iPhone Tips & Lessons
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Classes on the iPhone4 Lessons
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New in iOS 184 Lessons
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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
Set Where New Apps download to on the iPhone
When you download a new app on the iPhone, by default it downloads to your Home Screen. You can set if you want it to download to both your Home Screen and App Library, or just the App Library. This way you can keep you Home Screens the way you want and have new apps only install to the App Library. If you want it on a Home Screen, you can easily install it on your Home Screen by dragging it from the App Library. See how to set where new apps are downloaded to on the iPhone.
Video TranscriptIn this video, we’re going to look at where we can set where the iPhone installs new apps. We can have it install on the Home Screen and the App Library, or just the App Library itself. Let’s see how this works. Let’s go to my iPhone.Now as you most likely know when you install an app from the App Store, what it does is it installs it on your Home Screen. So in my case here, what it will do is it will install it on my second Home Screen here, because my first home screen was full, and then it will also install it in the App Library.
Now, if you’re not familiar with the App Library, this was introduced in iOS 14. If I swipe all the way over to my last Home Screen, we have my App Library. I can find all of the apps that are installed on my iPhone in this library. So when I swipe down, I can see them in alphabetical order.
Now, when you install an app from the App Store, what it will do, again by default, is it will install it on your Home Screen here and in that App Library. What you can do is you can tell the iPhone to only install it in the App Library, so it doesn’t install it on your Home Screen. Now you may want to do this if you have all of your Home Screens customized, when you download a new app, you do not want it to go to your Home Screen. You only want it to go to your App Library. So then it doesn’t muddy up your Home Screen. So how do we do that?
Well, we do that through the Settings app. So I’m going to swipe over to the left here until I find my Settings app. From here, what we need to do is go to Home Screen. Under Home Screen we have an option for where Newly Downloaded Apps are Downloaded To. Again, you can see we have here at the Home Screen, which means it’s going to add it to the Home Screen and the App Library, or what we can do is just say App Library only.
So when I tap on App Library Only, now, it will only show up in my App Library. Any app that I download, they will not show up on my Home Screens.
So how do we move an app from our App Library over to the Home Screen? Let’s say I download an app. I end up using it a lot. So I’d like to install it on a Home Screen. Well, to do that, all we have to do is just drag it out of the App Library.
So I’m going to swipe over to the left here until I get to my App Library. I’m going to swipe down so I can see my list. This is my favorite view for the App Library.
And let’s go with the Calculator app. I want to install this on my Home Screen. All I have to do is just take this, I drag it out and I place it on my Home Screen, and I can place it on any one of my Home Screens. So now this app here Calculator is going to be on my Home Screen and in my App Library.
If I remove it from my Home Screen, I tap on the minus. What I’m able to do is tell the iPhone to remove it from my Home Screen or delete the app. If I remove it from the Home Screen, it’s going to only show in my App Library. It will not show up my Home Screen, but I can also just delete the app altogether.
So that’s how you can set where new apps are downloaded to on the iPhone. You can set it to install only in your App Library, or you can have it install on your Home Screen and App Library. If you do set it to only install in your App Library, and do you like the app or you use it a lot, what you’re able to do is drag it out of the App Library and place it on your Home Screen. It will still remain in your App Library, but you will also find it on your Home Screen. When you remove that app, you have the choice of deleting the app from your iPhone altogether, or what you can do is remove it from your Home Screen, but it’ll still be accessible through your App Library.
So that’s how you set where your apps are downloaded to on the iPhone.