iPhone Tips & Lessons
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Classes on the iPhone5 Lessons
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New in iOS 186 Lessons
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How to Edit the Control Center on Your iPhone with iOS 18
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Customize your Home & Lock Screen with iOS 18
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iOS 18 Calendar & Reminders: What’s New and How to Use Them
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Navigate the New iOS 18 Photos App Like a Pro: Step-by-Step Guide
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How to Use iOS 18's New Background Sounds
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New iPhone Passwords App with iOS 18
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How to Edit the Control Center on Your iPhone with iOS 18
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My Favorite New Features in iOS 179 Lessons
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New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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Unlock the Power of Shared Passwords on iOS 17 and your iPhone!
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New Notes App Features on the iPhone with iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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Interactive Widgets & Standby with iOS 17
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Easily Switch search engines in Safari on the iPhone - New in iOS 17!
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Simplify the iPhone and it’s apps with Assistive Access
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Simplify PDF Form Completion on the iPhone with Autofill - New in iOS 17
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New Messages App Features in iOS 17 - My 4 Favorites!
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Edit and customize your Contact Poster and Photo on iOS 17
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New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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New Features Introduced with iOS 16 Lessons23 Lessons
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Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's new in Contacts on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in Reminders with iOS 16 on the iPhone
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Track your Medications in the Health App with iOS 16
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View and Copy Wi-Fi Passwords and Delete Known Networks on your iPhone
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Show the Battery Percentage on an iPhone with iOS 16
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Translate Text with the Camera on the iPhone
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New Filters and a Streamlined Setup for Focus on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Lift the Subject from the Background in a Photo on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in Notes with iOS 16 on the iPhone
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Add Haptic Tap Feedback to the iPhone Keyboard
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Edit, Undo Sends, and Dictate in Messages with iOS 16
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Change Notification Styles on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Apple Introduces Smarter Dictation on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Emergency Reset and Manage Sharing & Access with Safety Check on the iPhone
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Prevent the Sleep/Wake button from Ending Calls on the iPhone
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Unsend, Schedule, and Set Reminders in Mail on the iPhone
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Pin, share, and create start pages for tab groups, and share settings with Safari
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Multi-stop Routing and Scheduled Times in the Maps app with iOS 16
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Detect Duplicates, Copy Edits, and Lock Folders in Photos on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in the Weather App on the iPhone
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My Favorite New Features in iOS 16 on the iPhone
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How to Create and Manage a Shared Library in Photos
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Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Getting Started on the iPhone18 Lessons
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Home Button Features
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iPhone Side Switch and Volume Controls
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Sleep/Wake On/Off Button Features
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Navigating the Home Screen
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Searching your iPhone
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Today View
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Notifications and the Notification Center
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How to find a lost app on your iPhone
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Accessing and Customizing the Control Center
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Taking Screenshots
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Emergency SOS and Medical ID
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Saving Usernames and Passwords
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Navigate between Home Screens
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Accessing and Searching the iPhone's Settings
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Backing Up your iPhone to iCloud
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Arranging Apps and Creating Folders for Apps
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Switching and Quitting Open Apps
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iPhone Text Replacement: The Ultimate Time-Saver
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Home Button Features
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iPhone with Face ID Lessons10 Lessons
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iPhone Basics43 Lessons
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Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
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Access App Features from the iPhone Home Screen
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Move the Cursor on the iPhone
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Transfer from an iCloud backup without having to purchase more space
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Using the Keyboard
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View and Manage Storage
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Using Cut, Copy, and Paste
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Sharing Files including using AirDrop
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Battery Management Options
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Viewing Screen Time and Adding Restrictions
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Scrolling with the New Scrollbar
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Optimized Battery Charging
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Gestures for Cursor, Cut, Copy, and Paste
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Using QuickPath or Slide-to-Type
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Privacy Options
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Dark Mode
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Tips for why you may be receiving Intermittent Phone Calls
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Wallet and Apple Pay
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Siri's New Compact Design
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Drawing with Shape Detection
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New Date and Time Picker
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Navigate App History Stack
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Quickly Switch Networks from the Control Center
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Enable Caps Lock
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Access AirDrop Settings through the Control Center
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Create Alarms from the iPhone's Homescreen
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Access App Store Updates from your Homescreen
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Name That Tune on the iPhone
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Wireless Charging Is Wildly Inefficient
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Mute Notifications for an Hour or for the Day
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Schedule Notifications to be delivered in a Notification Summary
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Keep those Lenses Clean
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iPhone’s Emergency SOS Auto Call Feature
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Correct How Siri Pronounces Names
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Master Your Sleep Routine with iPhone: A Guide to Setting Up Sleep Schedules
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iPhone File Management: Removing a Download vs Deleting - What's the Difference?
