Here’s How To Tackle Questions All Parents With iPhones Ask

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This might make your life a lot easier
  • relate with the scenario where parents ask their children very basic tech-questions about their iPhones. While some parents may know their tech-side of things, most of their counterparts don’t even know the most basic of tech stuff. And here’s where us children suffer, who have to explain basic things such as functions of the home button.

Hence, following is a guide for readers to help them answer questions raised by their parents regarding their iPhones.

How do I put someone on speed dial?

 

The Phone app in the iPhone, on the bottom left, has a Favorites option. On the top right, there’s a “” sign where users can add a contact to this list. So next, when parents ask about speed dial, their children can simply show them how to add their most frequently-called contact in the Favorites. These can also be viewed on the top of the screen by double tapping the Home button.

Why does my phone keep telling me to free storage space?

In order to free storage, users must first go on the Settings app then General, then Usage, and then Manage Storage. Here users can see the heaviest apps and free up storage accordingly by deleting some of the unused ones. 
Users can also delete apps by pressing onto an app, on the home screen, until it wiggles and shows an “X” button indicating the option and then delete it. Moreover, messages also tend to take a lot of space so to delete some irrelevant ones, swipe left on each conversation, and press Delete. 
In order to delete photos from the camera roll, users can simply tap on the Select option on the top-right of the screen, and then tap on the photos they want to delete, in bulk.

Why does my phone take so much battery?

Brightness is the first of the many options that can be changed to prevent your phone from draining the battery. Swipe up the Control Center where the brightness can be reduced, which will automatically save some battery.
Moreover, some users may think that once an app is closed, it’s not consuming battery. But apps run in the background unless closed properly. In order to do so, simply double press theHome button and swipe up each app to close it. Users can also close multiple apps by using two or three fingers, at a time. 
Moreover, in the Settings app, under General, there’s an option of Background App Refresh, that downloads updates automatically, and checks if there’s any content on running apps. This, naturally, consumes battery, so users can switch this option off, especially when they’re on the road. 
Another way to save battery while on-the-go is to switch off the Location Services on the iPhone. This option can be found in the Settings app, under Privacy. By switching this off, the phone will not constantly be tracking the location of the user and hence will save the little battery one has left.

Is there a way to send a lot of pictures together to someone?

Now that parents have discovered camera phones, and how “selfies” work, all they want to do is take pictures everywhere they go, and also share them with others. The simplest way to send photos is to select them in the camera roll, and then tap on the share button (arrow in a box) placed on the bottom left of the screen. This presents multiple options to share images, via messages, email, Facebook, WhatsApp, Flickr, or any other app installed, that allows sharing.
However, the fastest way to send photos to another iPhone device is through Airdrop. This feature works like Bluetooth; the other iPhone needs to be in close range for it to work. 
To use Airdrop, users need to swipe up the screen from the bottom that will open the Control Center. Here, users have to tap on the Airdrop icon, and switch on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Make sure the recipient is also discoverable following the same procedure. 
Then select the photos from camera roll, and in the share option, the recipient’s device should be visible. By clicking on the name, users can send their photos quickly.

What does the Health app do?

The Health app in iPhones comes a medical ID page that logs information about a user’s medical condition and emergency contacts, just in case an unfortunate incident occurs. When access of this is required urgently, users don’t have to go on the app to call their emergency contact; instead, on a locked screen, they can tap on Emergency and then Medical ID to automatically dial. 
Moreover, the Health app contracts a user’s activity during the day in graphical form including the least and most active hours of the day. Plus, this app comes with the iOS and it cannot be deleted, so users might as well make good use of it. To view more features of the app, clickhere.

I have too many apps. How do I find the ones I need quickly?

There’s no need to fret, we all get carried away with downloading too many apps, most of which we don’t even use. So much so that even Apple understands, hence it incorporated theSpotlight Search feature.
To search for something on the iPhone, users simply need to go on the home screen and swipe downwards from the middle. This will result in the screen blurring and a search bar appearing on the top of the screen with a keyboard on the bottom. Users can type search for anything here including a song, a message, an app, and results will appear from within the phone and from the web.

How do I know which app to download?

Well the answer to that is, the ones that are cheap and not a waste of time.
The AppStore has a number of categories and sections that have various kinds of apps sorted out. Users can find these categories in the Explore option on the AppStore, where categories such as food, fitness, education, lifestyle, and many more exist providing numerous paid and free apps. 
Tip: Do read reviews before downloading an app because some may not be so good.

Is there a way to make calls while driving?

Yes, there is, and that way is the every iPhone owner’s personal digital assistant, Siri.
Generally, users press down the Home button to activate Siri but in the Settings app, under General, go to Siri, then Hey Siri; users can simply say “Hey Siri” to activate it. This way, while driving, users do not have to press any buttons and simply command Siri to call someone by saying, for example: “Hey Siri, call Mom.”

How do I put the data on my phone on my laptop?

Here’s where the cloud comes in the picture. Apple has iCloud services that, when switched on, automatically sync users’ data across all devices that have it enabled. The data includes notes, photos, documents, and contacts within all of users’ devices so that everything is in sync. 
iCloud requires users’ Apple ID to log in. To set up the account on the Mac, users may clickhere.

We hope that you found this guide useful. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them in the comments section below.

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