iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
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- iPhone models compatible with iOS 17
- iPhone XR
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- 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
- 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
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- What’s new in iOS 17
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- Change sounds and vibrations
- Use the Action button on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
- Create a custom Lock Screen
- Change the wallpaper
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Keep the iPhone display on longer
- Use StandBy
- Customize the text size and zoom setting
- Change the name of your iPhone
- Change the date and time
- Change the language and region
- Use and customize Control Center
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Customize sharing options
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- Calculator
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- Adjust the shutter volume
- Adjust HDR camera settings
- Record videos
- Record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
- Record ProRes videos
- Record videos 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
- Compass
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- Get started with FaceTime
- Create a FaceTime link
- Take a Live Photo
- Turn on Live Captions in a FaceTime call
- Use other apps during a call
- Make a Group FaceTime call
- View participants in a grid
- Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
- Share your screen in a FaceTime call
- Collaborate on a document in FaceTime
- Use video conferencing features
- Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
- Change the FaceTime video settings
- Change the FaceTime audio settings
- Change your appearance
- Leave a call or switch to Messages
- Block unwanted callers
- Report a call as spam
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- Get started with Fitness
- Track daily activity and change your move goal
- See your activity summary
- Sync a third-party workout app
- Change fitness notifications
- Share your activity
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- Subscribe to Apple Fitness
- Find Apple Fitness workouts and meditations
- Start an Apple Fitness workout or meditation
- Create a Custom Plan in Apple Fitness
- Work out together using SharePlay
- Change what’s on the screen during an Apple Fitness workout or meditation
- Download an Apple Fitness workout or meditation
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- Intro to Home
- Upgrade to the new Home architecture
- Set up accessories
- Control accessories
- Control your home using Siri
- Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
- 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
- Configure a router
- Invite others to control accessories
- Add more homes
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- View maps
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- Get travel directions
- Select other route options
- Find stops along your route
- View a route overview or a list of turns
- Change settings for spoken directions
- Get driving directions
- Get directions to your parked car
- Set up electric vehicle routing
- Report traffic incidents
- Get cycling directions
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- Delete recent directions
- Get traffic and weather info
- Get rides
- Estimate travel time and ETA
- Download offline maps
- Look around places
- Take Flyover tours
- Find your Maps settings
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- Set up Messages
- About iMessage
- Send and reply to messages
- Unsend and edit messages
- Keep track of messages
- Search
- Forward and share messages
- Group conversations
- Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
- Collaborate on projects
- Use iMessage apps
- Take and edit photos or videos
- Share photos, links, and more
- Send stickers
- Request, send, and receive payments
- Send and receive audio messages
- Share your location
- Animate messages
- Send and save GIFs
- Turn read receipts on or off
- Change notifications
- Block, filter, and report messages
- Delete messages and attachments
- Recover deleted messages
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- Get music
- View albums, playlists, and more
- Play music
- Show song credits and lyrics
- Queue up your music
- Listen to broadcast radio
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- Subscribe to Apple Music
- Play music together in the car with iPhone
- Listen to lossless music
- Listen to Dolby Atmos music
- Apple Music Sing
- Find new music
- Add music and listen offline
- Get personalized recommendations
- Listen to radio
- Search for music
- Create playlists
- See what your friends are listening to
- Use Siri to play music
- Change the way music sounds
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- Get started with Notes
- Add or remove accounts
- Create and format notes
- Draw or write
- Add photos, videos, and more
- Scan text and documents
- Work with PDFs
- Add links
- Create Quick Notes
- Search notes
- Organize in folders
- Organize with tags
- Use Smart Folders
- Share and collaborate
- Export or print notes
- Lock notes
- Change Notes settings
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- Make a call
- View and delete the call history
- Answer or decline incoming calls
- While on a call
- Have a conference or three-way call on iPhone
- Set up voicemail
- Check voicemail
- Change voicemail greeting and settings
- Select ringtones and vibrations
- Make calls using Wi-Fi
- Set up call forwarding
- Set up call waiting
- Block or avoid unwanted calls
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- View photos and videos
- Play videos and slideshows
- Delete or hide photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Trim video length and adjust slow motion
