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are considered so intuitive and simple to use that they do not even come with hard copy instructions. Virtually anyone can pick up an iPhone and fumble their way through the basic functions. But what about the more complex operations? I know owners of iPhones that testify it took several weeks to discover that rotating the screen can alter the view. This article is designed to highlight some of the other hidden functionalities of the iPhone that you may not have discovered.
Home screen organisation
1. Re arranging apps
You can customise the layout of app icons on the home screens by holding any icon until they all jiggle. Then simply drag the apps to their desired locations. Icons can be moved from various home-screens by dragging the app to the side of the screen. Press the home button to save.
2. Creating new home-screens
To create additional home screens flick across to the rightmost home-screen then drag an icon to the right edge of screen. Press the home button to save.
3. Creating new folders
Reducing clutter on your homescreens can be achieved by creating folders to store all of your various apps. To create a folder hold an app until they all jiggle, next drag and drop an app on top of another to create a folder storing the two apps you have selected.
4. Closing background applications.
If you do not know about this feature, chances are that you have lots of background apps running on your phone potentially slowing down its processing speed. To close the background apps firstly double tap the home button. At the bottom of the screen you will see will see a list of all the apps that are open. This is called the multitask view. To close them press and hold an icon until a red minus signs appear on the application icons. Simply press on the applications that you no longer need open.
Emailing and messaging
5. Sharing contacts
To share a contact with another person open your contacts list, click on a contact and press the share contact button at the bottom of the screen.
6. Deleting messages and Emails
To delete Emails push across to the right on an Email link, a red delete icon should appear on the right hand side. Push this to delete the message. This same method can be used to delete entire SMS conversations. To delete individual SMSes click edit whilst in the conversation viewer, select the messages you wish to be deleted and press the delete icon.
7. Typing alternate characters
Whilst typing to enter an alternate character hold down a key and wait for a list of options, slide to the desired replacement character and release.
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8. Capitalising individual letters
There are two ways of capitalising individual letters. The least efficient is to press the shift key and then press the letter you wish to be capitalised. Alternatively you can press and hold the shift key, dragging it to the letter you want to capitalise. The same method can be used with the keyboard switcher key (123/ABC). Doing this will revert you straight back to the alphabet keyboard immediately after inserting punctuation.
9. Caps-lock
In order to be able to access caps-lock we first need to turn it on in the settings. Open settings from your home screen, tap General, Keyboard and turn on the enable caps lock button. To use caps-lock when typing double tap the shift key, this will turn caps-lock on. To turn it off again, simply tap the shift key once.
Web Pages
10. Saving images from the Web
In Safari, touch and hold an image to bring up a menu. You can choose to save it to your camera roll or copy and paste it into an Email or MMS.
11. Immediately return to the top of a webpage
To return immediately to the top of webpages tap the status bar at the top of the screen.
12. Scrolling inside frames and text
In some Webpages you may have the opportunity to scroll within a frame or text area on a webpage. To do this use two fingers and scroll with the same action you do for navigating normal webpages.
13. Zooming in
Whilst in Safari you can double tap parts of the page you wish to zoom in on, double tapping again to zoom out. Alternatively you can pinch to zoom in or out manually.
Miscellaneous
14. Accessing music controls and volume from the multitask view
Open the multitask view by double tapping the home button. Swipe to the left to enter the music controls. A further swipe to the right lets you adjust the volume.
15. Portrait lock
To access portrait lock open the multitask view and swipe across to the left. Click on the icon on left hand side of the multitask bar to lock the portrait. This will stop your iPhone from changing views when you are tilting the phone.
16. Taking a screenshot
Press the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously to take a screenshot. You should hear a camera shutter noise letting you know your current screen has been saved automatically into your camera roll.
17. Voice control
Press and hold the Home button until the Voice Control screen appears.
18. Scientific calculator
Open the Calculator application and rotate the screen horizontally to access the scientific calculator