Apple Iphone IOS 8.4 User Guide
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Chapter 9 Messages 81 Share photos, videos, your location, and more With iMessage or MMS, you can send and receive photos and videos, and send locations, contact info, and voice memos. The size limit of attachments is determined by your service provider— iPhone may compress photo and video attachments when necessary. Quickly take and send a photo or video. Touch and hold . Then slide to or to take a photo or video. Photos are sent immediately. Tap to preview your video. To send your Video Message, tap . To save space, Video Messages that you receive are deleted automatically two minutes after you view them, unless you tap Keep. To keep them automatically, go to Settings > Messages > Expire (under Video Messages), then tap Never. Send photos and videos from your Photos library. Tap . Recent shots are right there; tap Photo Library for older ones. Select the items you want to send. View attachments. While viewing a conversation, tap Details. Attachments are shown in reverse chronological order at the bottom of the screen. Tap an attachment to see it in full screen. In full- screen mode, tap to view the attachments as a list. Send your current location. Tap Details, then tap Send My Current Location to send a map that shows where you are. Share your location. Tap Details, then tap Share My Location and specify the length of time. The person you’re texting can see your location by tapping Details. To turn Share My Location on or off, or to select the device that determines your location, go to Settings > iCloud > Share My Location (under Advanced). Send items from another app. In the other app, tap Share or , then tap Message. Share, save, or print an attachment. Tap the attachment, then tap . Copy a photo or video. Touch and hold the attachment, then tap Copy.
Chapter 9 Messages 82 Messages settings Go to Settings > Messages, where you can: •Turn iMessage on or off •Notify others when you’ve read their messages •Specify phone numbers, Apple IDs, and email addresses to use with Messages •Set SMS and MMS options •Show the Subject field •Block unwanted messages •Set how long to keep messages •Filter unknown senders •Manage the expiration of audio messages and video messages created within Messages (audio or video attachments created outside of Messages are kept until you delete them manually) Manage notifications for messages. See Do Not Disturb on page 37 . Set the alert sound for incoming text messages. See Sounds and silence on page 36.
10 83 Calendar Calendar at a glance Change calendars or accounts. View invitations. View list of events. Add an event. Tap , then fill in the event details. If you add a location and choose Alert > Time to leave, Calendar reminds you of the event based on the current travel time to get there. Use Siri. Say, for example, “Set up a meeting with Barry at 9.” Search for events. Tap , then enter text in the search field. The titles, invitees, locations, and notes for the calendars you’re viewing are searched. View a weekly calendar. Rotate iPhone sideways. Change your view. Tap a year, month, or day to zoom in or out on your calendar. In week or day view, pinch to zoom in or out. View a list of events. In month view, tap to see a day’s events. In day view, tap . Use Siri. Say, for example, “What’s on my calendar for Friday?” Change the color of a calendar. Tap Calendars, tap next to the calendar, then choose a color from the list. For some calendar accounts, such as Google, the color is set by the server. Adjust an event. Touch and hold the event, then drag it to a new time, or adjust the grab points. Use Siri. Say, for example, “Reschedule my appointment with Barry to next Monday at 9 a.m.” Change calendars or accounts. View invitations. View list of events.
