22 More iPhone 3.0 Features You May Not Know
The repeat in #31 was replaced. Thanks for being careful readers 
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1. Forward or Delete Individual Messages
This feature allows you to manually select individual messages from a text message conversation, and forward them directly to another person via text message.
You can also selectively delete individual messages.
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- Open a text message conversation.
- Tap edit on the top right of the screen.
- Check off the messages that interest you.
- Tap forward and select a recipient.
- OR tap delete to selectively get rid of messages.
2. Email up to 5 photos at a time
The previous iPhone operating systems did not allow you to send more than one picture at a time as an email attachment. You can now send up to 5 at once.
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- Go to photos
- Tap the arrow on the bottom left
- Select the photos you want to share
- Press share
- Send the email with the automatically attached photos
3. Shake to undo and redo typing
No matter what application you are using, you can undo typing by shaking your iPhone. If you want your text back, simply shake again.
If you had something else written before you started writing the sentence you chose to undo, it reverts back to that. If this was the first thing you wrote, it simply erases it.
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4. Shake to shuffle
This feature is pretty self-explanatory, but is really great – especially for working out. Imagine you’re running or working out in the gym, and you’re iPhone’s iPod is in shuffle mode. Some mellow, non-workout-appropriate Coldplay song comes on. You have to get your iPhone out of your pocket and press next with your sweaty finger.
With this update, you can keep your iPhone in your pocket (or strapped to your arm if you have an iPhone arm band) and just give it a quick jiggle.
If you are in a specific album or playlist, it shuffles within that album or playlist. If not, it just picks a random song out of your whole library.
5. Copy/Cut/Paste
The basic copy/cut/paste feature allows users to select, copy or cut, and paste text from and to anywhere on the iPhone. In other words, you can copy text from an app or a Safari web page, and paste it into Notes or Email – it works everywhere.
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How it works:
- Double tap a word
- Drag the blue markers to highlight your desired text
- Choose cut/copy
- Double tap a typable area and press Paste
Or:
- Hold a word until the magnifying glass appears
- Release
- Options “Select” and “Select All” appear
- Pressing select or select all brings up the blue markers…you know what to do
Deleting with select:
- By selecting a fragment of text with the two blue markers, you can press backspace and delete the whole phrase/sentence/paragraph. (Before you had to hold down backspace.)
6. MMS
MMS (picture/audio/video messaging) is not yet available for AT&T customers. AT&T is still working on preparing things on their end for iPhone users to MMS. AT&T also announced that MMS will not cost extra money, and will be treated as a regular SMS message financially. Anything video related is for iPhone 3G S only.
How it works:
- Tap the camera logo in “Messages” (formerly SMS)
- Select “Take Photo” or “Choose Existing” (iPhone 3G S has “Take Photo or Video”)
- File size limit is determined by carrier – some files may be compressed
7. Landscape Keyboard
The landscape keyboard was previously only available for Safari. With iPhone OS 3.0, you can use it in essentially all “typing” programs, including Notes, Mail, and Messages. The bigger keyboard is extremely convenient for typing and decreases typos exponentially.
- Notes:
- Text messages
8. Double click home button
In the previous iPhone operating systems, we had the option to double click the home button to access “Favorites”, and to access iPod controls if music was already playing. Now you can access the Spotlight Search or the Camera by double clicking the home button.
How it works:
- Go to Settings
- Go to General
- Go to Home
- Select the option you desire
9. Call history log
- When you go to “Recents” or “Voicemail” under Phone, the type of phone is now listed directly under the name (mobile, home, work.)
- When you click on the blue arrow next to a call, the actual duration of the call will be listed and organized by date.
10. Hold link in safari to copy/open in new page
How it works:
- Browse a page in Safari
- Hold your finger on a URL link
- The above menu allows you to either copy the URL or open it in a new page
11. Auto Fill Usernames/Passwords
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By creating a contact for yourself, the iPhone can automatically fill out any registration form with the credentials you enter. It can also auto-fill username and passwords based on what you previously entered into that site.
How it works:
- Since there are some security issues that may concern you, this feature must be turned on manually.
- Go to Settings
- Go to Safari
- Go to Autofill
- Choose the contact you created for yourself
12. Type new message while previous is still sending
If you already have 3.0, you probably noticed that when you send a text message, the progress bar is now at the top. The reason for this relocation is so that you can start typing a message while the previous one is still sending. Notice the “Sending…” bar at the top.
