Chapter 14

Setting You Straight on Settings

In This Chapter

Taking off in airplane mode

Brushing up on Bluetooth

Preparing networks

Seeking sensible sounds and screen brightness

Uncovering usage statistics

Keeping your privacy

Dealing with disabilities

Tinkering with telephone options

Finding a lost iPhone

Are you a control freak? The type of person who must have it your way? Boy, have you landed in the right chapter.

Throughout this book, you have occasion to drop in on Settings, which is kind of the makeover factory for the iPhone. For example, we show you how to open Settings (by tapping its Home screen icon) to set ringtones and text tones, change the phone’s background or wallpaper, and specify Google, Yahoo!, or Bing as the search engine of choice. We also show you how to alter security settings in Safari, tailor e-mail to your liking, and get a handle on how to fetch or push new data.

The Settings area on the iPhone is roughly analogous to the Control Panel in Windows and System Preferences on a Mac.

Because we cover some settings elsewhere, we don’t dwell on every setting here. But you can still discover plenty to help you make the iPhone your own.