Cool Iphone Tips and Tricks

| Monday, June 18, 2012
By Louis Forney


There are many iPhone tips and tricks that you can learn and practice every day in order to make the use of your iPhone 4 much more exciting and interesting. There are some general iPhone tips and tricks that work for all the iOS devices while others may only be available for the iPhone 4. Most of the following tips and tricks work in most iOS devices. You can thus try them out on iPad or your iPod Touch.

In order to reveal the characters that hidden, you have to press and then hold some keys or symbols on your device keyboard. These include A, O, I, U, Y, N, C, E, Z, L and S. the symbols include exclamation point (!), question mark (?), period (.), apostrophe ('), quotes (""), ampersand (&), percent (%), dash (-) and Dollar sign ($).

For the quick caps and symbols, the usual way is tapping ?123 in order to access the keyboard for symbols or tapping the shift key quickly in order to capitalize a letter. Instead, you can do it faster by the holding your finger on any of the keys 1, 2 or 3 and then dragging that key that you need to type. For example, to quickly type 3 from your devices main keyboard, just hold the?123 key and then slide till you reach 3 then release it. This will take you back to the QWERTY main keyboard.

To restart your iPhone, you do it the usual way by holding the sleep button until the restart option pos up. However for the frozen phone, you can quickly restart it by holding simultaneously the sleep and home buttons till it turns off.

If you need to take quick screen shot you can do it by holding the home button and then hitting the sleep button. Immediately after doing this you must see camera flash. You can view the image at the photos folder. You can also import screenshots from your iPhone to iMac via iPhoto.

Most, indeed all the above iPhone tips and tricks are common to all the iOS devices. However, there are some other tricks such as locking of screen orientation, closing of background apps, spell check and searching the website and Wikipedia can only be tried in the devices that operate on the iOS 4 systems. The following are some tips on how to try these tricks.

For the spell check, just hold the underlined word. Tap replace button until the spelling suggestions appear. For locking of screen orientation, tap the home button and then swipe it. This will give you the access of the controls on the left side. Here you will be capable of controlling your iPhone functionality including by locking of screen orientation.

If you want to close the background applications just double tap as though you are locking of screen orientation but this time round, tap and hold the icon application and additionally tap the little minus (-) buttons so as to close those apps the you do not need. The option of searching website and Wikipedia can simply be found by scrolling until you reach the results list bottom.




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