Tips & Tricks

Miscellaneous

51. Take a screenshot

You can take a screenshot from any application in the iphone simply by pressing the home and sleep/wake buttons together. The screen will flash and the camera sound will play. Such snaps are automatically saved to your camera roll and you can view it via the camera application.

52. Find Airports

Typing in the three letter airport code while in google maps will bring the airport up on the map. So for example ;

London Heathrow is LHR and John F Kennedy in New York is JFK.

53. Point The Way In Google Maps

Tap the cross hair icon once to find your current location as usual, and tap again to switch to directional mode. The map will rotate in the direction your facing and a cone appears indicating your current orientation.

54. Forward & Delete SMS

You can now forward and delete individual messages, both standard sms text messages and new multi-media messages. Tap the edit button, then tap the circles to the left of each message to select them. Then tap forward or delete.

55. Shake To Shuffle

Whilst playing music, shaking your iphone shuffles to another track at random. Cleverly the phone disables this when listening to podcasts or audio books. Shuffling works whilst the ipod app is running, but not if the phone is locked or your running another app. You can disable shuffle altogether through Settings/iPod.