iPhone Tips

Phone Features…

1. When a call comes in, you can silence
the ring by pressing the Sleep/Wake
button once. To send a caller directly to
voicemail press the button twice.

iPhone Keyboarding Tricks…

1. Typically apostrophes are auto
suggested. In some cases like “it’s” you
may mean its and therefore the iPhone
will not autocorrect as you may have
meant to type “its.” Below are some
suggestions to resolve this when typing
certain words requiring an apostrophe…
• It’s – type itsa
• He’ll – type helll
• We’ll – type welll
• We’re – type weree
• They’re – type theyrr

2. Once you use a word that doesn’t exist in
the built-in dictionary the iPhone will
continue to use that word when you type
it. Over time if you stop using that word it
will forget the spelling and remove it from
the dictionary. –Roughly Drafted

3. Typing by leaving your fingers on the
keyboard and only lifting when the
correct letter is displayed under your
finger can be helpful when you first start
using the iPhone keyboard. –Roughly
Drafted

4. To avoid switching back and forth
between ABC and 123 you can simply
move your finger to the 123 button and
without lifting your finger move it to the
character/number you want to add, then
lift your finger –David Pogue

5. If you have a lot of text to delete hold the
delete key down and it will begin deleting
letter-by-letter and eventually it will
delete word-by-word if you keep holding
it. –Roughly Drafted

6. No need to use the shift key after typing
a “.” and then a space. The iPhone will
automatically place a capital letter at the
beginning of the next word, after a “.”
space. You can over ride this setting by
going to Settings -> General -> Keyboard
and turning off Auto-Capitalization –
David Pogue

7. Copying text is only possible from Notes
to email. You cannot copy the text from
an email to another email or to Notes, if
you would like. If you would like to
compose an email to multiple people, but
you don’t want to send it to all the
recipients in the same email, compose
the text in Notes then send the email to
each of them by copying the text in
Notes to multiple emails.

Safari…

1. When scrolling through safari to return to
the top and the address bar double tap
the top of the screen. –Maclife

2. To see the URL pertaining to a link hold
your finger over a link and that link will
display the URL in a web page. –Maclife

3. Double tapping on a section of text (ie
column or frame) or an image within a
web page will zoom just that section or
image. Double tapping again, once
zoomed, will zoom back out to the full
page view. Pinching, of course, also
works but it will not frame just that
section of the web page. –Mobility Today

Google Maps…

1. Unique to other applications like Safari
and Mail, Google Maps requires two
fingers to tap (once) in order to zoom out
and one finger double-tap to zoom in. –
Mobility Today

Mail…

1. When viewing emails in your inbox or
other boxes by sliding your finger across
the email you will be presented with a
delete button. This is an easy way to
delete emails. -Apple

2. To make an email message “Unread”
choose “Details” in the upper right corner
of an email and then select “Mark as
Unread.” -Apple

Headphones…

The mouthpiece on the headphones that come
with the iPhone doubles as a button

1. When listening to the headphones and a
call comes in you can pinch the button
once to answer the call and click and
hold to send the call to voicemail. -
Maclife

2. When listening to music, pinch the button
once to pause/resume the music
playback and pinch it twice in succession
to skip to the next song -Maclife

3. When viewing a video, pinch the button
once to pause/resume the video –Maclife

iPod Functionality…

1. You can change the default screen
buttons when using the iPod (Playlists,
Artists, Albums, Videos and More) by
clicking the “More” button. Once in the
More screen you can choose what you
want (from Audiobooks, Compilations,
Composers, Genres, Podcasts, and
Songs) by dragging it to replace the
current button(s) at the bottom of the
screen. You can also rearrange the
buttons by simply dragging them back
and forth, as you would items in the dock
in Mac OS X. –David Pogue

2. When watching a video if you double
click on the video it will zoom in to
eliminate the black bars (letterboxing),
whether it’s on the top and bottom (16:9
typically used for movies) or on the sides
(4:3 typically used by TV programs).
Double tapping again on the video will
zoom back to showing the black bars.
Notice zooming in on the video will force
some of the footage in the video off
screen.

iPhone General Functions…

1. To force quit a program press and hold
the Home button for 6 seconds –David
Pogue

2. To shut off your iPhone hold the
Sleep/Wake button and the Home button
for 3 seconds and you can “slide to
power off” or “Cancel.” Pressing the
Sleep/Wake button will then power back
up the device, as indicated by the Apple
logo.

3. To completely reset the iPhone hold the
Sleep/Wake and Home buttons
simultaneously for 8 seconds. –David
Pogue

4. The light sensor, which sets the
brightness of the screen will set the
brightness depending on the light
detected when the iPhone is woken from
sleep. If you walk from a dark room to
the bright light outside you may need to
Sleep the iPhone and Wake it, to adjust
the brightness.

5. When plugging in to some devices you
may be presented with a dialog box
stating, “This iPod device is not
supported by the iPhone, would you like
to set the phone in Airplane Mode.
Simply choosing “No” will often allow you
to utilize that device. In some cases
holding the Home button for 6 seconds
may allow that device to function after all.
For example some iPod Integration kits
in certain automobiles, may work despite
getting this message. Examples include
Volvo and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep factory
iPod Integration kits. In these instances
the phone will continue to work normally,
whether answering the phone itself or
utilizing a Bluetooth headset or system in
the car. When changing to the iPod
functions on iPhone you should be able
to play your audio through the speaker
system in the vehicle. –Mac OS X Hints

iPhone Hacks…

1. Dial *3001#12345#* to bring up the
iPhone’s Field Test Tool. This will show
you information including network status,
signal strength, towers and more. Most
of the information, unless you are an RF
engineer, will not make much sense.
The tips listed in this document were primarily
pulled from these articles…