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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
- Copyright
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.
Share a recording
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
.
Share more than one recording
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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