Melissa and Carol will report on the core apps Contacts and Calendars.
We want to encourage you to read the iPhone User Guide or iPad User Guide also available in Books for off-line reading, bookmarking, highlighting and personal notes.
Contacts
You will want to read the guide chapter on
Contacts and begin adding people, businesses and locations to your Contacts app. Our presentation will cover some uses of Contacts. Create your personal card and then marking it as 'My Card', updating contact cards, setting SOS contacts, adding a photo ...
Contacts is a core app on your devices. It connects to other core apps, phone, maps, messages, email, Safari, Search and Siri - your personal assistant - can access Contacts!
Contacts with many entries will not take up much space on your device. Feel free to add people from your paper address book or rolodex. And in these COVID-19 times, use your entries to reach out and reconnect with your people! Edit the contact card details as you learn more about your friend network.
If your are a multi-Apple-device household, then designate one person to create the master Contacts list and maintain it. Then every 6 months or so, sit down and Share individual contact cards with others to get them updated. (The receiver can delete the contact card before getting the new card to avoid duplicates.) For shared contact cards, add "Updated" in the Notes field and then use Contacts > Search to find names to share.
Share Contact Cards - open a contact and scroll up to see Share Contact, tap to bring up the Share Sheet and see the best way to share - AirDrop, or send as a Message or Email.
Mark important cards as Favorites so they show up on the Phone app for easy dialing. Scroll up the card to see Add to Favorites.
Mark critical cards for Emergency Contact - SOS. Scroll up the card to see Add to Emergency Contacts (in red type) and tap the text > tap to choose the best phone number to be called. Mobile numbers are best. On your iPhone, review how Emergency SOS works. Settings > Emergency SOS > read info ... Also, set your Emergency Contacts in the Health App after you have created individual contact cards for each person.
Phone and Contacts apps - do you want to avoid unknown callers? Settings > Phone > scroll up > Silence Unknown Callers > ON. What if your significant other's phone is dead and a stranger allows them to call you? Unknown Caller! Leave a voice mail message! Repeat the call 2 more times, with voice mail. Make a contract with your friends/family to review repeated Unknown Callers.
Update a contact card from the Phone app.
Phishing Report via Contacts - for me, Apple, Amazon and Comcast. When I get a suspicious email, it is easy to forward the message to the real vendor.
Do a Google Search for topics on Contacts? Do a YouTube Search for Apple iPad Contacts.
Calendars
Carol reminded us that there are MANY views to your calendar! Day, Week, Month and Year views are part of the experience, but also remember to rotate your iPhone to landscape for the week view to show. Open your Books app to the iPhone User Guide or the iPad User Guide to read the chapter on Calendar. Then start to play with the features that are most useful to you.
When you get an email with an invitation to participate on a day and time --- touch and hold on the date so the pop-up appears > tap on CREATE EVENT from the list. This is the best choice (for now) and links the calendar event to this email message. Fill in the TITLE. LOCATION and Time. To finish this event tap ADD at the top right corner.
Calendar events are most useful when you add a specific location because with a tap you can open the Maps app and get directions or travel time. Events can also have your personal Notes and even an Attachment. (Who knew? Carol was surprised at this new option in iOS13.) When you are visiting friends and you have a Contact card, just begin typing their name to see the address appear.
Many events are REPEATED on a weekly or monthly basis. Before setting a repeating meeting, know when it ends so you can set the last date for the event. OK, just make the first event date and then practice editing the event. Find the EDIT button in the top right corner. After editing, tap the DONE button in the top right corner.
The best news is that if you have an iPad and iPhone (maybe even a Mac computer) the Calendar events can SYNC to all your devices. ADD a new event on your iPad and it will also appear on our iPhone! Open Settings app on your devices > iCloud > Calendar ON. Also, Settings > Calendar > Sync > All Events (so you can look back at all you've done and recorded on your Calendar).
Today View on the first Home Screen of iPad in iOS 13
In the online iPad User Guide read the article
View and Organize the Today View on iPad to get an overview of the process. At the top of the screen is a button to Keep on Home Screen - for an at a glance view of your favorite apps. Carol's strategy is to add the
Up Next Calendar item to the top of this list. Review the list of available widgets and tap the green (+) to add to the Pinned Favorites list. Change the order of your favorites list by holding on the button with 3-vertical lines and moving the floating box up or down.
As always, Touch Every Button. You can't break your iPad or iPhone by exploring the features.