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Controlling Ringers and Alerts
You can adjust what is controlled by the volume rocker button on the outside of the iPhone and iPad.
Navigate to Settings > Sounds Change with Buttons to turn the ability to adjust the ringer and alert sounds from the external buttons on or off.
AirPlay
Notice the new rectangle with arrow shooting out of it? Yeah, that's you new friend AirPlay. Airplay sends your pictures, audio, and video to the Apple TV, and audio to Airport Express and third-party speakers that support AirPlay.
iPad:
In the iPod app the button to send your music via AirPlay. In other apps, the AirPlay icon is to the right of the volume control.
If you have the Apple TV, for video the button is to the right of the controller.
Once the video is playing, you'll see this screen on your iPad.
iPhone:
In AirPlay-compatible apps, the button is to the right controller.
Tap it and you can choose your AirPlay enabled base station or speakers.
For video, it's just like the iPad with the AirPlay button to the right of the controller.
And of course the dialog to remind you where your video is playing.
YouTube Thumbs Up
You can give YouTube videos the thumbs up, or down.
While watching a video on the iPad click on done, the video will get smaller and you'll see the information about the video. Tap the video and at the top of the video you can click on the thumbs.
While watching video on the iPhone or iPod touch, click on done and tap on Rate Comment or Flag. Click on Rate or Comment. There you can get all Siskel & Ebert on the video.
Launch FaceTime while Texting
If you're tired of tappa tappa tappa to talk to someone, you can launch FaceTime from the Messages app. Just scroll up to the top of your contacts messages and there it is between Call and Contact.
More TV shows
Got a TV show on your iPad, now you can get more episodes of your shows from within the Videos app. It'll launch the iTunes app and you can plunk down some $$$ for new episodes of your favorite show.
MIDI
iOS 4.2 now supports CoreMIDI. All your favorite music apps can be upgraded to work with MIDI devices and with GarageBand and Logic. Really, any app on the Mac that supports MIDI should be able work. All you need is the always magical iPad Camera Connection Kit and a MIDI to USB cable.
Unified Mailbox
If you have multiple email accounts, this will save you tons of frustration on the iPad. We're already in love with this feature on the iPhone and we're happy it's finally on the iPad.
Alpha Numeric Passcode
The iPad has a full keyboard, you might as well take full advantage of it with the new alphanumeric passcode feature.
Navigate to Settings > General > Passcode Lock. Turn off Simple Passcode. Go to Turn Passcode On to set your new super long alpha-numeric passcode.
Just don't forget it.
Search for Text on Web Pages
If you navigate to a site and you're looking for a certain word, you can utilize the search field in mobile Safari. Under Google suggestions on the iPad and iPhone/iPod touch, you'll see "On this Page" with the words you're looking for.
Awesome when you're looking through forums and long articles.
Notes Font Change
Hey you can change the fonts in the Notes app. Settings > Notes and tap next to the font you want.
That's pretty much it.
New Text Tones
If you're rocking the iPhone 4 you get new text tones. If you're not, you're stuck with the old tones. Why? Only Apple knows.
New SMS tones are here and you can finally assign SMS tones to your contacts. We wonder who will be get the blasted horn tone on our iPhones.
Go to Settings>Sounds> Text Tones to check out the new alerts. To assign a tone to a contact. Go to Contacts, select a contact and then select edit an you'll be able to assign a tone to that contact. You can assign a text tone contact on the iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPhone 4.
Got a cool tip? Drop us a comment below or send Robbie a tweet @strngwys.
For tips for iOS 4.0, check out our article.
Bonus Tips from the readers:
From Calob: Go to Apple.com/ios, and scroll down to the bottom. 2nd gen iPod touch gets wallpapers!!!
UPDATE!: Looks like the image above is an error on Apple's part. We can't get wallpaper to work correctly on out 2nd gen iPod touch. It's a lock-screen wallpaper only affair. There's a problem with the Canadian site too.
