Learn what your iPhone can do for you! Set your homescreen, add a medical alert, take and edit photos, make video calls, and download apps with our step by step instructions!

1. Beyond the Basics:
iPhone and iPad

2. Personalizing Your iPhone
and iPad
Design and Organize

3. Key Features on the Home Screen
(1) Cellularsignal
strength
(2) Providername
(3) Do not disturb
(4) Bluetooth
(5) Batterystatus
(5B) Charging image
(6) AARP memberApp
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4. Using the Control Center
(1) Tap the
bottom of
the screen
and drag
your finger
up.
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(2) Airplanemode
(3) Wi-Fi
(4) Bluetooth
(5) Do not disturb
(6) Orientationlock
(7) Flashlight
(8) Clock
(9) Calculator
(10) Camera
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5. Moving Icons on Your Home Screen
(1) Press the
Home
Button.
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(2) Tap and hold
an App for two
to threeseconds.
Movethe App
anywhereon the
screento a new
location.
Movethe App on
top of another
App to createa
folder.
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6. Moving Icons on Your Home Screen
(3) Edit the name
of the new
folder.
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7. Moving Icons on Your Home Screen

8. Deleting an App
(1) On the HomeScreen,placeyour fingeron
the App you wish to delete andhold for
two seconds.
(2) Tap the shaking App with an encircled
X and tap Delete. No encircledXmeans
the App cannot be deleted.
Two simple steps can remove an App and clean up your iPhone or iPad.
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9. Enhancing Your iPhone’s Appearance
(1) Tap Settings
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(2) Tap Display&
Brightness
(3) Slide Brightness scale
or select Auto-Brightness
(4) Tap Text Size
(5) Slidetextbutton
left or right to
manuallyadjust size.
These simple stepswill allow you to brighten your screen, enlarge textsize and bold textfor
easier reading.
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10. Zoom Feature
(1) Tap Settings
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(2) Tap Display&
Brightness
(3) Tap View (4) Tap Zoom to
enlargethe icons
and tap Set.
The Zoom feature allows you to enlarge App icons on your Home Screen. You can preview the
larger zoom feature or keep the standardsetting.
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11. New Wallpaper and Lock ScreenImage
(1) Tap Settings
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(2) Tap Wallpaper (3) Choose New
Wallpaper
(4) Chose between
Apple images or your
camera roll for images.
Change your Wallpaper and Home Screen with picturesfrom your camera or Apple provided
images.
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12. New Wallpaper and Home ScreenImage
(5) Select Apple
Wallpaper& tap
new Apple image
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(6) Tap Set (7) Tap feature you
like: Lock Screen,
Home Screen or both.
(8) Tap Home Screen
button to view new
image.
Change your Wallpaper and Home Screen with picturesof family or Apple provided images.
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13. New Wallpaper and Home ScreenImage
(9) Tap the
CameraRoll for
your pictures.
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(10) Tap the
pictureyou like.
(11) SelectSet (12) Select where you
want the image to
appear: Lock Screen,
Home Screen, or both.
Change your Wallpaper and Home Screen with picturesof family or Apple provided images.
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14. Reachability Feature
(1) Tap Settings
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(2) Tap General (3) Tap Accessibility (4) Reachability option -
slide the green button
to the right.
Reachability allows you to use one hand to reach the top of the iPhone screen to access iPhone
Favoritesand recent contacts.

15. Using the Reachability Feature
(2) The screen
slidesdown giving
you accessto
iPhone Favorite
contacts.
Touch the open App
and scrollto the left
or right to viewall
open Apps. Drag
the open App up to
closethe App.
Tap the Home
button once to go
back to your
originalscreen.
(1) Double-
tap the Home
button.
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16. Accessibility Features
(1) Tap Settings
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(2) Tap General (3) Tap
Accessibility
(4) Multiple options to
enhance your iPhone or
iPad use.
Accessibility offers a wide range of tools to ensure your iPhone is working best for you and
includes a speaking feature, bold type, inverted colors and contrast.

17. Accessibility Features
(1) Tap Speech
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(2) Tap Speak Selection
to read textout loud if
highlighted.
(3) Tap back arrow
(4) Tap LargerText
(5) Drag the cursor to
the size of text
preferred.
Accessibility offers a wide range of tools to ensure your iPhone is working best for you to include
a speaking feature, bold type, inverted colors and contrast.
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18. Accessibility Features
(1) Tap back arrow
(2) Tap Zoom
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(3) Drag Zoom’s cursor
to the right to green
color. Toggle box over
screen to zoom.
(4) Tap back arrow
(5) Tap HearingAids
(6) iPhone will search
for Bluetooth devices.
Accessibility offers a wide range of tools to ensure your iPhone is working best for you to include
a speaking feature, bold type, inverted colors and contrast.
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19. Accessibility Features

20. Locking Your iPhone or iPad
(1) Press Home
Button
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(2) Tap General
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21. Locking Your iPhone and iPhone
(3) Tap Auto-Lock
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(4) Select
intervalof auto-
lock
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22. Locking Your iPhone or iPad

