It’s amazing what wonders you can do with a device with one single navigation button. Let me share with you 10 more cool tips and tricks for your iPhone. At the end of this, please let us know whether you found them useful or if you have any other cool tips – share with us.
1. Send Full Definition Photo in Your Message
Do you know that iPhone scaled down the resolution of your photo when you attach it in your email? – typically you do it by hitting the “Share” button on the lower left corner and then press the “Email Photo” button.
To send full resolution photos via email, open the photo in your iPhone’s camera roll, tap on it and hold until the “Copy” button appears.
Copy the photo, then compose a new email. Press and hold somewhere within the content section, let go and the contextual menu will appear. Press Paste to insert your full resolution photo. Whalla! No more skimping on quality when sharing…
2. How to take a screenshot
Sometimes you just want to take a screenshot of your cool apps collection on the home display. Here’s how you do that.
3. Make your own iPhone ringtones
I know… getting cool ring tones for iPhone is such a pain in the $%%. But fret not. Here’s a way to make your own custom ringtones using nothing but the iTunes.
Step 1. Choose the song you want in iTunes and right-click on the track and hit “Get Info.”
Select “Options” from the menu along the top, then change the “Stop Time” of the song to 15 – 30 seconds.
Now, in the “Advanced” iTunes menu, select “Create AAC version.”
You will now see a second version of the song. Be sure to go back into the original song’s “Get Info” options and delete your “Stop Time” setting, or else the song won’t play past this point in the future.
Step 2. Convert the song to ringtone format
Once you’ve got the AAC version of the song, you need to find it on your computer. (typically: My Documents, My Music, iTunes, iTunes Media, Music and then the relevant artist’s folder.)
Change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r by clicking on it and overtyping. If you can’t see the file extension type (just the name) then you need to enable that functionality first. Go to your control panel and click “Folder Options.” Then, untick the option that says “Hide extensions for known file types.” Going back into the iTunes folder and you will now be able to see the extension to change it.
Once it’s changed, you need to import the renamed file back into iTunes through the “Add to Library” option in the “File” menu.
p.s. this if for PC users. Mac users have to use their peculiar method to rename the file.
Step 3. Get the ringtone to your iPhone
Now, both Mac and PC users will see the file under the “Ringtones” category on the left of your iTunes display. To get the ringtone where it needs to be — on your phone — sync your iPhone to iTunes. If this is the first time you’ve added a ringtone in this way, make sure that the “Ringtones” tab is set to sync.
To change the ringtone on your iPhone to your chosen song, go to “Settings,” then “Sounds,” then “Ringtone” and you should now have a “Custom” list above the pre-loaded “Standard” list. Just touch the song you want and you can be free of that pre-loaded “Marimba” forever!
4. Get to the top fast
Scrolling a long document is a hassle right. Here’s a shortcut in to get to the top of the page fast.
In Safari, Mail, Contacts, and many other apps, simply tap the status bar at the top of the screen — which displays the carrier information, time, and battery level — to scroll quickly to the top.
5. Get the character count in SMS
iPhone, by default, does not show the number of characters that you’re typing – such as in composing SMS or Twitter messages. This is an annoying oversight right?
You can easily turn this facility on. Just go to the “Settings” menu, select “Messages,” then slide the “Character Count” toggle to “On.” Now when you are composing a text message — after you get to the end of the first line — you’ll see a running count of how many characters you’re sending on the right of the display, above the send button.
6. Sentence stopping shortcut
If you’re not already using this trick, you most certainly should, as it can seriously speed up your typing. It is enabled by default, but to confirm it’s active, go to “Settings,” then “General,” then “Keyboard,” then make sure the toggles next to the “Auto-Capitalization” option and the fourth option down — “.” Shortcut — are set to the “On” position.
Now when you’re typing away, a double tap of the space-bar will add a period/full-stop and automatically capitalize the very next letter you type.
7. Setup Hotmail Using Exchange ActiveSync On Your iPhone For Push Email, Calendar & Contacts
If you are still a loyal user of Hotmail, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now sync your email, calendar, and contacts to iPhone using Exchange ActiveSync. So any changes made on the iPhone will be reflected on the web interface, and vice versa.
Here are the steps:
- Launch the Settings App. Under Settings, tap on “Mail, Contacts, Calendar”.
- Then tap on “Add Account”.
- Tap on “Microsoft Exchange” to configure Hotmail ActiveSync.
- Enter your full Hotmail email address in both Email and Username fields. Leave Domain blank. Enter your password. In the Description field, enter a name, e.g Hotmail.
- Then tap on the Next button.
- After the details entered above are successfully verified. You will get another screen where you need to enter m.hotmail.com for the Server name. Then tap on the Next button.
- If the verification is successful, you will see the screen where you can select the data (Mail, Contacts, Calendar) to sync and then tap on Save.
8. Sleep The iPod After A Certain Period Of Time
If you frequently listen to music on your iPhone before going to sleep, this is a pretty cool tip. You can set the iPod function to sleep after a desired period of time.
To set the sleep timer, launch the Clock. Select the Timer function. Set the amount of time you’d like to listen to your music before the iPod goes to sleep.
Tap on the “When Timer Ends” menu and you’ll be brought to a page where you’re able to select a particular alarm that is played when the timer ends. Scroll up and tap on “Sleep iPod”.
Sweet dreams listening to Justin Bieber!
9. Open link in a new page
There have been a lot of tips regarding Safari. A popular tip, if you didn’t already know, is to tap and hold a link then tap on “Open in New Page” to browse the link in a separate browser page.
When you’re done reading, just close it and you’ll be brought back to the main webpage. I find this tip very useful when reading blogs with multiple entries — I avoid pressing on the Back button and the need to reload the page each time.
10. To Silent A Call
The last tip is a simple but very useful to ignore annoying callers.
To silent a call, press the Sleep button once. It will continue to ring without any indications (no ringtone, no vibration) until you answer or the caller hangs up. To reject a call, press the Sleep button twice.
Hope you will find these tips useful. Don’t forget to let us know which one that you used and how do you find it.
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