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Whether you’re an iPhone rookie or a weathered pro, take a look at these quick-and-easy iPhone tips and tricks which not only save you time, but ease your overall iPhone experience.
(These items are listed in no particular order.)
- 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.
Continue reading for the next 11 useful iPhone tips and tricks.
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 Espa√±a with the “√±” 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, which are described here.
Although some of these tricks seem elementary to some iPhone users, I’m willing to bet there’s atleast one item on this list you weren’t aware of. And if that’s not the case, then congratulations iPhone Pro – you have graduated from iPhone 101.
Enjoy the more productive and enhanced iPhone experience these tricks will provide you!
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I find the “press and hold for accent characters” annoying as I don’t typically need those characters. I wish there was a way to disable it and insted access accents through the alt characters palette.
The problem occurs when I miss a character and want to slide my finger over to hit the right one. The accents pop up before I have time to move my finger.
Wow I never knew you could save an image…this makes changing my wallpaper so much easier…I used to have to sync with iTunes to transfer pics…good to know!
i did not anything about that before! thank you somuch for this
One-hundred-and-fifty internets to ‘helpful guy’ for the double-space/period trick.
Awesome article. The pictures will really help people as well because there are no names as such for the two physical buttons on the iPod / iPhone or none that most people are familiar with.
Remember, all of these tips work for the iPod Touch as well.
if you have multiple home screens, you can tap the lower corner just above the doc left or right to move one screen in that direction.
Hitting the space bar twice will also insert a period while typing.
Another really helpful tip is to set-up the home button as a shortcut to your ipod. That way you don’t have to exit out of whatever you’re doing to change the song. Just go Setting>General>Home button, then set it to ipod. That way if you double click the home button, you get a little pop-up ipod menu. It’s a lifesaver.
Double click the home button from the sleep/locked window and you get the ipod control, this way you don’t have to unlock the iphone.
Number 6 is not a soft reset, it is a hard reset, equivalent to holding down the Power button on your PowerBook until the computer rudely shuts down. To do a soft reset, just power it off by holding only the sleep/wake button down until you see the “Slide to power off” control. Then turn it back on by touching the sleep/wake button. This is equivalent to doing a Shutdown and then restarting a PowerBook. For info on the ways to restart, interrupt or restore an iPhone, check my where I just wrote an article on it.
A few of these “tricks” are 2.0 only, including screenshots.
Don’t know if anyone already posted this but you can rearrange the icons on the home screen. Here is how:
1). Press and hold the icon until all the icons wiggle.
2). Once the wiggling starts, you can move the icons around to where you want them.
I had no idea you could take a screenshot, that’s awesome. Great article!
I’ve got another tip for you. Press and hold in body, when composing an email and a magnifying glass will appear
Is the screenshot feature a v2.0 thing? I cant figure out how to capture a screenshot on my device. Anyone? Bueller?
Swiping your finger to the right over the album artwork while listening to a song moves you back to your song list.
i have a tip i just found (on accident) today…
sometimes i bookmark a site and add it as an icon to my home screen.. some sites (like digg, google reader) have a custom icon just for that, so it looks nice when it’s added to your home screen.. if you bookmark a site to your home screen & it doesn’t have a custom icon, it’ll just put a thumbnail picture of the site as the icon, and usually it’s pretty ugly and almost always unreadable. today while messing around i found that if you want to add a bookmark to a site that doesn’t have a custom icon & you don’t like the ugly thumbnail, you can first zoom in on any image on the website, then hit “add to home screen” and it’ll make the icon whatever it was you were zoomed in on. pretty cool trick, i’ve never seen this posted anywhere else.
@thebza
Very cool trick, great find.
I knew every single one of those you are not helpful at all
“Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks” is a feature most media products have, i find it hilarious anyone who’s ever used a cd player/dvd player/iTunes/ipod/Etc. wouldn’t know this was a feature
also if you swipe videos/ things in alot of other apps t will bring up delete button, and if you swipe album art when the playback bar is not on then it will bring you back to the last music list you were on
The screenshot functionality is awesome for getting images for your contacts. Just fire up the Facebook app, find contact, load an image of them, snap screenshot and you have a contact image.
You can use the same method for saving images in Safari with Mail. Just tap and hold on an image and you get the option to save the image. If there are multiple images, you get the option to save all of them!
This is interesting, but I accidentally came across one (probably related to #10) that I can’t repeat and would love to know how to do. I was cleaning the front with a cloth and suddenly noticed that the display showed the rewind, play/pause and forward buttons on the top of the screen against my wallpaper. I would love to have this feature since it would allow me to control my iPod function without having to go to iPod separately. Also, the headphones only allow you to play/pause and skip forward, but not go back. Does anyone know what key combo causes this display to appear?
