iPhone User Guide

• Welcome
• Introducing iPhone
  • iPhone models
    • iPhone models compatible with iOS 27
    • iPhone 11
    • iPhone 11 Pro
    • iPhone 11 Pro Max
    • iPhone SE (2nd generation)
    • iPhone 12 mini
    • iPhone 12
    • iPhone 12 Pro
    • iPhone 12 Pro Max
    • iPhone 13 mini
    • iPhone 13
    • iPhone 13 Pro
    • iPhone 13 Pro Max
    • iPhone SE (3rd generation)
    • iPhone 14
    • iPhone 14 Plus
    • iPhone 14 Pro
    • iPhone 14 Pro Max
    • iPhone 15
    • iPhone 15 Plus
    • iPhone 15 Pro
    • iPhone 15 Pro Max
    • iPhone 16
    • iPhone 16 Plus
    • iPhone 16 Pro
    • iPhone 16 Pro Max
    • iPhone 16e
    • iPhone 17
    • iPhone 17 Pro
    • iPhone 17 Pro Max
    • iPhone Air
    • iPhone 17e
    • iPhone 18 Pro
    • iPhone 18 Pro Max
  • Setup basics
  • Make your iPhone your own
  • Take great photos and videos
  • Keep in touch with friends and family
  • Share features with your family
  • Use iPhone for your daily routines
  • Expert advice from Apple Support
• What’s new in iOS 27
• Set up and get started
  • Turn on and set up iPhone
  • Wake, unlock, and lock
  • Set up cellular service
  • View or change cellular data settings
  • Use Dual SIM
  • Set up iPhone Handoff on iPhone
  • Connect to the internet
  • Manage Wi-Fi settings
  • Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
  • Apple Account and iCloud
    • Sign in and manage your Apple Account
    • Use iCloud
    • Subscribe to iCloud+
  • Change the date and time
  • Change the language and region
  • Change the name of your iPhone
  • Change the default apps
  • Change your default search engine
• Basics
  • Find settings
  • Learn the meaning of iPhone status icons
  • Get information about your iPhone
  • Learn gestures for iPhone
    • Learn basic gestures
    • Learn gestures for iPhone models with Face ID
  • Adjust the volume
  • Silence iPhone
  • Turn the iPhone flashlight on or off
  • Rotate your iPhone screen
  • Charge and monitor the battery
    • Charge the battery
    • Show the battery percentage
    • Charge with cleaner energy sources
    • Optimize battery charging
    • Set a charge limit
    • Understand Thermally Limited Charging
    • Save battery life with Power Modes on iPhone
    • Understand your iPhone battery usage and health
  • Use your apps
    • Open apps
    • Find and use your apps in App Library
    • Switch between open apps
    • Quit and reopen an app
    • Multitask with Picture in Picture
  • Access features from the Lock Screen
  • View Live Activities in the Dynamic Island
  • Perform quick actions
  • Search on iPhone
  • View and respond to notifications
  • Change notification settings
  • Manage storage on iPhone
  • Travel with iPhone
• Personalize your iPhone
  • Change sounds and vibrations
  • Use and customize the Action button
  • Create a custom Lock Screen
  • Customize your Home Screen
    • Add an app
    • Add, edit, and remove widgets
    • Move apps and widgets on the Home Screen
    • Customize apps and widgets on the Home Screen
    • Lock or hide an app
    • Organize your apps in folders
    • Remove or delete apps
  • Change the wallpaper
  • Use and customize Control Center
  • Improve audio and record video calls
  • Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
  • Keep the iPhone display on longer
  • Use StandBy
  • Adjust iPhone display and text settings
  • Set up Focus, notifications, and Do Not Disturb
    • Set up a Focus
    • Allow or silence notifications for a Focus
    • Turn a Focus on or off
    • Stay focused while driving
  • Customize sharing options
• Work with text and graphics
  • Enter, select, and revise text
    • Type with the onscreen keyboard
    • Dictate text
    • Commands for dictating text
    • Select, edit, and move text
    • Use predictive text
    • Translate text in apps
    • Use shorthand for frequently used text
  • Add or change keyboards
  • Add emoji, Memoji, and stickers
  • Capture and record the iPhone screen
    • Take a screenshot
    • Take a screen recording
    • Change the screen capture settings
  • Use Markup tools
    • Draw and handwrite with Markup
    • Add text, shapes, stickers, and more
  • Fill out forms, sign documents, and create signatures
  • Interact with content in a photo or video
  • Identify objects in your photos and videos
  • Lift a subject from the photo background
• Camera
  • Take photos
    • Camera basics
    • Use camera tools
    • Use advanced camera tools
    • Use Photographic Styles
    • Take Live Photos
    • Take Burst mode shots
    • Take panoramic photos
    • Take a selfie
    • Take macro photos and videos
    • Take Night mode photos
    • Take portraits
    • Take Apple ProRAW photos
