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Searching your phone using Spotlight lets you quickly locate any piece of information you have saved, whether it’s a song, a message, or a contact.

To use Spotlight, just drag downward on the center of your phone’s home screen.

Then, type whatever it is you’re looking for into the text field, and scroll through your results to see what matches.

You can also adjust what results you get in Spotlight Search, if you’d like.

Open the “Settings” app, choose “General,” and hit “Spotlight Search.” Here, you’ll see all the types of files you can include in Spotlight Searches.

Tap an item to uncheck it and exclude all files of that type from your search; drag the triple-line icons up or down to choose the order in which different kinds of items will appear in your search results.

Control Center is a one-stop place for you to access tools and settings that you need quick access to.

To open the Control Center, simply swipe up from the bottom edge of your screen from any app, the home screen, or the lock screen.

Here, you’ll see a variety of settings and tools that you can quickly enable or disable.

At the top, hit the switches to enable or disable “Airplane Mode,” “Wi-Fi,” “Bluetooth,” “Do Not Disturb,” and “Portrait Orientation Lock.” Below that is a brightness slider, music playback controls, and a toggle that allows you to turn on AirDrop for “Everyone” or “Contacts Only,” or simply turn it “Off.” At the bottom, you can quickly turn on a flashlight using your phone’s camera flash, your phone’s timer app, the calculator, and the camera.

Note that the flashlight will remain on until you disable it, even if you leave Control Center or lock your phone.

By default, Control Center can be accessed from within any app, or directly from the lock screen.

However, you can adjust this by opening the “Settings” app and choosing “Control Center.” Here, you can choose to disable Control Center from appearing on the “Lock Screen” or “Within Apps.”

Accessing your recent apps on your iPhone allows you to quickly switch between apps you’re using, without having to hunt for them on the home screen.

To access your recent apps, double tap on the home button while viewing any app or the home screen.

Here, you’ll see all the apps you’ve recently used organized by how recently you’ve used them, with a preview screen showing what you were working on above.

To the left is your home screen.

Tap an app to switch to it immediately.

To quit an app if it’s frozen or causing problems, swipe up on its preview card.

You can also return to the home screen at any time by pressing the home button.

Below, choose whether you’d like to be able to use “Voice Dial,” “Siri,” “Passbook,” or be able to decline phone calls with a text message without typing the passcode.

At the bottom, you can opt to automatically “Erase” your phone after ten failed passcode attempts.

You can remove your passcode at any time by tapping “Turn Passcode Off” at the top and entering your passcode.

Adding an international keyboard to your phone allows you to type messages in other languages, as well as add a variety of emoticons to your messages.

To add an international keyboard, open the Settings app, select “General,” and choose “Keyboard.” Tap “Keyboards,” and tap “Add New Keyboard…” below.Find the keyboard you’d like to add.

Note that some languages offer multiple keyboards and input methods.

Repeat for each language you’d like to add.

You can also add the emoticon keyboard by choosing “Emoji,” the Japanese word for emoticon.

Keep in mind, though, that only other iPhone users will be able to see these.

After you’ve added your keyboards, you can select options for some languages by tapping them, including keyboard layout and region.

Tap the “Edit” button to rearrange the order of the keyboards or remove ones you don’t want.

Now, whenever your keyboard is visible, tap the globe icon in the bottom-left corner to cycle through your keyboards.

Tap and hold or swipe up on the icon to see the list of available options.

Creating a custom vibration allows you to pick the pattern that your phone vibrates on when you receive a call, text message, or other notification.

This is especially useful if you want to be able to tell your phone’s vibrations apart from other people’s, or want to distinguish different kinds of notifications without looking at your phone.

To create a custom vibration, open the “Settings” app, then choose “Sounds” and the notification type you’d like to create a vibration for.

Choose “Vibration” at the top, then “Create New Vibration.” Note that you must put your phone in “silent” mode to activate the vibrations.

Tap the pattern you’d like to use on the screen, and hit “Stop” when you’re done.

Hit “Play” to get a sample of the vibration pattern.

You can try again by hitting “Record,” or confirm with “Save.” Name your vibration, then hit “Save” again.

Your new vibration will appear in the “Custom” section of your list of vibrations, and you can select it for any other notification you’d like.

Swipe and hit “Delete” to delete a custom vibration.

There are some times when you just can’t answer a call.

If you’re going into a meeting, or another situation when you don’t want your phone to ring, slide the ringer switch next to the volume buttons on the left side backwards.

The phone will vibrate, and a bell with a line through it will appear, confirming that your phone is silent.

Note that you can’t just turn the volume all the way down; even the lowest setting makes a bit of noise.

Also keep in mind that silent mode doesn’t silence alarms.

