iPhone Tips
Here are some tips we hope you'll find useful for your iPhone and iPod touch.
- If you're having trouble getting the screen to change orientation, be sure you're holding your iPhone perpendicular to the ground, rather than flat.
- Hold and double-tap gestures are recognized and useful in several places. Try holding your finger, or double-tapping, on a screen where you want more options. For example, holding the N on the keyboard gives you Ń and Ñ as well as N.
- On iPhone and iPod Touch running version 2.0, holding the .com button lets you also pick from .net, .org and .edu, and, at least in some places, holding the period button also gives you those options (as well as .com).
- Tapping space twice in a row on the main keyboard will put “. ” (that is, period space) into your input.
- To quickly add a punctuation or number key without changing keyboards, tapping the key, and changing back, you can instead drag your finger from the .?123 key to the key you want.
This will insert that character, and change the keyboard right back to the alpha keyboard. Also, tapping the space key after most characters on the punctuation/number keyboard will send you directly back to the alpha keyboard as well. - Are you frustrated because your VOIP voice messages show up as .WAV files in your email, and your iPod touch can't play them? Send them through iphoneconvert, and you'll be able to hear them right on your iPod touch. OR get the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade, and they'll play automatically.
- Double-clicking the Home button on an iPod touch brings up a music controller, with volume, play/pause, next and previous buttons, that you can use without unlocking the device. This works on the iPhone too, but only when you're playing music; otherwise it brings up Contacts.