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
Add attachments to notes on iPhone
In the Notes app , you can attach photos, videos, and scanned documents. You can even add info from other apps—maps, links, documents, and more.
![A note with the Insert menu, showing choices for Scan Documents, Take Photo or Video, Photo Library, or Add Sketch.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5C913108094622D50F674514/5C91310A094622D50F67451E/en_US/70197c16dbe73891f702848e892e7655.png)
Add a photo or video
In a note, tap
.
Take a new photo or video, or tap Photo Library to add existing photos and videos.
To change the preview size of attachments, touch and hold an attachment, then choose Small Images or Large Images.
To automatically save photos or videos you take in Notes to the Photos app, go to Settings > Notes, then turn on Save to Photos.
Mark up a photo
You can use Markup to write or draw on a photo.
In a note, tap the photo, then tap
.
Using the sketching tools, draw with your finger.
When you’re finished, tap Done.
Scan a document into a note using the camera
In a note, tap
, then choose Scan Documents.
Position iPhone so that the document page appears on the screen: iPhone automatically captures the page.
To manually capture the page, tap
or press a volume button. To turn the flash on or off, tap
.
Scan additional pages, then tap Save when you’re done.
To make changes to the saved document, tap it, then do any of the following:
Add more pages: Tap
.
Crop the image: Tap
.
Apply a filter: Tap
, then choose to scan the page as a color, grayscale, or black and white document, or as a photo.
Rotate the image: Tap
.
Add markup: Tap
, tap
, then draw with your finger. To add a signature, tap
, then tap Signature.
Delete the scan: Tap
.
Add info from another app to a note
You can add information from another app as an attachment to a note—for example, a location in Maps, a webpage in Safari, or a PDF in Files.
In the other app, open the item you want to share (for example, a map or webpage).
Tap Share or
, then tap Add to Notes.
Tap Choose Note, then add the attachment to a new note or an existing note.