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2. Foreword
Apple’s iPhone isn’t just another mobile phone. It’s
also a full-featured iPod and the smallest Mac ever
created—because underneath that glass touch
screen it’s running OS X.
The iPhone represents the second time Apple has
tried to completely rethink the way we connect with
our computers. The original Macintosh changed the
world by providing a physical control (the mouse) that
moved a cursor on a computer interface. But the
iPhone does it one better. Now, instead of pushing around a mouse to
make a disembodied arrow or hand move on the computer screen, you
use your finger to do all the moving. When you touch a photo, Web page,
or e-mail message on the iPhone and slide your finger across the screen,
the image moves along with your touch, as if you were moving a physi-
cal object. There’s no cursor on the iPhone because your finger is your
pointer—and pointing, despite what your mother may have told you, is
just what fingers are meant to do.
That brings us to the subject of this book. Why in the world would
Macworld publish an entire book about a device that’s supposed to be so
intuitive? It’s a question I get a lot, including from people at Apple. Their
goal—and it’s a smart one to shoot for—is to make an incredibly complex
technology as easy to use as possible. And the iPhone is easy to use,
which is one reason it’s so appealing.
But make no mistake about it: the iPhone is a computer. And a full Web
browser. And an e-mail client. It can run thousands of programs written
by independent developers, connect to Wi-Fi networks, and even log in
to your employer’s virtual private network (VPN). As easy as it is to use,
the iPhone has an ocean of depth. Our goal is to help you plumb those
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depths and uncover more of your phone’s hidden potential. In the pages
of this book, we’ll give you not only the basics but also more-advanced
tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice. And for the very latest iPhone
coverage—including accessory reviews—be sure to visit iPhone Central
(iphone.macworld.com).
—Jason snell, editorial director, Macworld
san Francisco, February 2009
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3. Table of Contents
Getting Started we’ll show you how to quickly navi-
gate the iPhone’s most important
8 The iPhone 3G at a Glance features.
Familiarize yourself with the
iPhone’s main hardware features, 42 Checking E-mail
including every button, switch, slot, Review the basics on how to set
and plug. up new e-mail accounts and work
with your messages—including
13 Changing Your Settings viewing attachments. We’ve also
Take a tour of the Settings menu, got tips for mastering the iPhone’s
where you can change your ring- keyboard.
tone, check how many minutes
you’ve used, and set preferences 53 Sending Text Messages
for individual third-party apps. SMS text messages offer a
convenient way to have a brief
24 Getting On the Network conversation or send quick notes.
Get the most from the iPhone’s Learn how to carry on multiple
Wi-Fi, Edge, and 3G abilities. We’ll conversations with the iPhone’s
show you how to connect and what Text program.
precautions to take to protect your
valuable data.
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Staying in Touch
30 Managing
Contacts
At the heart of all of the
iPhone’s communication
features—including phone,
e-mail, and text messag-
ing—lies the contacts list.
Here’s how to create,
sync, access, and orga-
nize your contacts.
36 Using
the Phone
From making calls to
answering voice mail,
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Multimedia on
the iPhone
58 Navigating Music
and Videos
Learn how to navigate your media
library easily, how to access some
of the less obvious features, and
how to create playlists on the fly.
67 Using YouTube
If you get bored with the video files
synced to your iPhone, you can
access streaming content from
YouTube’s online video warehouse.
70 Smart Syncing
Strategies
Do you have more music, pod-
casts, and videos than will fit on Maximize
your iPhone? Learn how to get the
most from the iPhone’s storage by
Productivity
slimming down files and setting up 90 Surf the Web
smart playlists. The iPhone’s Web browser packs
a lot of power. Navigate the Web,
81 Converting Video manage your bookmarks, and learn
for the iPhone the smart way to check RSS feeds.
