- Customizing Your Home Screens
- Working with the Settings App
- Setting the Screens Brightness, View, Text Size, and Wallpaper
- Setting Keyboard, Language, and Format Options
- Choosing the Sounds Your iPhone Makes
- Setting Up Notifications and the Notification Center
- Configuring the Control Center
- Setting Do Not Disturb Preferences
- Setting Privacy and Location Services Preferences
- Setting Passcode, Touch ID, and Auto-Lock Preferences
- Setting Restrictions for Content and Apps
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Working with the Settings App
If you’ve read previous chapters, you’ve already used the Settings app a couple of times. Aptly named, the Settings app is where you configure the many settings that change how your iPhone looks, sounds, and works. Most of the tasks in this chapter involve the Settings app. Rather than repeat the first couple of steps within each task, it is more efficient to show you how the app works so you can easily access the controls you need for each task.
Using the Settings App on Any iPhone
You can work with the Settings app on any iPhone as follows:
On the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings app opens. The app is organized in sections starting at the top with controls you use to enable, disable, or configure key functions of your iPhone including Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, and so on. The next set of tools configures notifications, the Control Center, and the Do No Disturb function. The third group includes General, Display & Brightness, Wallpaper, Sounds, Touch ID & Passcode, and Privacy. Beneath those is a section with iCloud and iTunes & App Store settings. The remainder of the sections are the settings you use to configure how specific apps work, such as Notes, Reminders, and so on.
Swipe up or down the screen to get to the settings area you want to use.
Tap the area you want to configure, such as Sounds.
- Use the resulting controls to configure that area. The changes you make take effect immediately.
When you’re done, you can leave the Settings app where it is or tap the back button, which is always located in the upper-left corner of the screen, until you get back to the main Settings screen to go into other Settings areas.
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Using the Settings App on an iPhone 6 Plus
When you hold an iPhone 6 Plus in the horizontal orientation and use the Settings app, you can take advantages of the iPhone 6 Plus’ split-screen feature as follows:
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- Hold the iPhone 6 Plus so it is horizontal.
Tap the Settings app to open it. In the left pane, you see the areas of the Settings app that you can configure. In the right pane, you see tools you can use to configure the selected function. The two panes are independent, making navigation easier than with other iPhones.
Swipe up or down on the left pane until you see the function, feature, or app you want to configure.
- Tap the function, feature, or app you want to configure, such as Sounds. Its controls appear in the right pane.
- Swipe up or down on the right pane until you see the specific setting you want to change.
Tap the setting you want to configure, such as Ringtone. It’s controls appear in the right pane.
- Use the tools in the right pane to configure the setting you selected in step 6. These work just as described in the previous task and throughout this chapter except that you move within the right pane instead of changing the entire screen.
- To move back through the screens in the right pane, use the Back button, which is labeled with the name from the screen you came from.
- Tap another area in the left pane to configure it. The split screen makes it very easy to quickly switch between Settings.
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