When you’re receiving a call that you can’t answer right away, press either of the volume buttons or the lock button once to silence the ringer.

You can still answer the phone until the other person hangs up or it goes to voicemail.

Send a call to voicemail immediately by pressing the lock button twice.

Tap “Remind Me” to create a reminder to call them back later when you have time, or “Reply With a Message” telling them you’re busy.

Choose from one of the options, or write your own.

You can change the preset busy messages by opening the “Settings” app, choosing “Phone” and then “Respond with Text,” and adding your own messages in the boxes.

By default, when you connect your Facebook account to your iPhone, your Facebook friends’ contact information, including their birthdays, will be added to your calendar.

Note that you’ll only download contact information from your friends who have uploaded it to Facebook.

You can take these birthdays out of your calendar if you’d prefer not to be reminded.

To hide Facebook birthdays from your Calendar, tap the “Calendars” button at the bottom of the app, then scroll down and uncheck “Birthdays” under the “Facebook” heading.

Note that this will also stop your Facebook friends’ birthdays from appearing in Notification Center.

You can, however, check on a Facebook friend’s birthday by viewing their contact page.

Wirelessly syncing your phone allows you to keep your phone up to date without plugging it into your computer, so you can do it even if you don’t have a USB cable on hand.

To set up wireless syncing, connect your iPhone to your computer, and open up the iPhone settings page in iTunes.

Under the “Options” heading, check the “Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi” box.

Then, click “Apply” in the bottom right to save this setting.

To sync your iPhone wirelessly, first make sure that your computer and iPhone are both turned on and connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Then, open your iPhone’s “Settings” app and select “General,” then “iTunes Wi-Fi Sync.” Tap the “Sync Now” button to start syncing.

The progress bar below will indicate how much time is remaining.

Note that syncing over Wi-Fi is slower than using a USB cable, and uses battery, so it’s a better option when you don’t have a lot of files to transfer.

Your phone will also automatically start syncing when it’s plugged into your computer, but remember that they both need to be turned on and connected to Wi-Fi.

By enabling “Find My iPhone,” you can prevent your phone from being reactivated by someone else without your Apple password, and locate your device if it gets lost or stolen.

To enable “Find My iPhone,” open the “Settings” app on your phone and select “iCloud.” Then, slide the “Find My iPhone” slider to “On,” and hit “OK” in the popup.

Now, your phone will not be able to be reset to factory settings, which makes your phone worthless to thieves, since no one else will be able to configure it as their own phone.

Additionally, you’ll be able to locate your iPhone if it ever goes missing by using the “Find My iPhone” app on another iOS device, or by logging into icloud.com and choosing “Find My iPhone.” You can disable Find My iPhone at any time by moving the slider to Off, and entering your password.

If you have “Find My iPhone” enabled and your iPhone goes missing, you can use the Internet to locate it, lock it from unauthorized access, or erase it completely.

To do so, go to icloud.com on any computer and log in with your Apple ID.

Then, choose “Find My iPhone.” You’ll see all your Apple devices on a map.

Click “All Devices” at the top and choose your iPhone to see its location and how recently it was found.

Choose “Play Sound” to play a noise that will help locate your phone if it’s nearby.

Or, switch it to “Lost Mode” to prevent unauthorized access.

Add a 4 digit lock code if you don’t already have one, confirm it, and enter a contact number and message.

Now, whoever has your phone will be able to use it to get in contact with you.

If your phone is permanently gone and you want to erase all your private information, click “Erase iPhone” and confirm in the popup, but remember that this is permanent.

Note that any time you take one of these actions, Apple will email you when your signal is received by your phone.

Photo Stream automatically backs up photos and videos you’ve taken with every Apple device you have to the cloud, and makes them accessible on all your Apple devices.

To enable or disable Photo Stream, open the “Settings” app and choose “Photos and Camera.” Then, turn “My Photo Stream” on or off.

If you switch it off, you’ll need to confirm that you’d like to delete all the photos in your Photo Stream from your device.

Note that this does not delete your photos from other devices.

Every time you take a photo or video with Photo Stream on, it is uploaded to iCloud and synced with the Photo Stream albums on all your other devices.

Note that they are deleted from iCloud after 30 days, though they will remain in all your devices’ Photo Stream albums.

Photos and Videos are only uploaded using Wi-Fi, so you don’t need to worry about using up your data plan.

To access your Photo Stream, open the “Photos” app, go to the “Albums” page, and choose “My Photo Stream.” To edit your Photo Stream, “Select” some photos, tap the share icon in the lower left, and choose to “Save to Camera Roll” if they were taken elsewhere, or just delete them from your Photo Stream using the trash can icon.