With the help of some free or low-
cost software, you can quickly con- 100 Maps and GPS
vert videos from your hard drive or Use iPhone’s Maps program and
other sources to enjoy on the road. GPS powers to find local busi-
nesses, follow driving directions,
83 Working with Photos and keep an eye on traffic.
The iPhone can sync existing pho-
tos from your computer and take 106 Scheduling
new ones. We’ll show you how to Track time with smart calendar
get photos onto the iPhone, use syncing and alarm settings. Here’s
the built-in camera, and show off how to manage events and dead-
your masterpieces to others. lines without missing a beat.
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111 The iPhone’s Other 136 Stay Connected
Applications Stay up-to-date on the latest news,
Meet the iPhone’s other default ap- changing stock prices, and your
plications that make it a true PDA: friends’ Twitter feeds.
Calculator, Notes, Stocks, and
Weather. 138 Have Fun
These iPhone apps are excellent at
cutting loose. Listen to the radio,
Troubleshooting find movie times, edit photos, and
Tips of course, play games.
116 Tools of the Trade
Every iPhone owner should learn The Best iPhone
these simple steps. They will help Accessories
you recover fast from the most
common iPhone problems. 144 Cases
Keep your iPhone safe from drops,
121 Fixing Common scrapes, and other mishaps with
Problems these cases. Whether you want
Whether it’s stubborn e-mail attach- something stylish, rugged, or invis-
ments or confusing sync options, ible, there’s a case for you.
here are our tips on how to solve
some of the most common iPhone 147 Headphones
conundrums. Improve sound and get
interesting features,
such as noise-canceling
Third-Party Apps technology, when
you invest in a
130 Accessing Apps good pair of third-
Get acquainted with Apple’s App party headphones.
Store and learn how to download
and manage any of the thousands 151 Speakers
of third-party apps available. Find the right iPhone speakers for
any setup in our recommendations
133 Be Productive that cover every size and budget.
Use your iPhone to accomplish
more with these recommended 153 Power Accessories
productivity apps which let you log Keep your iPhone juiced and ready
time, organize your searches, and to go with these clever power-
transfer files. related gadgets.
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7. Getting Started
how to get comfortable, access important
settings, and get online
A
s its name promises, the iPhone is
a phone. But it’s also a hand held
computer, offering web browsing,
e-mail, gPs, and much more. add to that
the huge selection of applications available
in the app store, and the iPhone can be
anything from a powerful game console to a
spanish teacher. to top it off, the iPhone is
also an outstanding iPod. in short, it’s unlike
any cell phone you’ve ever used before.
But to unlock all that your iPhone can do,
you’ll need to know your way around both
the interface and the iPhone’s settings and
preferences. in this chapter, we’ll introduce
TAble of conTenTS
you to the most important features on your
iPhone (and iPod touch) and get you up and 8 the iPhone 3g at a
running as quickly as possible. glance
13 changing Your
settings
24 getting on the
network
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8. GettinG started
The iPhone 3G at a
Glance
I
t’s always best to start from the beginning. And the beginning, in this
case, is the outside of the iPhone—the slots, buttons, switches, and
ports. Here’s what you’ll find. (Most of these features also exist on the
original iPhone and on the iPod touch, except where noted.)
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a the Home screen. If you quickly
With no headphones plugged in, press the button twice when the
this is where you’ll place your ear phone is locked, you’ll be able to
to listen to incoming calls. (This access basic iPod controls. At all
switch doesn’t appear on the iPod other times, a double-click of the
touch.) Home button can either take you
to the Home screen, bring up your
Touch-Screen Display
b iPhone favorites, or switch to the
Unlike other smart phones, the iPod app—you can choose which
iPhone doesn’t have a tactile by using the Settings app, under
keyboard or a bunch of navigation General: Home Button.
buttons. Instead, you’ll use its 3.5-
inch touch-screen display to make Speaker
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selections, type e-mail messages You’ll find the speaker on the bot-
and Web addresses, dial phone tom edge of the iPhone, on the
numbers, and change settings. left side. If you have a caller on
The display is made from optical- speakerphone, this is where the
quality glass, which makes it highly sound will come out. It’ll also play
scratch resistant. The screen has a anything that makes noise on your
resolution of 320 by 480 pixels at iPod, including music and a video’s
160 pixels per inch (much higher audio track. Because the iPhone
than that of most computer dis- has just one speaker, it plays all
plays). Though the screen smudges audio in mono (in a single channel).
