Synchronizing your iPhone with your computer

1. Start by connecting your iPhone to your computer with the USB cable that came with your iPhone.

When you connect your iPhone to your computer, iTunes should launch automatically. If it doesn’t, chances are you plugged the cable into a USB port on your keyboard, monitor, or hub. Try plugging it into one of the USB ports on your computer instead. Why? Because USB ports on your computer supply more power to a connected device than USB ports on a keyboard, monitor, or most hubs.

2. Select your iPhone in the iTunes source list.
You see the Set Up Your iPhone pane, as shown in Figure 3-1. If you’ve already set up and named your iPhone, you can skip steps 3 and 4a and start with Step 4b.If you don’t see an iPhone in the source list, and you’re sure it’s connected to a USB port on your computer (not the keyboard, monitor, or hub), restart your computer.
3. Name your iPhone.
We’ve named this one alexa’s iPhone.

4a. Decide whether you want iTunes to automatically synchronize your iPhone and your contacts, calendars, e-mail accounts, and bookmarks.

• If that’s what you want, click the check box next to Automatically Sync Contact, Calendars, Email Accounts, and Bookmarks to make a check mark appear. Then click the Done button and continue with the “Synchronizing Your Media” section later in this chapter.

• If you want to synchronize manually, make sure the check box is unchecked, as shown in Figure3, and click Done. The“Synchronizing Your Data” section tells you all about how to configure your contacts, calendars, e-mail accounts, and bookmarks manually. We’ve chosen to not select the check box because this computer hasfour e-mail accounts and we don’t want all of them to synchronize with the iPhone.

4b. After you click the Done button (applies only to those who just performed steps 3 and 4a), the Summary pane should appear. If it doesn’t, make sure your iPhone is still selected in the source list and click the Summary tab near the top of the window, as shown in Figure 4.
5. If you want iTunes to sync your iPhone automatically whenever you connect it to your computer, click to put a check mark in the Automatically Sync When This iPhone Is Connected check box (in the Options area).

Don’t select this check box if you want to sync manually by clicking the Sync button at the bottom of the window. Your choice in Step 5 is not set in stone. If you select the Automatically
Sync When This iPhone Is Connected check box, you can still prevent your iPhone from syncing automatically in several different ways:
• Way #1: After you connect the iPhone to your computer, click the Summary tab in iTunes and uncheck the Automatically Sync When This iPhone Is Connected check box. This prevents iTunes from opening automatically when you connect the iPhone. If you use
this method, you can still start a sync manually.
• Way #2: Launch iTunes; then, before you connect your iPhone to your computer, press and hold Command+Option (Mac) or Shift+Ctrl (PC) until you see your iPhone in the iTunes source list.This method prevents your iPhone from syncing automatically just
this one time, without changing any settings.

6. If you want to sync only items that are selected in your iTunes library,select the Only Sync Checked Songs and Videos check box.

7. If you want to turn off automatic syncing in the Music and Video panes, check the Manually Manage Music and Videos check box.

And, of course, if you decide to uncheck the Automatically Sync When This iPhone Is Connected check box, you can always synchronize manually by clicking the Sync button in the bottom-right corner of the window. By the way, if you’ve changed any sync settings since the last time you synchronized,the Sync button will instead say Apply.

Two Ways to the App Store

You can get to the App Store in two ways: from the phone itself, or from your
computer’s copy of the iTunes software.

Using iTunes offers a much easier browsing and shopping experience, of
course, because you’ve got a mouse, keyboard, and big screen. But downloading
straight to the iPhone, without ever involving the computer, is also
wicked cool—and it’s your only option when you’re out and about.

Shopping from the Phone

To check out the App Store from your iPhone, tap the App Store icon. You
arrive at the colorful, scrolling wonder of the Store itself.
Across the bottom, you’ll see the now-familiar iPhone lineup of buttons that
control your view of the store.
They include:
• Featured. Here are the 25 programs that Apple is recommending this week.
• Categories. This list shows the entire catalog, organized by category:
Books, Business, Education, Entertainment, Finance, Games, and so on.

Tap a category to see what’s in it.
• Top 25. Tap this button to reveal a list of the most popular 25 programs at the moment, ranked by how many people have downloaded them. You can also tap the Free button at the top of the screen to see the most popular free programs. There are lots of them, and they’re one of the great joys of the App Store.
• Search. Scrolling through those massive lists is a fun way to stumble onto cool things. But as the number of iPhone programs grows into the thousands, viewing by list begins to get awfully unwieldy.

Fortunately, you can also search the catalog, which is a very efficient way to go if you know what you’re looking for (either the name of a program,• Search. Scrolling through those massive lists is a fun way to stumble onto cool things. But as the number of iPhone programs grows into the thousands, viewing by list begins to get awfully unwieldy.

Sometimes, a program has a low score because it’s just not designed well, or it doesn’t do what it’s advertised to do. And sometimes, of course, it’s a little buggy.