iPhone shartcuts to soup user experience


The iPhone has a multitude of useful shortcuts. Here shows you six ways to soup up your user experience.

1. Use keyboard shortcuts to type out URLs
URLs are no fun to type but these shortcuts will help. In Safari, if you hold down the “.com” key. “.net”, “.edu” and “.org” appear as options. A variation of this trick applies for the Mail app. Hold down the full-stop key to get the other options.
Finally, you do not need to type in the whole URL if you wish to go to a website such as www.straitstimes.com. Just type in “straitstimes” into the address bar and Safari will figure out the rest. (Note: this only works if Safari is set to use Google as your search engine).

2. Change the icons on your dock
It is not a well-known fact but you can change the apps that are in your iPhone’s dock, the strip at the bottom that, contains the iPhone, Mail, iPod and Safari apps.
To replace these with something else, touch and hold any icon until all the icons on the screen start to jiggle. Touch the icon on the dock you want to move and shift it to an available space. You can now move another icon into the freed-up space in the dock.

3. Reboot the iPhone
Your iPhone is a very small computer and like all computers, the iPhone will become unresponsive every now and then. Your first option is to hold down the Home button on the iPhone to attempt to quit the application that is open. If that fails, you need to reboot the phone.
To do so, simultaneously hold down the Home button and the Sleep/Wake switch located at the top right-hand corner of the iPhone. After about 10 seconds, the iPhone will reboot itself.

4. Send high resolution pictures.
When you send an e-mail message from your Photos app, it automatically downscales the resolution. To send a photo at its original resolution, touch and hold the photo until the Copy option appears.
Select the Original Resolution option, close the Photos app and open Mail. Create a new e-mail message and paste the image in the body of the text. This allows you to send your images at their original resolution.

5. Ignore annoying phone calls
You cannot always take a call when it comes in – you might be in a meeting or watching a movie at the cinema. If you just want to stop the ringing (or vibrating alert), press the Sleep/Wake button once. To decline the call, press the Sleep/Wake button twine.

6. Access the iPod
You can play music even if your iPhone is locked.
At the “Slide to unlock” screen, simply press the Home button twice to call up the iPod’s controls.
(On the iPhone, iPod is the name for the app that plays music.)
Bonus tip: Whenever the iPod app is playing music, pressing the Home button twice will always call up the iPod’s controls.

By Jimmy Yap

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