iPhone User Guide
- iPhone User Guide
- What’s new in iOS 13
- Supported iPhone models
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change sounds and vibrations
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Open apps on the Home screen
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Make screen items more reachable
- Search with iPhone
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- 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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- View 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
- Weather
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- Intro to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Use Siri
- Use your car’s built-in controls
- Get turn-by-turn directions
- 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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- Restart iPhone
- Force restart iPhone
- Update iOS
- Back up iPhone
- Return iPhone settings to their defaults
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell or give away your iPhone
- Erase all content and settings
- Restore iPhone to factory settings
- Install or remove configuration profiles
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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 Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- 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 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
Make emergency calls on iPhone
In case of emergency, use iPhone to quickly call for help. With Emergency SOS, you can quickly and easily call for help and alert your emergency contacts.
If you share your Medical ID, iPhone can send your medical information to emergency services when you call or text 911 or use Emergency SOS (U.S. only; iOS 13.5 or later required).
Note: For emergency help in the U.S., you can send a text message to 911 (not available in all locations). See the Apple Support article Text 911 on iPhone or Apple Watch.
Dial the emergency number when iPhone is locked
On the Passcode screen, tap Emergency.
Dial the emergency number (for example, 911 in the U.S.), then tap
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Use Emergency SOS (all countries or regions except India)
On iPhone 8 and later: Press and hold the side button and either volume button. Continue to hold the buttons when the Emergency SOS slider appears, until iPhone plays a warning sound and starts a countdown. (To skip the countdown, drag the Emergency SOS slider.) When the countdown ends, iPhone calls emergency services.
Or, you can enable iPhone to start Emergency SOS when you click the side button five times. Go to Settings
> Emergency SOS, then turn on Call with Side Button.
On other iPhone models: Click the side button or Sleep/Wake button (depending on your model) five times, then drag the Emergency SOS slider.
![An illustration showing the locations of the side and Sleep/Wake buttons on iPhone.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5F1904F50946226D7189D604/5F1904FE0946226D7189D62A/en_US/0e0551d14ea10e9c3d4bcdedd4ad4115.png)
After the emergency call ends, iPhone alerts your emergency contacts that you made a call and sends them your current location (if available).
Use Emergency SOS (India)
On an iPhone with Face ID: Triple-click the side button. Or, if Accessibility Shortcut is turned on, press and hold the side button and either volume button until the sliders appear, then drag Emergency SOS.
On an iPhone with a Home button: Triple-click the side button or Sleep/Wake button (depending on your model).
By default, iPhone plays a warning sound, starts a countdown, then calls the emergency services.
After the emergency call ends, iPhone alerts your emergency contacts that you made a call and sends them your current location (if available).
Change your Emergency SOS settings
Go to Settings
> Emergency SOS.
Do any of the following:
Turn Auto Call on or off: When Auto Call is on and you start Emergency SOS, iPhone plays a warning sound, starts a countdown, then calls the emergency services in your region.
Turn the countdown sound on or off: When Countdown Sound is on, iPhone plays a warning sound even in silent mode or when Do Not Disturb is turned on.
Manage your emergency contacts: Tap Set Up Emergency Contacts in Health or Edit Emergency Contacts in Health. See Create and share your Medical ID in Health on iPhone.
Important information about emergency calls on iPhone
You can use iPhone to make an emergency call in many locations, provided that cellular service is available, but you should not rely on it for emergencies. Some cellular networks may not accept an emergency call from iPhone if iPhone isn’t activated, if iPhone isn’t compatible with or configured to operate on a particular cellular network, or (when applicable) if iPhone doesn’t have a SIM card or the SIM card is PIN-locked.
In certain countries or regions, your location information (if determinable) may be accessed by emergency service providers when you make an emergency call.
Review your carrier’s emergency calling information to understand the limits of emergency calling over Wi-Fi.
With CDMA, when an emergency call ends, iPhone enters emergency call mode for a few minutes to allow a call back from emergency services. During this time, data transmission and text messages are blocked.
After making an emergency call, certain call features that block or silence incoming calls may be disabled for a short period of time to allow a callback from emergency services. These include Do Not Disturb, Silence Unknown Callers, and Screen Time.
On an iPhone with Dual SIM, if you don’t turn on Wi-Fi Calling for a line, any incoming phone calls on that line (including calls from emergency services) go directly to voicemail (if available from your carrier) when the other line is in use; you won’t receive missed call notifications.
If you set up conditional call forwarding (if available from your carrier) from one line to another when a line is busy or not in service, the calls don’t go to voicemail; contact your carrier for setup information.