iPhone For Dummies. Bob LeVitus

iPhone For Dummies - Bob LeVitus


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can press the sleep/wake button again. Or press the Home button (if your device has one) on the front of the screen. Either way, press the Home button again to open your phone. If you set up the iPhone to use Touch ID, you can merely press your finger against the Home button to unlock it. You’ll be able to unlock the models with Face ID and a swipe gesture.

      You can wake up the screen also by merely raising the phone. To turn off the raise-to-wake feature, go to Settings.

      The last few iterations of iOS software also brought refinements to Notification Center, which you can view by swiping down from the top of any screen, including the Lock screen. You can view the today view from the Lock or Home screen by swiping from the left. If you swipe from the right when on the Lock screen, you’ll summon the iPhone’s Camera app.

      You can act on notifications by swiping your finger or by taking advantage of 3D Touch or, on the XR and later models, Haptic Touch. 3D Touch and Haptic Touch let you apply pressure on the screen to summon contextual menus that relate to the icons and links that make contact with your finger. We have more on the Lock screen in Chapter 9.

      The iPhone, like most smartphones nowadays, dispenses with physical buttons in favor of a multitouch display. (The iPhone was a pioneer in popularizing multitouch.) This display is the heart of many things you do on the iPhone, and the controls change depending on the task at hand.

      Unlike some other phones with touchscreens, don’t bother looking for a stylus. You are meant, instead — at the risk of lifting another ancient ad slogan — to “let your fingers do the walking.”

Snapshots of the six faces of the iPhone keyboard.

      FIGURE 2-2: Six faces of the iPhone keyboard.

What’s more, if you rotate the iPhone to its side, you’ll get wider variations of the respective keyboards. A single example of a wide keyboard in the Notes app is shown in Figure 2-3.

Schematic illustration of going wide on the keyboard.

      FIGURE 2-3: Going wide on the keyboard.

      Discovering the special-use keys

      The iPhone keyboard contains a number of keys that don’t type a character (refer to Figure 2-3). These special-use keys follow:

       Shift key: Switches between uppercase and lowercase letters if you’re using the alphabetical keyboard. If you’re using keyboards that show only numbers and symbols, the traditional shift key is replaced by a key labeled #+= or 123. Pressing that key toggles between keyboards that have just symbols and numbers. To turn on caps lock mode and type in all caps, make sure caps lock is enabled. You do that by tapping the Settings icon, then tapping General, and then tapping Keyboard. Tap the Enable Caps Lock item to turn it on. After the caps lock setting is enabled, you double-tap the shift key to turn on caps lock. (The upward-pointing arrow in the shift key turns black when caps lock is on.) Tap the shift key again to turn off caps lock. To disable caps lock, just reverse the process by turning off the Enable Caps Lock setting (tap Settings, General, Keyboard). Before going through this drill, double-tap the shift key to see if you have to enable or disable the setting.

       Toggle key: Switches between the different keyboard layouts.

       International keyboard key: Shows up with a globe on the face of the key only if you’ve turned on an international keyboard, as explained in the sidebar titled “A keyboard for all borders,” later in this chapter. Tap this key if you want to choose a one-handed keyboard as discussed in the next section. You can also summon emojis, including smiley faces and other emoticons, Apple’s memoji stickers and animojis, and pictures of bells, boats, balloons, and animals.Note: When you select a keyboard in a different language — or English for that matter — you can select different software keyboard layouts (QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTX) and a hardware keyboard layout (if you connect a hardware keyboard via Bluetooth).

       Delete key: Erases the character immediately to the left of the cursor. If you press down the delete key for a few seconds, it begins erasing entire words rather than individual characters.

       Return key: Moves the cursor to the beginning of the next line. As mentioned, the Return key becomes a Go key on the Safari keyboard.

       Dictation key: Lets you use Siri to dictate your words. More on Siri in Chapter 5.

      The iPhone can automatically recognize the language in which you're dictating based on the international keyboards you set up on your device.

      If you’ve enabled the shift key, the letters will appear on their respective keys as capital letters. If the shift key has not been enabled, the letters are lowercase.

      One-handed keyboard

      Apple makes typing easier for one-handed typists by adding a somewhat crunched keyboard that you can push to either the right or left side of the screen. You can summon such a keyboard and determine where to place it by pressing your finger against the globe key (labeled “International keyboard” in Figure 2-3). Or visit the One Handed Keyboard setting in Settings, a topic for Chapter 14.

      The incredible, intelligent, and virtual iPhone keyboard

      Before you consider how to actually use the keyboard, we’d like to share a bit of the philosophy behind its so-called intelligence. In fact, through various iterations of iOS, the QuickPath keyboard managed to raise its IQ. For one thing, it leverages Siri. For another, it relies on deep neural network technology, which sounds as smart as it is.

      As mentioned, a QuickPath keyboard lets you swipe instead of tap. You spell out words by swiping across letters without lifting your finger, which some refer to as gesture typing. It may take getting used to at first, but after you get the hang of it, you may consider tapping with your finger passé. If you prefer things the way they've been, you can continue to finger-type.

      Anticipating what comes next


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