Actually, because our last session, Monday, October 14th, has not yet happened this is a Day 6 Preview just in time for Indigenous People's Day.
Apple Support has 180 videos on their YouTube Channel as of October 2019. Check it out. After a quick review, the longest video was less than 5 minutes. These videos will help you make the most of your technology investment. I'm watching "How to navigate iPad Pro with gestures" and learning things that will help me!
We suggested you download the free
Apple User Guides for your iPhone and iPad. Maybe we should have suggested you
read the guide before and following the topics presented. In my years as an educator of adults, the more contact we have with the content in both hands-on activities and in reading, practicing and sharing techniques with others - the more we retain. This website is our way of providing links to resources discussed in class. It will not go away. Practice finding the past semester topics here.
Topics requested:
iCloud is full - Help!
There are 4 videos on the Apple Support YouTube channel about iCloud. Watch the "
How to upgrade and manage your iCloud Storage" video for hints. From May 2016, Christine McKee of AppleInsider detailed "
How to free up space on your iPhone without deleting photos or apps." Beside to turn on Reader view in Safari for this link to hide distractions and ads.
Storage is reported in Gigabytes and Megabytes. It takes 1,014 MBs to make 1 GB. Some of our phones are 64 GB, minus the operating system, let's say 60 GB = 61,440 MB. My latest cat photo on iPhone X is 2.6 MBs in file size, another is 5 MBs.
Check out these areas where big files can be identified:
Send Mail with photo attachments > tap Images to Reduce attachment file size
Settings > Messages > Low Quality Image Mode > On
Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Manage Storage is your key to finding the large files
Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Manage Storage > Photos > Optimize device Storage
Settings > General > iPad Storage > ...
- Offload Unused Apps > Enable
- Messages > Review Large Attachments
- Podcasts > Edit > to delete items
- Books > see GB used then open Books app to delete from device as needed
iCloud backups include our data and content, not the original apps. Our Apple ID is our "library card" to checkout and install apps. We can delete apps and reinstall at any time using our Apple ID.
I've sent out email to participants with an
iCloud PDF handout for class discussion, view and print.
Carol reminded me that iCloud is a euphemism and not cumulus reality. Apple's iCloud service really is several large data centers tied together over the Internet. They keep updating each other as we make changes so that a hurricane in North Carolina will not take out our (cat) photos because they are backed up in Oregon, California and Nevada.
Share photos from another iPhone -
AirDrop (also Mail and Messages), The "Sharrow" as Muffy calls it displays the Share Sheet of options. The icon is a box with an arrow pointing out. Open Photos, change to Albums view, open the Recents or All Photos album, tap Select in the top right corner of the screen, tap on one or more thumbnail images to see a blue circle with checkmark, tap the Sharrow icon in the lower left corner. This Share Sheet looks different on iOS 13 compared to earlier versions of the operating system. You will see circles referencing your friends and square icons representing ways to share the selected photos. Go slow and look at all the buttons or words to touch.
Apple is giving us better privacy protections. After installing iOS 13, in this photo share sheet is
Options > for sharing Individual Photos or as an iCloud Link and the option to not show Location or All Photos Data (exposure info). Because of researching this info for our class, I have new topics to share with my iPhone Photo Studio seminar. ;-)
AirDrop works over Bluetooth when you are in the company of other Apple devices.
You are in control of accepting photos and documents AirDropped to you. The easy way to activate AirDrop is through the Control Panel. The block of connectivity icons (Airplane Mode, Cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth) has hidden options. Touch and hold in the middle of the 4 icons to reveal 6 options. Tap the blue AirDrop circle to see three options: Receiving Off, Contacts Only, Everyone. When you want to quickly share photos, change to Everyone to send and receive. This is where it is really
helpful is people have NAMED THEIR PHONES so your can identify the receiver. Settings > General > About > Name. Then turn this setting back to Contacts Only. How will your share photos with Android phones or Windows computers?
Photos Search and Creating Photo Albums
There is powerful
Artificial Intelligence in the palm of your hand. This AI is most visible in the Photos app where
People & Places and
Search come in to play. Once you take a photo of a person and identify by name, there will be options to Review additional photos and mark the same person. You want to identify family and friends - not everybody. Because your iPhone includes a GPS sensor, Places can open a map and indicate how many photos were taken in that location. Pinch to zoom in to see the locations break apart. Zoom in more. If you are not seeing photos on the location view, then your iPhone might not record the location because of your
Location Services privacy setting. Check the User Guide for details and suggestions. Oh, if you save photos from friends to your Camera Roll then their locations might also show up.