13. Spotlight Search
Spotlight is a search engine for your iPhone which works just like the search in iTunes – it searches through everything. Type in a word or just a letter, and see all the results from contacts, email, calendars, notes, apps, and everything in your iPod.
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How to access Spotlight: (there are a few different ways):
- Scroll left from the home page
- Press the home button once while on the home page
- Press the home button twice from any page if you have it set up that way
Settings:
- Go into Settings>>General>>Home>>Search Results
- Choose which categories you want included by the Spotlight search
14. Voice Memos
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This new native application records audio and allows you to edit and share it. Once MMS becomes available, voice memos will be shareable via text message (which is kinda like leaving a voicemail without calling.)
How it works:
- Once audio is recorded, tap the button on the right to access previous recordings
- Email (or MMS when available) by tapping share
- Tap the blue arrow to view more options
- Edit the audio by tapping “Trim”
15. YouTube
iPhone OS 3.0 brings a fully functional version of YouTube to your iPhone. You can now sign in, rate videos, read and make comments, access subscriptions, save and edit favorites, access “My Videos”, and view your history. iPhone 3G S users will be able to directly upload videos to YouTube from their iPhone.
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16. Safari
There are no significant changes in the Safari browser that revolutionize the iPhone’s web browsing experience, but there are some little changes. Most importantly, there are significantly fewer crashes. Everyone has experienced the painful and irritating process of waiting for large page to load only to have the screen go black for a second and have the home screen reappear. The stability of Safari has been greatly improved in 3.0.
Also, you can now close out of a “single page” in the “Tab View” of the Safari (the view where you can toggle between different open pages). Before, if you wanted to get rid of the last page you had opened, you had to go into “Tab View”, press “New Page”, go back into “Tab View” and then exit out of the first page.
Now you can immediately tap the red “X” on the left corner of the page and have a new fresh page appear. The purpose of this is for added convenience in deleting history.
Other additions to Safari include auto-fill, and holding a link to copy/open in new page (both previously mentioned).
17. Moving app across pages
Apple has finally realized the small but irritating mistake they made about relocating applications. If you’ve ever tried to move an app across a few pages, you probably noticed that it messes up the order of apps on the pages you pass, leaving blank spaces and shifting things around.
With iPhone OS 3.0, simply drag the application to the right or left corner of the page, and hold it there. The pages will keep flipping. When you’ve arrived to the page you want to add the app to, just move the app away from the corner. Everything remains in tact, and no blank spaces are added. Way to go Apple!
18. Parental Controls
Since there are more things you can do on the iPhone 3.0, there are more parental control. Since movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks are now available for direct download, there are options to control the content of all of these.
What you can restrict:
- Safari
- YouTube
- iTunes
- Installing Apps
- Camera
- Location
- In-App Purchases
- Explicit lyrics in music and podcasts
- Movies by rating (R, PG-13, etc…) or movies in general
- TV by rating (TV-MA, TV-14, etc…) or TV in general
- Apps by rating (17+, 12+, etc…) or Apps in general
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How it works:
- Go to Settings>>General>>Restrictions
- Press Enable Restrictions
- Enter and Re-enter 4 Digit Passcode
- Select the things you would like to restrict from your children (or husband)
19. Share Contacts
You can email all the information (phone, email address, etc…) for any contact in your address book with one click. Once MMS becomes available, you will be able to share the contact’s info via message.
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How it works:
- Find a contact and press on their name
- Press “Share Contact”
- The info is attached to the email as a “.vcf” file
20. New App Store View
The general structure of the App Store on the iPhone 3.0 is the same as before, but you can now flip through screenshots of the application right there on the page without having to open it separately and let it load.
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21. Note Syncing With iTunes
You can automatically sync your Notes with iTunes so they are transferred to your computer everytime you connect your iPhone with your computer.
Simply select the “Sync Notes” tab in iTunes.
22. Encrypt iPhone Back Up
Keep the data backed-up in iTunes from your iPhone safe and secure by encrypting it and password protecting it.
How it works:
- Select the option “Encrypt iPhone Backup”
- Set a password
- Do not forget it!
23. Mail Search
While the Spotlight Search app filters through your email as well, you may want to be able to search only within your emails, and right from the “Mail” application.