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Save Documents Anywhere with Print Dialog on the iPhone
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Save a Document as a PDF from Your iPhone with Ease
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Combine and Compress Files on the iPhone
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Too Many iPhone Notifications? Reduce Distractions with Focus Profiles!
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Trackpad on the iPhone? Find out how in under 2 minutes!
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Enable Display Zoom for larger Icons & Bigger Text on your iPhone
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Unlocking Your iPhone's Potential: 11 Tips and Tricks Revealed!
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Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
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Home Screen Basics on the iPhone10 Lessons
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Accessing and Editing the Today View
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Add Widgets to your Home Screen
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Hide Home Screens
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Edit Widgets
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Creating and Editing Widget Stacks
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Using Smart Rotate with Widget Stacks
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Creating and Editing Smart Stacks
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Looking for More Widgets? Be Sure to Launch Seldom-Used Apps
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Add and Organize Websites Like Native Apps on iPhone
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iPhone Standby Mode
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Accessing and Editing the Today View
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Working with Apps on the iPhone26 Lessons
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Deleting Apps
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App Store: Updates and Interactions
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Find My App: Find my Friends and Find my iPhone
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Using Apple Pay and Apple Cash
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Long-Pressing on App icons
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Delete and re-add Apple Apps
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Offloading Apps
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Moving Multiple Apps
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App Library
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Set where to download your Apps
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App Clips
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Tips to Quickly Open the Camera
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View Expired Passes in the Wallet App
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Find App Updates and Delete Apps through the App Store
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Lock PDF's by adding a Password
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Set Where New Apps download to on the iPhone
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Prevent In-App Rating & Review Notifications
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Manage App Subscriptions from the iPhone
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Discover New Features in your Apps on the iPhone
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Access Your Mac's Files on Your iPhone
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Search for text within web pages in Safari on the iPhone
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Find your Lost iPhone Apps!
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3 Tips on How to Block Annoying Texts on iPhone
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Are Your iPhone’s Photos a mess? Organize them with CleanMyPhone!
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9 Tips for Working with Apps on the iPhone
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Discover How to Free Up Your iPhone Storage Space
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Deleting Apps
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iPhone Settings24 Lessons
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Automatic iOS Software Updates
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Wifi Networks and Wifi Settings
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Settings to Help make the iPhone Easier to Read
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Reset Options for the iPhone
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Do Not Disturb Options
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Privacy Settings
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Adding Parental Controls
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Changing Notification Sounds
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Save Battery life with Low Power Mode
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Manage App Store Subscriptions
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Change Notification Banner Style
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Delete iOS System Updates
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Set your Default Browser
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Set your Default Mail App
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Private Wi-Fi Addresses
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Low Data Mode
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After Upgrading to iOS 15, Check Do Not Disturb in Focus Settings
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View your Battery Usage by App
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Display Incoming Calls as a Banner or in Full Screen
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Save Space on Your iPhone with These Photo Storage Tips
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Ensure your memories persist after you pass away with a Legacy Contact
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The App Privacy Report on the iPhone: Discover what Data is being accessed by your apps
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Passwords App for the iPhone? Yes! Learn how in 5 mins!
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Automatically Set Do Not Disturb based on your Location
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Automatic iOS Software Updates
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Accessibility Options on the iPhone11 Lessons
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Back Tap Accessibility
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Sound Recognition
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Using the iPhone as a Magnifier
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Zoom Control in Accessibility
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See what has changed in apps that have been automatically updated
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Play Background Sounds
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Add Button Shapes to Buttons
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View all the Display & Text Size Options available
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Change Display & Text Size with Per-App Settings
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Use your iPhone to control your iPad effortlessly from anywhere in the Room
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iPhone Background Sounds (iOS17)
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Back Tap Accessibility
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Lessons for Older Versions of iOS3 Lessons
How to Create and Manage a Shared Library in Photos
Learn how to create and manage a shared library for your photos on the iPhone with iOS 16.
With iOS 16 (and iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura), Apple added a second Photos library. This second library can be shared with other people! You can set it up to share all your past photos, or use setup tools to contribute specific photos based on start date or people. It also has Smart sharing suggestions and you can select which library you want to place your phot in when you take the picture with your camera! Everyone has equal permissions to add, edit, favorite, caption, and delete. Learn how to setup and manage your Shared Library in Photos in this video for the iPhone.
Video TranscriptionAnd then I can select how I want to share my photos by default, do I want to share all of my photos and videos do I want to share my whole album, or maybe I just want to share photos from specific people or a date. And again, this is not an album, this is a shared library. Or what I could do is select them manually. So I’m just going to go with all my photos and videos. Right now I just want to share all of my photos and videos. So I tap on this.