When the phone screen is off, press the home button twice. It will pop up the menu you want
Interesting, but how do you delete an individual SMS?
Hey iphone people…
I wish I had one of these phones…
I want one for my birthday next month…
On September 7…
On the first Sunday…
here’s one;
download this http://www.magnetismstudios.com/MonkeyBusinessLabs/FilemarkMaker
then you’ll have all your files with you on your iPhone! no internet required! great for the ipod touch
#1 “Scroll to Top of Page” is my favorite hidden feature. I think I found it by accident. I love cruising back to the top of a page. It works in the 1.0 version of MobileSafari too.
how do i take a icon from my apps to restricted page
is there a power saver setting for the iPhone? my batter last less than a day. My screen stays on constantly.
is there a power saver setting for the iPhone? my batter last less than a day. My screen stays on constantly.
For the power problem:
Turn off your Wi-Fi and 3G settings whenever you aren’t going to use them (ie: sleeping, working, etc.) Also there is an automatic sleep option in your settings…Or just hit the sleep/wake button when you aren’t using your phone…
to make those control come up you have to dubble tap the home button
to make those control come up you have to dubble tap the home button
ok
mas trucos
http://videodecelular.blogspot.com
you can zoom in on safari using both fingers hold 1 still and slide 1 finger left to zoom out right to zoom in
you can zoom in on safari using both fingers hold 1 still and slide 1 finger left to zoom out right to zoom in
To get the music controls to come up double-click the home button from within an application. You stay in the app bu the music controls come up with back, play/pause, forward, volume, close, music.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
I knew all of that
…
Thanks for the Ringtone tip!!
Nice articel, but the basic problem is first to get an iphone
@Rick
I know this is a little late, but to view your iPhone controls, you need to set that in settings, and then double click the main/middle button.
Excellent iPhone tips. Thanks
wakuwaku
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Nice tips, here’s another you can use a site named swatchpix (thats swatchpix.com) to crop and add custom webclip photos, plus add quick dial webclips.
Tip 11 Delete E-Mails is an excellent one.
Swipe to the right on top of the txt mate and it should come up wiv delete
cool cool! thank for this infos! lets do the magic!
I want to know how to send attachemt via yahoo mail of gmail on iphone. your help is much appreciated.
honestly? the screen only flashes white whilst reseting the phone when you’re doing it wrong. whoever wrote this managed to take a screenshot every time they rebooted the phone.
other than that I’m sure this is a rather helpful guide to iPhone beginners
btw you shouldn’t need to disable the hovering alt characters, don’t hold your pudgy fingers on the keys!
QUESTION — When I go to sites like http://DishNetwork.com or I see little ‘leggo’ boxes with ?? marks instead of sections I need to operate the site. How can I correct this? I want to be able to operate my DISH DVR from the Iphone.
THIS SITE ROCKS — wow, I could not quit reading the tips! Now I know things my friends never dreamed of. Is there a book somewhere that tells all of these things.
Those sites use flash, Safari on iPhone does not support flash
Apple, has a pdf manual, we have a post somewhere.
Manual is 300 pages, who reads manuals anyway.
I don’t think this is a FLASH problem. Go to http://DishNetwork.com and look at the site on a desktop machine. There is a flash movie to the right, but the column to the left ( where I need to sign-in ) is not a flash presentation … Yet looking at this on my IPHONE there are FOUR of these boxes on the screen. Granted, three of them are flash movies, but the top left one is not a Flash Movie.
Any thoughts?
Thanks Spencer-it works great!
How can I have a signature when texting on my iphone?
Nice list of tricks – but now I have less reason to smash my iPhone. Either way – I love that you can hold down letters for alternate characters, hold down .com for other TLD’s and even hold the “@123″ button down to quickly access punctuation. Hitting space twice while typing also puts in a period automatically. Nice work Apple making such a seamless device.
@Don-Vegas – Your sign in box on the posted url is indeed developed in flash (likely networking with CF in actionscript) so most of their forms will be flash. I would stick to the desktop or email them asking for optimization on the iphone.
Cheers,
Kris
Love it! Thanks
I know all of these, discovered nothing new
ENJOYED YOUR POST… THANKS
Anyone with half a grain of sense reads the manual. That explains why none of these tips were news to me.
Well well – let us get you a pad for your vagina then.
Cool tricks – I really like the soft refresh and the screen capture tricks they could be really useful.
Thanks for sharing
Nice… now what does Soft Reset do that power cycling the phone doesn’t? If you just power cycle the phone, you don’t have to hold the buttons = easier.
The Nexus One phone was definitely over hyped. Its basically the same phone as the Droid but Google decided to distribute it through their own controlled channels rather than traditional stores and cell phone stores. I asked everyone here at the John R. Carlisle Institute and only 2 people thought the Nexus One phone was worth buying over the Motorola Droid.
