User Guides

The manual is over 700 pages. And is available in dozens of languages. The shipping costs alone would be prohibitive. You probably have a computer. Why don’t you just read the manual on your computer? I’m in my late 70’s and have no problem reading online; I actually prefer it to a real book because I can search in it rather than thumbing through 700 pages looking for something. There are also many books written about your phone that you can buy from Amazon and have shipped to you.

What is your alternative to buying from Apple? There is no electronic product on the market today that comes with a paper manual.

I can appreciate that you prefer a printed copy to read from and then execute something on your device. I have a suggestion (a workaround), ... (please read on)

Your phone and watch are capable of doing various things and have various features & services - not everything will be what pertains to you or applicable to how you plan to use the phone/watch.

My suggestion would, therefore, be to discover (learn) the basic things you want to do with your phone/watch, and you may find that further learning becomes quite intuitive as you spend time with the devices.

So, use the website version of the manual - browse through the Table of Contents at the top - to see what it is you would like to learn about. Open that topic in your web browser and print only that topic out. iPhone User Guide - Apple Support

Now, you can revert to your way of learning (with printed material). I know this is, perhaps, not the solution you were hoping for, but do give it a shot ... and see how things go. If you need further help you can reach out to us at the community (a user/peer forum where we attempt to pool in our knowledge and experience to help each other out)

Sidenote: Some find it also easier to learn through videos/pictures - so here is the official Apple Support YouTube Channel with a playlist of videos pertaining to iPhone. I find these videos helpful too! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIl2EzNYri0cslRUIjVxdc7MuZiVQ_7os

For both those products - Apple Watch 5 and an iPhone 11 Pro Max, the guides cannot be downloaded and printed.

You can either view it on the website or read it off the app: iBooks on your Apple Device (iPhone/iPad/Mac).

See the post from Siabh above. It has a link to the online manual. You can download the full manual using the Books app on your phone.

And for specific questions post them here and one of the volunteer users on this user-to-user forum will work with you.

Apple - Support - Manuals

Dear George,

Here is the link : https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/welcome/ios

All my best!

Excellent suggestions.