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lilsproutnlou
November 29, 2010 at 10:49am
Find the search word or phrase on the current webpage: Scroll to the bottom of the
results list, then tap the entry below On This Page to find the first occurrence of the
search word or phrase. To find subsequent occurrences, tap Next.As I posted three days ago, this does NOT work on my iPhone 4- can someone,anyone point me to an answer/fix?
There is no "next" option.
Thanks!
racassady
November 27, 2010 at 8:47am
The deal with the text tones is this, Apple went from having 6 lame text tones to 25 lame text tones. They need to start selling text tones and let 3rd party companies create the because at this point, Apple doesn't know how to create a good one!
lilsproutnlou
November 26, 2010 at 6:56pm
Just purchased iPhone 4 on the twenty-fourth. When I am searching in Safari my search says,"0 matches on this page". However, there ARE multiple choices, yet I cannot "choose" any of them. They are not in black bold type they are grey in color. Any suggestions? Thank you!
MrMcQ
November 23, 2010 at 5:10pm
iOS 4.2 also kills my iPad's memory allocation. Just saw it drop to 3.83MB. Yikes! Crash alert!
MrMcQ
November 23, 2010 at 3:53pm
iPad cannot do the rocker thingy that was mentioned here:
Controlling Ringers and Alerts
You can adjust what is controlled by the volume rocker button on the outside of the iPhone and iPad.
sambopr
November 23, 2010 at 3:42pm
Anyone know were I can get that cool little monster wallpaper for my iPad. My kid wants it bad. Thanks iin advance!
Howard Brazee
November 23, 2010 at 8:18am
Quitting an application all the way is way more unfriendly than it has to be. Not at all what I would expect from Apple.
We need a way to choose how we exit an application - whether we exit all the way or just move to a different app. Right then.
And shutting down the iPad then re-starting it still leaves the dozens of apps on the multi-task screen.
Chris CA
November 29, 2010 at 6:39pm
@Howard Brazee
"And shutting down the iPad then re-starting it still leaves the dozens of apps on the multi-task screen."
The task bar shows recently launched apps, not only running apps.
If the app is not enabled for multitasking, it is not running. It is simply an icon in the task bar.
nhbeast
November 23, 2010 at 5:45am
@fckdapress - For the default wallpaper, click Settings>Brightness & Wallpaper>Wallpaper the defualt should show up in there, just select it.
matracy68
November 23, 2010 at 5:15am
Two issues for my iPhone 4. First is the screen lock. It will only allow me lock in at portrait, not landscape. Second is tethering. My phone will not tether anymore with 4.2.1 on it. I have it selected on turned on but it is not working. There is no more blue tethering banner at the top and I can no longer get to any web site on my MacBook Pro.
Anyone else having these same issues?
As for the iPad 'mute' I too have the same issues above. I have Pandora on right now and put it on mute and got the screen to say mute but the music still plays. Shouldn't a mute actually mute everything?
matracy68
November 24, 2010 at 9:34am
I think I cracked the code on tethering. I did some research on other Apple forums and this is what I came up with. First off, I am in the US and I am a paying AT&T tethering customer. My iPhone 4 has never been jail broken or unlocked. I was able to set up Bluetooth tethering to my MacBook Pro. That went pretty easy. I wanted the USB cable tethering option back. I read that some overseas iPhone 4 tethering customers went into their Cellular Data and made some changes. The options that the overseas customers had in settings are not available in the US. Here's what worked for me. Go to Settings-General-Network. From there I toggled Cellular Data from On to Off and then back On. I didn't reboot the phone after I did this. iTunes did a sync and then my USB iPhone back to being an option in Network Preferences on my MacBook Pro. The blue tethering band came back on and everything is working back to normal. This may or may not work for you if you too have tethering problems with 4.2.1.
jjayfe
November 23, 2010 at 2:00am
Hey how do you think I feel about this new update. Doesn't do a stinkin' thing for me. My HP printer is about 7 years old, and yes it's on the network, but I can't access network printers.