If you’ve connected your Mac to iCloud and have iPhoto ’11, you can also access your photos on your computer in the “Photo Stream” heading of the sidebar.

Sharing a Photo Stream allows you to quickly and privately share your iPhone photos with other people who have Apple devices, as well as make the photos accessible on the web.

To share a Photo Stream, open the “Photos” app and choose “Shared” below, then tap to create a new stream.

Give your stream a name.

Then, type the email addresses of the people you’d like to share photos with in the “To” field.

You can also browse your contacts by hitting the plus icon to the right.

Next, hit “Create.” On the “Shared Streams” page, select your stream, then tap the plus icon to add photos or videos.

You can add individual items, or whole “Moments” at once.

Hit “Done,” then add a comments and hit “Post” to share.

The people you’ve shared photos with will receive an email inviting them to the Photo Stream.

Once they open it on a supported device, they’ll be able to view, “Like,” and “Comment” on your photos.

Tap “People” at the bottom of the shared stream to change your sharing preferences.

Tap a name to “Remove a Subscriber,” or “Invite People.” Below, choose whether “Subscribers Can Post” to the stream, enable or disable a “Public Website,” whether to get “Notifications,” or “Delete” the photo stream entirely.

Enabling parental controls allows you to restrict certain actions and apps on your iPhone.

This is important if you sometimes give your iPhone to a child to use, or if you want to have control over what your child does with their own iOS device.

To enable parental controls, start by opening the “Settings” app and choosing “General,” then “Restrictions.” Hit “Enable Restrictions,” then choose and re-enter a passcode.

At the top, turn individual apps and actions completely on or off using the switches.

In the “Allowed Content” section, specify what kinds of content can be accessed.

You can also choose whether you must re-enter your password for iTunes or App store purchases only after 15 minutes, or immediately.

In “Privacy,” choose which apps are allowed to access different sections of your phone’s information, then choose whether or not to “Allow Changes” to certain system settings below.

Finally, decide whether to allow connecting with others via “Game Center.” Your changes are saved automatically.

You can return to change them at any time, but remember you’ll need to remember your passcode to access them.

Setting an alarm on your iPhone lets you make sure you wake up at the right time every day.

To create an alarm, open the “Clock” app and choose “Alarm” at the bottom.

Then, hit the plus icon in the top right.

Start by setting a time for your alarm.

Then, choose what days of the week you’d like your alarm to “Repeat,” if any.

Below that, choose the “Sound.” You can pick from any ringtone on your device, or “Pick a song” from your music library.

You can also choose “None” at the bottom of the list if you’d rather not have any sound play.

Note that this will also disable vibration.

Finally, choose whether or not you’d like to be able to “Snooze” your alarm for ten minutes and give it a “Label.” Tap “Save” when you’re done.

When your alarm goes off, you’ll see a popup on your screen featuring your alarm’s label, and the sound you selected will play, if applicable.

All alarms you create will remain on your phone’s alarms page, where you can toggle them “On” or “Off.” Tap the “Edit” button in the upper left corner to edit or delete an alarm.

You can also have Siri set an alarm.

Setting a reminder allows you to create a to-do list of things you’d like to accomplish, and add a notification that will remind you about your tasks at a certain time, if you like.

To create a reminder, open the “Reminders” app and tap an existing list, or tap to create a “New List.” If you’re creating a new list, select an account, give it a name, then pick a color.

Tap an empty line, then add what you’d like to remember.

Hit “return” to add another item to your list, or “Done” to hide the keyboard.

Now, tap the item and select the “i” icon to the right for more options.

Enable “Remind me on a day” to pick a specific time when you want to be reminded.

Below, specify a “Priority” level if you’d like, adjust which “List” the reminder appears in, and add “Notes” if you want to include more details.

Your phone will automatically remind you of your note at the time you specified.

Tap “Done” when you’re satisfied.

Note that you can also tell Siri to remind you of something at a certain time, and a reminder will automatically be created for you.

Each app that has recently used your location is marked with a purple arrow, while apps that have accessed it in the past 24 hours are marked with a gray one.

At the bottom of the page, tap “System Services” to enable or disable individual services that don’t correspond to a specific app.

In particular, you may wish to disable “Frequent Locations,” which keeps a record of places you often visit.

Below, you can also “Clear” your history.

Turn on the “Status Bar Icon” on the bottom of the “System Services” page to know when an app is checking your location.

Sharing data between different applications is part of what makes a modern smartphone so valuable; you can take a picture with your camera, edit it in another app, then post it to social media with a third.

However, you may not want to allow all apps to access your data.

The first time an app wants to access your photos, contacts, or other data, you’ll be presented with a popup asking whether or not you’d like to grant access.