And now we go over to next we can preview the library. So I’m going to preview this, it’s going to give me an idea of what photos are going to be shared, you’re gonna see I have to earn 77 photos with 21 videos. Let’s go ahead and share this. So I tap on Continue. And now all I have to do is just invite Abigail. And now once she accepts that invitation, she will be able to see this library on her iPhone on her iPad. Now we’re not finished yet, we do have to go up to set up here. And we have to set up how we want to share from the camera. So we’ve set up how we want the library to be shared. But what about the camera happens when we take a photo? Well, we can have it share manually, so then I have to share it manually or I can have it share automatically. So if you want all of your photos to be in this album, then you would go share automatically. But if you want to select specific photos, then what you do is you go to share manually, I’m going to go with share manually. So I tap on it.
And now what I’m able to do is take a photo and I can share that with the library, it’s not going to go into that shared library by default. So now how do I change it to my different views, I have two different libraries, right, I have a shared library, and then I have my own library. Well, to switch between these two different libraries, what you do is you go up to the little silhouette in the upper right hand corner. And then what you’re able to do is select which library you want to see, you can select both libraries, you’re gonna see all of the libraries, you can select your personal library, or just the shared library. So right now what I’m doing is I’m seeing only the shared library, I want to view the personal library, I tap on personal library. Now I’m looking at my personal library, I go back to the icon, and we go to share and you’re gonna see that the icon changes right now it’s a silhouette of a single person. When I go to the shared, we have two people there. And if I want to view all of them, I go to both libraries. Now I’m viewing all of the photos. So that’s how we can easily switch between our different libraries. Now, what about when we take that photo, I’m going to take a photo here. So let’s just swipe up, and we’re going to go to my camera, you’re going to get a picture of my desk here. And basically to select which library is going to go to you’re going to see we have this little silhouette up here in the upper left hand corner. And from here, what I’m able to do is select which library.
So now it’s going to the shared library, tap on it again, it’s going to the personal so I just keep tapping on it to go through my different libraries. So when I take this photo now you can see has a little line through it. What it’s going to do is go into my library, not the shared library. So let’s go ahead and take that photo. And now we’re going to go back over to my photos app. We can see that that photo is there. I want to change the You, what I do is I go up to the three dots here. And now I’m able to change the view. So let’s go with my personal library, we can see that I have my desktop there. Now, this should not be in my shared library, when I tap on this, you’re going to see that it is not there. Because it is only in my personal library. When I view all of my libraries. Let’s go ahead and close that there. When I view all of my libraries, you’re going to see that we have a little silhouette here in the upper right hand corner of each photo, if it has that silhouette, that means that it’s in the shared library. If it doesn’t have it, you can see that this one doesn’t have it. That means that it is in the personal library, so you’re able to see which library a photo is in. So let’s move this photo to the shared library. How do we do that, let’s say I want to have that in the shared library. Well, all you have to do is just tap and hold onit and then you’re going to see move to shared library, that’s all we have to do. So I’m going to tap on it. And now it is moving it to the shared library. So now Abigail will be able to see that photo, she’ll be able to edit the photo, she’ll be able to delete it, because it’s shared library.
Let’s go and move this photo here to just the personal library, I tap on move to personal library. And now that folder will be moved to my personal library. So that’s how shared libraries work. Now we do have a few settings for let’s go back over to my settings app, I swipe up, and we go over to my settings app, we need to make sure that we’re in our photos setting. So I’m going to go back the way I found that was by looking at all of my different settings here. And then I went to photos. Now what we need to do is go to shared library. From here, what I’m able to do is add more people to this library. I can also remove people, you’re gonna see that Abigail is still invited, look to the left of my pointer there, you’re gonna see it says invited she hasn’t accepted her invitation yet. I tap on this. And what I’m able to do is resend the invitation as well as remove her from the shared library.
I go back, I can also set if I want shared library suggestions. When this is on, it’ll give me suggestions of who I can share my library with. And then I can set my sharing from camera options. You remember how I had it set where it’s manual? Well, when I tap on this, I can set it for automatically. So any photo that I take will automatically go into the shared library, I’m going to leave it at manual and then move them over manually. And then our last option here is share when at home. What this will do is it will always add your photos and videos from the camera to the shared library even when the other participants aren’t there. I like to have full manual control. So I’m just going to leave that off and leave it at share manually. So that is the new shared library that we have with iOS 16. This actually works with iOS 16, iPad os 16 and Mac OS Ventura. So that’s how shared libraries work in iOS 16 on the iPhone