Search is where AI shines. Also, where you want to practice your
Siri requests! On the Search view, type a city, date, person (identified in People), or category. The category search is fun. Type one of these keywords: beach, cat, dog, horse, bird, museum, tractor, sunset ...
Albums are virtual collections of the photos in your Camera Roll / All Photos / Photos / iCloud Photos. Creating albums of photos does not duplicate the images or take up extra space on your device or in iCloud. You can create many albums. You can delete photos from albums without deleting the image from your Camera Roll. You can delete Albums without deleting photos from your Camera Roll.
Sometimes AI is a great starting place but you want to
tell a story in photos and that means setting the order images are displayed. Hello! Make a new Album, give it an appropriate name and add photos. This is different in iOS 13 and previous operating systems! (You've heard that before.) I will describe the process using the current/13 iOS and ask you to read up on the process in your free User Guide. Use Search or the Photos tab to identify related images. Tap the Select button (top right) and tap on thumbnails to select one or more photos. Tap Add To (bottom middle) and tap New Album ... type the name for this album. Continue finding additional images for this album, Select > tap to checkmark > Add Too... tap Album Name. Rinse and repeat. To
set the sequence of photos, open the Albums tab > tap the Album Name > tap Select and then touch and hold a photo to drag it into place. Repeat. Review your images to make sure your horizons are level and the best photos are included. If there are similar shots, remove the duplicates, Tap Select > tap duplicates to show checkmark > tap Trash Can icon > tap Remove from Album option.
Other options to explore are
Shared Photo Albums and
iCloud Links. Read your User Guide. Attend Today at Apple sessions. Connect with friends to experiment. Have fun learning new techniques!
Organizing Apps on Home Screens - Create Folders
Do you remember panicking when the icons on your iPad or iPhone began to wiggle? What did I do??? Get me outta here!
Whatever action you did discovered a gold mine and instead of digging deeper you ran away. Let's do it again, on purpose. Before you DELETE apps, add them to a folder and move the folder to a back Home Screen, out of the way but still available when you realize how key the (Apple) app is to other apps.
This is your device,
customize the look and app layout on Home Screens to reflect how you interact with the device and apps.
- Using iOS 13 at a Home Screen hold your finger on an app icon to see a pop-up menu with Share InsertAppNameHere and Rearrange Apps. Tap Rearrange Apps to see them begin to wiggle. You will also see a circle with X, indicating you can delete the app. Hold off on deleting for now.
- Using iOS 12 at a Home Screen hold your finger on an app to see the wiggle begin. There are (X) bubbles indicating the app can be deleted. Hold off on deleting for now.
Organize apps!
Let the wiggle begin and now you can make the first Home Screen more relevant by placing the apps you use most often on this screen. Touch and hold on a wiggling app icon then move it up to the top right corner where other icons are pushed out of the way. Release your finder. Yeah! Touch and hold on a wiggling app icon then move it to the right edge of the screen and the second Home Screen appears. Release your finger.
Make app folders!
While your apps are wiggling you can
create a folder of associated apps. Or apps you don't use. Identify two apps. Move them to the same Home Screen. Drag one wiggling app over the top of another app and pause. App-up screen appears with a proposed name and both app icons float there, touch the title to rename your folder, touch off the box to finish this action. Add more apps to a folder by starting the wiggle again and drag the icon into a folder. Drag the folder to the right edge to move it to another Home Screen.
- If you want easy access to several apps from every Home Screen, make a folder and move the folder to the Dock. iPhones can have 4 icons in the Dock, iPad can have more.
- You can touch and hold a folder name to rename it.
- You can drag wiggling app icons out of a folder and move them around on the Home Screen or into a different folder.
- Apps in folders can be hard to find. Use Search instead, swipe down between app icons to bring up search. Type the app name. Or use Siri to "Open Calendar."
Cut, Copy and Paste
In my world, the
Clipboard is magical. When we select text there will be an option to Cut or Copy what is selected. Then we can tap to position the cursor in another part of the document and tap to see the menu with Paste. The Cut or Copy action moves the selection to the Clipboard. You can Paste the same text over and over. The text stays on the Clipboard until the next Cut or Copy.