Working with Other Useful iPhone Apps and Features
- Getting Started
- Touring Other Cool iPhone Apps
- Listening to Music with the Music App
- Finding Your Way with Maps
- Managing Your Health Information with the Health App
- Using Bluetooth to Connect to Other Devices
- Connecting Your iPhone to Other iPhones, iPod touches, or iPads
- Working with the Wallet App and Apple Pay
- Working Seamlessly Across Your Devices
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In this chapter, you learn about some other really useful apps and iPhone functionality. Topics include the following:
Getting started- Touring other cool iPhone apps
- Listening to music with the Music app
- Finding your way with Maps
- Managing your health information with the Health app
- Using Bluetooth to connect to other devices
- Connecting your iPhone to other iPhones, iPod touches, or iPads
- Working with the Wallet app and Apple Pay
- Working seamlessly across your devices
An iPhone can truly become your iPhone over time as you use the apps and features that you find to be useful for living your daily life, traveling, communicating, and so on. The great thing about iPhone apps is that there are so many to choose from, and because many of them are free, you can try lots of apps. Keep and use the ones you like, delete the ones you don’t. Over time, you’ll develop a group of core apps that you use constantly and a few that you use just occasionally. The rest you can just delete to get rid of them or move them out of the way.
Getting Started
In previous chapters, you learned about many of the iPhone’s most useful apps, such as Phone, Mail, Messages, Photos, Safari, and Calendar. In this chapter, you’ll find an overview of a number of other apps that are pre-installed on your iPhone and some that aren’t pre-installed that you might want to download and use. You also explore four more in detail using this chapter’s step-by-step instructions: Music to listen to your favorite tunes wherever you are; Maps to find and navigate your way to locations near and far; Health to help you to manage your health-related information; and Wallet that helps you manage and use various kinds of information, such as boarding passes, reward cards, and so on.
Don’t be hesitant to try apps. Apple maintains extremely tight control over the apps that make it into the App Store, so there’s virtually no chance that an app you download and install can put you or your information at any risk. It usually takes only a few minutes of using an app to determine if it will be useful to you, so you’re not risking much of your time either.
In this chapter, you also learn how you can connect your iPhone to other devices in several ways. You can use Bluetooth to connect to speakers, headphones, fitness trackers, keyboards, and more. You can connect to other iPhones, iPads, and Macs using AirDrop, so you can quickly and easily share files across those devices.
You’ll also see how Apple Pay enables you to safely and easily pay for purchases in online stores or in the “real world.” You can store credit or debit cards in the Wallet app and then use them to pay for purchases with a wave of your phone or tap of a button.
And, you learn how the iOS Handoff feature makes it easy to work on the same tasks on Macs, iPhones, and iPads. For example, you can create an email on a Mac, and work on the same email on an iPad and your iPhone, too. When a phone call comes in to your iPhone, you can choose to answer it on your Mac or iPad.