How it works:
- Go to “Mail”
- Go to Inbox, Drafts, Sent Mail, or Trash
- Scroll up to the top
- Select whether to search in “From”, “To”, “Subject”, or “All”
- Search away!
24. Notes Search
Just like with mail, while Notes are searchable through Spotlight Search, you can search exclusively within the Notes application.
How it works:
- Open Notes
- The search bar does not appear until you scroll up
- Search away!
25. iPod Search
You can also exclusively search through everything in your iPod: Artists, playlists, songs, albums, videos, podcasts, audiobooks, and everything.
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How it works:
- Open iPod
- Tap the area under which you’d like to search (Playlists, artists, etc…)
- Scroll up to make the Search bar appear
- Search away!
26. A2DP Bluetooth
With the ability to support A2DP Stereo Bluetooth, the iPhone will now be functional with all sorts of bluetoothy peripherals, such as: headsets, speakers, headwear, sunglasses, jackets, car accessories, monitors, A2DP laptops, A2DP watches, and more.
Most importantly, this will allow third party game developers to integrate accessories into their games. For example, they could create some sort of controller or joystick.
27. Turn By Turn Navigation
Developers will now be able to implement full turn-by-turn navigation into their applications. While they should’ve been able to do this before, there was a strange legal clause written by able prohibitting them from creating turn-by-turn apps. Well, that clause is no more.
TomTom, the famous GPS company, presented their app at the WWDC, and it looks great. They even created a car attachment kit (that charges your iPhone too.) Check out the video they created:
28. Tethering
Internet tethering will allow you to access the iPhone’s 3G internet connection on your laptop by using the iPhone as a “modem”. It will work through bluetooth and USB.
The tethering feature is not yet ready in the US because AT&T is still working on getting things working. Apple said it should be ready to go by the end of summer.
Tethering will only work with the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S. No older models.
How it works:
- Go to Settings>>General>>Network>>Internet Tethering
- Switch Tethering On
- Connect iPhone to computer with USB
- On a Mac
- A pop-up stating “A new network interface has been detected.” appears
- Click Network Preferences
- Configure settings to iPhone
- On a PC
- Use Network Control Panel to select and configure the iPhone connection
- Connect iPhone to computer via Bluetooth
- Turn on Bluetooth (Settings>>General>>Bluetooth)
- A blue band (as seen above) appears.
29. In App Purchasing
With “In-app Purchasing” developers can sell additional content from within applications. For example, an eBook application can have a bunch of books displayed, and allow you to purchase whichever one you’d like right from within the app. You would also be able to purchase additional levels and such for games.
30. Peer-to-Peer Connectivity
You will be able to find other devices running the same app as you via Bonjour over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Imagine you are sitting in an airport, and you want to play chess. You open the chess game, find another user, and have a real-live chess game with some other iPhone user in the airport. Peer-to-Peer connectivity will also be used to allow some data sharing in applications.
31. Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe (Mobile Me Users Only) (New)
MobileMe users will never have to worry about losing their iPhone again (sorta), because they can now receive the exact coordinates of the location of their iPhone. You even get directions to your lost iPhone (half the time it will lead you to your couch).
Remote Wipe allows you to erase all of the information on your iPhone with a click of a button in iTunes. If your iPhone is lost, and you’re a Mobile Me user, you should immediately wipe your iPhone clear of data. Just think of all the usernames, passwords, emails, and other private info that an iPhone thief can access.
32. Force Quit An Application
This process forces a frozen application (or just a frozen iPhone) to go back to the home screen. Most times the iPhone returns to the home screen automatically. If it doesn’t, here what you can do:
- Hold down the power and home button until “Slide to Turn Off” appears
- Let go of both buttons
- Press and hold ONLY the home button for 5-6 seconds
33. Retry failed text message (exclamation point next to text)
When a text message does not go through to the recipient, it is tagged with a red exclamation point and you now have the option to click retry.
34. Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, and Audiobooks downloadable over 3G (no size max)
The iPhone’s iTunes store can now access movies, TV shows, podcasts, and music videos. Any file can be purchased and downloaded directly through the iPhone even without a WiFi connection.
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Remember parents, new movies cost 15$ a pop so you better use parental controls if your kid has an iPhone or iPod Touch.
35. Playback audiobooks in variable speeds
For those of you who are speed-readers (or speed-listeners) you can now increase the speed at which an audiobook is played on your iPhone to get done with the book quicker.
