Top 10 iPhone and iPod Touch tips & tricks
It would be nice if Apple had documented all the aspects of the iPhone and iPod Touch, but for whatever reason, it didn’t happen.
We’ve gathered up ten of the most useful tips and tricks for using your Apple devices that will ease your life when using Safari, sending emails, needing to share an image and much more.
Accented Characters: When typing an email, if you hold down any letter, you will see a pop-up after a few seconds allowing you to choose the accent you need for the word. For instance, you can easily type cafe as café with this method.
Different domain extensions: While in Safari it can be very handy to click the .com button at the bottom, but if you hold it down it will give you the choices of .edu, .net and .org.
Email delete button: When in your email box, simply swipe your finger to the left on an email and a “Delete” button will appear so you don’t even have to enter the e-mail to get rid of it. This can be tricky to get the feel for doing it right the first few times, but once you do it is extremely handy.
Move the cursor: While typing out an email, hold down your finger and a magnifying glass will appear that will allow you to move the cursor to anywhere you like. To place it, simply release your finger.
Reveal URLs in Safari: When you encounter a link in a Web page in Safari, merely hold your finger on the link to see a pop-up screen that tells you what the link is and if you want to open it, open it in a new browser window or copy it to the clipboard.
Save images in Safari: Save any image you encounter in the Safari browser by pushing and holding down on it with your finger until a pop-up windows appears telling you can save or copy the image. It is then saved to your Photos folder.
Scientific calculator: By opening the calculator app, you can turns the iPhone or iPod Touch on its side and it will turn into a scientific calculator.
Scroll to the top of the Web page: When you’re in the Safari browser, if you’ve scrolled to the bottom of a Web page, it can be a pain getting back to the top. The quickest way is to tap the top bar that shows the time and your battery icon and it will zip you back to the top in a jiffy.
Sharing images from your Photos app: After using some of these other features for saving images to your photo app, you can then send the photos as an e-mail, save it to MobileMe, assign it to a contact or set it as your wallpaper.
Take a screenshot: Press the home button and then tap the “Sleep” button just once, the screen will flash white and the image of your screenshot is saved to your images folder. You can then email it to yourself, save to MobileMe and so on. There’s no way to take a picture of this feature, but it was responsible for all of the images in this post.
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June 25th, 2010
I am looking for iPhone 4 jailbreak and unlock. Is it out yet? All i see are iphone 3.1.3 3GS unlock.
July 18th, 2010
indeed it is out. check cydia. i got it the day the 4.0 update came out haha.
January 20th, 2011
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January 27th, 2011
Nice iphone tricks so I can use on my iphone.
The email delete button is helpful as I read and trash my email everyday.
Great work! I like it.
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