Hit “OK” to accept, or “Don’t Allow” to deny; that app will obey your choice from then on.

You can also control which apps have access to your personal information by opening the “Settings” app, then choosing “Privacy.” Here, you’ll see all the kinds of personal information saved to your phone that apps can request.

If you’ve connected your phone with “Twitter” and “Facebook,” you will see those below, as well.

Tap a section to see which apps have requested access to that information or service, and turn the sliders “On” or “Off” as you see fit.

At the bottom of the page, tap “Advertising” and turn the slider on if you’d like to “Limit Ad Tracking,” or “Reset Your Advertising Identifier” below.

Your changes will be saved automatically.

Notification Center is a single unified place to check all the notifications you’ve received on your phone, from emails and calendar events to weather and app updates.

To access Notification Center, swipe down from the top of your phone’s screen from any page, app, or your lock screen.

Note that while viewing an app in full screen, you must swipe down once to expose a tab, and again to open Notification Center.

There are three sections in Notification Center.

“Today” shows what’s going on today, including any calendar events you have scheduled, weather and stock information, and a quick summary of what’s happening “Tomorrow.” In the “All” section, you’ll see notifications from all your apps, like individual emails and text messages.

“Missed” notifications are ones that you received while your phone was locked and that you did not take action on.

Tap an individual notification to open the app, or hit the “X” to the right then “Clear” to dismiss it.

You’ll also get notifications on your lock screen.

Slide the notification on your lock screen to go immediately to that app after unlocking your phone.

Notification Center lets you know what you’ve missed from different apps, but it may include some things you don’t need.

You can control which apps appear in your Notification Center by opening the “Settings” app and choosing “Notification Center.” First, choose whether you’d like to be able to access “Notifications View” or “Today View” directly from your lock screen without entering your passcode.

Then, choose what options you’d like to include on your “Today View,” and whether to sort notifications “Manually” or “By Time.” Tap “Edit” at the top and drag and drop items using the line icons at the right to reorder them, or drag them down to exclude them from Notification Center.

Note that you’ll also be able to sort “Today View” in the same way.

Tap one of your apps that supports notifications and choose whether or not to “Show” it in Notification Center and how many recent items will appear there.

Choose whether you’d like the app to use “Banners,” “Alerts,” or nothing.

Then, decide whether or not you’d like to allow the app to display a “Badge” with the number of notifications you have, make sounds, or display on your lock screen.

At the very bottom of the “Notification Center” page, choose whether you’d like to receive “Amber” and “Emergency Alerts.”

Organizing your iPhone’s home screen allows you to keep the apps you use most, readily accessible, and group similar apps together.

To start organizing your home screen, tap and hold any app icon until all the icons start wiggling.

Now, drag and drop the apps in the order you like.

Whenever you move one app in front of another, it’ll bump all the apps behind it.

You can move apps from page to page by dragging the app to the edge of the screen and holding until it scrolls to the next page.

If the page is full, the last app will be bumped to the next page.

Keep the apps you use most in your dock, since they’ll be accessible from every page of the home screen.

Group apps together in folders by dropping one app on top of another.

It’ll be named automatically, but you can rename it by tapping the folder and typing a new name in the text box.

Drag and drop apps onto a folder to add to it.

If you want to delete an app you’re not using anymore, tap the “X” in the upper left corner of the app icon.

Note that you can’t remove Apple’s default apps.

When you’re done making changes, hit the home button.

Creating keyboard shortcuts allows you to have one word or phrase stand for another, such as automatically replacing “G2G” with “got to go” or “CTA” with “call to action,” letting you save time while typing phrases you use frequently.

To create a keyboard shortcut, open the “Settings” app and choose “General,” then “Keyboard.” Under the “Shortcuts” heading, you’ll see any existing shortcuts.

Tap “Add New Shortcut” below.

Type the longer word or phrase in the “Phrase” box, then the “Shortcut” below.

Make sure not to use a real word, or something you’ll ever want to actually type.

Hit “Save” when you’re done.

From now on, when you type the shortcut, it’ll be replaced with the phrase you specified.

You can edit a shortcut at any time by choosing it from the keyboard menu, or delete it entirely by swiping on it.

Additionally, if you have the “.” shortcut enabled above, you can simply add two spaces after the last word in a sentence and your iPhone will automatically insert a period followed by a space.

While reading email or browsing the Internet on your iPhone, sooner or later you’re going to come across a word that you don’t recognize.

You can use the iPhone’s integrated dictionary to look up words you don’t know.

When you come across a word you don’t recognize, tap and hold on it until the word is highlighted.

In the popup, select “Define” to see its definitions, related words, and origin.

