Wiley iPhone 3G Portable Genius
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1. a space Capitalization and the spacebar double tap shortcut follow these steps imaa anra ws 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The Settings application appears 2 Tap General The General screen appears 3 Tap Keyboard The Keyboard screen appears as shown in figure 1 12 1 12 Use the Keyboard screen to customize a few keyboard settings 18 eee apter 1 How Do l Configure My IPhone 3G y Use the Auto Capitalization setting to turn this feature On or Off Use the Enable Caps Lock setting to turn this feature On or Off Use the Shortcut setting to turn this feature On or Off aS oS To add an international keyboard layout tap International Keyboards to open the Keyboards screen and then set the keyboard layout you want to add to On When you re using two or more keyboard layouts the keyboard sprouts a new key to td the left of the spacebar it looks like a stylized globe Tap that key to run through the Note layouts the names of which appear briefly in the spacebar Resetting the iPhone 3G If you ve spent quite a bit of time in the iPhone 3G s Settings application your phone probably doesn t look much like it did fresh out of the box That s okay though because your iPhone 3G should be as individual as you are However if you ve gone a bit too far with your customizations your iPhone 3G might feel a bit alien and uncomfortable That s okay too because there s an easy soluti2. be able to work with your iPhone 3G for a bit before getting locked out For example the After 1 minute option is good if you need to quickly check e mail without having to enter your passcode Show SMS Preview When this setting in On iPhone 3G still displays a preview of an incoming SMS text message when it s locked if you prefer not to show SMS text message previews when iPhone 3G is locked change this setting to Off With the passcode activated when you bring the iPhone 3G out of standby you drag the Slide to Unlock slider as usual and then the Enter Passcode screen appears as shown in fig ure 1 4 Type your passcode to unlock the iPhone 3G 1 4To unlock your iPhone 3G you need to enter your four digit passcode Configuring When iPhone 3G Goes to Sleep You can put your iPhone 3G into Standby mode at any time by pressing the Sleep Wake button once This drops the power consumption considerably mostly because it shuts off the screen but you can still receive incoming calls and text messages and if you have the iPhone 3G s iPod appli cation running it continues to play However if your iPhone 3G is on but you re not using it the phone automatically goes into standby mode after two minutes This is called Auto Lock and it s a handy feature because it saves battery power and prevents accidental taps when your iPhone 3G is just sitting there If you re not comfortable with the default 2 minute Auto Lock in
3. for all things iPhone 3G and what could be simpler Just tap the icon you want and the application loads lickety split Ah but things are never so simple are they In fact there are a couple of hairs in the Home screen soup The icons in the top row are a bit easier to find and a bit easier to tap Ifyou have more than 16 icons they extend onto a second or third or fourth Home screen If the application you want isn t on the main Home screen you must first flick to the screen that has the application s icon or tap its dot and then tap the icon land retailer solely devoted to applications designed to work with the iPhone 3G s tech Note nologies multi touch GPS the accelerometer wireless and more You can download applications via your cellular network or your Wi Fi connection so you can always get applications when you need them In the Home screen tap the App Store icon to see what s available All this means that you can make the Home screen more efficient by moving your four most used icons to the top row of the main Home screen and make sure that any icon you tap frequently appears somewhere on the main Home screen You can do all this by rearranging the Home screen icons as follows 1 Display the Home screen Tap and hold any Home screen icon When you see the icons wiggling release your finger 2 3 Tap and drag the icons into the positions you prefer 4 Press the Home button iPhone 3G saves th
