This document provides a comprehensive guide with tips for everyday iPhone users, focusing on features available in iOS 12. It covers various functionalities such as accessing the control center, using Siri, managing photos with iCloud, and utilizing accessibility features. Additionally, it includes instructions for finding apps, updating them, managing notifications, and sharing content through the Apple Wallet and iCloud services.

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iPhone Tips for Everyday Users
Assembled by Jonathan Bacon for February 27, 2019 Johnson County Community College
Retirees Association (JCCCRA) TechTalk
iOS 12 released September 2018
• supported on iPhone 5s or later
• iPad Air 1 or later
• iPad Mini 2 or later
• iPod Touch sixth-generation or later
And now the tips begin:
1. Haptic Touch vs. 3D Touch
• Accessing3D Touch only available on iPhone 6s and later.
• Some examples of what you can do with 3D Touch:
i. Turn on Flash Light from lock screen.
ii. Access Camera from lock screen.
iii. Preview a specific note’s content within a list by pressing the note in
Notes.
iv. Preview a video by pressing a thumbnail in Photos.
v. Make a Live Photo come to life by pressing it in Photos.
• Haptic Touch on iPhone XR (only on lock screen and Control Center).
2. Accessing the Control Center
• Swipe up from bottom of screen on iPhone 8 or
older.
• Swipe down from upper right corner of screen on
iPhone X or newer.
• Standard buttons on Control Center: Airplane
mode, Cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Lock (orientation)
Don Not Disturb, Screen Mirroring, Brightness,
Volume, Flashlight, Timer, Calculator, Camera,
Home, Apple TV and Wallet.
• 3D Touch Control Center icons for more options.
3. Using your phone as a magnifying glass.
• Go to Settings > General > Accessibility and
select “Magnifier.” Tap it to toggle it on.
• To access the Magnifier, triple click your
iPhone’s side button. If you have an iPhone with
a home button, triple click it fast.
• Or add to your Control Center: Settings >
Control Center > Customize Controls > Magnifier.
Figure 1 Standard iPhone
Control Center Configuration

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4. To find an app: [swipe down in the middle of the home screen] > [start typing name
of app in Search box] > [scan the list and select what you want].
• The list will include Contacts, apps, Mail occurrences (of the word), Podcasts,
Notes (including the search word), Calendar entries and more.
5. Find iPhone/Find My iPhone app
• Set up during initial install, but you can check to be sure it’s turned on:
Settings > [Your Name] Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store > iCloud and
scroll down until you see “Find My iPhone.”
• You can access Find My iPhone from the web by going to
http://icloud.com/find.
6. “Hey Siri turn on the flashlight” and “Hey Siri turn off the flashlight.”
7. “Hey Siri, read the news. “
8. “Hey Siri, directions to Johnson County Community College.”
• Car Mount for your iPhone? Car Mount by Vicseed (available from Amazon)
9. Siri shortcuts
• Settings > Siri & Search > Suggested Shortcuts > [press + and record phrase].
10. Adding and eliminating tickets in Wallet
a. Airline Apps (American, Delta), movie apps (AMC) and events apps (AXS,
Ticketmaster) all give you the option to save to the Apple Wallet.
b. You can also add loyalty cards to Wallet.
11. Voice memo
• You can add a Voice Memos button to Control Center. Go to Settings >
Control Center > Customize Controls and tap the plus sign next to Voice
Memos. Screen shot.
12. Animoji and Filters Available in Messenger
Figure 2 Monkey Icon = Animoji

