Back To Basics for iPhone & iPad

MacMAD Presentation Meeting for Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Helpful Basics On-Line

Tonight’s meeting is primarily an on-line demo. But, here are some supplementary on-line references oriented towards the basic iPhone or iPad user.

iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 have just been released, so the User’s Guides will probably be updated accordingly. For the beginning user, the biggest difference is probably that the Control Center looks slightly different now.

Workflows

On-Line Demos of common tasks.

Use Settings to:

  • See your device’s model (is this an iPhone 11 or iPhone 12?)
  • See your device’s warranty status
  • See how much of your device storage you are using
  • See how much of your iCloud storage you are using
  • Sign in to iCloud – You are probably already signed in.

Note – Almost ALL iPhone & iPad owners have an iCloud account, whether you know it or not. If you are paying any amount monthly for iCloud, you have an iCloud+ account.

More On-Line Demos

  • Take a photo and send it to someone via eMail or text (e.g. sharing with family)
  • Open an email and add the sender to your contacts.
  • Open a contact and send them email.
  • Open a contact and navigate to their address.
  • Buy and install a new App from the App store.
  • Add a credit card to Apple Wallet .. Pay someone with Apple Wallet
  • Visit a Website. Bookmark it. Create a login at a web site. Log out and back in. (iPad)
  • Create a Calendar Appointment for a recurring event

The Meeting Slides (Keynote format)

1Password Bookmark Tip for Mobile Safari

Dennis showed the group this tip at this month’s meeting, and promised that the details would be on our web site.

This tip is for iOS (iPhone or iPad) users. Create a bookmark in Safari called “Open in 1Password”. Replace the URL for the bookmark with this snippet of Javascript:

javascript:window.location=’op’+(window.location.href);

When you visit a page in Safari, and realize you would rather open it in 1Password, so it can fill in your logon information for you, invoke the bookmark and the page will re-open in 1Password. The ‘op’ in the script stands for One Password.

This trick only works with the new version of 1Password. Version 4, I believe.