4. you to reenter the passcode 5 Tap your four digit passcode again With your passcode now active iPhone 3G dis plays the Passcode Lock screen You can also get to this screen by tapping Settings in the Home screen then General then Passcode Lock This screen offers four buttons Turn Passcode Off If you want to stop using your passcode tap this button and then enter the passcode for security otherwise an interloper could just shut off the passcode 1 3 Use the Set Passcode screen to lock your iPhone 3G with a four digit passcode Change Passcode Tap this button to enter a new passcode Note that you first need to enter your old passcode and then enter the new passcode Require Passcode This setting determines how much time elapses before the iPhone 3G locks the phone and requests the passcode The default setting is Immediately which means you see the Enter Passcode screen see figure 1 4 as soon as you finish dragging Slide to Unlock The other options are After 1 minute After 5 minutes After 15 minutes to mess around entering a passcode Similarly if something happens to you another person who doesn t know your passcode may need to use your iPhone 3G to call for assistance In both cases you can temporarily bypass the passcode by tapping the Emergency Call button on the Enter Passcode screen After 1 hour and After 4 hours Use one of these settings if you want to
5. 3G A Ring utters by following these steps Vibrate 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The oni Settings application appears q a y gt 2 Tap Sounds The Sounds screen Ringtone ea appears as shown in figure 1 6 3 In the Silent section the Vibrate set New Text Message Tri tone gt ting determines whether iPhone 3G t i ae New Voicemail vibrates when the phone is in silent mode Vibrating is a good idea in silent New Mail mode so On is a good choice here ih 1 6 Use the Sounds screen to turn the iPhone 3G s sounds on and off eee ee imnone Portable Genius 4 In the Ring section the Vibrate setting determines whether iPhone 3G vibrates when the phone is in ring mode Vibrating probably isn t all that important in ring mode so feel free to change this setting to Off The exception is if you reduce the ringer volume see step 5 in which case setting Vibrate to On might help you notice an incoming call 5 Drag the volume slider to set the volume of the ringtone that plays when a call comes in 6 To seta different default ringtone tap Ringtone to open the Ringtone screen tap the ringtone you want to use iPhone 3G plays a preview and then tap Sounds to return to the Sounds screen 7 To set a different incoming text message sound tap New Text Message to open the New Text Message screen tap the sound effect you want to use iPhone 3G plays a pre view and then tap Sounds to return
6. How Do I Configure My iPhone 3G P Se a ae Yn a A S g A The iPhone 3G is justly famous for its stylish curvaceous design and for its slick effortless touchscreen However although good looks and ease of use are important for any smartphone it s what you do with that phone that s important The iPhone 3G helps by offering lots of features but chances are those features aren t set up to suit the way you work Maybe your most used Home screen icons aren t at the top of the screen where they should be or perhaps your iPhone 3G goes to sleep too soon This chapter shows you how to configure your iPhone 3G to solve these and many other annoyances so the phone works the way you do Customizing the Home Screen to Suit Your Style eeeeeee 4 Protecting iPhone 3G with a Passcode cceeeececcccecees 7 Configuring When iPhone 3G Goes to Sleep eeeeeeeee 9 MUMNING Sounds On and Off s e lt e seee ee seeeeee eses snes 10 Adjusting the Brightness of the Screen ssessesesosssessesseo 12 Setting the iPhone 3G Wallpaper ccc cece cece cece cece cece 14 Customizing the Home Button ccccccccccccccccccccccces 16 Customizing the Keyboard ccccce ccc ccccccccccccccccccces 17 Resetting the iPhone 3G 23 20 202 lt ccccctsccccstwseceeueccsecs 19 iPhone 3G Portable Genius Customizing the Home Screen to Suit Your Style The Home screen is your starting point
7. The Settings application appears 2 Tap Brightness The Brightness screen appears as shown in figure 1 7 3 Drag the Brightness slider left for a ontigure My iPhone 3G 2_ AT amp aT gt 11 00 AM a Settings Brightness Auto Brightness A 1 7 Use the Brightness screen to control the iPhone 3G s screen brightness by hand dimmer screen or right for a brighter screen 4 To prevent iPhone 3G from controlling the brightness automatically turn the Auto Brightness setting to Off Note Brightness slider because this affects the relative brightness of the screen For exam ple suppose you adjust the slider to increase brightness by 50 percent and you leave Auto Brightness turned on In this case Auto Brightness still adjusts the screen auto matically but any brightness level it chooses is 50 percent brighter than it would be otherwise 13 Setting the iPhone 3G Wallpaper The iPhone 3G wallpaper is the background image you see when you unlock the phone That is it s the image you see when the Slide to Unlock screen appears and also when the Enter Passcode screen appears if you re protecting your iPhone 3G with a passcode as described earlier in this chapter The default wallpaper is a photo of the Earth taken from space and as nice as that photo is you might just be getting a bit tired of looking at it No worries Your iPhone 3G comes with 15 other wallpapers yo