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13. Take a screen shot: Press either volume button at the same time as you press the
iPhone side button (right side as you face the phone of iPhone X series).
• Also edit screen shot by tapping it.
14. Check for app updates
• Go to App Store > Updates (small white number
in a red circle indicates number of updates
available). Tap Update All.
• Swipe done on screen until you see spinning
circle icon (Network Activity icon). If additional
updates are available, you’ll see the number of
updates increase. Tap Update All or select just
the updates you want to install.
15. Manage the notifications you receive.
• Settings > Notifications > Notification Style [options]
a. Always
b. When Unlocked
c. Never
16. Two-Factor Authentication
• Settings > Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store > Password & Security > Two-
Factor Authentication = On.
• You’ll notice there isn’t a way to turn Two Factor off from your iPhone. You’ll
have to go to a web browser and access this page to turn it off:
https:// appleid.apple.com/ account/ manage.
17. Medical ID for Emergencies
• Health app > Medical ID > Edit (or Create Medical ID).
• On screen where you enter passcode, select Emergency > Medical ID.
18. Apps that use your current location
• Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > [set to Never, While Using the
App or Always].
• Settings > Privacy shows other apps and tools that have access to your
iPhone such as Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Photos and more.
19. Significant Locations: provides location-related information in Maps, Calendar,
Photos and more.
• Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (scroll all the
way to the bottom!) > Significant Locations.
20. Share apps within the family.
• Settings > Family Sharing >Add Family Member and be sure Purchase Sharing is
On.
• Go to family member’s iPhone: App Store > Today > [tap circle in upper right
corner] > Purchased > [tap family member’s name who originally purchased app]
> [find the desired app and select it].
Figure 3 Network Activity Icon

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21. Autofill passwords
• Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Allow Filling From > [identify your password
manager or vault].
• Access your password using Settings > Passwords & Accounts > App & Website
Passwords.
• If you see a Warning icon
(exclamation mark in a triangle) it
means you’ve used the same
password for multiple sites.
• Generate iCloud Keychain
passwords: will generate anytime
you use Safari to create a new online
account or change the passwords for
an existing account. You’ll see the
options to Use Strong Password or
Choose My Own Password.
22. Check iPhone battery health
• Settings > Battery > Battery Health.
23. Calculator to Scientific Calculator
• Calculator > [turn phone horizonal].
24. Podcasts app includes:
• Featured podcasts
• Top Charts
• All Categories and
• Featured Providers.
• Settings > Podcasts: Sync Podcasts, Only Download on Wi-Fi and Delete
Played Episodes.
25. Using Notes as a document scanner
c. Can scan multiple documents.
d. Use Markup Tools to
draw, erase, highlight, add
text, add a signature or
move (added elements).
e. Use Share icon to send
image to Messenger,
Facebook, Dropbox,
Evernote, Kindle and
more.
26. Close apps when not in use? Necessary or unnecessary? Not!
27. When the Share icon appears, you can send web articles to your Reading List or send
as email, a message and more.
Figure 4 Warning Icon
Figure 5 Markup Tools: Left to Right: Share, Pen, Highlighter, Pencil,
Eraser, Lasso, Change Color and Plus (to Add Text or a Signature).

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28. Shortcut to closing all open Safari Tabs.
• Select the Tab View
(two overlapping
squares) and then hard
press Done > select
Close All XX Tabs
option.
Managing Photos, iCloud and cloud storage
iCloud Photo Library
1. iCloud Photo Library is a sharing/syncing service, not an archival service. See
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264 and https://support.apple.com/en-
us/HT204570.
2. iCloud Photo Library allows you to upload all of your full resolution photos to iCloud,
then pushes back the entire library in either full resolution or optimized form to all
devices and computers that are signed into the same iCloud account (if iCloud Photo
Library is turned on).
3. To turn on iCloud Photo Library: [Your Name] Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store >
iCloud > Photos > iCloud Photos [be sure the slider shows green].
4. If you want optimized (compressed) photos on your devices (to save space) be sure to
turn on Settings > [Your Name] Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store > iCloud > Photos >
Optimize iPhone Storage.
5. On the Settings > [Your Name] Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store > iCloud > Photos
screen select both the Upload to My Photo Stream in addition to the Optimize iPhone
Storage option to upload images from a device and replace them with optimized
versions.
6. Any change you make to a photo anywhere (on a device with iCloud Photo Library
turned on) is changed everywhere. That includes deleting photos.
7. When iCloud Photo Library is turned on Camera Roll is replaced with the All Photos
album.
8. When you turn on iCloud Photo Library, all photos from My Photo Stream are added to
the All Photos album. Normally My Photo Stream includes the last 1,000 photos or the
last 30 days of photos taken on any of your connected devices, whichever is greater.
9. Use the Photo app to delete photos (once iCloud Photo Library is turned on). If you need
to undelete, you can do so for 30 days from the Deleted Photos album.
10. With any iCloud share/sync service (like Photos, Contacts, Notes, etc.), all original data is
stored in a single location (iCloud), but you can access it from any device (desktop,
Figure 6 Left to Right: Previous page, Next Page, Share, Bookmarks
and Tab View icons.