Note that you can only define words that can be individually highlighted.

Additionally, you can only look up one word at a time, so you can’t get the definitions of multi-word phrases or things with hyphens in them.

Tap “Manage” in the lower-left to adjust the dictionaries that are available.

Tap the cloud icon to download a dictionary you don’t already have, or delete a dictionary you don’t need by tapping the “X.” Hit the back arrow in the upper left to return to the dictionary, and “Done” when you’re finished.

Taking a photo or video using your phone lets you quickly capture an exciting scene as it unfolds.

To take a photo, start by opening the camera app one of three ways.

Select the app from your home screen, choose the camera icon in the lower-right of the Command Center, or swipe up on the camera icon on your lock screen.

Once you’ve opened the camera app, swipe left or right to choose between the “Video,” “Photo,” “Square,” or “Panorama” options.

The options available depend on which mode you’re using, but you can turn the flash to “On,” “Off,” or “Auto” in the top left, enable “HDR” for extra vibrant photos in the middle, and switch between cameras to the right.

Tap the triple-circle icon in the lower right to apply a filter before you shoot.

Hit the shutter to capture an image, or start recording a video.

For a panorama, move your camera left to right, keeping your phone as steady as possible; hit the shutter again to finish.

After you’ve taken your photo or video, you can access it by tapping the preview in the lower left corner, where you can share, edit, or delete it.

Sometimes the photos you take using your iPhone’s camera could use a touch-up before they’re ready for sharing or viewing later.

You can enhance a photo, crop it, rotate it, and remove red-eye, all from the iPhone’s built-in editing software.

To edit a photo, open it in your photos folder and tap “Edit” in the top right.

Use the arrow icon to the bottom left to rotate the picture counterclockwise in 90 degree increments.

The wand icon automatically enhances the photo by boosting the contrast and saturation.

Tap this icon again to turn “Auto-Enhance” off.

To remove any red-eye from your photo, tap the red icon, then tap each eye that appears red in the photo.

“Apply” your changes when you’re satisfied.

Finally, tap the icon at the bottom right, then drag the corners and edges to crop the photo.

Your cell phone allows you to be constantly connected, but there are times when you’re doing something important and don’t want to be interrupted.

Turning on Do Not Disturb will automatically silence any calls, messages, and alerts you receive, allowing you to focus on that important thing you’re doing.

To enable Do Not Disturb, open Control Center on any screen by swiping up from the bottom edge, and tap the moon icon.

Or, open the “Settings” app and select “Do Not Disturb” to fine-tune your options.

Turn the “Scheduled” slider on, to automatically enable Do Not Disturb at a specific time each day.

Tap “Allow Calls From” to choose a group as an exception to the Do Not Disturb incoming call restriction.

If you want, you can also enable “Repeated Calls” to go through.

If someone calls you twice in three minutes or less (a good indicator that the call is urgent), it’ll go through.

Finally, choose whether you want to “Always” silence alerts, or only while your phone is locked, allowing messages to come through if you are using your phone.

Now, whenever you get a phone call, text message, or other notification, your phone will not buzz or ring to let you know.

It will, however, appear on your lock screen.

Creating a ringtone allows you to use any song or sound in your iTunes library when you get a phone call, text message, or other alert.

Start by opening iTunes on your computer, and right-clicking the song or audio file you’d like to use.

Choose “Get Info,” then “Options.” Put the start and end times you’d like to use in the boxes below.

Note that the clip must be less than 30 seconds long.

Click “OK” to confirm, then right-click the song again and choose “Create AAC version.” A duplicate file will appear in iTunes that consists of only the section you specified.

Right click on the new track, and choose “Show in Finder.” Rename the file type from “.m4a” to “.m4r,” and confirm that you want to change the file type in the popup.

Now delete the track from your iTunes library, but select “Keep File” in the second pop-up.

Double-click the ringtone file in Finder to open it in iTunes.

It’ll appear in the “Tones” section rather than “Music.” Sync your phone, and choose your new ringtone in “Settings,” “Sounds”, “Ringtone,” or whichever alert you’d like to assign it to.

After you’ve created a ringtone, don’t forget to remove the custom start and end times from your original track.

Picking your iPhone’s wallpaper lets you customize what you see on your phone’s lock screen, as well as the image you see behind your phone’s apps on your home screen.

To change your background, open the “Settings” app and choose “Wallpapers and Brightness,” then “Choose Wallpaper” at the bottom.

Here, you can choose a “Dynamic” or “Still” wallpaper from Apple, or a photo from any of your photo albums.

Preview the wallpaper, then move and scale the image to your liking if you’ve chosen a photo from one of your albums, and hit “Set” if you like it.