John R. Carlisle
this is why I suggest everyone, even if they never actually do it, become familiar with jailbreaking procedures. I knew all of this, and most of it through stuff I modded while jailbreaking it.
They are called the “Home” button and the “Sleep/Wake” button.
when making a phonecall on the iphone, speak into the ‘mouthpiece’ so that the person on the other end of the call can hear you. also, try holding the top end of the phone to your ‘ear’ so you can hear too. jesus……….
yeh just double click the home button
This site has really useful tips and does look really good on my iPhone. I made it my iPhone home page.
Really like that tip about not having to www and the .com afterwards in your browser, anything for efficiency.
Thank you for the tip. You are bookmarked!
If you are playing your ipod though, ouble clicking when on homw screen brings up a mini box with ipod controls anyway… Only when have already entered into ipod and currently playing a song but still handy coz I like having my home button shortcut to favourite contacts i call all the time
well both of those comments are uncalled for…
And if you’re referring to pmt ‘puddin’, it is not the same as getting a period. Go back to school.
Dim your screen light – can still have on automatic but will adjust only up to the max you have put.
Turn off bluetooth – this saved me a ton of power! otherwise its constantly searching for devices to pair with…easier to just turn on when need it!
Similar to bluetooch, can also turn off wi-fi (turn on to connect to network) and 3G (internet will still work, but supposedly not as fast)
Always lock iphone after using it, or change the auto lock functionl I have autolock to 4/5 mins or so so can keep on long enough to change songs in the car! haha but setting to 1 min will make sure your screen isnt on constantly eating power by showing icons and lighting display.
If you dont think you will need it at night, you could turn it off also?
Hope these help a bit – need to ust remember that because its a smart phone, it will eat more power than older phones may have. My old nokia could last a week without recharging guaranteed but i dont get much more than 2 days on my iphone. Constantly playing around with it the first week or so will chew up more power than you would ordinary use too.
Hahahaaaa! Excellent!
That’s got to be the best tip on here. I’ve certainly found it very useful! Any more? I’m not sure how to dial, could you help there?
On the SMS screen, tap Edit in the top right, then select an SMS and then click on Delete.
I’m loving the screen shot tip. I only discovered that one the other week!
i like these ad’s i like this much
yo i have another one!!! grab you iphone and smash it againts a fucking brick wall!! now no one will bother you, you wont have to worry about saving battery power and you can spend quality time with your gay butt-fuck buddy who’s been trying to call you but u keep ignoring the call because your way to fuckn amused about double-clicking the home button for the ipod controlls. get a fucking life!!!! its a phone! figure it out by yourself!!!…laters yall!!!
You need to update. Tip 2 about accessing Hotmail is not needed. Hotmail now allows this directly from the iPhone. Just add Hotmail as you would any pop3 email.
just discovered whilst playing with the above options that if you hold down your home key it activates voice control. sorry if this is obvious.
I have an ipone4 and cannot load the repo itself, gives me constantly an error code. What can I do?
Have any of you heard of SpellCheck? It’s kind of hard to troll with a comment if no one can understand it.
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Well aren’t you uber-smart.
Sad you have to apologise to all the losers that will leave a comment making fun of you or dogging you for trying to help.
Mam pytanie w sprawie tego cuda techniki; czy posiada wbudowany moduł Wi-Fi a najlepiej moduł komunikacyjny-MODEM do 3G bo w POlsce wchodzi moda na bezprzewodowy internet i niestety, jest on wciąż b.drogi- jak to w państwach reżomowych, niby liberalnych.
Just lift your fat finger of the screen.
If you jailbreak, you can have 100 more useful tools. Like using the volume buttons to turn on your LED light.
My iPhone 4 is jailbroken, and there aren’t
100s of more, there are 1000s of more features. And why would you put an example of something like that.. How the hell is that useful.
It is very usefull information for every one..
hey guess what retards, alll these tips are in the instruction manual… what!???? really!???
@Inkatechnology: Did you jailbreaked your iphone 4? try re-flash your firmware.
AWESOME NEW TIP: use black google mobile at http://bGoog.com to search with a black background.
it looks way better and there’s a black image search too.
i think it loads faster and saves battery power as well, bonus!
well then post something we dont know that would help us dumbasses
Another speed trick is to use spotlight to search the web. Just type in your query, spotlight will then give you the option to launch safari/wiki to search your words. Way faster than launching safari or google app first.
in keyboard view, if you hold the “world” button, you can select different language keyboard instead of tapping to change each till you get to the one you want.
Thank you for the good writeup
Hey I wanted to get this out!
Can someone tell me how i put my iphone so that when its locked people wont be able too see who sent me a
Message.
If you are on iOS 5 go into notifications and configure badges and messages for Text Messanger