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
What’s new in iOS 17
StandBy. Turn your iPhone on its side while charging to glance at important information from a distance. You can turn your iPhone into a bedside clock, view photos, control music, and more. See Use StandBy to view information at a distance while iPhone is charging.
Interactive widgets. Widgets on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy are even more useful with interactivity. Just tap a widget to complete tasks like checking off a to-do item, controlling your living room lights, or playing a new podcast episode. See Add, edit, and remove widgets on iPhone.
Contact Posters. Create a unique screen that other people see when you call them. When you make a phone call, your Contact Poster appears on the screen of the person you’re calling. See Add or edit your photo and poster.
Live Voicemail. When a call you receive goes to voicemail, see a live transcript of the message as it’s being recorded, giving you immediate context for the call. If it’s something you want to address right then, you can pick up the call (U.S. and Canada only). See Turn on Live Voicemail.
Stickers. Use Stickers to decorate your photos, screenshots, and more. You can add stickers anywhere you can use the onscreen keyboard or Markup tools. Create stickers from Memoji in Messages, or make stickers from your own photos or Live Photos. See Send stickers in Messages on iPhone, Decorate with stickers, and Make stickers from your photos on iPhone.
Journal. (iOS 17.2) Journal is a new app that makes it easy to get into the habit of journaling. Journal suggestions group your outings, photos, workouts, and more to help you remember and reflect on special events or everyday activities. You can add photos, videos, or audio to your entries and bookmark important entries to revisit later. See Get started with Journal on iPhone.
Messages. Use Check In to let a friend or family member know when your iPhone arrives safely at a destination. You can also share your location or request a friend’s location right in a Messages conversation. Audio messages are now transcribed, so you can read them in the moment and listen later. Find the message you’re looking for faster by combining filters to narrow your search. See Use Check In on iPhone to let your friends know you’ve arrived, Share your location in Messages on iPhone, Send and receive audio messages in Messages on iPhone, and Search in Messages on iPhone.
Keyboard. Autocorrected words are temporarily underlined so you know what’s been changed, and you can revert back to the original word with just a tap. Predictive text appears inline as you type—just tap the Space bar to finish a word or sentence (not available in all countries or regions). See Enter text using the onscreen keyboard and Use predictive text on iPhone.
FaceTime. If someone doesn’t answer your FaceTime call, now you can leave them an audio or video message. During a FaceTime call, use hand gestures to create reactions like hearts, confetti, and fireworks that fill the screen. Hand off FaceTime calls between your iPhone and Apple TV. See Record a video message, Listen to a video message or Live Voicemail, Add reactions in a video call, and Hand off a FaceTime call from your iPhone to your other Apple devices.
AirDrop. Hold your iPhone near someone else’s to swap phone numbers, email addresses, and Contact Posters with NameDrop. You can also initiate an AirDrop transfer, or start a SharePlay session, when you bring two phones close together. See Use NameDrop on iPhone to share your contact info, Share photos and videos by bringing one iPhone close to another, and Start a SharePlay session by holding two iPhone devices close together.
AirPlay. (iOS 17.3) Use AirPlay in your hotel room to stream your favorite shows, listen to music, or view your vacation photos right on the television in your room (available in select hotels). See Use AirPlay in your hotel room.
Maps. Save an area of a map to your iPhone and explore it offline. When driving an electric vehicle, choose a preferred charging network and see real-time charging station availability. See Download offline Maps on iPhone and Set up electric vehicle routing in Maps on iPhone.
Visual Look Up. Pause a video on any frame to use Visual Look Up in your videos as well as photos. Visual Look Up can identify food in a photo or video and suggest related recipes. Visual Look Up information is also available for objects that you lift from the background of photos. See Use Visual Look Up to identify objects in your photos and videos on iPhone.
Photos. iPhone recognizes and sorts pets just like a friend or family member in the People & Pets album. Choose a new focus point when you edit a portrait. Add any photo from your photo library to a memory and reorder photos and videos within a memory. See Identify people and pets in photos on iPhone, Change the focus point of a portrait, and Personalize your memories in Photos on iPhone.
Health. Keep track of your state of mind to help build emotional awareness and resilience. You can also access mental health resources, articles, and standardized assessments about how you’re feeling to help you determine if you should talk to your doctor. See Log your state of mind in Health on iPhone and Take a mental health assessment in Health on iPhone.
Fitness. The redesigned Sharing tab provides highlights of your friends’ activity like workout streaks and awards. Create a workout and meditation schedule based on exactly what you want with a Custom Plan in Apple Fitness . See Share your activity in Fitness on iPhone and Create a Custom Plan in Apple Fitness on iPhone.
Screen Distance. Help protect your vision with the Screen Distance feature in Screen Time, which encourages you to move your iPhone farther away if you’ve held it closer than 12 inches for an extended period. See Help protect your vision health with Screen Distance on iPhone.
Safari. Use different profiles for different topics—like work and personal—to keep your browsing separate. Autofill verification codes you receive in Mail are populated automatically, so you don’t have to leave Safari to enter them, and you can share passwords to a set of accounts with trusted friends and family. See Create multiple Safari profiles on iPhone and Share passwords or passkeys with people you trust on iPhone.
Privacy and Security. Communication Safety now includes protections against sensitive videos and photos including content sent and received in AirDrop, Contact Posters, the systemwide photo picker, and FaceTime messages. You can choose to blur sensitive photos and videos before you view them using Sensitive Content Warning. Enhancements to Lockdown Mode help protect against sophisticated cyberattacks. See Receive warnings about sensitive content on iPhone and Harden your iPhone from a cyberattack with Lockdown Mode.
Accessibility. Personal Voice helps people with speech loss create a voice that sounds like them and use it with Live Speech to communicate in calls and conversations. Point and Speak makes it easier for people who are blind or have low vision to interact with physical objects that have text labels. See Record your Personal Voice on iPhone.
Magnifier. Point and Speak makes it easier for people who are blind or have low vision to interact with physical objects that have text labels. See Read aloud text and labels around you using Magnifier on iPhone.
Reminders. Grocery Lists automatically sort items into categories to make shopping easier. Lists can also be divided into sections with headers, and a new Column View arranges sections next to each other to help you visualize your tasks. See Make a grocery list in Reminders on iPhone.
Notes. Easily review PDFs and scans of presentations, assignments, research papers, and more, right in your note. You can also add links to connect related notes, like a trip itinerary and a list of recommended restaurants. See Work with PDFs in Notes on iPhone and Add links in Notes on iPhone.
Freeform. Use new drawing tools like a watercolor brush, calligraphy pen, highlighter, variable-width pen, and ruler while brainstorming on a board. See Draw or handwrite on a Freeform board on iPhone.
Find My. Share AirTags and other Find My items with up to five other people. Everyone you share with can track the item and play sounds. Get directions to help you find a person you’re trying to meet up with. See Share an AirTag or other item in Find My on iPhone and Use Precision Finding on iPhone 15 to meet up with a friend.
News. Apple News subscribers can do daily crossword and Quartiles puzzles in the News app, and Apple News audio stories are available in the Podcasts app. See Solve puzzles in Apple News on iPhone and Listen to subscriber-only content in Podcasts on iPhone.
Home. Activity History lets you see who locked or unlocked the door—and when. It also shows recent activity for garage doors, contact sensors, and your security system. See View Activity History.
Learn tricks for iOS 17. The Tips app adds new suggestions frequently, so you can get the most from your iPhone. See Get tips.
Note: New features and apps may vary depending on your iPhone model, region, language, and carrier.