iPhone (and ipod) Tips & Tricks

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Scroll to Top of Page -


In any application, Safari included, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the "top bar", which has the time, service bars, and battery. In Safari, this not only brings you to the top of the page, but also brings up the URL bar.

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2. Domain Resolution -
When typing a URL in Safari, you don't have to type the "www" or the ".com".For instance, for www.cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com/) just type "cnn" in the URL box. Note: Your search engine must be set to Google, not Yahoo.

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3. Domain Suffix - [On firmware 2.0 only]
Hold down the ".com" key for ".net, .edu, .org" keys. Note: Slide your finger from .com to .net/.edu/.org, rather than lifting and pressing.

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4. Press & Hold For Alternate Characters -
Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character (i.e. to type España with the "ñ" simply hold "n" and simply slide/release to the appropriate character).

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5. Click & Hold URL's -
In Safari, hold a link to see the URL and site name.

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6. Soft Reset -
Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep button to restart your iPhone. A white light will flash, the screen will shut off and then turn back on. Keep holding until the screen turns back on.

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7. Take a Screenshot -
To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll.

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8. Set Parental Controls -
You can enable certain restrictions or parental controls on your iPhone. You can block explicit lyrics, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, or the App Store. Just go to Settings, General, Restrictions.

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9. Save Any Image from Safari -
To save any image from the web to your camera roll, simply press and hold the image. A menu will appear asking "Save Image" or "Cancel". Once the image is in your camera roll, you can set it as your wallpaper.

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10. Fast Forward/Rewind Music & Video -
Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art to manually FF/rewind.

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11. Delete Emails -
You can do both "bulk deletes" and "individual deletes" when browsing email. To do a bulk delete, simply click Edit, check off the desired emails, and then choose delete or move. To delete a single email, simply "cross it out" by swiping your finger across the email, then press delete.
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i found these very userful :).

from ismashiphone

If you know any others, post them! :D I'd love to know haha:)

[Judge Judy]

Press home twice and you get a mini popup showing what song it playing, play forward rewind buttons and volume (and close and a button that just leads to Music).

[Trinity]

Press home twice and you get a mini popup showing what song it playing, play forward rewind buttons and volume (and close and a button that just leads to Music).

Also works on the lock screen :)

[Judge Judy]

Also works on the lock screen :)

Well really it can work anywhere even on apps :P

[Nick.]

Press home twice and you get a mini popup showing what song it playing, play forward rewind buttons and volume (and close and a button that just leads to Music).
Old.

All old.

Parental restrictions is hardly a tip or trick, unless every other preference pane is? It still surprises me how many people don't know about the home button double tap for music and stuff haha :P

[Trinity]

Yeah as Nick. said, they're all old. Doesn't mean that everyone knows them though :)

Another one.. Double tap spacebar to put a full stop and a space.

[Mint]

Great guide, I knew all of them tbh but that's because I've had my iPhone for around 14 months now (got the 3G when that came out). I'm trying to think of something to add to this, but I can't. The only thing I can think of is if you press and hold any application on the menu then it will start wiggling and you can move it around. But if you didn't already know that then... umm just sell your iPhone. :D

[Implement]

good guide but already knew most of em, but good one for all the newbies our there! :P

[Indie-Dan]

Smash your iPhone off the ground face first to make pretty lines on the screen :)

[DaveTaylor]

Want me to Post 3.0 stuff aswell :rolleyes:

[culturist]

wow i never knew most of these - thanks for sharing :8