Iphone Hints And Tips That Are Worth Knowing

Jul 19, 2012 by Tillyg93

You probably already know you can set audio alerts on your iPhone. Did you realize you could have a visual alert, too? Go to Accessibility in the General section of Settings. You will see “LED Flash for Alerts.” Switch that to on, and your LED light will flash when you have an alert.

If you want to take a screenshot or print screen on your iPhone, you can do this by simultaneously touching the sleep and home buttons, which will store the image in your photos. This is great as you can capture your screen at anytime, whether it is a conversation or something that you find on the internet. n

There are applications on the iphone that let you track where your friends are at all times. These applications require both you and your friend to accept each other on the application, but can be worth the download. This is because if your friend or their phone ever becomes lost, it or they will be easy to find.

If your phone has frozen and the Sleep/Wake button isn’t working for you, don’t panic! Instead, hold down your phone’s Home button as well as its Sleep/Wake button at the same time. This will allow you to perform a hard reboot of the phone. Most of the time this will be enough to unfreeze your phone.

There are many myths about how you are supposed to handle an iPhone falling into water, and the largest one is using a hairdryer to dry the phone. Instead of drying out all of the water that has gotten into the phone, doing this will only serve to push water further into the phone.

Now matter what app you are using, including the browser, you can get back to the top of the page with a single touch. All you need to do is press the top bar on the iPhone’s screen. This is the bar that shows the time and other basic info.

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 are trying to clean up your iPhone screens by placing apps in folders, try placing the folder you are working on in your bottom app bar. This way, the folder stays with you no matter what page you are on. You no longer have to drag that folder from page to page as you clean up your apps.

Are there times you do not want your iPhone to switch from vertical display to horizontal display or the other way around? When you want to keep it from switching, you can quickly engage an orientation lock. Tap the home key twice, and then swipe left. Tap the looped arrow that appears, and that will lock your orientation.

You can use your iPhone to store files instead of buying a thumb drive separately. The best way to do this is to buy an inexpensive program called iPhoneDrive. Using this program, you can save files to your phone and then transfer the to your Mac at a later time.

You can create an app out of any website that you visit quite often if you want to be able to access it much easier. All you have to do is open the page in the Safari browser, press the Go To button and select the option “Add to Home Screen.”

The possibilities are in all reality endless with iphones. Every year new software is coming out that is allowing people to use technology in ways they never dreamed possible. Join in on the experience of owning an iphone, and see how it changes the way you live for the better, forever.

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