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iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for iPhone X and later
- Use 3D Touch for previews and shortcuts
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change the sounds and vibrations
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPhone
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPhone using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Accessories included with iPhone
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Control audio on multiple devices
- AirPrint
- Use Apple EarPods
- Apple Watch
- Use Magic Keyboard
- Wireless charging
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Use iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Share your iPhone Internet connection
- Transfer files with iTunes
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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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
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom in on the screen
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
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- Guided Access
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPhone software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Force restart iPhone
If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off and on, try forcing it to restart.
Force restart iPhone X and later, iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus:
Press and release the volume up button.
Press and release the volume down button.
Press and hold the side button.
When the Apple logo appears, release the button.
![Illustrations of two of iPhone models with the screens facing up. The leftmost model does not have a Home button, while the rightmost model has a Home button near the bottom of the device. For both models, volume up and volume down buttons are shown on the left sides of the devices, and a side button is shown on the right sides.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C913108094622D50F674514/5C91310A094622D50F67451E/en_US/ef5e46eb3630386aa337ac7f827bf079.png)
Force restart iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus
Press and hold both the volume down button and the Sleep/Wake button.
When the Apple logo appears, release both buttons.
![An illustration of iPhone 7 with the screen facing up. The volume down button is shown on the left side of the device, and the Sleep/Wake button is shown on the right.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C913108094622D50F674514/5C91310A094622D50F67451E/en_US/c3fb90000ee71366b0d656895b233b47.png)
Force restart iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, iPhone SE, or iPhone 5s
Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button.
When the Apple logo appears, release both buttons.
![Illustrations of two of iPhone models with the screens facing up. Both have Home buttons near the bottoms of the devices. The leftmost model has a Sleep/Wake button on the right edge of the device near the top, while the rightmost model has a Sleep/Wake button on the top of the device, near the right edge.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C913108094622D50F674514/5C91310A094622D50F67451E/en_US/8facd9ca85791fee6bd2cce4863d2345.png)
If iPhone still doesn’t respond or turn on, see the Apple Support article If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won’t turn on or is frozen.
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