If you’re looking for a free instruction manual that covers all the basics of operating the iPhone, check out Apple’s iPhone User’s Guide. It’s free, and at 130 pages long, it thoroughly covers all basics of operating your iPhone. It’s available as a PDF that you can download from Apple’s site.

The guide may be too large to print out and carry with you, but you can also access the entire guide in your iPhone’s browser. Apple has created a special web version (a webapp) with an iPhone-friendly interface. Check it out here: iPhone User Guide webapp, on your iPhone.

The webapp has a handy search feature to help you quickly find the topic you’re looking for. Or, you can just browse the regular menu to discover new things your iPhone does.
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The iPhone’s bright and detailed screen is perfect for watching movies and TV shows while on the go. Videos purchased in iTunes are relatively easy to transfer to the iPhone. Videos from other, non-iTunes sources are a different matter (see the Notes section at the end of this post). The following are instructions on how to transfer movies and TV shows purchased from iTunes onto the iPhone.

How to Sync iTunes Movies and TV Shows to the iPhone

1. Connect your iPhone to the computer.

2. In iTunes, click on your iPhone in the left sidebar.
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Occasionally, a misspelled word can get added to the iPhone’s dictionary. This can happen when you tap the “X” that appears next to the iPhone’s autocorrection. No worries though–you can reset the dictionary in the iPhone’s settings and remove the misspelled words. Here’s how.

1. Open Settings:

2. Tap General:

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It is possible to send multiple photos in an email on the iPhone, but you need to start in the iPhone’s Photo app, not the Mail app like you’d assume. Below are step-by-step instructions for attaching multiple photos to an email.

1. Launch the Photo App:

2. Tap the album where the photos are located:

3. You’ll see a bunch of thumbnails of the pictures in the album. Tap the Share button in the bottom left corner:

4. Tap the pictures you want to share in the email (you can tap more than one). A red check mark will appear on each photo to indicate you’ve selected it:

5. Tape Share in the bottom left.

6. Tap Email:

7. A new email will pop up with your photos inserted into the email:

Choose your recipients, write a subject and message, and hit Send.

Notes and Tips:

In Step 5, you’ll also notice a button that says Copy. Selecting Copy will also let you share multiple photos in an email–it just takes a few more steps than using the Share button (with Copy, you’ll have to open the Mail app yourself and then paste the photos).

Using the Copy button does have one big advantage: it allows you to send full-resolution pictures. You may not know that the iPhone automatically shrinks your pictures taken with the iPhone’s camera from 2048 x 1536 to 800 x 600 in size when you send them in an email via Share. Use Copy and Paste to get the full resolution.

The main downside to using Copy to share photos is that the email will take much longer to send over 3G/EDGE because of the larger file sizes.

Be sure to check out more of our posts on iPhone Basics.