On 09.10.02, In A quick list of iPhone tricks that you may not know about.
Headphone Button
The headphones for iPhone have a handy little button with the mic. Press this button to answer or end calls, and use it to control the iPod. Here’s a list of iPod controls:
- Press – play or pause
- Double tap - skip forward one track
- Triple tap - go back one track
- Double tap and hold - forward
- Triple tap and hold - rewind
Parental Controls
If any of your children have an iPhone, you may want to set some parental restrictions. You can stop them spending too much on the iTunes or in the App Store, stop them using the Internet, Camera, YouTube, stop apps from using their location, or stop them from viewing or downloading unsuitable content. Go to Settings > General > Restrictions and press Enable Restrictions. Now enter a four-digit passcode to change the restrictions. Now you can pick which services you would like to disable or restrict. To change theses restrictions you will need to enter the passcode you set previously.
Back To Top
This is especially useful when reading a long article in Safari (perhaps like this one). Sometimes website don’t have “Back To Top” link so rather than scrolling all the way back, just touch the strip at the top of the screen to skip back to the top. This also works in Photos, Mail, Notes and many other Apps.
View URL
In Safari, You can view a URL before clicking through it. By holding your finger on the link you will bring up a list of options (similar to right-click in Firefox or Safari on PC/Mac). You can open the link as normal, open in new page/tab, or copy the link to paste elsewhere.
Auto-Correction
The auto-correction for iPhone is fairly accurate but sometimes it doesn’t quite know what to do when faced with certain words (i.e. We’re and Were, I’ll and Ill), which can be quite annoying. You can turn this off or just change a few settings by going to Settings > General > Keyboard. You can also toggle auto-capitalisation, enable caps lock, add a “full stop + space” shortcut when you double tap space, or change the locality of your keyboard.
All Capitals
While we’re on the subject of keyboard tricks, there may be times where you may feel like “shouting”. You may have caps lock turned on but it doesn’t say how to use it. Rather than pressing shift after every letter (which is a tad monotonous) just double tap the shift key. When caps lock is on it should turn blue.
Save Web Images
Just as you can in all PC or Mac browsers you can save images from the Internet. Just hold your finger over the image you want to swipe until a menu pops up. You can save it to your photo album or copy it if you want to paste it elsewhere.
Keyboard Extension
There are plenty of buttons on your keyboard that “pop out” when you press and hold to reveal alternative characters, such as currency symbols, accents, or other characters. There may be a few you might not normally use but it may prove handy at times.
Typing TLDs
Another iPhone keyboard extension. When you type in a URL in Safari you can see a .com button at the bottom of the keyboard. If you press and hold that button it pops out more commonly-used TLDs.
Lap Times
For all you runners out there this will be a handy tool for you. With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple have improved the Stopwatch. Now you can set lap times. The main clock shows your total time and the smaller clock above it is your current lap time. Every time you click the lap button it resets the lap timer and stores the previous lap below.