8. cks If your iPhone 3G is in Standby mode press the Home button to display the Slide to Unlock screen lf your iPhone 3G is already on press the Home button to return to the Home screen That s it right Not so fast You can actually customize the Home button to do some useful things No you can t change any of the built in behaviors that your iPhone 3G performs when you press the Home button However you can customize what your iPhone 3G does when you double press the Home button Apple actually calls this double clicking the Home button which is at least more familiar terminology so we ll switch to that for the rest of this section 16 By default your iPhone 3G performs one of the following actions when you double click the Home button Ifthe iPhone 3G iPod is playing it displays the iPod Playback controls If the iPhone 3G iPod is not playing it displays the Phone application s Favorites list These are useful shortcuts to know for sure but you can customize this behavior by following these steps 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The ATAT 11 19 AM Ma Settings application appears a Home Button 2 Tap General The General screen appears Double clicking the Home Button goes to 3 Tap Home Button The Home Button screen appears as shown in figure 1 11 Home 4 Tap the screen you want to appear EOE E A V when you double click the Home but ton Home Phone Favorites or iP
9. e 3G sets the image as the wallpaper 1 AT amp T gt 11 14 AM Move and Scale Cancel Set Wallpaper 1 9 Use the Move and Scale screen to set the position and zoom level for the new wallpaper Taking a wallpaper photo with the iPhone 3G camera For even more wallpaper fun you can create an on the fly wallpaper image using the iPhone 3G camera Here are the steps to follow 1 oe N On the Home screen tap Camera The Camera application appears Line up your subject and tap the Camera button to take the picture Tap the Camera Roll button The Camera Roll photo album appears Tap the photo you just took A preview of the photo appears as shown in figure 1 10 Tap the Action button The Action button is the button on the left side of the menu bar If you don t see the menu bar tap the screen iPhone 3G displays a list of actions you can perform Tap Use As Wallpaper The Move and Scale screen appears Tap and drag the image so that it s positioned on the screen the way you want 15 a ATaT 3 1 10 Tap the photo you want to use as wallpaper to see a preview of the photo Swap button s 8 Pinch or spread your fingers over the image to set the zoom level you want 9 Tap Set Wallpaper iPhone 3G sets the image as the wallpaper Customizing the Home Button The Home button is the starting point for most of your iPhone 3G excursions and it seems like the simplest of the iPhone 3G knickkna
10. e new icon arrangement NN NNN The icons in the Home screen s menu bar are also fair game and you can drag them left and right to change the order Unfortunately you can t replace the menu bar icons with any other Home screen icons Moving unused icons off the main Home screen The best way to make the main Home screen more manageable is to get rid of any icons you don t use Not an investor Get rid of the Stocks icon No use for arithmetic Say so long to the Calculator icon Installed a bunch of applications you use only rarely Get rid of them too Unfortunately you can t delete the default iPhone 3G icons and although you can uninstall any third party applications you probably don t want to go that far for any application you still use once in a while The solution to both problems is to create a second Home screen and move your little used icons to that screen That way your main Home screen holds just your favorite icons and the ones you use once in a blue moon or never are out of the way Here are the steps to follow 1 Inthe Home screen tap and hold any Home screen icon until you see all the icons wiggling 2 For each icon you want off the main Home screen tap and drag the icon to the right until the new Home screen appears and then release the icon 3 Press the Home button iPhone 3G saves the new icon arrangement Adding a Safari Web Clip to the Home screen Do you have a Web page that you visit a
11. eturn to start a new paragraph the iPhone 3G automatically activates the Shift key because it assumes you re starting a new sentence On a related note double tapping the spacebar activates a keyboard shortcut instead of entering two spaces the iPhone 3G automatically enters a period followed by a space This is a welcome bit of efficiency because otherwise you d have to tap the Number key 123 to display the num bers and punctuation marks tap the period and then tap the spacebar Ey 2123 tapping the number or symbol and then tapping ABC Here s a faster way Genius press and hold the Number key to open the numeric keyboard slide the same finger to the number or punctuation symbol you want and then release the key This types the number or symbol and returns to the regular keyboard all in one touch One thing the iPhone 3G keyboard doesn t AT amp T gt 11 24 AM Fa a seem to have is a Caps Lock feature that when Keyboard activated enables you to type all uppercase letters To do this you need to tap and hold the Auto Capitalization Shift key and then use a different finger to tap i P on the uppercase letters However the iPhone 3G Enable Caps Lock OFF keyboard actually does have a Caps Lock fea j ture it s just that it s turned off by default Shortcut on E Double tapping the space bar will To turn on Caps Lock and to control the Auto insert a period followed by
