Mature Adults Daphne Lee

Mature Adults Tech Training

Navigating the iPhone X

Welcome to your new iPhone: Navigating Apple’s iPhone X









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I’d like to introduce you to the touches necessary to properly navigate the iPhone X.

Many of you are transitioning to Apple’s latest iPhone model and find accessing features such as the Control Center or Notification challenging.





Let’s get started…Follow me as I hold my iPhone X in the “portrait” mode, meaning the phone is vertical as I hold it.  Remember the HOME button – take a look and see that the Home button is no longer on the front of your iPhone X.



When your phone is dark (black), it is said to be asleep; to wake it up, simply tap the phone’s face.



Our first motion wakes up the iPhone, taking you to the Lock screen where you may … or may not have a picture (we’ll talk more about enjoying personal photos on your iPhone Start and Home screens in another episode).



Here we go – holding your phone either with one or 2 hands, notice the bright white line at the bottom of the awake start screen…appears to be an inch-plus in length.



I. Swipe up with a single finger; you may see the instructions “Swipe up to Open?”



II. If you are holding the iPhone X approximate to your face, your phone will unlock; if the phone is not where it can recognize your face for the facial recognition feature, you will be prompted to enter your Personal Identification Number or PIN.  This second motion: the swipe up, provides you access to your start screen or the login feature.



III. As you have done with previous models of the Apple iPhone, the third navigational motion is to swipe your finger from right to left advancing the HOME screen (where all the icons are found). As you add apps to your iPhone, more home screens will appear; the more apps you download from the App Store, the greater number of screens are on the device.  Notice the little, tiny white dots above the dock at the bottom of the home screen of your iPhone…those dots indicate the number or presence of multiple pages or screens.



IV. After advancing the start screen away from its beginning position, swipe up just like you did to “log in” to the device.  This fourth motion returns you to the first icon-filled screen.  In previous iPhone models this was accomplished by tapping the Home button on the bottom-front of iPhones 3-8.

Now We Have Covered Four Motions

At this point, we have 4 motions:



1) tap to wake;

2) swipe up for facial recognition or to login using your PIN number;

3) swipe right to left to advance screens;

4) swipe up to return to the first or primary, icon-filled home screen.



Similar to previous models of the Apple iPhone, there is a Search screen or Recent screen when you swipe from left to right when situated at the first Home screen.



On the Apple X, like previous models, swiping from left to right provides you access to useful information such as the battery life percentage and graphic. If you are using an Apple Watch, the battery life (also percentage and graphic) will also display.



Additionally, found on this “very first” of the home screens, you’ll find something new in the last 2 years or so…”widgets”.



Which are iPhone app-summaries providing you quick access to News, Weather, Calendar, Reminders, and other valuable iPhone tools (We’ll devote an entire episode to the Home Screen Widgets and configuring them).



While the battery information and the data provided by the widgets are useful and often reviewed,