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iPhone - Apple Support (Essentials, Syncing, Features, AirPlay & AirDrop... This is a place where I put miscellaneous notes on the iPhone I couldn't find elsewhere or where the on-line instructions (e.g. to copy files from a mac to iPhone were out of date.
iOS
iPhone key combinations
Saving Battery Life
Find out what's using juice:
7 Ways to Save Your Battery Life on iOS 8 | mashable SMS, MMS, iMessage SMS - Short Message Service - Short, 160 character text messages. MMS - Multimedia Messaging Service - Standard for multimedia, primarily for sending pictures taken on the phone. No formal size limit but 300 KB is the recommended max. iMessage - Instant Messaging SMS and MMS are transmitted as text messages over the phone network and will incur text charges if you don't have unlimited text. iMessage goes over the Internet.
If you are concerned about your SMS/MMS usage and want to devote yourself wholly to sending iMessages, then fire up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and open the Settings app. From there, tap Messages.
Copying photos from a Mac It is confusing because Apple wants iTunes to handle all the interface between a Mac and iPhone. See Use AirDrop to wirelessly share content - Apple Support if you have iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
Copying photos to a Mac:
Lightning Connector
The lightning cable has a chip in it which is required for it to work properly. Wallpaper: I was having trouble with the wallpaper I created being truncated on a 5S. You should be able to create an image that matches the screen size. iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 - 960 x 640 3.5" iPhone 5, iPhone 5s - 1136 x 640 4.0" iPhone 6 1334 x 750 4.7" iPhone 6 Plus 1920 x 1080 5.5"Part of the problem is the parallax feature. What you see straight on is cropped. Tilting your iPhone or iPad shifts the background right or left, up or down in order to create the effect that the device moves with you, iOS has to take into account that the background has to have some padding on every side in order to do so.. What is shown is 528 x 936 (ie 56 pixels are cut off on the left ane right and 100 pixels are cut off on the top and bottom)
You can turn this off in Settings > Accessibility > Reduce Motion
Even with this
Air Print Printing to a wireless printer
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