Guides
iPhone how-to guides
Written by the team that builds the apps. Each guide starts with the answer, shows the route that uses the tools already on your iPhone first, and says plainly where a method stops working.
- How to scan a document to PDF on iPhone Three ways to turn paper into a real PDF on iPhone: the Notes app, the Files app, and a dedicated scanner when you need OCR, signatures or multi-page control.
- How to get text out of a photo on iPhone Copy text out of any picture on iPhone with Live Text, and use OCR in a scanner app when you need a searchable multi-page document instead of a snippet.
- How to test your internet speed on iPhone Run a speed test on iPhone properly: what download, upload and ping actually mean, how to avoid the mistakes that produce a wrong number, and what speed you really need.
- How to see every device on your WiFi from an iPhone Find out what is connected to your home network using your iPhone: read the router's own list, scan the network with a LAN scanner, identify unknown devices and lock things down.
- How to identify a plant from a photo Identify a plant from a photograph on iPhone: how to take a picture the identifier can read, how to confirm the answer, and where photo identification should never be trusted.
- How to count steps on iPhone without an Apple Watch Your iPhone already counts steps on its own. Where to find the figures, how the motion sensor works, why the count differs from a watch, and when a dedicated app is worth it.
- How to use a font keyboard on iPhone — and what Full Access really means Add a third-party font keyboard on iPhone, understand the Full Access warning before you accept it, and know why styled text sometimes shows up as empty boxes.
- How to make a 3×3 Instagram grid and post the tiles in order Split one photo into a nine-tile grid for an Instagram profile, work out the posting order that assembles it correctly, and know when a grid is the wrong idea.
- Alarms for heavy sleepers — and why yours did not go off Why an iPhone alarm seems not to ring, what silent mode and Focus actually do to it, and how challenge alarms that make you solve something work for heavy sleepers.
- How to use an iPhone as a TV remote Which televisions an iPhone can and cannot control, why there is no infrared option, how to fix a TV the app will not find, and the difference between casting and mirroring.
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