The iPhone 13 and the 13 Pro Max are Apple’s current generation flagships showcasing the best that Apple has to offer. Similarly, there are feature packed and bring major improvements from their older siblings, the iPhone 12 series despite having similar form factors. As you can tell, Apple has done many under the hood changes to provide additional features to its users without many changes to the devices exterior appearances. So, we have created a Beginners guide on How to use your brand new iPhone 13 pro/max to its fullest.

Beginners Guide to Use the iPhone 13 Pro/Max

Before we get started on the software side of the device, let’s have a quick run down into its physical specs and then start from there on. As you hold you brand new iPhone 13-Pro/Max, you can find that the notch on this device is smaller than its older siblings. However, the rest of the hardware still remain unchanged from the previous models like the volume button, mute switch, the lightning ports and the number of lenses on the back. Similarly, both the iPhone 13-Pro/Max also supports wireless charging through Mag-Safe and all its accessories.

Initial Setup process:

Now, let’s move to the software and the working features of both of the devices. Right from the start, Apple provides some of the best set-up guides to guide users through their setup process. Here, this step is very detailed and users shouldn’t have any trouble setting up their brand new devices.

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The Lock-screen:

After the setup process, let’s move to the lock screen section of your brand new iPhone 13-Pro/Max devices. Here, Users can see some basic information’s like the time, date, flash and camera icons with the owner’s current notifications. Furthermore, users can long press their current notifications to find additional information’s about them and various actions that they can take against them.  Next, users can turn on and use both the cameras and the flash from their respective icons shown at the bottom of their lock screen. Users only have to press and hold each icon to use either of those features. Additionally, Users can also access the camera through dragging the lock screen to the left. For exiting the app, Users only have to drag from the bottom of their screens.

The Control Centre:

The Control Centre is an easy access point of various important settings in the device like the Wi-Fi toggle, brightness toggle, signals, Bluetooth etc. Users can access the control Centre in their respective devices by swiping down from the top right corner of their iPhones. Now, they are shown many setting for their devices that they can change to their likings. Some of the most useful one includes the Airplane mode, device orientation, brightness, Music, flash and signal settings like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth etc. Users can easily change all those settings from the Control Centre itself.

The Home-Screen:

To get into our home screens, Users only have to swipe up from their respective lock screens. Here, we’ll have to enter our respective passwords to get into our home screens or the Face ID will unlock our device for us. In the home screen, we can find all of our apps and widgets that we have installed on our device. Also, there are many homepages and one can access them through swiping left or right on their devices.

For adding additional widgets, Users can swipe to the left until it shows the iPhones widget panel. Here, users can hold and move a Widget to drag it into their respective homepages. This takes us to the “Editing Mode” in our iPhones and we can swipe up to save all our changes. Next, we can also hold down in an app or widget icon to get into the editing mode as well. For deleting and removing both apps and widgets from our home screens, we can tap on the Minus sign above those icons to do so. Also, Users can swipe their home screens to the far right to reveal their App library. The App library consists of all the apps currently installed in our devices.

The Navigation:

All current generation iPhones use gestures to navigate throughout their UI. Here, users are greeted with a navigation bar at the bottom of their screens when they open any Applications. For getting back into their home screens, users just have to swipe that navigation bar up. Additionally, Users can cycle between their recent apps through either swiping their navigation bar to the left or right. Similarly, users can access their multi-tasking menu by dragging the navigation bar and holding it until they see other apps and lifting it up afterwards. This will show us all our recent apps that are open in the background and users can swipe them up to close them.

These are the basics and anyone can get used to their iPhone 13-Pro/Max easily through them. Additionally, users can also start using other apps and setting in the phone to know about them more deeply. After that, they can pretty much mix and match various settings in their phone to their own likings.