36. Calls from non-contacts include city and state of origin (or city and country)
All phone calls from numbers that are not saved in your address book will show the city and state (or city and country) to give you a general idea where the call came from. This will be shown in “Recents” and in “Voicemail” directly under the phone number.
37. Swipe to delete note in Notes
It was probably carelessness that led to this feature being absent in the first place, because you can delete text messages and emails this way. Simply swipe across a note in “Notes” to delete it.
38. Album Art Displayed While Charging (instead of battery logo)
Part of the iPhone’s appeal is it’s attractive design, and when you’re having a party, you want things to look good. If you have an iPod Dock that plays iPhone music and charges it at the same time, you might have noticed that the stylish album artwork disappears, and the green/red battery logo appears.
Now, with 3.0, even if the phone is charging, the display will continue to show the album artwork.
39. App Counter
If you’ve ever gotten into a competition with your friends about who has more apps (I’ll challenge anybody), or if you’re just curious, the iPhone now counts your applications.
How it works:
- Go to Settings
- Go to General
- Go to About
- The 5th item down “Applications” tells you how many you’ve got
40. Unlock and Jailbreak iPhone 3.0
The famous iPhone Dev Team has figured out how to jailbreak and unlock the new operating system. Find out more here.
Accessories & Apps: Beta Testers Wanted
iOS Firmware/IPSW Download Guide
Legacy iTunes Download Archive
App Store Top Charts
iPhone and Android Resale Value Charts
USA iPhone Carrier Plans Compared
Complete iPhone Jailbreaking Guide 
Complete iPhone Specification Matrix 
nice detailed post !
do u see any camera and battery life improvement in 3.0 ?
The best new feature of iPhone 3.0 is that it still sux worse then WebOS 1.0!
GO PALM!
No one’s noticed that 4 and 31 are the same then?
nic new features, iphone can now almost do what most other phones have done for ages. Good news, but not what I was hoping for as an upgrade. Still tempted though
My iPod Touch running 2.x software can already do #35, I assume the iPhone can as well. Unless I’m just missing something.
@trstn I noticed, I also noticed that point 32 is not only incorrect, but force quitting an application has been available since iPhone firmware 1.0
Simply hold down the home button on your unresponsive app, or any app for ten seconds. Boom. One forced shutdown of an app.
yep.. he was apparently really impressed with shake to shuffle, putting both at 4 and 31
I heard of one more they didn’t cover. With 3.0 you see the FULL contact page you have on someone no matter how you got there. You can actually Edit the contact right away too. With 2.0 when you want view or edit the FULL contact of someone you can only do it if you actually go through Contacts from the home page. For example: if you’re in a SMS message, you scroll to the top and click “Contact info” it only shows you a summary of that contact. You’re missing the notes field and cant edit anything! annoying, You have to back way out, go into contacts, find the name of the person, etc etc. 3.0 all fixed
RE: #34…. there is still a 10MB size limit when not on WiFi.
Wow dude, I simply cannot wait! Is it tomorrow yet??? I want the landscape keyboard and cut & paste!
RT
Sounds great. Can’t wait for the update!
What time tomorrow? Does anybody know?
don’t get me wrong, i think iphones are cool, but wow it can do most of the things older phones have been doing. my g1 does most all of these things, and my sidekicks did a bunch of them as well. go iphone!
Thanks for the comprehensive list!
Didn’t know about 10, but been wanting that feature for a while.
Sounds great. Can’t wait for the update!!
Number 34 is wrong. It is absolutely false that items bigger than 10 MB can be downloaded over the cell network.
The exact message on 3.0 is as follows:
This item is over 10MB
Connect to a Wi-Fi network or use iTunes on your computer to download “[item name]“.
i heard they are releasing the update around 10 in the morning.
Wow thanks for all of this very detailed and amazing. After reading all of these features I can’t wait to try it out.
So, I’m most looking forward to tethering!
How about you guys?
can i play an MP3 as my alarm clock sound instead of just dumb ringtones? that shouldn’t be too difficult to build, geesh.
@KC Just go to a site like Audiko and turn your songs into iTunes compatible ringtones for free. I haven’t payed for a ringtone yet.