12. ing This sensible arrangement prevents accidental taps when the phone is in your pocket or rattling around in your backpack or handbag To unlock the phone you either press the Home button or the Sleep Wake button drag the Slide to Unlock slider and you re back in business Unfortunately this simple technique means that anyone else who gets his or her mitts on your iPhone 3G can also be quickly back in business your business If you have sensitive or confiden tial information on your phone or if you want to avoid digital joyrides that run up massive roaming or data charges you need to truly lock your iPhone 3G You do that by specifying a four digit passcode that must be entered before anyone can use the iPhone 3G Follow these steps to set up your passcode 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The Settings application appears 2 Tap General The General screen appears eee eee You really really need to remember your iPhone 3G passcode If you forget it you are d locked out of your own phone and the only way to get back in is to completely reset the iPhone 3G as described later in this chapter Caution IPhone Portable Genius 3 Tap Passcode Lock The Set Passcode wt AT amp T gt 10 36 AM a screen appears as shown in figure 1 3 Set Passcode 4 Tap your four digit passcode For secu rity the numbers appear in the Enter a Ent scode passcode box as dots When you finish t iPhone 3G prompts
13. ll the time You can set up that page as a bookmark in iPhone 3G s Safari browser but there s an even faster way to access the page add it to the Home screen as a Web Clip icon A Web Clip is a link to a page that preserves the page s scroll position and zoom level For example suppose a page has a form at the bottom To use that form you have to navigate to the page scroll to the bottom and then zoom in to the form to see it better However you can perform all three actions navigate scroll and zoom automatically with a Web Clip Follow these steps to save a page as a Web Clip icon on the Home screen 1 Use your iPhone 3G s Safari browser to navigate to the page you want to save 2 Scroll to the portion of the page you want to see 3 Pinch and spread your fingers over the area you want to zoom in on until you can com fortably read the text Press at the bottom of the screen iPhone 3G displays a list of options Tap Add to Home Screen iPhone 3G prompts you to edit the Web Clip name as shown in figure 1 1 Edit the name as needed Names up to about 10 14 characters can display on the Home screen without being broken The fewer uppercase letters you use the longer the name can be For longer names iPhone 3G displays the first few and last few characters depend ing on the locations of spaces in the name separated by an ellipsis For example if the name is My Home Page it appears in the Home screen as M
14. od iPod 5 If you always want to see the screen you chose in step 4 when you double iPod Controls sonf click Home change the iPod Controls setting to Off When playing music show iPod controls instead Customizing the Keyboard You can type on your iPhone 3G although 1 11 Use the Home Button screen to customize Home button double clicks don t expect to pound out the prose as easily as you can on your computer The onscreen keyboard is a bit too small for rapid and accurate typing but it s still a far sight better than any other phone out there mostly because the keyboard was thoughtfully designed by the folks at Apple It even changes depending on the application you use For example the regular keyboard features a spacebar at the bottom However if you re surfing the Web with your iPhone 3G s Safari browser the keyboard that appears when you type in the address bar does away with the space bar In its place you find a period a slash and a button that enters the characters com Web addresses don t use spaces so Apple replaced the spacebar with three things that commonly appear in a Web address Nice 17 IMIM IPnone Portable Genius Another nice innovation you get with the iPhone 3G keyboard is a feature called Auto Capitalization If you type a punctuation mark that indicates the end of a sentence for example a period a question mark or an exclamation mark or if you press R
