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Staying Well-Connected with your iPhone

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The apps and approaches for helping you stay well-connected have been covered extensively at the Senior Tech Club.  This page will highlight the lessons and programs that cover communication topics.

Click on the headings below to display information on these topics.  Use the table at the bottom of the page to view individual lessons on these topics.  .  Click on the lesson’s title to access this additional information. 

 

CLASS Topics

Your iPhone and iPad offer a variety of tools for communicating and staying connected.  Below, you will find lessons on the following apps and functions:

Mail – Send and Receive emails

Messages – Send and receive text messages

Phone – Send and receive calls and make conference calls.

Facetime – Use Apple’s video calling feature. 

additional Information

Here are the relevant Apple user guide for these topics.  

iPhone User Guide – Phone App

iPhone User Guide – FaceTime

iPhone User guide – Messages

 

 

Senior Tech Club Recipes and Lessons on the topics covered in this class.  Click on the lesson title to access the lesson and its descriptions and instructions.

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Use your iPhone or iPad to Send and Receive Email
Use your iPhone or iPad to Send and Receive Email

Email is essential for connected Seniors. It is a free and fast way to send and receive messages with friends, families and more. It is essential for online shopping, banking and engaging with the Senior Tech Club. Let’s get started with this email recipe.

Sending Texts & iMessages with Special Effects
Sending Texts & iMessages with Special Effects

Many of us use texting as a basic communication tool.  Even our children and grandchildren seem to respond better to texts than phone calls. We can also use texting to stay connected with friends. It’s just an easy way to stay in touch.

The Message app on your iPhone and iPad is able to take our texts beyond the basics and allow you to add celebratory flair to a standard text message.

In this recipe, you will learn about three enhancements that will add flair to text messaging, 1) Special Animation Effects, 2) Tapback Responses and 3) Handwriting a message.

Make a Family Conference Call with your iPhone
Make a Family Conference Call with your iPhone

If you are a family event organizer, you might occasionally need to make a conference call that includes family members or some combination of friends, family and colleagues. The iPhone allows you to make conference calls. It only requires a two-step recipe. It’s easy

Making Video Calls with Facetime
Making Video Calls with Facetime

Making video calls with FaceTime is a great way to connect with friends and family. And it is installed and ready to connect with a single tap. This recipe will demonstrate the basic call functions.

Organize your Email Inbox with Flags, VIP &  Folders
Organize your Email Inbox with Flags, VIP & Folders

If you are an active email user and you get a lot of email and may begin to feel the need to organize your inbox. Or perhaps you would simply like to add some categories of email that you could organize into folders. The Mail app has the ability to create a filing system that can organize your inbox into folders and categories.
This recipe will give you the ingredients and actions to add organization to your Mail inboxes.

Texting and Messaging with your iPhone and iPad
Texting and Messaging with your iPhone and iPad

Texting with your phone has become essential in order to communicate with families and friends. In addition to basic communication, we are now seeing all kinds of services offered via text or text-like services. This includes text banking, numerous payment services, delivery notifications, restaurant reservations and more. For Seniors, texting is also a way that children and grandchildren can send the pictures of their lives.

The Messages apps on your iPhone provides access to the world of texting and iMessages.  This recipe will review the basics.

Attach Files or Pictures to an Email
Attach Files or Pictures to an Email

If you have used email in a work environment, sending files and documents as attachments to an email message was an everyday occurrence. But with the iPhone Mail app, this function is hidden. This Nugget will uncover the approach.

Making and Receiving Calls with the Phone App
Making and Receiving Calls with the Phone App

The most basic function of your iPhone is using the Phone app to make and receive calls. It is probably the first way that you used your iPhone and probably requires no introductory training.

This recipe will review the essential functions and provide tips that help make the process of making and receiving calls easy and quick.

Live #2 Making Video Calls with Facetime
Live #2 Making Video Calls with Facetime

Texting with your phone has become essential in order to communicate with families and friends. In addition to basic communication, we are now seeing all kinds of services offered via text or text-like services. This includes text banking, numerous payment services, delivery notifications, restaurant reservations and more.

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