In the popup, choose whether you’d like to use the image for your “Lock Screen,” “Home Screen,” or “Both.” The image you choose will appear on your home or lock screen from now on.

By default, newer iPhones’ lock and home screens (among others) will move slightly when you rotate your phone, giving your screen a sense of depth; however, you can disable this in the “Settings” app by choosing “General,” then “Accessibility” and “Reduce Motion,” and moving the slider.

Managing your iPhone display settings allows you to make your iPhone easier to view and use, depending on your preferences.

To manage your display settings, open the “Settings” app and select “General,” then “Accessibility.” In the second set of options, you can enable “Larger Text” and “Bold Text.” Note that you must restart your phone to enable bold text.

By default, many navigation buttons in iOS consist only of words, but you can add a “Button Shape” if you like.

In the “Increase Contrast” menu, you can “Reduce Transparency,” “Darken Colors,” or “Reduce” the “White Point” to make your screen more readable.

Hit “Reduce Motion” and turn on the slider to minimize parallax motion.

Finally, you can enable “On/Off Labels” to make it easier at a glance to tell if a switch is on or not.

Your settings are saved immediately; you can return to the “Settings” menu at any time to adjust them.

iMessages are free text and multimedia messages you can send from any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac to anyone else using an Apple device.

To set up iMessages, open the “Settings” app and choose “Messages.” First, turn the “iMessage” slider to On if it isn’t already.

Next, decide whether to send Read Receipts, which let others know when you’ve opened their messages, and choose whether to automatically “Send as SMS” when iMessage isn’t working.

Note that this doesn’t affect your ability to send text messages to non-Apple devices.

Tap “Send and Receive” to manage which addresses people can send iMessages to, and your default “From” address.

To send an iMessage, open the “Messages” app and compose a new message to a phone number, email address, or contact.

When Apple detects that you’re writing to someone who can receive iMessages, the “Send” button will automatically turn from green to blue, and your sent messages will appear in a blue bubble.

You’ll be notified when your iMessages are “Delivered” and “Read” (if your recipient has Read Receipts enabled), and you’ll see dots indicating your conversation partner is typing a response.

Sharing files with AirDrop lets you quickly transmit anything that can be “shared” through iOS to another person with an iOS device who is in your vicinity.

Note that you need to be connected to Wi-Fi to use AirDrop.

To start, make sure that the person you want to share a file with has AirDrop enabled for either “Contacts Only” or “Everyone” in their “Control Center.” Then, find the file that you’d like to share over AirDrop, such as a photo you captured with your phone or a contact, and hit “Share.” In the “AirDrop” section, select the person who you’d like to share with.

The person you’re sharing with will be asked to “Accept” or “Decline” the file you’re sharing.

If they “Accept,” the file will automatically be sent to the right place on their device

Your remaining battery is always visible in the top-right corner of your iPhone’s screen, but you might want more detail about how much you have left to monitor it more carefully.

Displaying the remaining battery percentage lets you always know exactly how much charge is left in your phone’s battery.

To enable the battery percentage, open the “Settings” app and choose “General,” then “Usage.” Here, turn the “Battery Percentage” slider to “On.” You’ll now see your phone’s battery percentage remaining in addition to the battery icon in the upper-right corner of your phone’s screen.

Note, however, that depending on how many other items are displayed, such as the Rotation Lock or Location Services icons, your phone may auto-hide the percentage to make room.

Disable some of these services to display the battery percentage.To enable the battery percentage, open the “Settings” app and choose “General,” then “Usage.” Here, turn the “Battery Percentage” slider to “On.” You’ll now see your phone’s battery percentage remaining in addition to the battery icon in the upper-right corner of your phone’s screen.

Note, however, that depending on how many other items are displayed, such as the Rotation Lock and Location Services icons, your phone may auto-hide the percentage to make room.

Disable some of these services to display the battery percentage.

Your iPhone’s cell coverage plan likely comes with a limited amount of data that you can use.

Once you use up your data for a month, you either have to pay for more or wait for the next month to roll around.

Some apps may use more data than others, whether you want them to or not, but you can control which apps are allowed to access the internet using your cell connection.

To limit which apps can use cell data, open the “Settings” app and choose “Cellular.” Scroll down to the “Use Cellular Data For:” heading to see apps that connect to the internet, with the amount of data each app has sent or received over your cell connection listed below.

Turn the slider to the right of each app off if you’d like to prevent that app from using cellular data.

Note that this does not prevent that app from connecting to the Internet over Wi-Fi.

You can see your total “cellular data usage” above.

If you really need to conserve data, you can turn off “Cellular Data” completely at the top of the page.

Calls and text messages will still go through, but you’ll need to be connected to Wi-Fi for everything else.

