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, a keyboard, and that 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 see the now-familiar iPhone lineup of buttons that control your view of the store: • Featured. Here are the 30 programs Apple is recommending this week. (If you tap the Genius button, you’re shown a list of apps you might enjoy, based on the apps you’ve already downloaded.) • 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.
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