How To Use Your IPhone To Its Full Potential

| Friday, December 14, 2012
By Christian Belmonte


If you're just about to throw your iphone at the wall due to user frustration, you're reading this in the nick of time. Your iphone doesn't have to be a thing of mystery. The article below can help you master your iphone and make it a thing of beauty rather than something to be reviled.

A great tip if you're new to using the iphone is to switch the display to however you want it. Some people don't like having the black lettering on the white background. You can actually flip it around and have white lettering on a black background. This makes it easier on the eyes.

If you want to take a picture quickly, double tap on your Home button. Even if the phone is locked this will bring up a little camera icon that will allow you to open the camera. You can then use the Volume Up button on your phone or headphones to snap the picture!

A great tip if you're thinking about purchasing an iphone is to shop around and do your research before you decide on a plan or even the iphone itself. It might not be the best idea to walk into the apple store and pick one up impulsively because you'll pay more.

It is easy to share a URL with a friend that you think they would be interested in. When you are on the site, tap the address bar and then the Share button. All you have to do is put in the person you want to receive it and hit Send.

Do not rely solely on the iPhone's auto brightness feature to save battery power. If the auto brightness feature is active, the phone's brightness sensor will be constantly active and using battery power to adjust the brightness. Instead, use the manual brightness setting and put it on the lowest setting that is visible to you.

A great tip if you own an iphone is to start sending out emails straight from your iphone. The great thing about having the iphone is that you have access to the internet and you can easily access your email to send and receive messages so that you're always in the loop.

Hold your home button for six or more seconds to exit any app. Apps sometimes have a tendency to freeze. Don't lose your patience and start dismantling the phone in some frustrated attempt to shut the entire thing off. Just hold down your home button. This will force your iphone to exit the app.

You can get extend the battery life of your iPhone if you make a few changes. Remove are apps that you do not use, turn off any of the wireless services on your phone you have no use for and reduce the amount of brightness on your screen. This will assure your battery will last a bit longer.

Be sure to avoid getting any water on your iphone. One of the biggest causes of destruction to any cell phone is dropping it into water, or getting water spilled on it. To ensure this does not happen to you, you should generally not use or bring your phone into a bathroom and always keep it in a safe place far from liquid sources.

Do you need to mark an important email for later? Tap it and choose 'mark as unread'. This email will then appear as a new message. This is a good way to remind yourself to check an email again, for instance, if you need to download an attached file or call a phone number later.

The iPhone makes it so easy to send messages that you might be tempted to invest a little effort into formatting. Fortunately, a little effort is all it takes. Like many of the other keys on the on-screen keyboard, the punctuation keys will give you a lot of great options (like straight or curly quotation marks) if you press and hold them.

Now that you've reached the end of this article, you should be as in love with your iphone as the day you took it out of the package. No longer do you have to be scared of this untamed technology. You have the power over your iphone. It's you that's in control.




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