a call
 - Make a Group FaceTime call
 - 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
 - Leave a call or switch to Messages
 - Block a FaceTime call and report it as spam
 - Screen and filter calls
 
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- Get started with Freeform
 - Create a Freeform board
 - Draw or handwrite
 - Solve handwritten math problems
 - Add text
 - Add shapes, lines, and arrows
 - Add diagrams
 - Add images, scans, links, 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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- Get started with the Apple Games app
 - Set up your Game Center profile
 - Find and download games
 - Subscribe to Apple Arcade
 - Connect with friends in the Apple Games app
 - Play with friends in the Apple Games app
 - Manage your game library
 - Connect a game controller
 - Change game-related settings
 - Report a problem with a game
 
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- Intro to Home
 - Upgrade to the new version of Apple Home
 - Set up accessories
 - Control accessories
 - Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
 - View electricity usage and rates
 - Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance
 - 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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- Get started with Maps
 - Set your location and map view
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- Set your home, work, or school address
 - Use Maps
 - Get driving directions
 - Set up electric vehicle routing
 - View a route overview or a list of turns
 - Change or add stops to your route
 - Get directions to your parked car
 - Get walking directions
 - Save walks or hikes
 - Get transit directions
 - Get cycling directions
 - Book rides
 - Download offline maps
 
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- Search for places
 - Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
 - Explore airports or malls
 - Get information about places
 - View and mange Visited Places
 - Add places and notes to your Places
 - Share places
 - Mark a location with a pin
 - Rate places and add photos
 - Explore places with guides
 - Organize places with custom guides
 
 - Clear location history
 - Delete recent directions
 - Report an issue with Maps
 
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- Get started with Messages
 - Set up Messages
 - About iMessage
 - Send and reply to messages
 - Text via satellite
 - Schedule a text message to send later
 - Unsend and edit messages
 - Keep track of messages
 - Search
 - Forward and share messages
 - Group conversations
 - Share screens
 - Collaborate on projects
 - Add backgrounds
 - Use iMessage apps
 - Poll people in a conversation
 - Take and edit photos or videos
 - Share photos, links, and more
 - Send stickers
 - Create and send Memoji
 - React with Tapbacks
 - Format text and animate messages
 - Draw and handwrite messages
 - Send and save GIFs
 - Send and receive audio messages
 - Share your location
 - Turn read receipts on or off
 - Stop, mute, and change notifications
 - Screen, filter, report, and block texts
 - Delete messages and attachments
 - Recover deleted messages
 
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- Get started with Music
 - Get music
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- Play music
 - Use the music player controls
 - Play lossless audio
 - Play Spatial Audio
 - Listen to radio
 - Play music together using SharePlay
 - Play music together in the car
 - Queue up your music
 - Transition songs
 - Shuffle or repeat songs
 - Sing along with Apple Music
 - Show song credits and lyrics
 - Tell Apple Music what you enjoy
 - Adjust the sound quality
 
 
 
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- Get started with News
 - Get News notifications and newsletters
 - Use News widgets
 - See news stories chosen just for you
 - Read and share stories
 - Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
 - Listen to Apple News Today
 - Search for channels, topics, stories, or recipes
 - Save stories
 - Clear your reading history
 - Subscribe to individual news channels
 
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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
 - View password history
 - 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
 - See your Mac FileVault recovery key
 
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- Make a call
 - Record and transcribe a call
 - Change your Phone settings
 - View and delete the call history
 - Answer or decline incoming calls
 - While on a call
 - Share screens during a phone call
 - Request or give remote control in a Phone call
 - Have a conference or three-way call
 - 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
 - Screen and block calls
 
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- Get started with Photos
 - Browse your photo library
 - Browse your photo collections
 - View photos and videos
 - See photo and video information
 - Sort and filter the photo library
 - Back up and sync your photos and videos with iCloud
 - Delete or hide photos and videos
 - Search for photos and videos
 - Get wallpaper suggestions
 - Hide people, memories, and holidays
 - 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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- Get started with Podcasts on iPhone
 - Find podcasts
 - Listen to podcasts
 - View podcast transcripts
 - Follow your favorite podcasts
 - Rate or review podcasts
 - Use the Podcasts widget
 - Select your favorite Podcasts 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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- Get started with Safari
 - Browse the web
 - Search for websites
 - See highlights
 - Customize your Safari settings
 - Change the layout
 - Create multiple Safari profiles
 - Listen to a webpage
 - Bookmark a website
 - Open as Web App
 - Save pages to a Reading List
 - Find links shared with you
 - Download a PDF
 - Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
 - Fill in forms
 - Get extensions
 - Clear your cache and cookies
 - Enable cookies
 
 - Shortcuts
 - Tips
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- About Apple Wallet
 - Set up Apple Pay
 - Use Apple Pay for contactless payments
 - Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
 - Use Apple Cash
 - Use Apple Card
 - Add your ID
 - Pay for transit
 - Use digital keys
 - Use passes, loyalty cards, tickets, and more
 - Check your Apple Account balance
 - Organize and search in Wallet
 - Remove cards and passes
 - Fill in payment information
 - Change Wallet & Apple Pay settings
 
 
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- 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
 - Apple Intelligence and privacy
 - Block access to Apple Intelligence features
 
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- 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
 
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- 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
 
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- 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
 
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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
 - Share your Accessibility settings with another device
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- Overview of accessibility features for vision
 - Read or listen to text in apps with Accessibility Reader
 - Zoom in
 - View a larger version of text you’re reading or typing
 - Change display colors
 - Make text easier to read
 - Customize 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
 - Use Braille Access with a braille display
 - 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 4K 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
 - Control iPhone with the movement of your head
 
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- Overview of accessibility features for hearing
 - Use hearing devices
 - Use Live Listen
 - Use sound recognition
 - Use name 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 sounds in CarPlay
 
 
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- Control what you share
 - Turn on Lock Screen features
 - Block contacts
 - 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
 - Install Background Security Improvements
 - 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 and trademarks
 
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