The iPhone’s home button is more functional than you think – it’s not just there to take you back to the home page.
iPhone Home Button Trick 1
There is a common misconception that you must press the "Sleep/Wake" button to bring your iPhone out of sleep mode. You can press either your home button or your sleep/wake button to wake your sleeping iPhone and bring up the "Slide to unlock" screen.
iPhone Home Button Trick 2
You can assign several functions to "double-clicking" your Home button. Simply go to Settings -> General -> Home Button. You should arrive at this menu:
You can choose whether double clicking your iPhone takes you to your "Favorite" contacts, or brings up iPod controls. While phone favorites is convenient, setting it to iPod mode allows you to start music no matter what else you’re doing. In other words, it brings up iPod controls (play, pause, skip, volume) over whatever other application you are running (Safari included).
Setting iPod Controls to "On" means that if you already have music playing, double clicking the Home button will bring up iPod controls even if you have the Home Button set to "phone favorites".
iPhone Home Button Trick 3
Double clicking the home button from the "Slide to unlock" screen will always bring up iPod controls, right over the "Slide to unlock" screen. You can control your iPod without even unlocking your phone!
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@Fireglo:
There’s no need for the Home Button settings screen on the iPod Touch. Look at the options it provides on the iPhone:
* Home
* Phone Favorites
* iPod Controls
I think the first option is kind of redundant even on the iPhone, so let’s ignore it. That leaves Phone Favorites and iPod Controls. Since an iPod doesn’t have “Phone Favorites”, there really is no need for the ability to change the double-click function of the Home Button on the iPod.
At least, not with these options. A nice feature might be double-click to go to your preferred application … but that option doesn’t exist on the iPhone either.
Settings -> General -> Home Button
isn’t there for the iPod Touch. Why wouldn’t this be?
Is there a cut and paste functtion on the iPhone or touch?
This site is great. I’ve had my iphone for about a month and learn more reading this site today than I did from reading the user guide.
The search feature both on iphone and on the Apple site needs a drastic makeover. You have to know exactly how to word your phrase or else.
Nice to find this site. I already subscribed to the feed. Keep up the good work.
Excellent site. This site is quite useful. provides very useful iphone info.
and with a jailbroken iPhone, a double click on the home button can be configured to open the Searcher app, which searches apps, phone numbers, text messages to find whatever you need
Is there anyway to make the battery last all day?
I have only have had the iPhone 3G for two days.
I never made a phone call today and at the end of the day after ten hours the battery was dead.
Thanks for any help you could give.
Rodney
is there a cut and paste option for iPod touch?
If you download the most recent software update for th iPhone, you should have extended battery life. You might also disable the “Push” mode for email and make it a “fetch” mode instead. Still, I can leave my phone on for the weekend, take any calls (normal calls, not 2 hour conference calls from hell) and by Sunday night the battery is about finished, even with the “push” feature turned on.
I just bouthg my iphone. I tested the 3G connection capabilities and I instantly saw that this feature just eats the battery right away. So the next obvious thing was to turned this feature off. Browsing while off is a little slow but outweights the benefit of additional power time. I only turned the 3G capabilities when I am downloading vids or want pages to downlaod faster. I have turned of the 3g cap since friday, right now is monday and the battery is almost dead, it lasted me the whole weekend taking regular calls.
you are a fucking wanker
Does anybony know how to delete pictures from ipod??
You go to your pics and then u click on the picture you want to delete then click it when it comes big and at the bottom theres a trash came click it and it says “DELETE OR CANCEL” you click delete.
Top 1cm portion of my iphone is not working….is there any hardware problem???…Can it be repaired???
Hi everybody.
I bought my iphone 1 month ago, and although I have checked different pages on how to synchronize contacts and calendar with my PC, so far it doesnt work!!!!!
I have tried with changing on the PC; while the iphone is connected to change in the ‘Info’ window, still nothing.
Does anyone have another idea, pleeeeease.
tks
@Bettina, connect iphone to itunes, under devices click on iphone, got to info tab, that tab has all the syncing option with outlook. Since you did not give lots of detail, I assume that is your problem.
Cunt.
Rodney, I had the same problem with my iPhone. I found out that if you decrease the brightness of the screen it conserves battery. Also, when you’re just using apps or not even using your iPhone at all, you can put it into airplane mode.
Both of these things can be done in settings.
Hope I helped.
Turning off the wifi (but leaving the 3G phone connection) has more than doubled my battery life. So, now I only turn on wifi when I have access to a wifi, I’m going to be stationary and I want the faster wifi connection.
there is, its called home.
You delete pictures by going to your ‘photos’ app. and then click on the photo you wanna delete. And then you’ll see
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a arrow thing on the bottom of your screen. Click on it and it will say e-mail photo, delete photo, ect.
Hope this helped
sorry I gave you the wrong directions lol do everything I said below, but when you get to the piccs there will be a trash can on the bottom left hand side of your screen. Click on that and you’ll erase your photo.
But you probably figured out how to do it sense it’s been a year already..but anyways I hope this helps lol
my iphone 4 has a remote user accessing it pretty sure its malware related some windows 7 rat trojans. i ve never tethered my phone so it seems odd. also the users hacked my blacberry as well when i was with sprint; seems that they are able to access my phone by a wireless digital handshake. they appear to use the phone as a modem when other connects are not available. they dont use the my icloud. had a download link left in the browser for a foliocloud?? they seem to be accessing my windows 7 to take movies and music. but usually steal or corrupt the files. kind or bizzare to use your phone and have to fight off another user who is changing your settings right before your eyes. any ideas i really need to figure this out verizon says it cant hapen but it is….
On the iPhone 4S I go to Settings, General, but there is not Home Button option to click on? Was this feature taken away?