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
Play music on iPhone
Use Now Playing in the Music app to show lyrics and play, pause, skip, shuffle, and repeat songs. You can also use Now Playing to view album art.
Control playback
Tap the player near the bottom of the screen to show the Now Playing screen, where you can use these controls:
Control | Description | ||||||||||
![]() | Play the current song. | ||||||||||
![]() | Pause playback. | ||||||||||
![]() | Skip to the next song. Touch and hold to fast-forward through the current song. | ||||||||||
![]() | Return to the song’s beginning. Tap again to play the previous song in an album or playlist. Touch and hold to rewind through the current song. | ||||||||||
![]() | Open the queue, then tap to repeat an album or playlist. Double-tap to repeat a single song. | ||||||||||
![]() | Open the queue, then tap to play your songs in random order. Tap again to turn off shuffle. | ||||||||||
![]() | Hide the Now Playing Screen button. | ||||||||||
![]() | Tap for more options. | ||||||||||
![]() | Show time-synced lyrics (lyrics not available for all songs). | ||||||||||
![]() | Stream music to Bluetooth or AirPlay-enabled devices. | ||||||||||
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![The Now Playing screen showing the album art. Below are the song title, artist name, More button, playhead, play controls, volume slider, Lyrics button, Playback Destination button, and Queue button. The Hide Now Playing button is at the top.](https://help.apple.com/assets/60DCD49E882CDF5DF9628F1F/60DCD4A5882CDF5DF9628F68/en_US/457a802472a3caf6aeecd0e1493a17d2.png)
Adjust the volume, see song details, and more
The Now Playing screen contains additional options for controlling and accessing music.
Adjust volume: Drag the volume slider.
You can also use the volume buttons on the side of iPhone.
Navigate to the artist, album, or playlist: Tap the artist name below the song title, then choose to go to the artist, album, or playlist.
Scrub to any point in a song: Drag the playhead.
See time-synced lyrics
Time-synced lyrics appear for many songs in Apple Music.
Tap the player to open Now Playing, then tap . Lyrics scroll in time with the music.
To hide lyrics, tap .
Tip: Tap a specific lyric—the first line of the chorus, for example—to go to that part of the song.
To see all of a song’s lyrics, tap , then tap View Full Lyrics.
Note: You need an Apple Music subscription to view lyrics.
![The lyrics screen showing the song title, artist name, and More button at the top. The current lyric is highlighted with succeeding lyrics dimmed.](https://help.apple.com/assets/60DCD49E882CDF5DF9628F1F/60DCD4A5882CDF5DF9628F68/en_US/d4bd3db64e6833cf21c1b5eb0302ac3a.png)
Share lyrics
In iOS 14.5 and later, you can share up to 150 characters of a song’s lyrics if time-synced lyrics are available.
Tap the player to open Now Playing.
Tap
, then tap Share Lyrics.
You can also touch and hold a lyrics line to open the sharing screen.
Tap the first and last lyrics you want to share, then choose a sharing option.
Note: You need an Apple Music subscription to share lyrics.
Report a concern
To report a concern about time-synced lyrics, touch and hold a lyrics line, then tap Report a Concern at the bottom of the screen.
Get audio controls from the Lock Screen or when using another app
Open Control Center, then tap the audio card.
Stream music to Bluetooth or AirPlay-enabled devices
Tap the player to open Now Playing.
Tap
, then choose a device.
See Play audio from iPhone on HomePod and other wireless speakers.
Note: You can play the same music on multiple AirPlay 2-enabled devices, such as two or more HomePod speakers. You can also pair two sets of AirPods to one iPhone and enjoy the same song or movie along with a friend. See Control audio on multiple AirPlay 2-enabled devices and Share audio with AirPods and Beats headphones.