TIPS
Force Quit
Press and hold the "Sleep/Wake" button for a few seconds
until a red slider appears, and then slide the slider. Then press and hold the
"Sleep/Wake" button until the Apple logo appears.
If the entire iPhone locks up - it can happen - press and hold both the
"Home" button and the "Sleep/Wake" switch for eight
seconds. You’ll see the screen go black, and then the Apple logo appears as the
iPhone reboots.
Application download Pause
Taps on the application icon while it’s downloading and you’ll see
the text change to "Paused". When you’re ready to resume this
download touch the icon again and you’ll see the text revert back.
DFU Mode
To do this you need to turn your device off. When it is completely
off, push and hold the power button. Count to 5 and then push and hold the home
button (keeping the power button pressed down still). Count to 10 and then let
go of the power button (keeping the home button pressed down). Count to 30 and
you should hear some notification that the device has been put into DFU mode.
Now you can restore it in iTunes.
Screen Shot
Hold the Home button, then hit the "Power/Sleep" button,
the screen will momentarily flash, and the iPhone’s current screen contents
will be saved to the Camera Roll.
Scrolling up
Simply touch the "Status Bar" at the very top of the
screen (this is where the time is). When you’re in MobileSafari and the Mail
application you will automatically scroll back up to the top of the page (or
email).
Auto TLD
You have to have Google set as the default search engine for this
to work. After this is set, you can just put "apple" into the browser,
and press "Go". It’ll automatically take you to the Apple website.
Set content restriction
General -> Restrictions" then tap Enable Restrictions and
enter a four-digit passcode to restrict your content.
Restrict incoming calls
To stop an incoming call from ringing, press the
"Sleep/Wake" button. To send the call immediately to VoiceMail, press
the "Sleep/Wake" button twice.
How to hide SMS preview
"General -> Passcode Lock" and enter a 4-digit
passcode. After that disable "Show SMS Preview"
Scientific Calculator
You can turn it either way (left or right) and you’ll see the
calculator go into landscape mode where you see your extra features/buttons.
How to share the URIs
A small Share button popped up in Safari, which created a new
email and pasted the link into the body. Just hit the address bar to find it.
Punctuation keys to alphabet keys
To solve it, just press the ".?123" key, but don’t lift
your finger as the punctuation layout appears. Slide your finger a half inch
onto the period or comma key, and release. The ABC layout returns
automatically.
Including extra punctuation keys
Touch and hold the punctuation key and you get a set of additional
keys to choose from.
Wi-Fi IP
When you need to SSH into your iPhone or iPod touch you need to
find out your local IP address.
Scrolling Safari
If you’re scrolling through Safari, the address bar comes with
you, disappearing after the first few swipes. But no matter how far down you’ve
scrolled, tapping the top of the screen (where the network and wireless icons are)
will instantly rocket you back to the address bar.
If you haven’t been to a site with a drop-down search field (like the country
chooser on Apple.com), go do so. Apple has even found a way to make that
enjoyable.
Select other domain name endings
When you type a website URL in the address bar, you can now hold
down the ".com" button to get a selection of other domain name
endings and tap on any of the endings to insert them in the address bar.
Select other domain name endings
Tap "Setting -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data
Network". In the "APN, Username and Password" field, simply type
in some words so iPhone will not pass the correct values to service providers.
Restart your iPhone if necessary.
Train your iPhone to learn new words
You can train your phone to "remember" words if you type
them repeatedly, but this tutorial will teach you a better way to train your
iPhone to learn new words on the fly.
Sensors
The iPhone has three cool sensors. First, it has an accelerometer
that detects when you’ve rotated the iPhone into landscape orientation. In
programs like Photos, Safari, and iPod, it triggers the screen image to rotate
as well.
Behind the black glass where you can’t see them except with a
bright flashlight are two more sensors: a proximity sensor that shuts off the
screen illumination and touch sensitivity when the phone is against your head
(it works only in the Phone application), and an ambient-light sensor that
brightens the display when you’re in sunlight and dims it in darker places.
It experimented with having the light sensor active all the time,
but it was weird to have the screen get brighter and darker all the time. So
the sensor now samples the ambient light, and adjusts the brightness; it does
this only once-each time you unlock the phone after waking it.
You can use that tip to your advantage. By covering up the sensor
(just above the earpiece) as you unlock the phone, you force it to a low-power,
dim screen-brightness setting (because the phone believes that it’s in a dark
room). Or by holding it up to a light as you wake it, you get full brightness.
In both cases, you’ve saved all the taps and navigation it would have taken you
to find the manual brightness slider in Settings.
How to make full screen contact pictures
Browse to the contact and tap edit.
Tap on the photo.
Tap edit photo.
After it opens in fullscreen, tap set photo and save the contact.
Customize the iPod buttons
The iPod module on the iPhone starts out with buttons along the
bottom for summoning four lists: Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.
What about Albums, Genres and Composers?
They’re there, all right, but hidden; you have to tap "More" to see
them.
But what if you use those lists more often than Artists or Songs? No problem:
you can replace one of those starter buttons with a list of your own.
Tap "More", and then tap the "Edit" button (upper-left
corner). You arrive at the
Configure screen. Here’s the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists:
Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists,
Artists, Songs, and Videos.
To replace one of the four starter icons, use a finger to drag an icon from the
top half of the screen downward, directly onto the existing icon you want to
replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag.
