iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 14
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change sounds and vibrations
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- Open apps
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Set a Live Photo as wallpaper
- Make screen items more reachable
- Search with iPhone
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- Add widgets
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPhone
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- Calculator
- Compass
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- Collect health and fitness information
- Maintain a health profile
- View health and fitness information
- Track your menstrual cycle
- Track headphone and environmental sound-level exposure
- Share health and fitness data
- Download health records
- Create and share your Medical ID
- Manage health with the Health Checklist
- Register as an organ donor
- Back up your Health data
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- View maps
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- Use Siri, Maps, and widgets to get directions
- Choose your preferred type of travel
- Get driving directions
- Report traffic incidents
- Find your parked car
- Get cycling directions
- Find places to stop
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- See an overview of your route or its directions in a list
- Change audio settings for turn-by-turn directions
- Select other route options
- Get directions between places other than your current location
- Delete recently viewed directions
- Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
- Help correct and improve Maps
- Get rides
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- View photos and videos
- Delete and hide photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Portrait mode photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
- Translate
- Weather
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- Set up Family Sharing
- Download family members’ purchases
- Stop sharing purchases
- Turn on Ask To Buy
- Set up Apple Cash Family
- Share Apple Card
- Share subscriptions and iCloud storage
- Share photos, a calendar, and more with family members
- Locate a family member’s missing device
- Set up Screen Time through Family Sharing
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- Charging cable
- Power adapters
- MagSafe chargers and battery packs
- MagSafe cases and sleeves
- Qi-certified wireless chargers
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- Set up AirPods
- Charge AirPods
- Start and stop audio playback
- Change the AirPods volume
- Make and answer calls with AirPods
- Switch AirPods between devices
- Use Siri with AirPods
- Listen and respond to messages
- Share audio with AirPods and Beats headphones
- Change noise control modes
- Control spatial audio
- Restart AirPods
- Change the name of your AirPods and other settings
- Use other Bluetooth headphones
- Use EarPods
- Check headphone sound levels
- Apple Watch
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Magic Keyboard
- Printers
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- Share your internet connection
- Allow phone calls on your iPad, iPod touch, and Mac
- Hand off tasks between iPhone and your Mac
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPhone and other devices
- Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
- Sync iPhone with your computer
- Transfer files between iPhone and your computer
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- 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
- 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
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- Get started with accessibility features
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- 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 in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- People detection
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular data settings
- 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
Use iMessage apps in Messages on iPhone
In the Messages app , you can decorate a conversation with stickers, play a game, share songs, and more—all through iMessage apps—without leaving Messages. You can expand your message options by downloading more iMessage apps from the App Store.
![A Messages conversation, with the iMessage App Browser button selected. The open app drawer shows smiley stickers.](https://help.apple.com/assets/60DCD49E882CDF5DF9628F1F/60DCD4A5882CDF5DF9628F68/en_US/8d46a4da28e518a5f6fe2ba34de56e10.png)
Browse and download iMessage apps
In a Messages conversation, tap
to open the iMessages App Store.
Tap an app to see more details and reviews, then tap the price to purchase an app or tap Get to download a free app.
All purchases are made with the payment method associated with your Apple ID.
Use an iMessage app
In a conversation, tap an iMessage app in the app drawer.
Tap an item in the iMessage app to add it to a message bubble.
Add a comment if you want, then tap
to send your message or
to cancel.
Decorate with stickers
If you’ve downloaded a sticker app from the App Store, you can enhance your photos and videos with stickers in Messages.
In a conversation, tap a sticker app in the app drawer.
Touch and hold a sticker, then drag it on top of a message in the conversation. Before you release it, you can do any of the following:
Adjust the angle: Rotate a second finger around the finger dragging the sticker.
Adjust the size: Move a second finger closer to or away from the finger dragging the sticker.
You can also place the sticker on top of another sticker, or on a photo.
To see text that’s covered by a sticker, double-tap the sticker.
To see more information about the sticker, touch and hold the sticker, then tap Sticker Details. You can do the following:
See who sent the sticker.
View the iMessage app that sent the sticker.
Delete the sticker—swipe left, then tap Delete.
Manage iMessage apps
Tap
in the app drawer.
Tap Edit, then do any of the following with your iMessage apps:
Reorder apps: Drag
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Add an app to your Favorites: Tap
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Remove an app from your Favorites: Tap
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Hide an app: Turn the app off.
Delete an app: Swipe left on the app, then tap Delete.