iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 14
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change sounds and vibrations
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- Open apps
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Set a Live Photo as wallpaper
- Make screen items more reachable
- Search with iPhone
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- Add widgets
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPhone
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- Calculator
- Compass
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- Collect health and fitness information
- Maintain a health profile
- View health and fitness information
- Track your menstrual cycle
- Track headphone and environmental sound-level exposure
- Share health and fitness data
- Download health records
- Create and share your Medical ID
- Manage health with the Health Checklist
- Register as an organ donor
- Back up your Health data
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- View maps
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- Use Siri, Maps, and widgets to get directions
- Choose your preferred type of travel
- Get driving directions
- Report traffic incidents
- Find your parked car
- Get cycling directions
- Find places to stop
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- See an overview of your route or its directions in a list
- Change audio settings for turn-by-turn directions
- Select other route options
- Get directions between places other than your current location
- Delete recently viewed directions
- Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
- Help correct and improve Maps
- Get rides
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- View photos and videos
- Delete and hide photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Portrait mode photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
- Translate
- Weather
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- Set up Family Sharing
- Download family members’ purchases
- Stop sharing purchases
- Turn on Ask To Buy
- Set up Apple Cash Family
- Share Apple Card
- Share subscriptions and iCloud storage
- Share photos, a calendar, and more with family members
- Locate a family member’s missing device
- Set up Screen Time through Family Sharing
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- Charging cable
- Power adapters
- MagSafe chargers and battery packs
- MagSafe cases and sleeves
- Qi-certified wireless chargers
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- Set up AirPods
- Charge AirPods
- Start and stop audio playback
- Change the AirPods volume
- Make and answer calls with AirPods
- Switch AirPods between devices
- Use Siri with AirPods
- Listen and respond to messages
- Share audio with AirPods and Beats headphones
- Change noise control modes
- Control spatial audio
- Restart AirPods
- Change the name of your AirPods and other settings
- Use other Bluetooth headphones
- Use EarPods
- Check headphone sound levels
- Apple Watch
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Magic Keyboard
- Printers
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- Share your internet connection
- Allow phone calls on your iPad, iPod touch, and Mac
- Hand off tasks between iPhone and your Mac
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPhone and other devices
- Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
- Sync iPhone with your computer
- Transfer files between iPhone and your computer
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- Intro to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Use Siri
- Use your vehicle’s built-in controls
- Get turn-by-turn directions
- Report traffic incidents
- Change the map view
- Make phone calls
- Play music
- View your calendar
- Send and receive text messages
- Play podcasts
- Play audiobooks
- Listen to news stories
- Control your home
- Use other apps with CarPlay
- Rearrange icons on CarPlay Home
- Change settings in CarPlay
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- Get started with accessibility features
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type onscreen braille
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- People detection
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular data settings
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Ultra Wideband information
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Use a braille display with VoiceOver on iPhone
iPhone supports many international braille tables and refreshable braille displays. You can connect a Bluetooth wireless braille display to read VoiceOver output, including contracted and uncontracted braille and equations using Nemeth Code. When you edit text, the braille display shows the text in context, and your edits are automatically converted between braille and printed text. You can also use a braille display with input keys to control your iPhone when VoiceOver is turned on.
For a list of supported braille displays, see the Apple Support article Braille displays supported by iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Connect a braille display and learn commands to control iPhone
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Turn on the braille display.
On iPhone, go to Settings
> Bluetooth, turn on Bluetooth, then choose the display.On iPhone, go to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille, then choose the display.
To see the braille commands for controlling iPhone, tap More Info, then tap Braille Commands.
See the Apple Support article Common braille commands for VoiceOver on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Change the braille display settings
On iPhone, go to Settings
> Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille.Set any of the following:
Setting
Description
Output
Set the braille display output to uncontracted six-dot, uncontracted eight-dot, or contracted braille.
Input
Choose the input method for entering braille on the display—uncontracted six-dot, uncontracted eight-dot, or contracted braille. You can also turn on Automatic Translation.
Braille Screen Input
Choose the input method for entering braille using the screen. See Type braille directly on the iPhone screen using VoiceOver.
Braille Tables
Add tables to the Braille Table rotor.
Status Cells
Turn on the general and text status cells and choose their location.
Equations use Nemeth Code
Turn on Nemeth Code for mathematical equations.
Show On-screen Keyboard
Display the keyboard on the screen.
Turn Pages when Panning
Automatically turn pages when panning.
Word Wrap
Wrap words to the next line.
Braille Alert Messages
When turned on, your braille display shows an alert message for the specified duration.
Ignore Chord Duration
Adjust the amount of time required before subsequent key presses are recognized as braille chords.
Auto Advance Duration
Adjust this setting to your preferred reading speed.
Output closed captions in braille during media playback
On iPhone, go to Settings
> Accessibility > VoiceOver > Verbosity.Choose Braille or Speech and Braille.