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15 Aug

20 iPhone Tricks you got to know

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Thanks to iSmashphone.com for sharing this amazing list of iPhone tricks with us. Every iPhone enthusiast got to know this. Amazing stuff. Here’s the list

1. Scroll to Top of Page - In any application, Safari included, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the “top bar”, which has the time, service bars, and battery. In Safari, this not only brings you to the top of the page, but also brings up the URL bar.
2. Domain Resolution - When typing a URL in Safari, you don’t have to type the “www” or the “.com”.For instance, for www.cnn.com just type “cnn” in the URL box. Note: Your search engine must be set to Google, not Yahoo.
3. Domain Suffix - [On firmware 2.0 only] Hold down the “.com” key for “.net, .edu, .org” keys. Note: Slide your finger from .com to .net/.edu/.org, rather than lifting and pressing.
4. Press & Hold For Alternate Characters - Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character (i.e. to type España with the “ñ” simply hold “n” and simply slide/release to the appropriate character).
5. Click & Hold URL’s - In Safari, hold a link to see the URL and site name.
6. Soft Reset - Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep button to restart your iPhone. A white light will flash, the screen will shut off and then turn back on. Keep holding until the screen turns back on.
7. Take a Screenshot - To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll.
8. Set Parental Controls - You can enable certain restrictions or parental controls on your iPhone. You can block explicit lyrics, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, or the App Store. Just go to Settings, General, Restrictions.
9. Save Any Image from Safari - To save any image from the web to your camera roll, simply press and hold the image. A menu will appear asking “Save Image” or “Cancel”. Once the image is in your camera roll, you can set it as your wallpaper.
10. Fast 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.
11. Delete Emails - You can do both “bulk deletes” and “individual deletes” when browsing email. To do a bulk delete, simply click Edit, check off the desired emails, and then choose delete or move. To delete a single email, simply “cross it out” by swiping your finger across the email, then press delete.
12. Double Tap Home Button - Double tapping the home button has several useful functions. You can press either your home button or your sleep/wake button to wake your sleeping iPhon. OR You can assign several functions to “double-clicking” your Home button. Simply go to Settings -> General -> Home Button.
13. Double tap space bar for a period - When typing on your iPhone, double tapping the space bar at the end of a sentence automatically enters a period followed by a space. No need to press “123″ to get to the numbers and symbols page where the period typically resides. I use this trick daily and it heavily increases my typing speed (especially when texting).
14. Tap the bottom corner to navigate home screens - When on your home screen, try tapping the bottom right/left corner to switch between pages instead of swiping your finger accross the screen.
15. Take out your SIM card during backup and sync - We’ve all experienced it. You’re backing up and syncing your iPhone, and the hour long back up is nearly complete. Then all of a sudden you get a phone call, and the whole back up/sync is null and void.
    To avoid this happening, simply start the backup/sync, then pull out your SIM card. Do not worry, this does not damage your phone at all. Put it back in once everything is complete. This way, your backup won’t get interrupted.
16. Move “dock” icons - You’d be surprised how often this tip is overlooked. The 4 icons located on the grey bar at the bottom of your iPhone - Phone, Mail, iPod, Safari - are movable, just like the rest of the icons. Just press and hold the icons, then drag them while they are shaking. Press the home button when you’re done. You can put any 4 icons on your dock.
17. Automatically capitalize and add apostrophes - The iPhone automatically capitalizes certain words (”I” when you type “i”). It also automatically adds apostrophes (”I’m” when you type “Im”).
18. Double tap a column on Safari to fit-to-page - When browsing the Internet on your iPhone’s Safari browser, double tap any column, word, or picture to fit it’s width to your iPhone’s screen. This is extremely useful for reading blogs.
19. Manually select the icon image for a bookmarked webpage - This one’s a little more confusing. When you are browsing a website on your iPhone’s Safari browser and want to add its icon to your home screen, press the plus sign and select “Add to Home Screen”.
20. Your iPhone’s headphones have a multi-function button - You’d be surprised how many people don’t know that the iPhone’s native headphones have a button on the microphone.
    Just squeeze the microphone together, and the button gets pressed.
    The buttons functions:
    In call…
    o Press once to answer a call
    o Press twice to send the call to voicemail
    o Press once to hang up a call
    In call while second call coming in…
    o click once to hold current call and switch to new call
    o hold for 2 secs and release to ignore new call
    Out of call…
    * Press once to activate iPod and play song
    * Press once to pause song
    * Press twice to skip to next song

[via - iSmashphone.com]

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