Wow at least 75% of those features are already standard in modern mobiles. and for much cheaper
A little Number 32:
Its enough to just hold down the “sleep button” to reach the “Turn of your iPhone” mode, where you can then forceQuit the current app.
Holding down both (sleep and home) to get there may accidently force a cold reboot if you hold it too long
There is still no way of installing ringtones OTA it seems
@michael cite your source.
those complaining that the iphone is now feature complete on par with other phones on the market.. you do realize this means there is no reason to buy any other phone now..
415 songs
7 videos
2379 photos
84 apps
It’s June 17th where is the Iphone update?
I CAN’T WAIT!
I have been testing everything on the online iPhone demo at and now I am waiting to download the update.
Looks great!
Does anyone know who makes those awesome bluetooth sunglasses?
Sounds great. But here I am in Britain, it’s 11:30AM on Wednesday 17 June and where is the soft/firmware upgrade to 3.0? iTunes tells me that the current version is 2.2.1. Oh! I understand, The USA is still in bed! So we here will probably have to wait till about 6:00PM to download it. At the same time as all the Americans! Couldn,t Apple have let us start earlier to avoid a huge rush? I suspect it’s USA first as usual..
This process forces a frozen application (or just a frozen iPhone) to go back to the home screen. Most times the iPhone returns to the home screen automatically. If it doesn’t, here what you can do:
* Hold down the power and home button until “Slide to Turn Off” appears
* Let go of both buttons
* Press and hold ONLY the home button for 5-6 seconds
You don’t have to hold the home button and the power button..
It works with just holding the power button, then when the turn off slider comes up, press the home button instead.
Holding home and power for too long will restart the whole phone.
Will you still be able to make phone calls?
(People who complain need to realize that the iPhone is a phone…not a computer. Copy, cut, paste, landscape, tethering, etc….big deal. Will you be worried about that if you’re on the side of the road stranded at midnight?
WRT #17 – Why can I not arrange my app pages in iTunes? iTunes must already have the page layout as it gets restored. It would be so much easier in iTunes than on the iPhone itself.
Great tips ! This is a fantastic article.
What about that you can now have 11 pages of apps???
They missed a big one for 3.0
I don’t use it so much for music, but if I want to show a friend a specific piece of a movie, they have made the “scrubbing” speeds more accurate.
If you take the slider at the top of a song or movie, and move your finger up and down while still holding the slider, the scrubbing speeds get more or less accurate so you can find that specific second of the 2 hour long movie your looking for without watching 5 minutes because you couldn’t quite find the right spot. I think it’s very handy.
I wonder if Apple will ever allow multiple programs to run concurrently. Notification just doesn’t cut it for me.
31: Find my iPod Touch works too!
13: Spotlight Search
When I’ve got too many Apps installed, I need a way to drag from the search to the main menus
Yeah, force quitting an app has been around for a long long time..
@michael, but most “modern mobiles” can’t come close to doing what the iPhone can already do pre-update… you have to look at the big picture.
Item #21: “Note Syncing” doesn’t say where they sync to. Turns out, they sync into Mail.app’s “Reminders” mailbox.
@Robin: #32 is correct. In release 3.0 the force quit option has been changed. Pressing home for 10 seconds is now reserved for the voice control option.
I’ve updated and am thoroughly impressed. The cut/copy/paste feature is perfect and long overdue. Tethering was such a breeze (in Canada) my two year old could do it! Wow! I can’t imagine anything that would be wanted/needed in future updates.
Thanks Apple for making an already incredible device better!
how come my phone setting dont show push option, or the ability to show battery %next to icon on top. Or some of these things like app counter.
Says here you can sync your notes with Outlook. Any ideas how to do this?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to/#notes.syncing-notes
There are some images of the 3g running 3.0 with the battery % icon and others w/o. Isn’t this feature supposed to be on the 3.0 OS?
“don’t get me wrong, i think iphones are cool, but wow it can do most of the things older phones have been doing. my g1 does most all of these things, and my sidekicks did a bunch of them as well. go iphone!”
Haha people without iPhones are amusing. Having owned every phone you have mentioned, I assure you looking at feature X and saying wow my phone did that years ago is silly. Your sidekick and even your G1(which is newer than everything besides the 3GS) was light years behind the functionality of iphone 2.1.
Buy one, use it for a month and then come post again. What’s next , Blackberry users….
Maybe I missed it, but I thought you can now send calendar appointments?
@Ben: Common sense.