Turning your iPhone into a mobile hotspot lets you share your web connection with Wi-Fi-only devices like laptops and tablets.

To set up a hotspot, open the iPhone Settings app and tap “Personal Hotspot,” then turn the switch to “On.” If this option isn’t available, hit “General,” “Cellular” and “Set up Personal Hotspot” to get more information from your service provider about enabling this feature.

Note that you must have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth enabled on your phone for other devices to connect to each service.

Below, you’ll see the password you’ll need to join the Wi-Fi network.

Tap the password to change it, but note that it must contain at least 8 characters.

Now, other devices can connect to the web using your iPhone by selecting your phone’s name from the available Wi-Fi networks, or by pairing your phone to your computer.

You can also connect by plugging your phone into your computer using a USB cable.

Whenever a device is connected to your network, you’ll see a blue box at the top of your screen telling you how many devices are connected to your hotspot.

Investigating the amount of storage space each app is using allows you to find out which apps are taking up your precious gigabytes, and edit or delete apps that are taking up more space than they should.

To see how much space each app is using, open the “Settings” app, choose “General,” then “Usage,” and wait for the internal storage breakdown to load.

At the top, you’ll see how much storage you have “Available” and “Used,” with the largest apps on your phone listed below in descending order of how much space they use, including both the app itself when it was downloaded and any information the app has accrued since then.

Hit “Show all Apps” to see all your apps.

Tap an app to get more information about how the storage is being divided up.

Some apps allow you to “Edit” their contents, and you can also choose to “Delete” apps that aren’t built-in to reclaim the storage space they’re using.

While there are many note-taking apps available in the app store, your iPhone has a built-in app capable of creating text documents and sharing them easily.

Remember that depending on your iCloud settings, any note you create may be saved to your iCloud account.

To create a new note, open the “Notes” app.

Here, you’ll see any notes you’ve created previously in reverse chronological order with the date or time they were last altered.

Hit “New” in the upper right.

Type out your note using the keyboard below.

When you’re finished, hit “Done.” Tap the share icon in the lower left to share your note via “AirDrop,” “Message,” or “Mail,” or “Copy” or “Print” it.

Use the trash icon to delete your note, or the compose icon in the bottom right to start a new one.

Swipe right on the screen or hit “Notes” to return to your notes.

You can find any note you’ve created by pulling down on this screen and using the search bar at top, or use your iPhone’s spotlight search and type in any word that appears in your note.

Making a FaceTime video call lets you quickly hold a video call with anyone who has an iOS device or Mac running OS X.

To make a FaceTime video call, open the FaceTime app.

Select one of your “Contacts,” or choose someone from your “Recents” list.

Also note that you can add people you call often to your “Favorites.” Hit the camera icon next to “FaceTime” on your contact’s info page.

The person you’re trying to reach will receive a notification of your incoming call, which they’ll be able to “Answer,” get a “Reminder” about later, or respond with a “Message.” Once you’ve begun a call, you can switch cameras, or temporarily mute your microphone.

Access other apps during a video call by hitting the home button.

Return to the call by selecting the green banner at the top of the page.

Hit the “End” button when you’re done.

Note that you can also start a FaceTime call within an iMessage conversation by hitting “Contact” at the top-right corner of the screen, and selecting the FaceTime icon.

On the “Recents” page of the FaceTime app, tap the “I” to the right of any call to see how long the call was, and how much data it used.

Making a FaceTime audio call lets you make an ultra-clear call to anyone with an iOS device.

FaceTime audio uses data rather than phone minutes, so you can call if you’re on Wi-Fi or a cellular data connection.

To make a FaceTime audio call, open the FaceTime app on your iPhone.

Select someone from your “Contacts,” or choose someone from your “Recents” list.

Hit the phone icon next to “FaceTime” on your contact’s info page.

The person you’re trying to reach will receive a notification of your incoming call, which they’ll be able to “answer,” “Remind” themselves about later, or respond to with a “Message.” Once you’ve begun a call, you can temporarily “mute” your microphone, use the “speaker,” switch to a video “FaceTime” call, or add other “contacts” to the call.

When you’ve finished your call, hit the “End” button.” Note that you can also start a FaceTime call within an iMessage conversation by hitting “Contact” at the top-right corner of the screen, and selecting the FaceTime icon.

Or, hold down the home button to activate Siri, and say “FaceTime audio with” your contact.

On the “Recents” page of the FaceTime app, tap the “i” to the right of any call to see the length of the call, and how much data the call used.

Background App Refresh is an iPhone feature that allows apps to refresh themselves and receive updates when you’re not using them.