1) I've got two 160 gig apple TV units.... I can't share movies to them from the iphone...
2) I get one thing new.... I can select one pair of speakers in the house and send ipod tunes to it.... try to add more? and it disconnects the one I picked.... If I get a calendar alert, or txt message, it drops the speaker and I have to manually pause and reconnect.
3) This adds no value for me since my music library is already on a home computer that I can access using the app called "Remote," and can use all the speakers on my network, and don't get interruptions when a call comes in.
This is a NON-update update. I get a few stupid ringtones, that's about it. Right now this is just a novelty that a few users can play with..... for the rest of us, it's a waste of time.jay
rjhatton
November 22, 2010 at 8:14pm
Anyone else with an iPad and tried to use the "new" mute switch? The "mute" symbol comes up on the screen but no muting takes place!
Nitsua
November 22, 2010 at 9:12pm
Not true! I have successfully muted almost 10 of my 105 apps currently on my iPad! I just can't mute Youtube, videos, the iPod, music apps or anything with the sole purpose of exporting sound really :P But hey! Now when I'm playing Flight Control I don't have to just tap pause and slide Music from "on" to "off" I can just flip the switch...now if I want to lay on my side and be able to read an article in landscape I have to double tap the home button, swipe to the left, tap the lock button, then tap out of it. That's what I'm talking about! Making it more complicated to do something simple ;D
Chris Thomson
November 22, 2010 at 4:38pm
Apple also made a mistake with the second- and third-generation iPod touches in that image -- they shouldn't have the FaceTime icon, only the fourth-generation iPod touch should.
molotovmouse
November 22, 2010 at 12:39pm
Why no home screen wallpaper on the iPod 2nd Gen? Even the little picture of the supported devices seems to indicate that the wallpaper is supported.
sosae22
November 22, 2010 at 12:38pm
I don't believe the old Appletv (with the hard drive) works with Airplay to stream the movies and videos from the iPhone...Has any else had the same problem?
metalhaze
November 22, 2010 at 2:37pm
They never claimed it would work with the old Apple TV.
Airplay is only for the new Apple TV's
Raketemensch
November 22, 2010 at 12:05pm
There's no quick-access brightness control in 4.2 for iPhone? Just iPad?
Roberto Baldwin
November 22, 2010 at 12:26pm
iPad only. I have sensitive eyes and I really wish they had included this with the iPhone.
metalhaze
November 22, 2010 at 2:36pm
Are you aware of the auto-brightness feature on the iPhone?
There are also some more features for easier reading in the Accessibility section of the settings which you can assign to toggle with a triple click of the home button.
Raketemensch
November 22, 2010 at 2:45pm
Yup, I'm all set on auto-brightness, but I fall asleep every night reading in Stanza, and I set the brightness to extremely low, then bring it back up the next day. Auto-brightness doesn't have such a huge range, and digging out Preferences every time is a PITA.
Well, I won't be in such a hurry to upgrade and re-jailbreak, then. Kinda bummed, but now I'm thinking there *must* be a way to do this with sbsettings.
souch3
November 22, 2010 at 12:01pm
Anyone with a 3GS able to confirm this for me? I can customize text tones on a per contact basis but I don't have any of the new ones, just the old. Is this a feature only for the iPhone 4?
texthetitan
November 22, 2010 at 10:17pm
I have a 3Gs and the same issue. It looks like only the iPhone 4 gets the new tones. Kind of lame.
texthetitan
November 22, 2010 at 11:59am
I don't seem to have the new text tones. Anyone else having this issue?
Roberto Baldwin
November 22, 2010 at 12:12pm
I was hoping it just a beta issue, but it looks like the new text tones are for iPhone 4 only.
LAME!
-Robbie
metalhaze
November 22, 2010 at 2:34pm
While 3G/3GS users may not get the new sounds, can we at least assign the existing sounds to contacts like we can with the ringtones?