Chapter 10 Calendar 84 Invitations iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, and some CalDAV servers let you send and receive meeting invitations. Invite others to an event. Tap an event, tap Edit, then tap Invitees. Type names, or tap to pick people from Contacts. If you don’t want to be notified when someone declines a meeting, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Show Invitee Declines. RSVP. Tap an event you’ve been invited to, or tap Inbox and tap an invitation. If you add comments (which may not be available for all calendars), your comments can be seen by the organizer but not by other attendees. To see events you declined, tap Calendars, then turn on Show Declined Events. Schedule a meeting without blocking your schedule. Tap the event, tap Availability, then tap “free.” Or if it’s an event you created, tap “Show As,” then tap “free.” The event stays on your calendar, but it doesn’t appear as busy to others who send you invitations. Quickly send an email to attendees. Tap the event, tap Invitees, then tap . Use multiple calendars Turn on Facebook Events in Settings > Facebook. Select which calendars to view. Turn on iCloud, Google, Exchange, or Yahoo! calendars. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, tap an account, then turn on Calendar. Subscribe to a calendar. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then tap Add Account. Tap Other, then tap Add Subscribed Calendar. Enter the server and filename of the .ics file to subscribe to. You can also subscribe to an iCalendar (.ics) calendar published on the web, by tapping a link to the calendar. Add a CalDAV account. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, tap Add Account, then tap Other. Under Calendars, tap Add CalDAV Account. View the Birthdays calendar. Tap Calendars, then tap Birthdays to include birthdays from Contacts with your events. If you set up a Facebook account, you can also include your Facebook friends’ birthdays. View the Holidays calendar. Tap Calendars, then tap Holidays to include national holidays with your events. See multiple calendars at once. Tap Calendars, then select the calendars you want to view. Move an event to another calendar. Tap the event, tap Edit, tap Calendars, then select a calendar to move it to. Turn on Facebook Events in Settings > Facebook. Select which calendars to view.
Chapter 10 Calendar 85 Share iCloud calendars With Family Sharing, a calendar shared with all the members of your family is created automatically. See Family Sharing on page 38. You can also share an iCloud calendar with other iCloud users. When you share a calendar, others can see it, and you can let them add or change events. You can also share a read-only version that anyone can view. Create an iCloud calendar. Tap Calendars, tap Edit, then tap Add Calendar in the iCloud section. Share an iCloud calendar. Tap Calendars, tap Edit, then tap the iCloud calendar you want to share. Tap Add Person, then enter a name, or tap to browse your Contacts. Those you invite receive an email invitation to join the calendar, but they need an iCloud account to accept. Change a person’s access to a shared calendar. Tap Calendars, tap Edit, tap the shared calendar, then tap the person. You can turn off his or her ability to edit the calendar, resend the invitation to join the calendar, or stop sharing the calendar with that person. Turn off notifications for shared calendars. When someone modifies a shared calendar, you’re notified of the change. To turn off notifications for shared calendars, go to Settings > Notifications > Calendar > Shared Calendar Changes. Share a read-only calendar with anyone. Tap Calendars, tap Edit, then tap the iCloud calendar you want to share. Turn on Public Calendar, then tap Share Link to copy or send the URL for your calendar. Anyone can use the URL to subscribe to the calendar using a compatible app, such as Calendar for OS X. Calendar settings Several settings in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars affect Calendar and your calendar accounts. These include: •Syncing of past events (future events are always synced) •Alert tone played for new meeting invitations •Default calendar for new events •Default time for alerts •Time zone support, to show dates and times using a different time zone •Which day starts the week •Display of Chinese, Hebrew, or Islamic dates
11 86 Photos View photos and videos The Photos app lets you view the photos and videos: •Taken with Camera on iPhone •Stored in iCloud (see iCloud Photo Library on page 88) •Shared from others (see iCloud Photo Sharing on page 89) •Synced from your computer (see Sync with iTunes on page 20) •Saved from an email, text message, webpage, or screenshot Tap to view full screen. The Photos app includes tabs for Photos, Shared, and Albums. •Tap Photos to see all your photos and videos, organized by Years, Collections, and Moments. To quickly browse the photos in a collection or year, touch and hold for a moment, then drag. •Tap Shared to see photos and videos you shared with others or that others shared with you. See iCloud Photo Sharing on page 89. •Tap Albums to see how photos and videos are organized into albums on your iPhone. See Organize photos and videos , nex t. View all your photos and videos. By default, Photos displays a representative subset of your photos when you view by year or by collection. To see all your photos and videos, go to Settings > Photos & Camera, then turn off Summarize Photos. Tap to view full screen.