15. on to the problem you can erase all your customizations and revert the iPhone 3G back to its default settings A similar problem that comes up is when you want to sell or give your iPhone 3G to someone else Chances are you don t want the new owner to see your data contacts appointments e mail and text messages favorite Web sites music and so on and it s unlikely the other person wants to wade through all that stuff anyway no offense To solve this problem you can erase not only your custom settings but also all of the content you ve stored on the iPhone 3G The iPhone 3G s Reset application handles these scenarios and a few more to boot Here s how it works 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The Settings application appears 2 Tap General The General screen appears 1 ple iTunes music you ve recently downloaded or an Apps Store program that you ve recently installed you lose that content if you choose Reset All Content and Caution BAe AAA AE OE A EEVEE OAIN AET then run the reset 19 Te mnone Portable Genius 3 Tap Reset The Reset screen appears as i AT amp T gt 11 27 AM am shown in figure 1 13 General 4 Tap one of the following reset options Reset All Settings Tap this option to Reset All Settings reset your custom settings to the fac Erase All Content and Settings tory default settings Reset All Content and Settings Tap TI this option to reset yo
16. terval you can make it shorter or longer or you can disable it altogether Here are the steps to follow 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The Settings application appears 2 Tap General The General screen appears 3 Tap Auto Lock The Auto Lock screen appears as shown in figure 1 5 4 Tap the interval you want to use To leave Auto Lock activated tap one of the following intervals 1 minute 2 Minutes 3 Minutes 4 Minutes or 5 Minutes To dis able Auto Lock tap Never Turning Sounds On and Off Your iPhone 3G is often a noisy little thing that makes all manner of rings beeps and boops seemingly at the slightest provocation Consider a short list of the events that can give the iPhone 3G s lungs a workout Incoming calls Incoming e mail messages Outgoing e mail messages Incoming text messages New voicemail messages Calendar alerts Locking and unlocking the phone Tapping the keys on the onscreen keyboard w t__AT amp T 3 10 47 AM 1 Minute vV 2 Minutes 3 Minutes 4 Minutes 5 Minutes Never 1 5 Use the Auto Lock screen to set the Auto Lock interval or to turn it off What a racket None of this may bother you when you re on your own but if you re in a meeting a movie or anywhere else where extraneous sounds are unwelcome you might want to turn off some or all of the iPhone 3G s sound effects 10 First yo
17. to Note reject it and keep Viv the word Big is added to the keyboard dictionary 20 21
18. to the Sounds screen tad If you don t want your iPhone 3G to play a sound when a new text message arrives tap None in the New Text Message screen Note 8 For each of the following settings tap the On Off button to turn the sounds on or off New Voicemail New Mail Sent Mail Calendar Alerts Lock Sounds Keyboard Clicks Adjusting the Brightness of the Screen Your iPhone 3G s touchscreen offers a crisp bright display that s easy to read in most situations Unfortunately keeping the screen bright enough to read comfortably extracts a heavy cost in bat tery power To help balance screen brightness and battery life your iPhone 3G comes with a built in ambient light sensor That sensor checks the surrounding light levels and adjusts the brightness of the iPhone 3G screen accordingly 12 r 0 aul OND Ifthe ambient light is dim the iPhone 3G screen is easier to read so the sensor dims the screen brightness to save bat tery power Ifthe ambient light is bright the iPhone 3G screen is harder to see so the sensor brightens the screen to improve read ability This feature is called Auto Brightness and it s sensible to let your iPhone 3G handle this stuff for you However if you re not happy with how Auto Brightness works or if you simply have an uncontrollable urge to tweak things you can follow these steps to adjust the screen bright ness by hand 1 On the Home screen tap Settings
19. u can choose and you can even use one of your own photos as the wallpaper Using a predefined wallpaper Here are the steps to follow to use one of iPhone AT amp T 3 11 01 AM om 3G s predefined wallpapers Wallpaper Wallpaper 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The Settings application appears 2 Tap Wallpaper The Wallpaper screen appears 3 Tap Wallpaper iPhone 3G displays its collection of wallpaper images as shown in figure 1 8 4 Tap the image you want to use The Wallpaper preview screen appears 5 Tap Set Wallpaper iPhone 3G sets the image as the wallpaper Using an existing photo as the wallpaper If you have images in your iPhone 3G s Camera 1 8 Your iPhone 3G comes with a number of Roll or in a photo album synced from your predefined wallpaper images computer you can use one of those images as your wallpaper by following these steps 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The Settings application appears 2 Tap Wallpaper The Wallpaper screen appears 14 Tap either Camera Roll or the photo album that contains the image you want to use iPhone 3G displays the images in the album you choose Tap the image you want to use The Move and Scale screen appears as shown in figure 1 9 Tap and drag the image so that it s positioned on the screen the way you want Pinch and spread your fingers over the image to set the zoom level you want Tap Set Wallpaper iPhon
