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iPhone User Guide

Welcome
- 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
- 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
- Turn on and set up iPhone
- Wake and unlock
- Set up cellular service
- Use Dual SIM
- Connect to the internet
- - Apple ID settings
  - Turn iCloud features on or off
  - Subscribe to iCloud+
- Find settings
- Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- - Charge the battery
  - Show the battery percentage
  - Check battery health and usage
- Download or bookmark the user guide
- - Learn basic gestures
  - Learn gestures for iPhone models with Face ID
- Adjust the volume
- - Open apps
  - Find your apps in App Library
  - Switch between open apps
  - Quit and reopen an app
- - Dictate text
  - Type with the onscreen keyboard
  - Select and edit text
  - Use predictive text
  - Use text replacements
  - Add or change keyboards
- Multitask with Picture in Picture
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- View activites 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
- - Draw in apps
  - Add text, shapes, and signatures
  - Zoom in or magnify in Markup
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular data settings
- Travel with iPhone
- 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
- - Organize your apps in folders
  - Add widgets to the Home Screen
  - Move apps and widgets on the Home Screen
  - Remove apps
- Use and customize Control Center
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- - View and respond to notifications
  - Change notification settings
  - Set up a Focus
  - Allow or silence notifications for a Focus
  - Turn a Focus on or off
  - Stay focused while driving
- - Get apps
  - - Subscribe to Apple Arcade
    - Get games
    - Play with friends in Game Center
    - Connect a game controller
  - Use App Clips
  - Manage purchases, subscriptions, settings, and restrictions
  - Install and manage fonts
- - Buy books and audiobooks
  - Read books
  - Annotate books
  - Access books on other Apple devices
  - Listen to audiobooks
  - Set reading goals
  - Organize books
  - Read PDFs
- Calculator
- - Create and edit events
  - Send invitations
  - Reply to invitations
  - Change how you view events
  - Search for events
  - Customize your calendar
  - Keep track of events
  - Use multiple calendars
  - Use the Holidays calendar
  - Share iCloud calendars
- - - Camera basics
    - Set up your shot
    - Apply Photographic Styles
    - Take Live Photos
    - Take Burst mode shots
    - Take a selfie
    - Take panoramic photos
    - Take macro photos and videos
    - Take Portrait mode photos
    - Take Night mode photos
    - Take Apple ProRAW photos
  - Adjust the shutter volume
  - Adjust HDR camera settings
  - Record videos
  - Record ProRes videos
  - Record video in Cinematic mode
  - Change video recording settings
  - Save camera settings
  - Change advanced camera settings
  - View, share, and print photos
  - Use Live Text
  - Scan a QR code
- - See the world clock
  - Set an alarm
  - Use the timer or stopwatch
- Compass
- - Add and use contact information
  - Edit contacts
  - Add your contact info
  - Use other contact accounts
  - Use Contacts from the Phone app
  - Merge or hide duplicate contacts
- - 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
- - Connect external devices or servers
  - View and modify files and folders
  - Organize files and folders
  - Send files
  - Set up iCloud Drive
  - Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
- - - Share your location
    - Add or remove a friend
    - Locate a friend
    - Get notified when friends change their location
    - Notify a friend when your location changes
  - - Add your iPhone
    - Add your iPhone Wallet with MagSafe
    - Get notified if you leave a device behind
    - Locate a device
    - Mark a device as lost
    - Erase a device
    - Remove a device
  - - Add an AirTag
    - Add a third-party item
    - Get notified if you leave an item behind
    - Locate an item
    - Mark an item as lost
    - Remove an item
  - Adjust map settings
- - Track daily activity
  - See your activity history, trends, and awards
  - Connect a third-party workout app
  - Customize activity notifications
  - Share your activity
- - Intro to Health
  - Fill out your Health Details
  - - Intro to Health data
    - View your health data
    - Share your health data
    - View health data shared by others
  - - Download health records
    - View health records in Health on iPhone
  - Monitor your walking steadiness
  - - Log menstrual cycle information
    - View menstrual cycle predictions and history
  - - Track your medications
    - Learn more about your medications
  - - Set up a schedule for a Sleep Focus
    - Turn off alarms and delete sleep schedules
    - Add or change sleep schedules
    - Turn Sleep Focus on or off