    • Capture a verifiable photo with Apple Reference Image
  • Use the Camera Control
  • Use the Camera Control to open another app
  • Adjust the shutter volume
  • Adjust HDR camera settings
  • Record a video
  • Take spatial photos and record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
  • Change sound recording options
  • Record ProRes video
  • Record video in Cinematic mode
  • Change video recording settings
  • Save camera settings
  • Customize the Main camera lens
  • Change advanced camera settings
  • View, share, and print photos
  • Use Live Text
  • Scan a QR code
• Apps
  • App Store
    • Get apps
    • Use App Clips
    • Update apps
    • Install and manage fonts
    • Share and send apps
    • See your purchases and subscriptions
    • Change settings and restrictions
  • Books
    • Buy books and audiobooks
    • Read books
    • Annotate books
    • Access books on other Apple devices
    • Listen to audiobooks
    • Set reading goals
    • Organize books
    • Read PDFs
  • Calculator
    • Get started with Calculator
    • Use the basic calculator
    • Use the scientific calculator
    • Solve math with Math Notes
    • Work with graphs in Math Notes
    • Convert units or currency
    • See previous calculations
  • Calendar
    • Create and edit events in Calendar
    • Send invitations
    • Reply to invitations
    • Change how you view events
    • Search for events
    • Change Calendar settings
    • Schedule or display events in a different time zone
    • Keep track of events
    • Use multiple calendars
    • Use reminders
    • Use the Holidays calendar
    • Share iCloud calendars
  • Clock
    • See the world clock
    • Set an alarm
    • Change your wake up alarm
    • Use the stopwatch
    • Set timers
  • Compass
  • Contacts
    • Add and use contact information
    • Edit contacts
    • Add your contact info
    • Add or remove accounts
    • Use NameDrop on iPhone to share your contact info
    • Use contacts from the Phone app
    • Merge or hide duplicate contacts
    • Sync contacts across devices
    • Import contacts
    • Export contacts
  • FaceTime
    • Get started with FaceTime
    • Make and receive FaceTime calls
      • Set up FaceTime
      • Make FaceTime calls
      • Receive FaceTime calls
    • Create a FaceTime link
    • Use FaceTime audio call tools
    • Take a Live Photo
    • Use Live Captions and Live Translation
    • Use other apps during a call
    • Make a Group FaceTime call
    • Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
    • Share your screen in a FaceTime call
    • Request or give remote control in a FaceTime call
    • Collaborate on a document in FaceTime
    • Use video conferencing features
    • Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
    • Use camera controls during a FaceTime call on iPhone
    • Change the FaceTime audio settings
    • Leave a call or switch to Messages
    • Block a FaceTime call and report it as spam
    • Screen and filter calls
  • Files
    • Files basics
    • Modify files and folders
    • Find and view files and folders
    • Find your downloaded files on iPhone
    • Organize files and folders
    • Send files from the Files app
    • Set up iCloud Drive
    • Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
    • Transfer files from iPhone to a storage device, a server, or the cloud
  • Find My
    • Find people
      • Share your location
      • Meet up with a friend
      • Send your location via satellite
      • Add or remove a friend
      • Locate a friend
      • Get notified when friends change their location
      • Notify a friend when your location changes
    • Find devices
      • Add your iPhone
      • Add your iPhone Wallet with MagSafe
      • Get notified if you leave a device behind
      • Locate a device
      • Mark a device as lost
      • Erase a device
      • Remove a device
    • Find items
      • Add an AirTag
      • Share an AirTag
      • Share location of a lost item
      • Add a third-party item
      • Get notified if you leave an item behind
      • Locate an item
      • Mark an item as lost
      • Remove an item
    • Adjust map settings
    • Turn off Find My
  • Fitness
    • Get started with Fitness
    • See your activity summary
    • Adjust your Activity ring goals
    • Sync a third-party workout app
    • Workout
      • Start a workout in Fitness
      • Customize a workout
      • Use Workout Buddy
      • Log a workout
      • Use gym equipment in Fitness
    • Change Fitness settings
    • Share your activity
  • Freeform
    • Get started with Freeform
    • Create a Freeform board
    • Add content to a board
      • Draw or handwrite
      • Add text
      • Add shapes, lines, and arrows
      • Add diagrams