easily, the display is so bright that (On the iPod touch the speaker is
you won’t see those smudges located inside the body of the iPod
unless it has gone black. Apple rather than on the bottom.)
includes a chamois cloth in the box
so you can polish the screen. Dock connector
e
The iPhone uses the standard 30-
Home button
c pin iPod dock connector to hook
The only physical button on the up with your computer or other
face of the iPhone, the Home accessories. But keep in mind that
button is your shortcut out of the the iPhone is a different shape than
current program and back to the the iPod models, so it may not fit
iPhone’s main interface. You can right in some accessories. And
also press this button to wake interference from the iPhone’s cel-
up a snoozing iPhone. If you’re lular antenna may mean that exter-
looking at the iPhone’s Home nal speakers don’t work as well, or
screen, pressing the button will at all, unless you turn on Airplane
take you back to the first page of mode. (When you place the iPhone
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in a dock-connector speaker sys- camera
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tem not designed specifically for The back of the iPhone sports
the iPhone, it automatically asks if the lens of the phone’s built-in
you want to switch modes.) 2-megapixel camera. The image
is displayed on the front screen so
Microphone
F you can frame the shot. (The iPod
The iPhone’s internal microphone touch doesn’t have a camera.)
is found on the bottom right of the
device. You can use it for making Sleep/Wake button
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calls or, with the help of add-on Press this button to lock your
software from the App Store, use it iPhone’s screen. (The phone will
for voice recording and many other still receive calls and play music,
purposes. (There’s no microphone but the screen itself will be off.) If
on the iPod touch.) it’s already locked, you can press
this button to wake it up, then slide
Headphone Jack
G your finger across the bottom of
This is a standard 3.5mm audio the touch screen to unlock it. To
jack, like the one used on iPods, turn the iPhone completely off,
rather than the smaller 2.5mm size hold the Sleep/Wake button down
found on many cell phones. You for a few seconds, until the red
can use any sort of headphones “slide to power off” slider appears.
with it, though if you want to talk (When shut down, the iPhone won’t
as well as listen, you’ll need to use ring, play music, or anything else.)
Apple’s included earbuds, buy To turn the iPhone back on, press
a set with a built-in microphone, and hold the Sleep/Wake button
or buy an add-on adapter that until the Apple logo appears. If you
lets you use your favorite head- wish to silence an incoming call,
phones with the adapter’s own press the Sleep/Wake button. If
microphone. you want to decline an incoming
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call and send it directly to voice small hole and push. (Because the
mail, press the Sleep/Wake button iPod touch isn’t a phone, it has no
twice quickly. SIM card.)
SIM-card Slot
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Like other current GSM phones, buttons
the iPhone uses a SIM (Subscriber Below the silent ringer switch are
Identity Module) card—a small the iPhone’s volume buttons. Press
programmable card that contains up to increase volume and down to
personal data such as your phone decrease volume. This affects not
number and carrier ID. Without an only the volume of calls, but also
activated SIM card, your iPhone is application sounds and audio and
just a pretty hunk of metal, glass, video playback.
and plastic. The top of the iPhone
bears a small slot for the phone’s Silent Ringer Switch
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SIM card (it’s the one with the tiny On the left side of the phone is
hole). The iPhone’s SIM card is the silent ringer switch. It does
preinstalled and turns on when exactly what you’d suspect—
you activate the phone through push it toward the back of the
iTunes. Your old GSM mobile phone (so that you see an orange
phone likely has a SIM card as dot) and the iPhone’s speaker
well. Regrettably, that SIM card goes quiet. Pull it toward the front
won’t work with your iPhone— of the phone and the ringer is ac-
the iPhone’s SIM card has some tive. Note that flipping the switch
special characteristics not found into silent mode does not silence
in other SIM cards. However, you audio playback in the phone’s
can use the iPhone’s SIM card iPod area, and some iPhone apps
with other phones on AT&T ser- may still make noise. (This switch
vice. To eject the SIM card, insert doesn’t appear on the iPod
the end of a paper clip into the touch.)