Chapter 11 Photos 87 View by location. While viewing by year or by collection, tap . Photos and videos that include location information appear on a map, showing where they were taken. While viewing a photo or video, tap to show and hide the controls. Swipe left or right to go forward or backward. Search photos. From Albums or Photos, tap to search by date (month and year), or place (city and state). Search also keeps your Recent Searches on hand and gives you a list of suggested searches. Zoom in or out. Double-tap, or pinch a photo. When you zoom in, you can drag to see other parts of the photo. Play a video. Tap . To toggle between full screen and fit-to-screen, double-tap the screen. Play a slideshow. While viewing a photo, tap , then tap Slideshow. Select options, then tap Start Slideshow. To stop the slideshow, tap the screen. To set other slideshow options, go to Settings > Photos & Camera. To stream a slideshow or video to a TV, see AirPlay on page 41 . Organize photos and videos The Album tab includes albums you create yourself and some albums that are created for you, depending on how you use Photos. For example, videos are automatically added to the Videos album and you see a My Photo Stream album if you use that feature (see My Photo Stream, next). All your photos in iCloud are in the All Photos album if you use iCloud Photo Library (see iCloud Photo Library on page 88). If you don’t use iCloud Photo Library, you see the Camera Roll album instead, which includes photos and videos you took with iPhone and from other sources. Note: If you use iCloud Photo Library, albums are stored in iCloud and are up to date and accessible on any iOS 8.1 or later device, Mac with OS X Yosemite v10.10.3 or later, and on iCloud.com using the same Apple ID. See iCloud Photo Library on page 88. Create a new album. Tap Albums, tap , enter a name, then tap Save. Select photos and videos to add to the album, then tap Done. Add items to an existing album. While viewing thumbnails, tap Select, select items, tap Add To, then select the album. Manage albums. While viewing your album list, tap Edit. •Rename an album: Select the album, then enter a new name. •Rearrange albums: Drag . •Delete an album: Tap . With iCloud Photo Library, you can manage all your albums from any iOS 8.1 or later device set up with iCloud Photo Library. Mark your favorites. While viewing a photo or video, tap to automatically add it to the Favorites album. A photo or video can be part of another album as well as Favorites. Hide photos you want to keep but not show. Touch and hold a photo, then choose Hide. The photo is moved to the Hidden album. Touch and hold a hidden photo to Unhide it. Remove a photo or video from an album. Tap the photo or video, tap , then tap Delete Photo. The photo or video is removed from the album and from the Photos tab.
Chapter 11 Photos 88 Delete a photo or video from Photos. Tap the Photos tab, tap the photo or video, tap , then tap Delete Photo or Delete Video. Deleted photos and videos are kept in the Recently Deleted album on iPhone, with a badge showing the remaining days until the item is permanently removed from iPhone. To delete the photo or video permanently before the days expire, tap the item, tap Delete, then tap Delete Photo or Delete Video. If you use iCloud Photo Library, deleted photos and videos are permanently removed from all your devices using iCloud Photo Library with the same Apple ID. Recover a deleted photo or video. In the Recently Deleted album, tap the photo or video, tap Recover, then tap Recover Photo or Recover Video to move the item to the Camera Roll or, if you use iCloud Photo Library, the All Photos album. iCloud Photo Library iCloud Photo Library gives you access to your photos and videos on any iOS 8.1 or later device, Mac with OS X Yosemite v10.10.3 or later, and on iCloud.com using the same Apple ID. You can make changes to photos and videos in the Photos app, preserve both the original and edited versions, and see the changes updated across your devices (see Edit photos and trim videos on page 91). Store as many photos and videos as your iCloud storage plan allows. Note: If you turn on iCloud Photo Library, you can’t use iTunes to sync photos and videos to iPhone. Turn on iCloud Photo Library. Go to Settings > iCloud > Photos. Or go to Settings > Photos & Camera. View photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library. In addition to viewing your photos and videos in the Photos tab, organized by Years, Collections, and Moments, you can also view them as a continuous stream, organized by date added, in the All Photos album. Choose to optimize your storage or keep all your photos and videos in full-resolution on iPhone. If your iCloud storage plan is over 5 GB, Optimize iPhone Storage is on by default. It manages your device storage by automatically keeping full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and lightweight versions on your iPhone, as space is needed. Tap Download and Keep Originals to keep your full-resolution originals on your iPhone. Your originals are always stored in iCloud. Download a full-resolution photo or video. If you’re not storing original versions on iPhone, simply pinch to zoom in to 100%, or tap Edit. Note: To upload photos and videos to iCloud Photo Library, iPhone must be connected to Wi-Fi. Using a cellular connection, you can download up to 100 MB at a time. If your uploaded photos and videos exceed your storage plan, you can upgrade your iCloud storage. Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Change Storage Plan to learn about the available options.