      • Add tables
      • Add images, scans, links, and other files
      • Apply consistent styles
      • Position items on a board
    • Share or present a board
      • Collaborate in boards and folders
      • Send a copy or PDF
      • Print a board
      • Navigate and present scenes
    • Organize your Freeform boards in folders
    • Search Freeform boards
    • Delete and recover boards and folders
    • Subscribe to Apple Creator Studio
    • Change Freeform settings
  • Games
    • Get started with the Apple Games app
    • Set up your Game Center profile
    • Find and download games
    • Subscribe to Apple Arcade
    • Connect with friends in the Apple Games app
    • Play with friends in the Apple Games app
    • Manage your game library
    • Connect a game controller
    • Change game-related settings
    • Report a problem with a game
  • Health
    • Get started with Health
    • Fill out your Health Details
    • View and share health data
      • Intro to Health data
      • View your health data
      • Share your health data
      • View health data shared by others
    • Get health records from your providers
      • Download health records
      • View health records
    • Monitor your walking steadiness
    • Track your menstrual cycle
      • Log menstrual cycle information
      • View menstrual cycle predictions and history
      • Log a pregnancy
      • Track menopause stages
    • Manage your medications
      • Track your medications
      • Learn more about your medications
    • Track your mental wellbeing
      • Log your state of mind
      • Take a mental health assessment
    • Prioritize your sleep
      • Set up sleep
      • Edit sleep schedules
      • Turn off alarms and delete sleep schedules
      • Turn Sleep Focus on or off
      • View your sleep history
    • Use headphone hearing safeguards
      • Check your headphone audio levels
      • Use hearing health features
    • Register as an organ donor
    • Back up your Health data
  • Home
    • Intro to Home
    • Set up accessories
    • Control accessories
    • Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
    • View electricity usage and rates
    • Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance
    • Set up HomePod
    • Control your home remotely
    • Create and use scenes
    • Use automations
    • Set up security cameras
    • Use Face Recognition
    • Unlock your door with a home key on iPhone or Apple Watch
    • Configure a router
    • Invite others to control accessories
    • Add more homes
    • Use Apple Intelligence with Home cameras and notifications
  • iTunes Store
    • Get music
    • Get ringtones
    • Manage purchases and settings
  • Journal
    • Get started
    • Write in your journal
    • Edit or delete an entry
    • Add formatting, photos, and more
    • Journal for your wellbeing
    • Build a journaling habit
    • View and search journal entries
    • Print and export entries
    • Protect your journal entries
    • Change Journal settings
  • Magnifier
    • Magnify or get information about things around you
    • Customize controls
    • Detection Mode
      • Detect doors, people, and furniture around you
      • Detect text around you and have it read out loud
      • Set up shortcuts for Live Recognition
  • Mail
    • Add or remove email accounts
      • Add and remove email accounts
      • Set up a custom email domain
    • Check your email
    • Use categories
    • Automatically clean up iCloud Mail
    • Write and send email
      • Send email
      • Unsend email with Undo Send
      • Reply to and forward emails
      • Save an email draft
    • Work with attachments
      • Add email attachments
      • Download email attachments
      • Annotate email attachments
    • Set email notifications
    • Search for email
    • Organize email in mailboxes
    • Use iCloud Mail rules to automatically apply actions to emails
    • Flag and filter email
      • Flag or block emails
      • Filter emails
    • Mail privacy and security
      • Use Hide My Email
      • Use Mail Privacy Protection
    • Change Mail settings
    • Delete and recover emails
    • Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
    • Print emails
  • Maps
    • Get started with Maps
    • Set up Maps
    • Navigate
      • Set your home, work, or school address
      • Use Maps
      • Get driving directions
      • Set up electric vehicle routing
      • View a route overview or a list of turns
      • Change or add stops to your route
      • Get directions to your parked car
      • Get walking directions
      • Save walks or hikes
      • Get transit directions
      • Get cycling directions
      • Book rides
      • Download offline maps