    - Change your wind down period, sleep goal, and more
    - View your sleep history
  - - Use headphone audio level features
    - Check your headphone levels
  - Register as an organ donor
  - Back up your Health data
- - Intro to Home
  - Set up accessories
  - Control accessories
  - Control your home using Siri
  - Configure HomePod
  - Control your home remotely
  - Create and use scenes
  - Create an automation
  - Configure cameras
  - Face Recognition
  - Unlock your door with a home key
  - Configure a router
  - Share controls with others
  - Add more homes
- - Get music, movies, and TV shows
  - Get ringtones
  - Manage purchases and settings
- - Magnify nearby objects
  - Create activities
  - Change settings
  - - Detect people around you
    - Detect doors around you
    - Get image descriptions of your surroundings
    - Set up shortcuts for Detection Mode
- - - Add and remove email accounts
    - Set up a custom email domain
  - Check your email
  - - Send email
    - Recall email with Undo send
    - Reply to and forward emails
    - Save an email draft
  - - Add email attachments
    - Download email attachments
    - Annotate email attachments
  - Set email notifications
  - Search for email
  - Organize email in mailboxes
  - - Flag emails
    - Filter emails
  - - Use Hide My Email
    - Use Mail Privacy Protection
  - Change email settings
  - Delete and recover emails
  - Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
  - Print emails
- - View maps
  - - 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
  - - Use Siri, Maps, and the Maps widget to get directions
    - Select other route options
    - - Share your ETA
      - Find stops along your route
      - View a route overview or a list of turns
      - Change settings for spoken directions
    - 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
    - Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
  - - Look around streets
    - Take Flyover tours
  - Get rides
- - Measure
  - View and save measurements
  - Measure a person’s height
  - Use the level
- - 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
- - Get music
  - View albums, playlists, and more
  - Play music
  - Queue up your music
  - Listen to broadcast radio
  - - Subscribe to Apple Music
    - Listen to lossless music
    - Listen to Dolby Atmos music
    - Find new music
    - Add music and listen offline
    - Get personalized recommendations
    - Listen to radio
    - Search for music
    - Create playlists
    - See what your friends are listening to
    - Use Siri to play music
  - Listen to music with Apple Music Voice
  - Change the way music sounds
- - Get started with News
  - Use News widgets
  - See news stories chosen just for you
  - Read stories
  - Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
  - Listen to Apple News Today
  - - Subscribe to Apple News+
    - Browse and read Apple News+ stories and issues
    - Download Apple News+ issues
    - Listen to audio stories
  - Search for news stories
  - Save news stories for later
  - Subscribe to news channels
- - Get started with Notes
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Create and format notes
  - Draw or write
  - Scan text and documents
  - Add photos, videos, and more
  - Create Quick Notes
  - Search notes
  - Organize in folders
  - Organize with tags
  - Use Smart Folders
  - Share and collaborate
  - Lock notes
  - Change Notes settings
- - Make a call
  - Answer or decline incoming calls
  - While on a call
  - Check voicemail
  - Select ringtones and vibrations
  - Make calls using Wi-Fi
  - Set up call forwarding and call waiting
  - Avoid unwanted calls
- - 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
  - Interact with text and subjects in your photos
  - Watch memories
  - Personalize your memories
  - Manage memories and featured photos
  - - Use iCloud Photos
    - Use iCloud Shared Albums
  - Import photos and videos
  - Print photos
- - Find podcasts
  - Listen to podcasts
  - Follow your favorite podcasts
  - Organize your podcast library
  - Download, save, or share podcasts
  - Subscribe to podcasts
  - Change download settings
- - Set up accounts
  - Add items to a list
  - Edit and manage a list
  - Search and organize lists
  - Work with templates in Reminders on iPhone
  - Organize with tags
  - Use Smart Lists
  - Change Reminders settings
  - Share and collaborate
  - Print reminders
- - Browse the web
  - Customize your Safari settings
  - Change the layout
  - Search for websites
  - - Open and close tabs
    - Organize your tabs
    - View your Safari tabs from another Apple device
    - Share Tab Groups
  - Bookmark favorite webpages
  - 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
  - Hide ads and distractions
  - - Browse the web privately
    - Clear your cache
    - Use passkeys in Safari
    - Use Hide My Email
- Shortcuts