While this can save you time when checking an app you use frequently, it can also be a battery drain if it’s enabled for certain apps you don’t check that often.

To stop apps from refreshing in the background, open your iPhone’s “Settings” app, then open the “General” section.

Find and select “Background App Refresh.” At the top, you can turn the feature off completely if you want.

Below, you’ll see the list of apps that can use Background App Refresh.

The blue arrows indicate apps that detect your location in the background.

If background app refresh is enabled for an app that you don’t check regularly, turn it off by moving the slider to the left.

Your changes will automatically be saved.

Your iPhone’s high-resolution screen allows you to read all kinds of text with ease.

However, you may find that the text in certain apps is simply too large or small for your liking.

You can adjust the default text size for easy reading.

To adjust the font size on your iPhone, open the “Settings” app, and choose “General,” then “Text Size.” Drag the slider at the bottom of the page to adjust the size; the text at the top will show the size of the font as it will appear in other apps.

Note that the text size will only change in apps that support “Dynamic Type,” and this does not influence how text is displayed in menus or buttons.

Your changes will be saved automatically.

Flickr and Vimeo are two sites that allow you to easily share photos and videos, respectively.

If you have accounts on these sites, you can connect them to your iPhone to share photos and videos in a single tap.

To connect to Flickr or Vimeo, open the “Settings” app and tap the one you’d like to connect to.

At the top, you can “Install” that site’s app if you haven’t already, but you don’t need to do so to link your account.

Below, log in with your account details.

If you don’t already have an account, you can create one in the Flickr or Vimeo app.

Now, when you’d like to share a photo or video, tap the share icon in the lower left corner of the Photos app, then scroll left and choose the appropriate service.

In the lightbox, add a description and change the details, if you’d like, before hitting “Post.”

iTunes Radio is a music discovery service that lets you listen to music based on a particular song, artist, or genre that’s picked automatically by Apple.

To use iTunes Radio, open the “Music” app on your phone, then tap “Radio” at the bottom, and hit “Start Listening.” Here, you can start listening right away from Apple’s “Featured Stations,” or hit “New Station” below.

Type an “Artist, Genre, or Song” into the search bar at the top, or pick a genre below.

Tap a station to preview it, or select the plus icon to add the station to “My Stations.” Once a station has started playing, you’ll hear a variety of songs related to what you’ve chosen.

Note that unlike a regular track in the “Music” app, you can pause and skip a track, but you can’t go back or pick a different part of the song to listen to.

Tap the star icon to “Play More Like This,” “Never Play This Song,” or “Add to iTunes Wish List.” Tap the “i” at the top to create a new station based on this artist or song, adjust whether to focus on “Hits,” “Variety,” or “Discovery,” and whether to “Allow Explicit Tracks.” Tap the list icon at the top to see the current song’s album, or tap the price icon and then “Buy Song” to purchase it immediately.

You can access your play “History” in the top left of the iTunes Radio home page, where you can preview or purchase your previously “Played” tracks and your “Wish List.”

The sensors in your iPhone tell your phone which direction is down so you can flip apps into landscape mode.

This same feature also allows you to use your iPhone as a level to line up objects you’d like to be straight.

To use your iPhone as a level, open the compass app, and calibrate your phone’s accelerometer by rolling the ball around the circle.

Once it’s calibrated, swipe left to use the level.

Lay your phone face-up on a surface to see how close to level it is.

The number and circles will indicate how far away from perfectly flat they are.

If the surface is perfectly level, the circles will line up on top of one another, and the screen will turn green.

Or, put your phone up against a wall or another vertical object.

The number indicates how many degrees left or right of level your phone is, and the horizon line indicates how far forward or backward it’s tilted.

If you line up your iPhone to be exactly level in either of those dimensions, your screen will turn green, letting you know you’ve leveled that picture frame.

Many cellular plans come with a limited amount of data that you can use without being charged for overages, so monitoring and controlling how much data you use helps you save money.

To see how much cellular data you’ve used, open the “Settings” app and choose “General,” “Usage,” then “Cellular Usage.” Here, you’ll see how much data you’ve used since the “Last Reset” date.

Hit the “Reset Statistics” button on the day your data plan resets to keep tabs on how much you use in a certain month.

Control your phone’s data by choosing “Cellular” in the “General” menu.

At the bottom, you can control whether certain Apple-made apps can use cellular data.

If you want to be extremely conservative with your data, turn off the “Cellular Data” slider at the top.

You’ll still get texts and calls, but no cell data will be used at all until you turn this back on.

In general, avoid doing things that use a lot of data, like downloading apps and files or watching video, while using cell data.

Some apps also include an option in their settings to restrict how they use your cell data.

Turning these on can help prevent accidental data use.