A single light wipe on your clothes restores the screen to its right-out-of-the-box crystal sheen. That may sound like an irrational fear of yodeling, but it’s actually a coating that repels grease. You might expect it to get fingerprinty and streaky.īut the modern iPhone has an oleophobic screen. The touchscreen is your mouse, keyboard, dialing pad, and notepad. So here’s a handy shortcut: You can dive directly into the relevant app by swiping your finger across the notification itself, like this: To call somebody back, for example, you’d want to open the Phone app to reply to a text message, you’d want the Messages app, and so on. Now, each of these notices has come from a different app (software program). It’s a list of missed calls, text messages received, notifications from your apps, and other essential information. Here you see a record of everything that happened while you weren’t paying attention. Handy, really-the less fumbling you have to do while driving, the safer you are.īetter yet, the Lock screen is a handy status screen. If you’re driving, using the Maps app to guide you, the Lock screen shows the standard GPS navigation screen. Just tap the Sleep switch to consult the Lock screen’s time and date display, and then shove the phone right back into your pocket. It’s a lively bulletin board for up-to-date information about your life-information you can scan or work with right here at the Lock screen.įor starters, you can use the iPhone as a watch-millions of people do. These days, though, the Lock screen is more than just a big Do Not Disturb sign. Steps for this last-ditch procedure are on Seven Ways to Reset the Phone. If your iPhone is frozen, and no buttons work, and you can’t even turn the thing off, this button is also involved in force-restarting the whole machine. Welcome to the world of iPhone etiquette.)įorce restart. (Of course, because they didn’t hear four rings, iPhone veterans will know you’ve blown them off. You can also tap it twice to dump the call to voicemail immediately. After four rings, the call goes to your voicemail. When a call comes in, you can tap the Sleep button once to silence the ringing or vibrating. Nice touch.)Īnswer call/Dump to voicemail. (The Apple logo is black if your iPhone is white and white if your iPhone is black. The Apple logo appears as the phone boots up. To turn the iPhone back on, press the switch again for 1 second.
If you change your mind about turning the iPhone off, tap the Cancel button or do nothing after a moment, the iPhone backs out of the slide to power off screen automatically.
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