16 Tips to Become an INSTANT iPhone OS 3.0 Power-User
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Shout it from the mountain top, copy and paste has arrived on the iPhone. After you've gotten your fill of pasting links into your favorite Twitter app and Facebook, follow these tips to make using iPhone OS 3.0 just that more exciting.
Before you start
Before you install the new OS, it's a good idea to back up your iPhone one last time before you take the OS 3.0 plunge. You can right-click on your iPhone in iTunes to initiate a manual backup of your iPhone. This is your safety net in case something horrible happens. And if something does goes awry, use Restore from Backup and choose the latest backup to get back to square one.
Select and Delete
Select the text then delete it.
Tired of the spastic deleting of the delete button? What happens is you hold the delete button, and it starts removing offending characters -- and then it goes on to removing whole words. Next thing you know, you've deleted too many words, and you have to start over. To avoid this, use tap and hold to show the Select|Select All pop-up. Select what you need deleted, hit the delete button and -- poof! -- you've gotten rid of the offending text without trying to judge the speed of the delete button.
Quick Spotlight
Search is just an extra tap away.
When you tap the Home button on the iPhone while on a secondary Home screen, it'll return you to your main iPhone Home screen. If you tap the Home button a second time, you'll be taken to the spotlight search page. You can also reach this page by swiping to the left of your main Home Screen.
Adjust Spotlight Search
We care more about Email search results, and don't care at all about Podcast and Video search results.
If you don't need your music collection showing up in your Spotlight searches, you can turn music search off. In fact you can fine-tune your Spotlight searches to include and/or ignore most of your iPhone items. Just navigate to Settings > General > Home > Search Results. There you'll see the options available for search. You can even drag the search results fields so that you see Mail items first.
Use Copy to Email Photos Instead of Share
One feature that has the Mac|Life staff excited is the ability to email multiple photos in one message.
Using the Share option you can email up to five images. Sure, five is
more than one, but what if you have 10 really dope images you want to send
at once?
In that case, use the Copy option. Select the photos you want, then press
Copy. Navigate to the Email client and paste all the images in.
Warning: The more images you copy, the slower the Mail app runs while
it's pulling the images from the clipboard and placing them in your
message. Also, the Mail app will refuse to send large messages; we got
up to 10MB (25 - 30 individual pics) of images in a message before the
app reigned in our fun and crashed. Chances are, you'll probably send
fewer than that.
Emoji is Still There
Make your iPhone 80% cuter with Emoji iconography.
If you're an Emoji icon addict, don't fret. If you had Emjoi enabled before you update, it'll still be there when you're done. If you don't have Emoji and you've already updated, no worries. You can choose one of a couple 99¢ Emoji enabler apps from the App Store. Remember, Emoji only works from iPhone to iPhone. Your Pre- and Android-loving friends won't get your message if you slap Emoji characters into it.
Who Called From Where
The information is available in Voicemail and Recents
Now when someone calls and leaves a Voicemail, or just shows up in Recents, under their name it shows what phone they called from. This is great for contacts who have multiple numbers, and, say, you know that their mobile is a better way to get a hold of them than their work number. Now you don't have to guess if the number your calling is the correct one.
Find My iPhone - Stalker Fun
It's off by default. Turn it on before you need it.
To turn on Find My iPhone, navigate to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Your MobileMe account.
There you'll see the Find My iPhone option. Turn that puppy on for stalking iPhone finding fun. You can have multiple iPhones utilizing the service. Stalk Find your whole family. Don't forget to enable Push is haven't enabled it before.
Find the Find My iPhone page on MobileMe under your Summary tab.
If you have a family member who tends to get lost, Find My iPhone can be used to locate that person and give them directions to their destination, or at least help them get out of the Mugging District.
If you have kids, and you want to make sure they are keeping to the library and not the local heroin den, you can track and send them messages. Nothing says "get back to your studies!" like a strongly worded message and a two-minute sonar chime.
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Jessyjen
December 08, 2010 at 12:39am
Interesting post. The points which you have mentioned here are really great. Something is new for the iphone users.
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jinnie
June 23, 2010 at 9:40pm
thanks to you for this bunch your tips seems very useful.its very easy to understand your article through picture really very well explained post.great.
