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    iPhone User Guide

    • Welcome
        • iPhone models compatible with iOS 17
        • 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
        • iPhone 15
        • iPhone 15 Plus
        • iPhone 15 Pro
        • iPhone 15 Pro Max
      • 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
    • What’s new in iOS 17
      • Turn on and set up iPhone
      • Wake, unlock, and lock
      • Set up cellular service
      • Use Dual SIM
      • Connect to the internet
        • Sign in with Apple ID
        • Use iCloud
        • Subscribe to iCloud+
      • Find settings
      • Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
      • Learn the meaning of the status icons
        • Charge the battery
        • Charge with cleaner energy sources
        • Show the battery percentage
        • Check battery health and usage
        • Use Low Power Mode
      • Read and bookmark the user guide
        • Learn basic gestures
        • Learn gestures for iPhone models with Face ID
      • Adjust the volume
      • Silence iPhone
        • Open apps
        • Find your apps in App Library
        • Switch between open apps
        • Quit and reopen an app
      • Multitask with Picture in Picture
      • Access features from the Lock Screen
      • Use the Dynamic Island
      • Perform quick actions
      • Search on iPhone
      • Get information about your iPhone
      • View or change cellular data settings
      • Travel with iPhone
      • Change sounds and vibrations
      • Use the Action button on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
      • Create a custom Lock Screen
      • Change the wallpaper
      • Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
      • Keep the iPhone display on longer
      • Use StandBy
      • Customize the text size and zoom setting
      • Change the name of your iPhone
      • Change the date and time
      • Change the language and region
        • Organize your apps in folders
        • Add, edit, and remove widgets
        • Move apps and widgets on the Home Screen
        • Remove or delete 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
      • Customize sharing options
        • Type with the onscreen keyboard
        • Dictate text
        • Select and edit text
        • Use predictive text
        • Use text replacements
      • Add or change keyboards
      • Add emoji and stickers
      • Take a screenshot
      • Take a screen recording
        • Draw in documents
        • Add text, shapes, signatures, and more
      • Fill out forms and sign documents
      • Use Live Text to interact with content in a photo or video
      • Use Visual Look Up to identify objects in your photos and videos
      • Lift a subject from the photo background
        • Get apps
          • Subscribe to Apple Arcade
          • Get games
          • Play with friends in Game Center
          • Connect a game controller
        • Use App Clips
        • Update apps
        • View or cancel subscriptions
        • Manage purchases, 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 in Calendar
        • Send invitations
        • Reply to invitations
        • Change how you view events
        • Search for events
        • Change calendar and event settings
        • Schedule or display events in a different time zone
        • 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 portraits
          • Take Night mode photos
          • Take Apple ProRAW photos
        • Adjust the shutter volume
        • Adjust HDR camera settings
        • Record videos
        • Record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
        • Record ProRes videos
        • Record videos 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
        • See the world clock
        • Set an alarm
        • Change the next wake up alarm
        • Use the stopwatch
        • Use multiple timers
      • Compass
        • Add and use contact information
        • Edit contacts
        • Add your contact info
        • Use NameDrop on iPhone to share your contact info
        • Use other contact accounts
        • Use Contacts from the Phone app
        • Merge or hide duplicate contacts
        • Export contacts
        • Get started with FaceTime
          • Make FaceTime calls
          • Receive FaceTime 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, listen, and play together
        • Share your screen 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
        • Change your appearance
        • Leave a call or switch to Messages
        • Block unwanted callers
        • Report a call as spam