iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
-
- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for iPhone X and later
- Use 3D Touch for previews and shortcuts
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change the sounds and vibrations
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPhone
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPhone using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
-
- Accessories included with iPhone
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Control audio on multiple devices
- AirPrint
- Use Apple EarPods
- Apple Watch
- Use Magic Keyboard
- Wireless charging
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Use iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Share your iPhone Internet connection
- Transfer files with iTunes
-
-
- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
-
-
- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom in on the screen
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
-
- Guided Access
-
- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPhone software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Wake and unlock iPhone
iPhone turns off the display to save power, locks for security, and goes to sleep when you’re not using it. You can quickly wake and unlock iPhone when you want to use it again.
Wake iPhone
To wake iPhone, do one of the following:
Press the side button or Sleep/Wake button (depending on your model).
Raise iPhone (supported models). You can turn off Raise to Wake in Settings
> Display & Brightness.
Tap the screen (supported models).
Unlock iPhone with Face ID (iPhone X and later)
Tap the screen or raise iPhone to wake it, then glance at your iPhone.
The lock icon animates from closed to open to indicate that iPhone is unlocked.
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
To lock iPhone again, press the side button. iPhone locks automatically if you don’t touch the screen for a minute or so.
Unlock iPhone with Touch ID (models with a Home button)
Press the Home button using the finger you registered with Touch ID.
To lock iPhone again, press the side button or Sleep/Wake button (depending on your model). iPhone locks automatically if you don’t touch the screen for a minute or so.
Unlock iPhone with a passcode
Swipe up from the bottom of the Lock screen (iPhone X and later) or press the Home button (other models).
Enter the passcode.
To lock iPhone again, press the side button or Sleep/Wake button (depending on your model). iPhone locks automatically if you don’t touch the screen for a minute or so.