23. MAKING CONTACTS AND CALLS
Medical IDs and Conference Calls

24. Making Calls
(1) Tap Phone
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(2) Contactsfeature–
saved contactsyou
have created
(3) Secureyour most
frequentcontactsin
Favorites
(4) Keypad for direct dials
(5) Tap to add new
contact
(6) Voicemail for messages
Tap the Phone icon on the Home Screen to access your contacts,make new contacts,dial from
your Favorites,use the keypad or listen to voicemails.
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25. Creating Contacts
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(2) Add your favorite
image to your contact.
(3) Type in your
personal information.
(4) Type in all key
informationand
press Done.
(5) Create a Favorite,
send contact info and a
send text message to a
contact.
Creating contacts isa fastand easy way to store informationon your iPhone or iPad.
(1) Go to your Home
Screen,thenPhone
and Contacts
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26. Create a Medical ID
(2) Tap MedicalID
(3) Tap Edit
Create a Medical ID to have your health informationreadily available for loved ones and medical
professionals in case of emergency. Beware this informationis not safeguarded with a password
so anyone can read if your phone is stolen or lost.
(1) Go to the Home
Screen;Phone
and HealthApp
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(4) Type in all key
informationand
press Done.
(5) Slidethe Show
When Lockedto
the right and tap
Done.
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27. Create a Medical ID
Create a Medical ID to have your health informationreadily available for loved ones and medical
professionals in case of emergency. Beware this informationis not safeguarded with a password
so anyone can read if your phone is stolen or lost.
(2) Tap the red Medical
ID to view your public
information.
(3) Your MedicalID will show the
informationyou’veadded.
(1) LockScreen– tap
Emergencyon lower
left corner
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28. Create a Medical ID

29. Making a Conference Call
(1) Tap Phone
Button and
dial your contact.
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(2) Tap the Add Call
button and selecta
contactor dial a
phone number
manually.
(3) Tap the Merge
Calls button
(4) Tap the Privateto
placea calleron hold.
Use the Conference Call feature to talk with multiple contactsby merging calls.
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30. Making a Conference Call

31. VIDEO CALLS
Set-up and Use

32. Making FaceTime Calls
(1) Tap the
FaceTimeicon.
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(2) Tap Contacts &
selectyour contactthen
locateFaceTime.
(3) Press the mini
video camerafor
VideoFaceTime
(4) Tap the phone
receiverfor Audio-
only Facetime
(5) Switch camera to rear-facing
camera
(6) End call
(7) Audio mute; video still active
FaceTime App allows Apple users to make video and audio-only calls from their iPhone or iPad
to other Apple productusers when FaceTime is enabled. Each device must be able to
communicateover a network. Use of the App is free with Wi-Fi or it will use dataplan minutes.
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33. Accepting Incoming FaceTime Calls
(1) Red to decline or
Greento acceptand
chat via video
(2) Tap RemindMe and
selectyour timeframe.
(3) Tap Messageto text
incomingcallerwitha pre-
writtenor customtext.
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34. FaceTime Calls

35. EDITING PICTURES
Apply Filters, Zoom and Enhance Your Photos

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Taking Pictures
(1) Tap Camera
(2) Slidethe selector
for Video,Photo and
Square and many
more!
Tap the Camera icon on the Home Screen to take picturesand edit them.
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(3) Apply filters
(4) Auto flash
(5) Highdynamicrange: 3 shots of each
imagewith 3 differentexposurelevels
(6) Timer(quick tap vs. 2-secondhold)
(7) Lenschange button to switchfrom front
to rear camera.
(8) Zoom feature
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37. Taking Pictures
(1) Tap Camera (2) Slidethe selectorfor
Video,Photo and Square.
. .many more!
(3) Tap the image in
the lower left corner;
select an image. . .
Or double click the
Home Button and tap
the Photos button
on the Home Screen.
(4) Tap the Edit button
to enhanceor crop
your image.
Tap the Camera icon on the Home Screen to take pictures,edit them and send to others.
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38. Editing Pictures
(1) Straighten,rotate
and crop your
image.
(2) Apply filters (3) Smart adjustment
tools allows you to
change light, color and
black and white aspects.
(4) Tap the wand
imagein the upper
right corner to
enhancethe photo.
From your Photos App on your Home Screen you can make multiple edits to enhance your
pictures.
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39. Editing Pictures

40. INTERNET & APPS
Favorites, Bookmarks and AARP Apps

41. Creating Bookmarks
(1) Tap Safari
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(2) Type in
Googlein the
searchengine.
(3) Type AARP caregivers
in the Google search
engine.
(4) Press the
Caregivers– AARP
website.
Save you favoritewebsites on your Home Screen or in Safari’sBookmarksfor quick and easy
access.
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(5) Openthe
websiteand tap
(6) Press Add to
HomeScreen
(7) Shorten the name, if
you wish, and then press
Add.
(8) Tap the Home button;
press the Caregivers –
AARP website.
Save your favoritewebsites on your Home Screen or in Safari’sBookmarksfor quick and easy
access.
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43. Creating Bookmarks
(1) Openthe
websiteand tap
Add Bookmark.
(2) Shorten the
name, if you wish,
and then press
Add.
(3) Tap the search line to
view Bookmarks and
Recently Visited websites
Save your favoritewebsites on your Home Screen or in Safari’sBookmarksfor quick and easy
access.
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(4) Newly created
Caregiving App located in
your Bookmarks.

44. Sending Websitesto Friends & Family
(1) Send the websitelinkvia text
message.
(1b) Exampleof textingwebsitelink
(2) Send the websitelinkvia email.
(3) Post the websitelinkon Twitter.
(4) Post the websitelinkon Facebook.
Send your favoritewebsites to friends & family via text message, email or post on your Twitter
or Facebook account.
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45. Adding Apps
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(2) Tap the magnifying
glass for the Search
feature.
(3) Type AARP and a
list of AARP Apps will
appear.
(4) Tap Get to select the
App and download. A
circle will appear and
load the App.
Apple’s App Store has countlessApps you can run on your device with a price tag startingat free
and going up. You must have an Apple ID accountto download apps.
(1) Viewthe Home
Screenand tap the
App Storeicon.
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46. Popular Apps
AARP Member
Advantages
AARP Rx FacebookAARP

47. Popular Apps
Find My iPhone RedLaser ESPNGoogle Maps

48. The App Store

49. Upcoming 2015 AARP Events
Visit AARP.org/IL