Intro to iOS and Mail Tutorial

Before we get into a tutorial today, I am going to give you an introduction to iOS. iOS is the software built to run on iPod Touches, iPhones, and iPads. It is one of the most advance operating systems in the world. It was made by Apple. iOS has been said to be basically a simple build of Mac OS X. There are many similarities to both softwares. But alot of the features iOS has, they are also being implimented into Mac OS X. iOS devices are one of the worlds most advanced pieces of technology, the iPhone revolutionized the way we interact with people and the internet. There are many essential programs on iOS. You can listen to music, download apps, read books, browse the internet and your email, read the weather or stocks, and on some devices, you can take pictures. It is very remarkable some of the things Apple has made to improve technology.

Alright, you now have a brief intro to iOS. For this weeks tutorial, I will be teaching you how to set up a mail account on iOS. It is fairly simple to complete.

So first off we are going to start at the Home Screen. The Home Screen is where all of your apps are located, you may also search your iPod using Spotlight from the Home Screen, and also looking at your Notifications Center. This is the Home Screen on my iPod Touch. Awesome huh? :P

From the Home Screen, you are going to tap on the Settings icon, as you can see in the picture of the Home Screen. Once you are in your Setting app, scroll down with your finger until you see a menu that says "Mail, Contacts, and Calenders".

Once you tap that, you will see an option to "Add account...". Tap that and you will be directed to a list of Mail providers to choose from.

Tap on an e-mail provider that you use currently, in this tutorial I have chosen Hotmail, but you may choose something other than my choice. There are quite a few choices to choose from, I personally like iCloud and Gmail, but I chose Hotmail to set up in this tutorial. When you tap on your email provider, a menu like this will pop up:

When this comes up, enter your email credentials and when you are done, tap the next button.

 The menu above will show up next. Set up these settings how you choose. You can decide what information from your email will be sent to your iOS device, such as your mail, contacts, calenders, and events that you need to be reminded to complete.

And You're done! Congrats! You have successfully set up an email account on your iOS device! I hope that you have found this tutorial to be helpful, and simple to follow through. Please subscribe to my blog for more tutorials and other interesting things to be posted in the future. But, until next weeks post, Instinct out.