For those making snide comments about the iPhone’s features finally matching other cheaper phones of the past: You still don’t get it. The goal isn’t to have the longest feature list….. it’s to have the best UI. iPhone wins.
Oh and if having more features to list is the ONLY thing you care about then you forgot about the other 50,000 available in the app store that your phone is missing….
Quit being jealous
Did they fix the word suggestion/spell checker?
My phone still suggests “TV” when I type “th” the first two letters of the most common word in the English language.
Addition to 35, you can also listen to podcasts at variable speeds.
Awesome iPhone tips! Thanks for sharing.
Nice post man!
thanks a lot!
but theres 1 problem with the update.
i got an 3g iPhone and live germany. Actualy there is no option for internet tethering where you said. just the 3g and vpn thing.
do you know something about this?
@Robin
Sorry, but you’re the one who’s wrong. Yes you force quit all along, but now, in 3.0, holding down the home button brings up voice search (but for 3Gs phone only). Now everybody has to do what he described, with one exception. You don’t have to hold both first, just the power. Then when you see the slide screen let go and hold the home button down for six seconds.
Jake, the G1 is a piece of junk (king of crashing) compared to the iPhone. Get the iPhone and you’ll wonder why you ever waste money on anything else.
No phone has a touch screen anywhere near as functional as the iPhone and that’s the key to it all.
#36 (geographic location for call history) is not new. This was in 2.x.
Still can’t change from the default (crappy) ringtones without jailbreaking the device? Nice one Apple! My 10 year old Nokia allowed me to at least compose my own ringtones. But on this near-thousand dollar device I am stuck with a choice of 25 pathetic default ringtones.
You forgot scrubbing songs at variable lengths within iTunes…
Actually you acn send more than 5 photos at once. When you select them, instead of using share (which is disabled once you select more than 5) use copy instead, and in a new message click anywhere in the message and use past….
and voila
Annoyingly, they still haven’t added the SMS option to cancel send.
You missed another VERY important feature: up til now trying to move the playback head while listening to a track was very hit-or-miss, with rather course adjustment especially with big fingers. But now you can slide your finger *down* the screen to change the rate at which sound “scrubbing” occurs. Great feature!
Another one I don’t see mentioned anywhere — after syncing, you revert back to the app that was running rather than the home screen. Much more convenient.
Love the update!
Great features, love this phone! and honestly cannot fault it! (although and easy way to play and sync music on 2 computers i.e work and home would be fab)
My 3G doesn`t shake to shuffle unless unlocked. No shaking-n-shuffling in my pocket.
i found a new feature I haven’t heard about anywhere else. Maybe you can add it here.
In the iPod app while playing a song, you can move your finger up and down while scrubbing the progress bar and it lets you control the scrub more finely. It has high-speed, half-speed, quarter speed, and fine scrubbing settings. Plus, you can see the dot better without your finger covering it.
Oakley. But forget I told you that. I don’t want to be responsible for making you look like a dork.
Here’s a link:
Pressing and holding a phone number now gives you multiple options of texting, calling, adding to a new or existing contact. Email addresses give you the same options, except for texting.
Exchange accounts can have more than just the Inbox pushed to the phone, so if you have some server side sorting going on, you can still get them pushed to your phone without having to go into the folder.
However, them seemed to have screwed up my auto-joining a WAP Enterprise WiFi point when installed from a dot-mobileconfig file… seems to work better if I build it by hand on the phone.
If any of you Mac Users haven’t found out already, all of us were given the power by Apple to put ANY song that’s in our iTunes library on the iPhone. Simple, open garage band, open itunes. Drag the song of your choice into garage band then convert to ringtone. (Which is an option in the menu) Once it is converted it will be added to the list of ringtones available just as if you purchased it from the store.
Your welcome.
If these steps don’t help just google it and you can find more thorough instructions.
Another one of the many benefits of having a Mac.
@MrC
Oh yea, the option to convert to ringtone has been available since iPhone (generation 1)
For all those who didn’t know, catch up! Use a search engine and you will find it.
I was so impressed by this article that I’m using 5 of your points in my latest Moxie Mo Show podcast episode that’s on Mevio Tech – hope you’re okay with it – I get a lot of subscribers who will LOVE your site now. Please let me know if you’re good with me promoting your site.
Moxie Mo (Jeff McCord)
84 apps? thats obscene…..