- Edit Cinematic mode videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit portraits
- Use photo albums
- Edit, share, and organize albums
- Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
- Make stickers from your photos
- Duplicate and copy photos and videos
- Merge duplicate photos and videos
- Search for photos
- Identify people and pets
- Browse photos by location
- Share photos and videos
- Share long videos
- View photos and videos shared with you
- Watch memories
- Personalize your memories
- Manage memories and featured photos
- Import and export photos and videos
- Print photos
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- Browse the web
- Search for websites
- Customize your Safari settings
- Change the layout
- Use Safari profiles
- Use Siri to listen to a webpage
- Bookmark favorite webpages
- Save pages to a Reading List
- Find links shared with you
- Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
- Automatically fill in forms
- Get extensions
- Hide ads and distractions
- Clear your cache and cookies
- Shortcuts
- Tips
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- Keep cards and passes in Wallet
- Set up Apple Pay
- Use Apple Pay for contactless payments
- Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
- Track your orders
- Use Apple Cash
- Use Apple Card
- Use Savings
- Pay for transit
- Access your home, hotel room, and vehicle
- Add identity cards
- Use passes
- Use COVID-19 vaccination cards
- Check your Apple Account balance
- Use Express Mode
- Organize your Wallet
- Remove cards or passes
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- Share your internet connection
- Allow phone calls on your iPad and Mac
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPhone and other devices
- Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPhone
- Start SharePlay instantly
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Connect iPhone and your computer with a cable
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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
- Announce incoming 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
- Turn on accessibility features for setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Open features with Accessibility Shortcut
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- Overview
- Zoom in
- Change color and brightness
- Make text easier to read
- Reduce onscreen motion
- Customize per-app visual settings
- Hear what’s on the screen or typed
- Hear audio descriptions
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Use VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone when VoiceOver is on
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Keep the screen off
- Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type braille on the screen
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver for images and videos
- Use VoiceOver in apps
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- Overview
- Use AssistiveTouch
- Adjust how iPhone responds to your touch
- Back tap
- Use Reachability
- Auto-answer calls
- Turn off vibration
- Change Face ID and attention settings
- Use Voice Control
- Adjust the side or Home button
- Use Apple TV Remote buttons
- Adjust pointer settings
- Adjust keyboard settings
- Control iPhone with an external keyboard
- Adjust AirPods settings
- Turn on Apple Watch Mirroring
- Control a nearby Apple device
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- Use built-in privacy and security protections
- Keep your Apple ID secure
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- Use passkeys to sign in to apps and websites
- Sign in with Apple
- Share passwords
- Automatically fill in strong passwords
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- View your passwords and related information
- Share passkeys and passwords securely with AirDrop
- Make your passkeys and passwords available on all your devices
- Automatically fill in verification codes
- Automatically fill in SMS passcodes
- Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
- Use two-factor authentication
- Use security keys
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use Advanced Data Protection
- Use Lockdown Mode
- Use Stolen Device Protection
- Receive warnings about sensitive content
- Use Contact Key Verification
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- 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
- Unauthorized modification of iOS
- Copyright
Share Freeform boards and collaborate on iPhone
In the Freeform app 
, you can invite people to collaborate on a board in iCloud, and everyone will see the latest changes when they’re online and signed in with their Apple ID. To make sure the board is accessible to all, you can add descriptions for visual items. You can also export your Freeform board as a PDF to send a copy of it to others.
Invite others to collaborate on a board
When you collaborate with others on a shared Freeform board, you can see edits as others make them. Changes are saved in iCloud, so everyone with access to the board sees the latest version whenever they open it.
Note: Boards are stored only in the iCloud account of the owner. The iCloud storage of participants isn’t affected by items in a board.
Open the Freeform app
on your iPhone.Do one of the following:
While browsing All Boards: Touch and hold the board you want to share, then tap Share.
From inside a board: Open the board you want to share (or tap
to start a new one), then tap 
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The current sharing setting is described below the name of the board, such as “Only invited people can edit.” Tap the setting to change it.
Note: If you want to be the only one who can invite others, select “Only invited people” and turn off “Allow others to invite” (green is on).
Choose how you want to share the board—such as Messages
or Mail 
—or tap the icon of anyone you’ve communicated with recently to share with them.
