iPhone Tips and Tricks

There are so many iPhone tips and tricks that can make your iPhone experience easier and more fun. None of the tips in this page require modifying or jailbreaking your iPhone and therefore, all the tips could be applied to the off the shelf iPhone.

You might know some of those tips and tricks, but I am pretty sure you will learn about one or more new ones. Also visit the iPhone questions page for solutions and answers to many iPhone problems and iPhone troubleshooting. If you have a jailbrocken iPhone, visit the iPhone System tricks page to find out what you can do when you have full access to the iPhone file system.

1- Arranging iPhone icons quickly:

One of the problems with the iPhone icons is that they move around some times, and when you have many apps, it becomes difficult to arrange those icons and keep them in place. 

Apple updated iTunes to solve this problem by adding iPhone icons arranger right in the application so that when you sync, all your iPhone icons locations are also stored on your computer.

There are many iPhone tips and tricks to add more icons and arrange iPhone icons right on your iPhone. Visit the iPhone icons hacks to learn how to have lots of iPhone icons on your home screens.

2- Take a screen shot:

This works with any iPhone application, on any screen. The picture will go to your camera roll.

3- The undo button:

One of the iPhone tips and tricks that took me sometime to find is the undo action. I was always looking for this button when I type in Notes app or any app that uses texts.

Just shake the iPhone after you type any text in any text field in the iPhone, a menu will pop up giving you the option to either undo or cancel.

Tap the "Undo Typing" button, and your last typing will be undone.

4- Change the iPhone language:

One of the beauty of the iPhone is its support to international languages in both the keyboard and the system.

There are over 30 languages are supported.

5- Disable the phone:

One of my problems when outside the US is that my iPhone still answers phone calls. This means that I get roaming charges even if I don't answer the phone, and even if the call goes to voice mail.

The solution is to remove the iPhone SIM Card. This way, you can still use all the iPhone features including wifi while only disabling the cell phone network. Your phone will be out of service, and no voice mail will be available.

6- Control iPod music while in other apps:

One way to control the iPod if it is running and when you are in any app, is to double click the home button, and an iPod control menu will appear. Just make sue that iPod controls is "on" in settings, general, home. If you stop the iPod you won't have access to this menu anymore. The music must be playing in order for this menu to appear.

I found that with some external accessories, you can control the iPod while you are using an iPhone GPS application for example. Liquid AUX from Kensington has a remote that allows you to fast forward, stop or pause your iPod.

Those functions will work with the iPod even if it is in the background and if you are running another app. I use this when I am using the navigation system, and I want to start the iPod without quitting the navigation application.

7- iPhone tips and tricks for battery saving:

1. Turn down screen brightness.
   
2. Disable push mail.
   
3. Turn off WiFi if not needed.
4. Enable auto-lock for the screen so it turns off after a minute or two
5. Turn off Bluetooth if not needed.
6. Disable 3G network if no need for data.
7. Disable GPS by disabling location services if no need.

8- Change Domain Suffix:

In safari url address area, you can tap and hold on the .com button and get access to many other domain suffixes like .net, .edu, and many others.

This tap and hold on the keys works also for other key buttons, just try different keys depending on your keyboard language.

9- Open a link in a new page:

If you tap and hold on a link inside Safari, you get a menu with three options, Open, Open in a new page, or copy.

10-Dismiss word correction:

As you are typing with the keyboard, a little word correction might appear.

If you press the space bar or anywhere on the screen, you are accepting the suggested word, but if you don't want to accept it, just  click the x button.

11- iPhone tips and tricks- the home button:

However, you can change this. In settings, general, Home, you can select from five different actions for the double click home button. You can open the Camera app when double click for example.

Use the home button to reboot. If the iPhone is not responding at all. Press the power button and the home button together for 10 seconds, the iPhone will reboot. Visit the iPhone troubleshooting page to learn how to solve many iPhone problems.

12- Quickly add a period:

You can add a period while typing quickly by double tapping the space bar on the iPhone virtual keyboard instead of switching to numbers and then adding a period there.

13- Reset iPhone Network Connection:

iPhone tips and tricks could be right there on the surface but we don't try them because we don't know what they are.

For example, a very simple trick that could solve many internet connection issues is in iPhone Settings.

You will see this happen sometimes when you try to open a website, and the iPhone just keeps looking for a connection. Although this problem is not common, the solution is very simple.

Go to Settings, and tap the Airplane mode once to turn it on, and once more to turn it off. This will reset the iPhone network and start it fresh again solving the connection problem.

14- Link iPhone Notes to other iPhone Applications:

Some of the cool iPhone tips and tricks is the integration between iPhone Notes and other iPhone applications like iPhone Mail, iPhone Safari, Contacts, YouTube and Maps.

For example, if you tap and hold on a phone number in iPhone Notes, you will get the option to call that phone number, send a text message to that phone number, create a new contact for that phone number, or add the phone number to an existing contact.

You can apply the same trick when you tap and hold on an email address, a website url, or a mailing address within iPhone notes.

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