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Headset
M crophone
The headset can operate exactly once to
like an iPod’s earbuds. You can answer
listen to calls through it, as well as a call
audio from the iPod program and and again
other apps. But this headset differs to end the m
from those included with the iPod call. If you
because it also has a small micro- wish to decline
phone attached to the cable dan- an incoming call
gling down from the right earbud. and send it to voice mail,
With the headset plugged in, this squeeze and hold the micro-
microphone picks up your voice phone for a few seconds. The
when you speak during a call. iPhone will beep twice to let you
The headset has a built-in know it’s done the job.
switch. Squeeze the microphone While on a call, you can take an
once while listening to music or incoming call and put the current
watching a video to pause play- call on hold by squeezing the mike
back. Squeeze it twice in suc- once. To end the current call and
cession to skip to the next track. answer an incoming call, or to
Squeeze it three times to skip return to a call you’ve put on hold,
back to the previous track. If a call squeeze and hold the mike for two
comes in, you can squeeze the mi- seconds.
iPod Touch
although this book is called the Macworld iPhone Superguide, most of
what we write will cover the iPod touch, which is essentially the iPhone
without the phone part. generally when we say iPhone, we mean the
iPod touch, too. we’ll specify when certain features don’t work on the
iPod touch when necessary.
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13. Staying in Touch
Make the Most of Your Phone, e-mail, and
instant Messaging Features
T
he iPhone packs a lot of power into its
slim frame. But first and foremost,
it’s a phone. in addition to
the features you’d expect from
a modern mobile phone, the
iPhone includes a few extras you
wouldn’t—including a new way of
interacting with your voice mail.
But the iPhone doesn’t limit the
concept of communication to just
calls. You can also use it to send
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e-mail or text messages to others.
although the process of making
calls and checking your e-mail isn’t
complicated, you can save time and get more Table of conTenTS
done by customizing a few settings and taking 30 Managing
advantage of a few hidden shortcuts. we’ve contacts
got the inside scoop on managing your con- 36 using the Phone
tacts, juggling multiple callers, saving e-mailed 42 checking e-mail
photos, filling in the gaps in the included text 53 sending text
messaging application, and more. Messages
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14. NAVIGATING MUSIC AND VIDEOS
Multimedia on
the iPhone
explore the iPod hiding inside Your iPhone
S
teve Jobs has pronounced the
iPhone “the best iPod we’ve
ever made.” it plays mu-
sic, audiobooks, and podcasts
and you can view tV shows,
music videos, and full-length
movies on it. store your
favorite photos on it, and it
acts as a personal slide-
show player. But with the
iPhone, apple has released
an iPod that’s markedly
different from previous iPod
models—one that not only adds
slick eye candy and a larger display
but streams videos from the internet. un-
fortunately, it also lacks some favorite features Table of conTenTS
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found on previous iPod models—the ability
to copy media from more than one computer 58 navigating Music
and Videos
to the device, for example—and, because of
67 using Youtube
its relatively limited storage, it places greater
70 smart syncing
limitations on how much media you can carry
strategies
with you.
81 converting Video
in this chapter we’ll show you how the for the iPhone
iPhone differs from your iPod as well as 83 working with
offer hints for working around some of its Photos
limitations.
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15. Maximize
Productivity
Make Your iPhone a Multitasking Pda with
apple’s Built-in applications
I
n addition to be-
ing a top-notch
phone and iPod,
the iPhone is also
a capable web
browser and full-
fledged Pda. while
many phones can
access the internet,
few do it well, and
none comes close
to approximating the
experience you get
on a real computer.
the iPhone aims to
be the first, thanks to a customized version of
safari and a host of programs that work like
their computer-based counterparts rather than
limited mobile-phone versions.
