Tips and Tricks

Shortcuts

1. The fast way to the top

Reading a web page,e-mail or sms message? In all of these applications, tap anywhere on the status bar at the top to quickly scroll to the top of that page.

This is especially handy in the messaging application if you want to call the person who has just sent you a text. Where is the call button? All the way at the top of the page.

2. iPod control everywhere

You can control music on your iPhone while surfing the web or using other applications. If music is playing through the ipod application you can double press the home button to bring up playback controls without leaving the current application or unlocking the home screen.

3. Im not speaking to you

Tap one of the volume buttons to immediately silence your phone but let it appear to continue ringing for the caller. If you would like to send a call directly to voicemail, press the sleep/wake button twice, on the top right of the phone. You can also use the iphone headset by quickly pressing the microphone button twice. Now you can ignore people you dont want to talk to without letting your phone ring on and on.

4. Tap to scroll sideways

See that line of dots and the spy glass icon across the bottom of your phone indicating multiple pages of applications and spotlight? Most people swipe to move left and right, but you can also tap. This works wherever you see the line of dots indicating multiple pages, such as the weather application and in safari.

Tap anywhere along this line.

5. Back to square one

Once you've installed applications on your phone, you can end up with many, many pages of icons. Pressing the home button from any screen takes you quickly to the first page of icons so why not rearrange your icons so that all of your frequently used apps are on the first page. You can now get to any of your favorite apps in one press of the home button and a tap! Handy as those four icons in the dock is never enough....Pressing home again will swap between spotlight search and your main home screen.

6. Quick dial and launch

Finding contacts who are not in your favorites list or launching apps if you've got a lot of them is quicker with spotlight search. From the home screen press home again and type a few letters of a contacts name. You can also configure a double click of home button to take you straight to spotlight from any page via settings, general, home.

7. Swipe or delete

Whilst viewing most lists there is a hidden way to delete items. Simply swipe across the e-mail, note (in OS3.0) or sms conversation and a handy delete button appears. Sadly, this doesn't work for deleting individual text or mms messages.

Next week i'll post a section of troubleshooting tips and tricks, as i have already stated, some you will already know but hopefully you will learn something new!