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laptop, iPhone or iPad). Anything you do to photos, notes, contacts, documents etc. on
any device updates the source location (iCloud).
iCloud Photo Sharing
1. iCloud Photo Sharing enables you to create groups of images (in a single folder) to share
individually with others or on a public webpage (viewers must have web address to
view).
iCloud Drive
1. Used to store files that are synced across all your iCloud enabled devices. See
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201104.
2. With iCloud Drive, you can store all your presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, and
any other kinds of files in iCloud — and access them from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch,
Mac, or PC.
3. Edits made on one iCloud drive enabled device are automatically reflected on all your
other devices.
4. You can search by name, date or tags (that you add) for any iCloud Drive file.
5. If iOS or Mac OS recognizes the app and you have it installed, selecting it on the iCloud
Drive opens the document.
6. If you’ve enabled all the options for iCloud Drive and the icon does not appear on your
device’s home screen, go to the App Store, search for iCloud Drive and download it. You
may have deleted it earlier. It’s one of many stock apps that you can delete in iOS 10 but
couldn’t in earlier versions.
Memories
1. Memories scans your library of photos to create a collection of memories based on
location, time and the people in your photos.
2. New memories may appear daily under the For You tab (in the Photos app).
People: All Your People in One Space
1. Uses facial recognition to create Albums of People.
2. Initially may take a significant amount of time to index all images. It will index only when
your iPad, iPhone or Mac is plugged into power, connected to WiFi and locked (press the
on/off button to lock your device).
3. You can Merge, Hide or mark as Favorites specific people.
4. You can name the person identified.
5. You can add a person based on facial images in Photos > Albums > People.

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Note: iCloud requires iOS 5 or later on iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch (3rd generation or later),
iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, iPad or later, or iPad mini or later; a Mac computer with OS X
Lion 10.7.5 or later; or a PC with Windows 7 or Windows 8 (Outlook 2007 or later or an up-to-
date browser is required for accessing email, contacts, and calendars). Some features require
iOS 10 and macOS Sierra. Some features require a Wi-Fi connection. Access to some services is
limited to 10 devices.
Additional Tips Available at:
• A Conversation with Your Phone Plus Googling for Answers [Revised and Expanded]
https://www.slideshare.net/jbacon/a-conversation-with-your-phone-plus-googling-for-
answers-revised-and-expanded
• iPhone Tips and Shortcuts You Wish You Already Knew
https://www.slideshare.net/jbacon/iphone-tips-and-shortcuts-you-wish-you-already-
knew
• Using Your iPhone More Effectively: 36 Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts
https://www.slideshare.net/jbacon/using-your-iphone-more-effectively
Sources:
101 Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone: Updated, Simplified and Revised for iOS 12, by Rich
DeMuro (available from Amazon)
“Everything you can do with Control Center” https://www.imore.com/everything-you-can-do-
control-center
“iPhone 101: Status bar symbols and what they mean”
https://www.engadget.com/2014/06/26/iphone-101-status-bar-symbols-and-what-they-mean/
“Use Markup on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch” https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206885
“Which Apple Devices Can Run iOS 12” https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iosapps/ios-12-
compatibility-3521184/