    • Explore maps with immersive views
    • Find places
      • Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
      • Explore airports or malls
      • Get information about places
      • View Visited Places
      • Add places and notes to your Places
      • Share places
      • Mark a location with a pin
      • Rate places and add photos
      • Explore places with guides
      • Organize places with custom guides
    • Customize your experience
      • Share your estimated time of arrival
      • Change how you hear spoken directions
      • Choose a default travel mode and units
      • Check traffic conditions and report traffic incidents
      • Get weather info
      • Clear location history
      • Delete recent directions
    • Report an issue with Maps
  • Measure
    • Measure dimensions
    • View and save measurements
    • Measure a person’s height
    • Use the level
  • Messages
    • Get started with Messages
    • Set up Messages
      • Set up Messages
      • Turn read receipts on or off
      • Stop, mute, and change notifications
      • Translate texts
      • iMessage overview
      • Use iMessage apps
    • Send and receive messages
      • Send and reply to messages
      • Text via satellite
      • Schedule text messages to send later
      • Unsend or edit messages
      • Forward and share messages
      • Send and receive audio messages
    • Add effects to your messages
      • Format text and animate messages
      • Add backgrounds
    • Share images and other content
      • Take and edit photos or videos
      • Share content
      • React with Tapbacks
      • Send stickers
      • Draw and create images
      • Create and send Memoji
      • Poll people in a conversation
      • Share your location
      • Share screens
      • Collaborate on projects
    • Find and organize messages
      • Search
      • Screen and filter texts
      • Report spam and block senders
      • Group conversations
      • Keep track of messages
      • Delete messages and attachments
      • Recover deleted messages
  • Music
    • Get started with Music
    • Get music
    • Apple Music
      • Subscribe to Apple Music
      • Transfer music from other music services
      • Get personalized recommendations
      • Mark items as favorites
      • Add music and listen offline
      • Pin music
      • Create a profile to share
        • Create an Apple Music Profile
        • Share music with friends
        • See what friends are listening to
    • Find and play music
      • Find music
        • Search for music
        • Find music shared with you
        • Find new music
      • Play music
        • Play music
        • Use the music player controls
        • Play lossless audio
        • Play Spatial Audio
        • Listen to radio
        • Play music together using SharePlay
        • Play music together in the car
        • Queue up your music
        • Transition songs
        • Shuffle or repeat songs
        • Sing along with Apple Music
        • Show song credits and lyrics
        • Tell Apple Music what you enjoy
        • Adjust the sound quality
    • Organize songs in playlists
      • Intro to playlists
      • Create, edit, and delete playlists
      • Collaborate on playlists
        • Collaborate on a playlist
        • Join a collaborative playlist
        • Add a reaction to a collaborative playlist
      • Organize playlists in folders
  • News
    • Get started with News
    • Get News notifications and newsletters
    • Use News widgets
    • See news stories chosen just for you
    • Read and share stories
    • Read local news
    • Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
    • Listen to Apple News Today
    • Apple News+
      • Subscribe to Apple News+
      • Browse and read Apple News+ stories
      • Use Offline Mode to read downloaded News content
      • Manually download Apple News+ issues
      • Listen to News stories
      • Find recipes and food stories in Apple News+
      • Puzzles
        • Find puzzles in Apple News+
        • Solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles
        • Solve Quartiles puzzles
        • Solve sudoku puzzles
        • Play Emoji Game
    • Search for channels, topics, stories, or recipes
    • Save stories
    • Clear your reading history
    • Subscribe to individual news channels
  • Notes
    • Get started with Notes
    • Create and format notes
    • Use Quick Notes
    • Add drawings and handwriting
    • Enter formulas and equations
    • Add photos, video, and more
    • Record and transcribe audio
    • Scan text and documents
    • Work with PDFs
    • Add links
    • Search notes
    • Organize in folders
    • Organize with tags
    • Use Smart Folders