When you release your finger, you’ll see that the new icon has replaced the old
one. Tap "Done" in the upper-right corner.
Save images in safari and mail
Touch and hold an image in Safari or Mail, an action sheet will be
presented to enable you to save the image. The image will get stored in the
"Saved Photos" library of the Photos app.
Access iPod controls or phone favorites instantly
Go to "Settings -> General -> Home Button". Double
taping the home button goes to "Home", "Phone Favorites" or
"iPod Controls".
Forward/rewind music & video
Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or
rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art to manually
FF/rewind.
iPhone as a Modem
You can use iPhone 3G or later as a modem to connect, or tether,
your computer to the Internet. You can connect iPhone to your computer using
the Dock
Connector to USB Cable, or via Bluetooth.
In Settings, choose "General -> Network -> Internet Tethering".
Slide the Internet Tethering switch to On.
Connect iPhone to your computer.
USB: Connect your computer to iPhone, using the Dock Connector to USB
Cable.
In your computer’s Network services settings, choose iPhone.
On a Mac, a pop-up window appears the first time you connect, saying "A
new network interface has been detected". Click Network Preferences,
configure the network settings for iPhone, then click Apply. On a PC, use the
Network Control Panel to configure the iPhone connection.
Bluetooth: On iPhone, choose "Settings -> General ->
Bluetooth" and turn on
Bluetooth. Then refer to the documentation that came with your computer system
software to pair and connect iPhone with your computer.
When you’re connected, a blue band appears at the top of the screen. Tethering
remains on when you connect with USB, even when you aren’t actively using the
Internet connection.
Monitor your cellular data network usage:
In Settings, choose "General -> Usage".
Double-Tapping
In Photos, Google Maps, and Safari (the Web browser),
double-tapping zooms in on whatever you tap, magnifying it by a factor of two.
In the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, "restore to
original size" after you’ve zoomed in. (Weirdly, in Google Maps, you use a
different gesture to zoom out: tap once with two fingers. That gesture appears nowhere
else on the iPhone.)
When you’re watching a video, double-tapping eliminates or
restores letterbox bars.
Standard TV shows are squarish, not rectangular. So when you watch
TV shows, you get black letterbox columns on either side of the picture.
Movies have the opposite problem. They’re too wide for the iPhone
screen. So when you watch movies, you wind up with letterbox bars above and
below the picture.
How to maximize battery life
a. Turn down the LCD. The new iPhone’s screen is brighter. You may
save your battery power by changing "Settings -> Brightness". I
keep mine at 10% brightness.
b. Turn off Vibrate in Games. Playing a game with vibrate happening frequently
is an unnecessary battery suck. If you can turn it off.
c. Limit use of A-GPS tracking. GPS tracking is still pretty useless after
you've gained your bearings, since there isn't a turn by turn navigation mode
for driving.
I exit out of maps once I've got the directions in my mind, and if I lose
myself again, I just start maps up once more.
d. Turn off Wi-Fi new network scanning or Wi-Fi
e. Toggle off 3G till ready.
f. Buy Apps and Songs in iTunes at your computer not over Wi-Fi or
Apps over 3G.
g. Set the Autolock to 1 or 2-minutes. It can be set under "Settings ->
General -> Autolock".
h. Use programs with 3D less often. Not surprisingly, I've noticed that when I
play games rendering 3D, battery life drops. Using the graphics chips more
intensely will crank up power usage, but maybe the drain is also because of the
nature of gaming: Unlike email or browsing, gaming is a full-time, full
attention endeavor that also keeps the CPU, GPU and LCD going full-time. (I'd
like to think this is a more useful tip than "don't use your iPhone"
but maybe it's not something you can avoid if you're a gaming addict.)
I. Set Push to Off, and Set Fetch Time. Push email isn't that useful for me
because I know I'm getting emails all day long and that I have to be checking
all the time. Push does use more juice than the fetch mode, which checks for
calendar, contact and email syncing at set intervals of 15 minutes to an hour.
I set mine to 1 hour unless I'm out of the office. If you seldom update your
contacts and calendars, you might even be better off syncing by cable to
iTunes, while you pick up a charge.
J. Stay Juiced. If you're at computer or in a car, you should try to use a
cigarette adapter or USB cable to pick up a few minutes of charge.
Keyboard Shortcuts 1
When typing on your iPhone’s keypad, if you make a mistake, and your iPhone
offers up the correct word underneath your misspelling, click the SPACE bar to
accept the suggestion. (To ignore the suggestion, just keep typing.)
Keyboard Shortcuts 2
If you realize you’ve made a typing error a few sentences back,
tap your finger where the mistake was made to position the cursor there. You
can then correct the error, and use the same technique to return to your
previous position in the text.
Keyboard Shortcuts 4
Double-tab the SPACE bar to add a period followed by a space
Keyboard Shortcuts 5
Double-tap a picture, map, or web page to zoom in on it
Keyboard Shortcuts 6
In Safari, after scrolling to the bottom of the page, tap the top
of the screen to immediately return to the top of the page.
Keyboard Shortcuts 7
Visit yahoo/listings, click the + button, and click Add to Home Screen. You now
have one-click access to your local TV listing. Okay, so I’m a TV junkie.
Keyboard
Shortcuts 8
If you’ve ever flicked so hard that the web page you’re navigating scrolls way
past where you want to be, you can stop scrolling by tapping the page during
the scroll.