20. u should know that when a call comes in and you press the Sleep Wake button once your iPhone 3G silences the ringer That s a sweet and useful feature but the problem is that it may take you one or two rings before you can dig out your iPhone 3G and press Sleep Wake and by that time the folks nearby are already glaring at you To prevent this phone faux pas you can switch your iPhone 3G into silent mode which means it doesn t ring and it doesn t play any alerts or sound effects When the sound is turned off only alarms that you ve set using the Clock application sound The phone still vibrates unless you turn this feature off as well You switch the iPhone 3G between ring and silent modes using the Ring Silent switch which is located on the left side panel of the iPhone 3G near the top Use the following techniques to switch between silent and ring modes To put the phone in silent mode flick the Ring Silent switch toward the back of the phone You see a little orange dot on the switch and the iPhone 3G screen displays a bell with a slash through it Your iPhone 3G is now in silent mode To resume the normal ring mode flick AT amp T 3 10 56 AM am the Ring Silent switch toward the front e of the phone The iPhone 3G screen dis Settings Sounds plays a bell Your iPhone 3G is now in normal ring mode A Silent If silent mode is a bit too drastic you can con Vibrate on trol exactly which sounds your iPhone
21. ur custom set Reset Network Settings tings and remove any data you ve stored on the iPhone 3G Reset Keyboard Dictionary Reset Network Settings Tap this option to delete your Wi Fi network Reset Home Screen Layout settings which is often an effective CEA PEA Reset Location Warnings way to solve Wi Fi problems Reset Keyboard Dictionary Tap this option to reset your keyboard dic tionary This dictionary contains a list of the keyboard suggestions that 1 13 Use the Reset screen to reset various you ve rejected Tap this option to aspects of your iPhone 3G clear the dictionary and start fresh Reset Warning locations Tap this option to wipe out the location preferences for your applications A location warning is the dialog box you see when you start a 6PS aware application for the first time and your iPhone 3G asks if the application can use your cur rent location You either click OK or Don t Allow and these are the preferences you re resetting here 5 When the iPhone 3G asks you to confirm tap the red button Note that the name of this button is the same as the reset option For example if you tapped the Reset All Settings option in step 4 the confirm button is called Reset All Settings iPhone 3G resets the data ee Remember that the keyboard dictionary contains rejected suggestions For example td if you type Viv iPhone 3G suggests Big instead If you tap the Big suggestion
22. y Ho Page Tap Add iPhone 3G adds the Web Clip to the Home screen and displays the Home screen Figure 1 2 shows the Home screen with a Web Clip added AT amp T gt 10 30 AM Pa t_ AT amp T gt 10 31 AM SH Text Calendar Photos _ wr Cance Add to Home Ta it Leopard Portable Genius a An icon will be added to your home screen so you can quickly access this web site Calculator Settings App Store opa nius a sagaooone z You can edit the Web Clip name before A Web Clip added to the Home screen adding the icon to the Home screen apter 1 How Do I Contigure My IPhone 3G Resetting the default Home screen layout If you make a bit of a mess of your Home screen or if someone else is going to be using your iPhone 3G you can reset the Home screen icons to their default layout Follow these steps 1 On the Home screen tap Settings The Settings application appears 2 Tap General The General screen appears 3 Scroll down and tap Reset The Reset screen appears 4 Tap Reset Home Screen Layout iPhone 3G warns you that the Home screen will be reset to the factory default layout 5 Tap Reset Home Screen iPhone 3G resets the home screen to the default layout but it doesn t delete added Application buttons Protecting iPhone 3G with a Passcode When your iPhone 3G is asleep the phone is locked in the sense that tapping the touchscreen or pressing the volume controls does noth
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