Use the Accounts application to edit or delete an online account

If you change the username, email address or password you use with an online account, you need to enter the new information in the account settings on your smartphone. You can do that from within one of the applications associated with that account, or from the Accounts app.

1Open Accounts .

2Tap the account name.

3Do one of the following:

•To change the account display name: Under Account Name, tap the current name to highlight it and enter the new name.

•To change which applications are associated with the account: For each app listed, tap On or Off.

•To edit the account information: Tap Change login settings, enter the new username and password and tap Sign In.

•To delete the account: Tap Remove account. Tap Remove Account again to confirm.

IMPORTANT If you delete an account from your smartphone using the Accounts app, all data is removed from all apps on your smartphone associated with the account. The account itself still exists online. For example, if you delete an Exchange account using the Accounts app, all your Exchange data is removed from Email, Contacts, Calendar and Tasks. If you want to delete data only from one app served by the account—for example, you want to delete the calendar events but keep the contacts—simply turn that app off for that account.

View and work with notifications

Notifications show up at the bottom of the screen to notify you of new voicemail and messages, upcoming appointments, missed calls, application updates and more. Some notifications also display app controls, such as music playback controls, when you are not in the app itself.

There are several kinds of notifications.

Banner alert: This is a notification that appears in a small strip at the bottom of the screen. Some banner alerts appear as confirmation of an action—for example, to confirm that text was selected or copied. Others notify you of an item you can act on—for example, a missed call or an incoming text message. For these alerts, if you do not tap the alert after a few seconds, it becomes an icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. Tap the bottom of the screen to display the alerts as dashboard items.

Dashboard item: The dashboard provides an expanded view of all notifications you can act on. For example, you can tap a voicemail dashboard item to check your voicemail, or a calendar dashboard item to open your calendar.

Chapter 4 : Work with applications

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