As an iPhone owner, you may feel that you are not getting utilizing your phone to its fullest capacity. If you want to get the best use out of your phone, you should read the article that follows to learn more.
Is your iPhone frozen? Hold down the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button at the same time. Wait until it gives you the option to shut it down. Swipe the screen to shut your phone down. Once it powers down, turn it back on. This will reset the phone and generally fixes any problem you may have with your freezing.
Turn off push notifications to control your data usage as well as preserve your battery life. Push notifications allow your phone to constantly be in touch with email servers and the internet in order to be notified immediately when something happens. De activating this will mean that you have to check your email, websites or other applications for new messages and alerts, but it will be dramatic in how it affects the functionality and performance of your phone.
When you have an incoming call on your iPhone, you can silence your ring with a single button. By pressing the Sleep/Wake button one time, the ring will go to silent mode. If you wish to send the caller straight to your voice mail, you can press that button two times.
Do you have a message that you want to shout out to someone? Here’s how you can turn on Caps Lock on your iPhone. All you have to do is tap the shift key twice. When you’re ready to go back to lowercase letters, double tap the shift key again, and everything will return to normal.
When typing on your iPhone, tip it horizontally. The keyboard should be displayed horizontally and become bigger. When browsing the internet, use the Safari app: this is the only one that will rotate when you move your phone. This should help you avoid typos and type much faster than before.
If you’re an advanced message-sender who needs extended text options like letters with accent marks, the iPhone has you covered. Simply tap and hold a letter on the on-screen keyboard and a set of accented alternatives will pop up. Just remember to slide your finger directly to the accented letter you want. Lifting your fingertip will make the menu disappear.
A great tip for using your iphone is to purchase some kind of app that will help you find restaurants near your location. There is actually an app available that will randomly bring up a restaurant according to what you put in such as mexican food, italian, or whatever you want.
AutoText shortcuts can be made for your commonly used phrases to save messaging time. You will find this to be useful when you are repeatedly typing email addresses or regularly used phrases such as ‘on my way’. To access this feature, simply look under keyboard settings.
The ability to buy Kindle books right from your iPhone’s Kindle app was a casualty in a recent Apple-Amazon battle. Don’t worry, you can still use your iPhone to purchase books without resorting to a computer. Just use Safari to navigate to Amazon and purchase your next read the same way you would on your home computer. Remember to select your iPhone in the “send to” menu!
When using Safari on your iPhone, you don’t have to key in the “.com” extension when you want to visit a site. For example, to visit Amazon.com you can type “Amazon” in the URL box and you will be taken directly to the site.
Many people spend a lot of money each and every month on ringtones for their iPhone. You can save money if you use the Ringtone Maker app to create your own. The app is absolutely free and it shows you how to create ringtones out of many of your favorite songs.
You probably already know about the phone’s ability to set time reminders. It gets better! You can also use reminders based on a particular location. For instance, you can create an alert to remind you to stop at the store on your way home. You can use the iPhone to remind you of any event.
Take a photo with only one hand using your iPhone. Do this by simply getting the frame how you desire it, and press the button that says + volume. There’s no difference in the resulting picture’s quality when you take it this way.
Turn on character count in your text message settings. Not everyone has an iphone. A simple tweak in the settings will turn on your word count. Leaving the SMS character count visible on your phone will help you be more considerate when texting friends or family without iphones of their own.
Hopefully this article has shown you some amazing new ways to put your iPhone to good use in your daily life. You simply have to remember what you have learned the next time you use the phone!