Chapter 11 Photos 89 My Photo Stream My Photo Stream, turned on by default, automatically uploads new photos and videos to your other devices that use My Photo Stream. Turn My Photo Stream on or off. Go to Settings > Photos & Camera, or Settings > iCloud > Photos. Note: Photos stored in iCloud count against your total iCloud storage, but photos uploaded to My Photo Stream don’t count additionally against your iCloud storage. Use My Photo Stream without iCloud Photo Library. Photos and videos you take with iPhone are added to the My Photo Stream album when you leave the Camera app and iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi. Any photos you add—including screenshots and photos saved from email, for example—also appear in your My Photo Stream album. Photos and videos added to My Photo Stream on your other devices appear in your My Photo Stream album on iPhone. iOS devices can keep up to 1000 of your most recent photos in iCloud for 30 days; you can choose to automatically import these photos to your computer, if you want to keep them permanently. Manage My Photo Stream contents. In the My Photo Stream album, tap Select. •Save your best shots on iPhone: Select the photos, then tap Add To. •Share, print, or copy: Select the photos, then tap . •Delete photos: Select the photos, then tap . Note: Although deleted photos are removed from My Photo Stream on all your devices, the original photos remain in Photos on the device on which they were originally taken. Photos that you save to another album on a device or computer are also not deleted. See support.apple.com/kb/HT4486. Use My Photo Stream with iCloud Photo Library. If you use iCloud Photo Library on iPhone, you can use My Photo Stream to upload recent photos and videos and view them on other devices that do not have iCloud Photo Library enabled. iCloud Photo Sharing With iCloud Photo Sharing, you can create albums of photos and videos to share, and subscribe to other people’s shared albums. You can invite others using iCloud Photo Sharing (iOS 6 or later or OS X Mountain Lion or later) to view your albums, and they can leave comments if they wish. If they’re using iOS 7 or OS X Mavericks or later, they can add their own photos and videos. You can also publish your album to a website for anyone to view. iCloud Photo Sharing works with or without iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream.
Chapter 11 Photos 90 Note: To use iCloud Photo Sharing, iPhone must be connected to the Internet. iCloud Photo Sharing works over both Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Cellular data charges may apply. See Usage information on page 18 8. Create new shared albums or add photos to existing ones. Turn on iCloud Photo Sharing. Go to Settings > iCloud > Photos. Or go to Settings > Photos & Camera. Share photos and videos. While viewing a photo or video, or when you’ve selected multiple photos or videos, tap , tap iCloud Photo Sharing, add comments, then share to an existing shared album or create a new one. You can invite people to view your shared album using their email address or the mobile phone number they use for Messages. Enable a public website. Select the shared album, tap People, then turn on Public Website. Tap Share Link if you want to announce the site. Add items to a shared album. View a shared album, tap , select items, then tap Done. You can add a comment, then tap Post. Delete photos from a shared album. Select the shared album, tap Select, select the photos or videos you want to delete, then tap . You must be the owner of the shared album, or the owner of the photo. Delete comments from a shared album. Select the photo or video that contains the comment. Touch and hold the comment, then tap Delete. You must be the owner of the shared album, or the owner of the comment. Rename a shared album. Tap Shared, tap Edit, then tap the name and enter a new one. Add or remove subscribers, or turn Notifications on or off. Select the shared album, then tap People. Subscribe to a shared album. When you receive an invitation, tap the Shared tab , then tap Accept. You can also accept an invitation in an email. Add items to a shared album you subscribed to. View the shared album, then tap . Select items, then tap Done. You can add a comment, then tap Post. See your Family album. When Family Sharing is set up, a shared album called “Family” is automatically created in Photos on all family members’ devices. Everyone in the family can contribute photos, videos, and comments to the album, and be notified whenever something new is added. For more information about setting up Family Sharing, see Family Sharing on page 38 . Create new shared albums or add photos to existing ones.