It’s not feature complete or on par with other phones on the market. Get back in your troll box.
It’s still missing significant functionality which I’m sure Apple will trickle feed into it over time. It also still lacks any type of openness.
Great show Jeff, fill free to use points of interest from our site.
If you copy the images, you can paste more then 5 into Mail (I managed 8, haven’t tried more than that)
before going for an iphone 3gS u might want to have a look here :
http://makemylogic.com/2009/06/14/apple-iphone-3gs-are-you-serious-the-logic
iFone rocks
Although they did add things that were standard in most other mobile phones i.e. mms (who uses that these days anyway)… I still think we can agree that there is much more software and technology in this phone that far surpasses anything that other mobile phones have (don’t start with blackberries they’re a piece of shit)
HTC has phones that compete quite well with the feature set.
clueless owner of a $200 device (MrC) –
Google “create ringtones iphone”. There are tons of tuts on youtube and elsewhere on the internet that will coach you through converting any mp3 file clip to a ringtone. You’re however, bound to a 15-30 second length.
guys get a life… this is a very informative article on the iphone os 3.0 feature set… whether it’s better or worse than any other device is irrelevant… that is for you to judge and make a decision on whether you want to buy or not buy the upgrade or the phone or the ipod…
if you like it get it… if you think it’s worth it get it… if you can afford it get it… it’s up to you… if you don’t care give it a pass…
The camera is faster and shows a thumbnail when taking pics. However, update seemed to throw off some iPhone apps that use the camera (Facebook for iPhone, for example)
oakley
I was able to sync hundreds of appointments and tasks over many years from Google Calendar to my iphone!! Real COOL. Can now use my Bluesonic X5 headphones and Bluesonic speakers AND my battery life is MUCH LONGER with PUSH ENABLED. Now I don’t have to be at my PC when I get a google chat. Brilliant Apple.
but guess what…..I know 1 thing your g1 cant do….be as cool as an iPhone! LOL.
Why would he look like a dork? From what I can tell, it would look just like someone wearing sunglasses and headphones. how else should it look when you are outside in the sun and listening to your tunes?
Good catch. I cant tell you how many times Ive hit send, then wished I didn’t. This is a MUST have at some point. Sooner, rather than later please.
there is a lot of incorrect info in here…
The biggest of these mistakes is the Tethering feature. The 3.0 software does already have that capability, BUT it is up to the carrier if it will be offered. Apple has NOT said anything about when it will be available in the US and cannot. That is entirely up to AT&T who has made no announcement yet as to when, or even if, it will be available.
yes you can just use myxer.com to make the and download the just keep them under 30 sec. and double click the file it will open in itunes and vuala you can sync it to ur phone.
I learned a few new tricks! Thanks!
Native geolocation in iPhone Safari is going to be huge: http://plebeosaur.us/you-are-here-with-safari-on-iphone/
I added my iPhone to my Windows PC as a Bluetooth device and got a driver not found error for a device VID&000295ac_PID&1292. Anyone know what this is?
iPhone is cool…???…what have i missed…???
I have an iPhone, OK, but it¬¥s the worst phone i ever had…
Apple brings you 2year old features and sell it as brand new…
The iPhone is luxery crab…
The 3G is my first and last one…
Love the new landscape keyboard, The portrait keyboard was the worst thing about the iPhone. But, Apple needs to get Adobe flash capability to be a really world class player. I am constantly hampered by web sites that will not display due to this glaring omission.
I wish they would add a feature where you can minimize the keyboard just like on the Blackberry Storm.
Sometimes you want to hide it to read over what you’ve typed in full screen and then bring it back up to edit more if need be.
I want this feature…Please !!!!!
you can download a ringtone on your computer as mp3, convert to m4a (or dl in .m4a). all you have to do is change the extension from .m4a to something else (i forget, look it up online… maybe .m4r?) and then when you import it in your itunes it comes up as a ringtone and all you have to do is copy to your iphone.
To Mason.
But how are they free? I went to their site and it requires a subscription of $9.99/mo. Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Mark
wetgf
Why would you pay for an iPhone when there is like a billion places you can get one for free? Here’s three ones for you. http://www.tinyurl.com/freeiphone3ways
I wish I could stop rotation on Iphone:(
Good piece of information…
Useful information’s…
iPhone is not user friendly, that is the best i like.