- - Check stocks
  - Manage multiple watchlists
  - Read business news
  - Add earnings reports to your calendar
  - Add a Stocks widget to your Home Screen
- Tips
- - Translate text, voice, and conversations
  - Choose the languages you want to translate between
  - Translate text in apps
  - Translate text with the iPhone camera
  - Translate with the camera view
- - Connect apps and add your TV provider
  - Subscribe to Apple TV+ and Apple TV channels
  - Get shows, movies, and more
  - Watch sports
  - Control playback
  - Watch together using SharePlay
  - Manage your library
  - Change the settings
- - Make a recording
  - Play it back
  - Edit or delete a recording
  - Keep recordings up to date
  - Organize recordings
  - Search for or rename a recording
  - Share a recording
  - Duplicate a recording
- - 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
- - Check the weather
  - Check the weather in other locations
  - View weather maps
  - Manage weather notifications
  - Add a Weather widget to your Home Screen
  - Learn the weather icons
- Use Siri
- Find out what Siri can do
- Tell Siri about yourself
- Have Siri announce calls and notifications
- Add Siri Shortcuts
- About Siri Suggestions
- Use Siri in your car
- Change Siri settings
- Contact emergency services
- Set up and view your Medical ID
- Manage Crash Detection
- Reset privacy and security settings in an emergency
- Set up Family Sharing
- Add Family Sharing members
- Remove Family Sharing members
- Share subscriptions
- Share purchases
- Share locations with family and locate lost devices
- Set up Apple Cash Family and Apple Card Family
- Set up parental controls
- Set up a child’s device
- View your Screen Time summary
- Set up Screen Time for yourself
- Set up Screen Time for a family member
- Get a report of your device use
- Charging cable
- Power adapters
- MagSafe chargers and battery packs
- MagSafe cases and sleeves
- Qi-certified wireless chargers
- - Use AirPods
  - Use EarPods
- Apple Watch
- - Wirelessly stream videos and photos to Apple TV or a smart TV
  - Connect to a display with a cable
- HomePod and AirPlay 2 speakers
- - Pair Magic Keyboard
  - Enter characters with diacritical marks
  - Switch between keyboards
  - Dictate text
  - Use shortcuts
  - Choose an alternative keyboard layout
  - Change typing assistance options
- External storage devices
- Bluetooth accessories
- Printers
- Share your internet connection
- Allow phone calls on your iPad, iPod touch, and Mac
- 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
- - 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
- 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
- Get started with accessibility features
- - - 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
- - AssistiveTouch
  - Touch accommodations
  - Back tap
  - Reachability
  - Call Audio Routing
  - Vibration
  - Face ID & Attention
  - - Set up Switch Control
    - Use Switch Control
  - Voice Control
  - Side or Home button
  - Apple TV Remote
  - Pointer Control
  - Keyboards
  - AirPods
  - Apple Watch Mirroring
- - Hearing devices
  - Live Listen
  - Sound recognition
  - RTT and TTY
  - Mono audio, balance, phone noise cancellation
  - LED flash for alerts
  - Headphone audio
  - Background sounds
  - Subtitles and captions
  - Transcriptions for Intercom messages
  - Live Captions (beta)
- - Guided Access
  - Siri
  - Accessibility shortcuts
  - Per-app settings
- Use built-in security and privacy protections
- - Set a passcode
  - Set up Face ID
  - Set up Touch ID
  - Control access to information on the Lock Screen
- Keep your Apple ID secure
- - 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
- - Manage information sharing with Safety Check
  - Control app tracking permissions
  - Control the location information you share
  - Control access to information in apps
  - Control how Apple delivers advertising to you
  - Control access to hardware features
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Lockdown Mode
- Use a private network address
- Turn iPhone on or off
- Force restart iPhone
- Update iOS
- Back up iPhone
- Return iPhone settings to their defaults
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone
- Erase iPhone
- Install or remove configuration profiles
- 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
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In the Voice Memos app

, you can share one or more recordings with others (or send it to your Mac or another device) using AirDrop, Mail, Messages, and more.

In your Voice Memos list, tap a saved recording, then tap
.
Tap Share, choose a sharing option, select or enter a recipient, then tap Done or
.

Tap Edit above the list of recordings, then select the recordings you want to share.
Tap
, choose a sharing option, select or enter a recipient, then tap Done or
.

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