Table of conTenTs
whether you’re surfing the web by the
pool, searching for a restaurant from the road, 90 surf the web
or scheduling your day, the iPhone can help 100 Maps and gPs
you find information and stay on task. here’s 106 scheduling
how to get the most out of the other applica- 111 the iPhone’s other
tions it has to offer. applications
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16. Troubleshooting
Tips
when Your iPhone or iPod touch acts up,
Follow these steps to get it Back on track
E
ven with all of its groundbreaking
features and beauty, the iPhone is still
fallible. You should expect to encounter
a few wrinkles along the way—such as freezes
and crashes—that will need ironing out.
unfortunately, you are limited in the number of
ways you can troubleshoot your iPhone. Your
only view of the iPhone is the one you get
when you turn it on, and you can only interact
with the system through the various settings
screens on the iPhone itself. when you dock
your iPhone, you can only work with it through
itunes (or iPhoto if photo syncing).
this chapter will walk you through the most
common troubleshooting techniques available
to iPhone and iPod touch users, as well as
TablE of conTEnTs
look at some common problems and myster-
ies you may encounter. 116 tools of the trade
121 Fixing common
Problems
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17. Third-Party
Apps
20 great ways to extend Your iPhone
or iPod touch
I
n July 2008, apple opened the doors to
the iPhone and iPod touch and let third-
party developers create programs that
users could purchase and download even
while on the go. since then, customers have
snapped up more than 500 million of these
add-ons, many of which pick up where ap-
ple’s standard applications leave off—including
productivity boosters, audio recorders, image
editors, and much more.
But with so many options, it can be hard to
pick out the truly great apps from the merely
weird and wacky apps. in the pages that
follow, you’ll find 20 of our favorite third-party
programs. But don’t stop here. new programs
are added to the store all the time. For our TAble of conTenTs
latest reviews, check out Macworld’s iPhone
130 accessing apps
application guide (www.macworld.com/
133 Be Productive
apps/index).
136 stay connected
138 have Fun
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18. The Best iPhone
Accessories
Make the Most out of Your iPhone experience
with these add-ons
W
hen you purchase an iPhone, apple
gives you everything you need to
get started—including a power
adapter, a usB cable, and a pair of
headphones with an incorporated
microphone for hands-free calls.
But there are plenty of other
useful accessories that apple
doesn’t offer. whether you’re
looking for a Bluetooth head-
set, a protective case, high-
quality headphones for better
sound, or a set of speakers
for listening to music out loud,
there are scores of add-ons
that let you do more with your
phone.
here are our picks for some of the
most useful accessories for the iPhone. For TABle of conTenTs
more reviews of the latest iPhone gear, go to
iphone.macworld.com. 144 cases
147 headphones
151 speakers
153 Power accessories
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19. Nobody spends more time with Apple’s
revolutionary products than the editors
at Macworld.
In this book Macworld’s team of
experts uses its knowledge to create
an updated and straightforward guide
to the iPhone. Apple’s groundbreaking
mobile device is an iPod, phone, Web
browser, PDA, and game console all
in one.
Inside these pages you’ll find detailed
instructions for mastering your device’s
most important features, as well as a
few hidden ones. You’ll learn how to
customize the iPhone or iPod touch’s
settings, squeeze the most juice out of a battery charge, and connect
to nearby wireless networks while keeping your data protected. You’ll
also get insider tips for communicating using the phone, e-mail, text
messages, and instant messages. Take advantage of the iPhone 3G’s
powerful GPS technology and built-in maps, as well as its Web browser.
Enjoy the iPod hiding inside your iPhone with our strategies for navi-
gating your media files and converting video files on your hard drive or
DVDs into an iPhone-compatible format. We’ll show you how to take
advantage of iTunes’ space-saving features, including smart playlists
that sift through your massive library and find the files you want to carry
with you. Expand your iPhone’s capabilities with our picks for best
third-party apps from Apple’s App Store. And for when you run into
trouble, our experts offer vital troubleshooting advice and indispensable
tips for solving common hiccups.
Whether you’re on a Mac or Windows PC, using a first-generation
iPhone, iPhone 3G, or iPod touch, Macworld’s award-winning team will
show you how to get the most out of your device.
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