A new button row sprouts across the bottom. First, however, tap the thumbnails of the photos or videos you want to manipulate. With each tap, a checkmark appears, meaning, “OK, this one will be included.” (Tap again to remove the checkmark.) Now you can tap one of the bottom-row buttons: • Share. When you tap Share (5) (or whatever the number of selected photos or videos happens to be), you’re offered a new choice of buttons: either Email or MMS (page 150). • Copy. Tapping this one copies the indicated number of photos to the invisible iPhone clipboard. Now you can switch to another program—like Messages or Mail—and paste the selected photos or videos. (You may be able to paste them into non-Apple apps, too.) • Delete. Here’s where you can delete a bunch of photos at once. (Here again, you can delete only photos or videos you’ve taken with the iPhone—not ones you transferred from your computer.)
Photo Wallpaper Wallpaper, in the world of iOS 4, can refer to the background photo that appears in either of two places: the Home screen (plastered behind your app icons) or the Unlock screen (which appears every time you wake the iPhone). You can replace Apple’s standard photos with one of your photos or with a different one of Apple’s. You go at this task in either of two ways.
Start in Settings From the Home screen, tap SettingsÆWallpaper. Now you see miniatures of the two places you can install wallpaper—a Lock screen and a Home screen (facing page, left). (Each shows what you’ve got installed there as wallpaper at the moment.) These aren’t separate buttons; that is, this isn’t the place to indicate which screen (Lock or Home) you’re redecorating. Just tap once on the whole thing to move on. When you tap that picture, you’re shown a list of photo sources you can use as backgrounds. They include: • Wallpaper. Apple has supplied 27 professional, presized photos and textures that you can use as your wallpaper until you get your own photographic skills in shape (facing page, right).
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