You can add people after you’ve started sharing a board. Tap 
, tap Manage Shared Board, then tap Share With More People. Depending on the settings of others in Messages, may change appearance.
Note: To edit or view the board, everyone you share with must be signed in with their Apple ID with iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, macOS 13.1, or later. To collaborate using Messages, you and anyone you invite must also turn on iMessage.
View others in a board
You can see where others are working on your board in real time or follow along while another participant moves in a board. For example, if you’re following someone who’s presenting their design proposal on a Freeform board, you can see where they are on the board and what they see.
Open the Freeform app
on your iPhone.Open the shared board where you want to see others at work, then tap
.Turn on Participant Cursors if the setting is off.
Do any of the following:
Jump to where they’re working: Tap the name of a participant.
The color next to the participant’s name matches the color marking their place on the board.
Follow their board view as they work or present: Tap
next to the name of a participant, then tap Follow Along. Or you can just tap the person’s avatar wherever they are on the board, then tap Follow.Anything you’d selected before entering the mode is deselected. A border (with a color matching the cursor of the person you’re following) frames what they see on the board.
Both you and the presenter you’re following need to be online.
When you’re following along, you can’t select anything on the board, and the zoom level is based on the other person’s view.
To stop following along, tap Stop in the top-right corner—or just scroll, zoom, or edit.
Note: Others working with you on the board can only undo and redo their own changes while the board is open. Use 
to move through the changes you made on your own iPhone. To redo a change after you undo it, touch and hold , then tap Redo.
Manage sharing settings
You can change access and permissions for individuals or for everyone after you’ve started sharing a board.
Open the Freeform app
on your iPhone, then open the board whose sharing settings you want to change.Tap
.A list of participants appears, showing who is working in the board.
Tap Manage Shared Board, then do any of the following:
Lock the board for edits: Tap Share Options, then tap “View only.”
Give editing access: Tap Share Options, then tap “Can make changes.”
Change access and permissions individually: Tap a participant’s name, then adjust their settings.
Invite others with a link: Tap Share Options, tap “Anyone with the link,” tap
, then tap Copy Link.Note: Anyone can copy the link to send to others, but if you select “Only people you invite,” then only those invited to open the board can use the link. If you don’t want participants to be able to invite others, select “Only people you invite” and “Only you can add people.”
Tip: You can also manage any board you’ve previously shared while browsing All Boards. Touch and hold its thumbnail or name, then tap Manage Shared Board.
Add accessibility descriptions
You can add a description of your visual content to any item on your board. That way, people who use assistive technology such as VoiceOver can hear the visual content described aloud. (Descriptions aren’t visible on the board itself.)
Open the Freeform app
on your iPhone, then open the board where you want to add accessibility descriptions.Select the item you want to describe, tap
, then tap Description.Enter a description of the visual content, then tap
.To hear the description, turn on VoiceOver, then tap the item.
Stop sharing or collaborating
Open the Freeform app
on your iPhone, then open the board you want to stop sharing or collaborating on.Tap
, then tap Manage Shared Board.Do any of the following:
Remove people: Tap the name of the participant you want to remove, then tap Remove Access.
Remove yourself from someone else’s board: Tap your name, then tap Remove Me.
Stop sharing with everyone: Tap Stop Sharing, then tap Stop Sharing.
When you choose this option, the board no longer appears on the devices of the other participants, even though you still have access to it.
Send a PDF of a board
Open the Freeform app
on your iPhone.Open a board, or tap
to start a new one.In the board you want to send, tap
, then tap Export as PDF.Choose how you want to send the board, such as in Messages or Mail, then follow the onscreen instructions.
People and groups you’ve recently communicated with appear as icons. Tap one to send the board to them.
You can also export a board as a PDF while browsing All Boards. Touch and hold the thumbnail or name of the board, then tap Export as PDF.
Tip: To send a PNG of your board, take a screenshot, then share it from the Photos app. You can also select and copy items you want to share and then paste them into other apps (Mail or Files, for example) as a PNG.
To use the collaboration features fully, all participants must be online, signed in with their Apple IDs, have Freeform turned on in iCloud (see Set up iCloud for Freeform on all your devices in the iCloud User Guide), and have two-factor authentication turned on.