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25 Tips for iPhone

1. The simple method of dialing a number when the phone is locked with code: Click "Emergency call" on the page of "Enter pass code", and then dial the number directly. Do not be cheated by the name of "Emergency call". In fact you can dial any number on this page.

2. If you want to input punctuations quickly, you can press "123" and then scroll to the punctuation you want and release. You will see the punctuation has been typed and the keyboard will be back to the alphabet keys automatically. Meanwhile, press Space after typing the punctuation, the alphabet keys will also be back automatically.

3. When you go back to the top of the page, you can click the state bar on the top anytime, the page will be back to the top automatically and the address bar is also there.

4. The text scroll bar. When you type in the textbox, if it is beyond the box, the scroll bar will be there. One finger just can scroll the whole page, please try two fingers. Do not forget the multi-touch of iPhone.

5. Latin letters input. Press one letter (such as e or o) on English keyboard, and a similar Latin letter will be there.

6. Safari turnover. Double-click the blank space of relative direction. For example, turn to next page; you just need to double-click the black space on the bottom.

7. Back from the present running by pressing Home for 8s.

8. Dial the whole number, if the number is in the address list, the name will be shown under the number.

9. On Google Maps, an estimated space will be shown which is marked by something like a post. You can navigate it to the center of the post by Replace Pin/ Drop Pin.

10. The place for date. The last is the year of 99999 B.C., and the first is 1 B.C. That means the warriors in the future can also use iPhone, but Apples is impossible to be older than Jesus.

11. When taking pictures, press the Photography key and find a view, and then click any place on the screen.

12. When sending SMS, no need to wait for its finish, you can press Home and do other things. Do not worry about that. It will be sent out normally.

13. under the state of Locked, double-click Home and you will get the control foundation of iPod. On other states, you can set it to enter to Phone Favorite directly.

14. You can turn on Wifi without worrying about wasting electric power, because after 20s after you lock it, Wifi will be turned off automatically.
15. When you browse websites with Safari, if you read some characters like phone numbers, try to click and it will inform you whether you want to call this number.

16, when the alarm rings, SLEEP is for nap; SLIDE is for turning off the alarm.
 
17. Press some link on the page, a message bulb will be shown the real website address linked.

18. When you browse websites with iPhone's Safari, you will find that some area can be scrolled sometimes, but when you want to scroll it, the whole page but not the area will be scrolled. The resolution is to scroll that area with two fingers.

19. The main function of the iPhone Map application is to get the driving direction. There are book marks on the starting and destination. So you can use the bookmark function when searching addresses.

20. When reading vocal books, you can control the speed of playing. Settings' iPod Options'Speed of Vocal Book, then choose Slow, Normal or Fast.

21. You can set the homepage to your favorite one: Add the homepage you want to set in the bookmark list, and then move it to the top. You should touch it a little bore--- at first click the icon of bookmark and then the bookmark.

22. Mark the emails read to be unread: When reading emails, click Detail and you will see "Mark Unread", click it. Next time when you check your email, this email is shown as a blue dot which means Unread.

23. Actually, you cannot create an email folder in iPhone, but you can create one IMAP email account on the IMAP server.

24. If you want to keep the present email being edited, you can click "Cancel" and a dialogue box is shown, click "Save". Then this email will be saved in the sketch folder.

25. When your iPhone has no response, Pushing Home will not work. Pressing Sleep/Wake will not work, either. The first step of restart is to press "Home" for 6-8s and drop out the programs which make iPhone stuck. If it doesn't work, try to press "Home" and "Sleep/Wake" at the same time for 10s, and then Apple logo will be shown again.
 

Posted by William Jones

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