How to Customize How Your iPhone Looks and Sounds
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In this chapter, you learn how to make an iPhone look and sound the way you want it to. Topics include the following:
Getting started- Customizing your Home screens
- Setting the screen’s brightness, lock/wake, text, view, and wallpaper options
- Choosing the sounds and vibratory feedback your iPhone uses
There are lots of ways that you can customize an iPhone to make it your iPhone so that it looks and sounds the way you want it to. You can design your Home screens; set the screen’s brightness, text size, and wallpaper; and choose the sounds your iPhone makes.
Getting Started
In Chapter 4, “Customizing How Your iPhone Works,” you learned how to change many aspects of how your iPhone works. This chapter focuses on how you can change the way you interact with your iPhone and how it interacts with you. Following are key areas you can configure to personalize your iPhone’s personality:
Home screens—The iPhone’s Home screens are the starting point for most everything you do because these screens contain the icons that you tap to access the apps that you want to use. You see and use the Home screens constantly, so it’s a good idea to customize them to your preferences. You can place icons on specific screens, and you can use folders to make your Home screens work better for you.
Screen brightness, Auto-Lock, Raise to Wake, text, view, and wallpaper options—There are a number of ways you can change how your iPhone’s screen looks and works. For example, you can set its brightness level and text size. You can also change the view you have; one option causes the screen to be zoomed in so icons and text are larger and easier to see.
Sounds—Sound is one important way your iPhone uses to communicate with you. The most obvious of these sounds is the ringtone that plays when you receive a call. However, there are many other sounds you can choose to help you know when something is happening. You can also choose to disable sounds so that your iPhone isn’t so noisy. You can also have your iPhone vibrate in conjunction with, or instead of, making sounds.