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stevemark
January 28, 2010 at 11:11pm
Shout it from the mountain top, copy and paste has arrived on the iPhone. After you've gotten your fill of pasting links into your favorite Twitter app and Facebook, here are some tips to make using iPhone OS 3.0 just that more exciting.
cameronlaw
December 28, 2009 at 8:44am
Thanks for this info - never really realised it until now. I've had my free iPhone 3GS for a while now, and should really start getting a little better at using it
willyap
December 13, 2009 at 6:36pm
You either love or hate the Emoji icons. My messages from my iPhone have too many Emoji icons after my girlfriend loaded them. She loves it, but my friends laugh at me when I message them :P
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hawaiiinsomniac
June 26, 2009 at 11:17am
I guess this is only available to those with the new 3GS.
I have downloaded 3.0 and I don't have these capabilities on my iPhone 3G.
monchoart
June 24, 2009 at 3:07am
The activation of bluetooth has great possibilities but just for using headphones seems preety poor, hope that new updates help to take real use for BT
Leonard Miller
June 21, 2009 at 11:27pm
My Mac Air recognizes the I Touch Bluetooth but the I Touch doesn't see my Air? Apple says the only thing the bluetooth does on the I Touch is find Bluetooth Headphones. Why??
The Mail on I Touch will not leave messages on my server like all other e-mail programs.
Is this the way it is supposed to be?Leonard
Halotron
June 18, 2009 at 6:42am
Here are some things I'm not sure are new or not, maybe I just noticed them? - You can sign in to your YouTube account and view "My Videos" - You can do search from within the email & calendar apps (not just spotlight) - Safari Settings: Developer - Debug Console
delrayboy
June 17, 2009 at 7:24pm
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/the-iphone-killer-isn-t-a-rival-handset-it-s-o2-606764
If this is what we are expecting for MMS and tethering?
nboehm
June 17, 2009 at 5:52pm
What has happened? I was loving the new experience, cruizing all day with my new features on my iPhone until I got to texting. Dang, the spell check has turned to crap. What did they do to it? It is suggesting words that are not even words and changes food into good. Some of it maybe because it may take some getting use to typing in landscape with two thumbs, but I did not enjoy my first ride with texting.
tapinc5
June 17, 2009 at 11:58am
"Before you start launching apps and complaining that the keyboard isn't landscape, keep in mind that not all apps are 3.0 ready. Give it a week or so for all the apps to make it through the App Store review process."
I am wondering, since I am switching phones and am getting an iPhone I want to get some apps ready. And I am the kinda guys who does everything possible to prepare beforehand. Do you think EVERY single app will eventually be 3.0 compatible? (I just don't want to buy a 30 dollar app only to find out it wont work on my iPhone.)
DTrigger05
June 17, 2009 at 10:44am
"You can't Shake to Shuffle once you leave the iPod app, and it won't work while the iPhone is locked."
This isn't entirely correct. If you double-tap the home button on the lock screen to bring up the iPod controls, you can shake to shuffle there. Similarly, if you have it enabled to bring up the iPod controls on any home screen or app should a song be playing, you can shake to shuffle there as well.
dkreitz
June 17, 2009 at 6:09am
Two big items in this release for me where MMS and Tethering. AT&T is behind on MMS and has not even committed to doing Tethering. I still do not have Visual Voice Mail because AT&Ts network in my area is so far behind.
It is really sad that an excellent product made by Apple is hard linked to a poor service provider.
That said, I am very excited about cut and paste. I will be on at 1PM looking for the update.
donmega1833
June 17, 2009 at 4:43am
I couldn't wait, I found a GM on the internet and have been using 3.0 for a few hours. it's looking like 1pm est from the rumor sites. Great release but it feels sorta anticlimatic without MMS to be honest. I hope Apple doesnt punish me for being Anxious (LOL).
martinmikep
June 17, 2009 at 3:55am
I didn't stay up until midnight, but it's almost 8:00 A.M. (Eastern) and still no 3.0. Will it be delayed? or just come out at 8:00 A.M. West Coast time?
dezinewiz@mac.com
June 16, 2009 at 11:09pm
As of 12:09 A.M., NO 3.0 SOFTWARE??!!I thought Apple said the 17th..??But what time?
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