8 More iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known

We recently showed you "12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Know", and we're back to give you more. Due to all the great feedback our readers gave us, and some further iPhone experimentation (a.k.a. iPerimentation) on our part, we've found some other tips and tricks that can enhance your iPhone experience.

While you might find some of these iPhone tips and tricks elementary, I'm sure there's atleast something on this list that you didn't know of. And if you did, congrats iPhoner - now see how you stand up against the ultimate iPhone glossary.

1.   Double tap space bar for a period -

When typing on your iPhone, double tapping the space bar at the end of a sentence automatically enters a period followed by a space. No need to press "123" to get to the numbers and symbols page where the period typically resides. I use this trick daily and it heavily increases my typing speed (especially when texting).

2.  Tap the bottom corner to navigate home screens

When on your home screen, try tapping the bottom right/left corner to switch between pages instead of swiping your finger accross the screen.

3.   Take out your SIM card during backup and sync -

We've all experienced it. You're backing up and syncing your iPhone, and the hour long back up is nearly complete. Then all of a sudden you get a phone call, and the whole back up/sync is null and void.

To avoid this happening, simply start the backup/sync, then pull out your SIM card. Do not worry, this does not damage your phone at all. Put it back in once everything is complete. This way, your backup won't get interrupted.

This tip is also useful if you need to make a phone call while your iPhone is backing up/syncing. Since unlocking your phone cancels the process, just take out your SIM card, pop it in your old cell phone, and call away.

4.   Move "dock" icons

You'd be surprised how often this tip is overlooked. The 4 icons located on the grey bar at the bottom of your iPhone - Phone, Mail, iPod, Safari - are movable, just like the rest of the icons. Just press and hold the icons, then drag them while they are shaking. Press the home button when you're done. You can put any 4 icons on your dock.

In the screenshots, note the difference between pic 1 and 2.

5.   Automatically capitalize and add apostrophes

The iPhone automatically capitalizes certain words ("I" when you type "i"). It also automatically adds apostrophes ("I'm" when you type "Im").

6.   Double tap a column on Safari to fit-to-page

When browsing the Internet on your iPhone's Safari browser, double tap any column, word, or picture to fit it's width to your iPhone's screen. This is extremely useful for reading blogs.

The first screenshot is the page when it firsts load. The second screenshot is the page once the main text was double tapped.

7.   Manually select the icon image for a bookmarked webpage

This one's a little more confusing. When you are browsing a website on your iPhone's Safari browser and want to add its icon to your home screen, press the plus sign and select "Add to Home Screen".

The image in the icon, however, is a screenshot of the page you were on. So if you want the icon to look a specific way, zoom in on a particular item on the page. Whether you want the website's logo, or some picture on the page, simply zoom in on that part of the page before you press "Add to Home Screen".

Note: This doesn't work with all websites. Popular sites like Google have special icons for the iPhone's home screen. 

Go to your website of choice.	Zoom in on your favorite part.
Press the + sign and choose Add to Home Screen.	Name the bookmark appropriately (Digg - Apple).
Now that exact part of the webpage is displayed in your icon.

8.   Your iPhone's headphones have a multi-function button!

You'd be surprised how many people don't know that the iPhone's native headphones have a button on the microphone.

Just squeeze the microphone together, and the button gets pressed.

The buttons functions:

In call...

• Press once to answer a call
• Press twice to send the call to voicemail
• Press once to hang up a call

In call while second call coming in... [thank you silver0fox]

• click once to hold current call and switch to new call
• hold for 2 secs and release to ignore new call

Out of call...

• Press once to activate iPod and play song
• Press once to pause song
• Press twice to skip to next song

 

Using these 8 tips will not only increase your iPhone IQ, but improve your overall iPhone experience. For more iPhone tips and tricks, check out our older article "12 iPhone Tricks You May Not Know".

Be sure to share your new found knowledge (or atleast inform people that their iPhone's headphones have a button).

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Comments

[thebza]

yay my tip is in there!! (#7)

[Kyle]

If you go to the mobile digg website (http://m.digg.com) it will use its own icon when saving to the home screen. You will have to use the method mentioned above if you want to bookmark the main digg site.

[Ross]

Re #2: Tap the bottom corner to navigate home screens. It doesn't have to be on the far corner, as long as it's left or right from the center. I use it all the time to navigate from around the screens with one hand.

[xx]

Thanks for #7, that's new to me.

For #3, could you use airplane mode instead?

[Adam]

LOL @ #8 - I knew that button did all of that.......

but I didn't know it was a f---ing MICROPHONE too

Seriously :/

[James]

Thanks for #8 - didn't know it was a button! However I did know it was a microphone, now who's more silly, Adam or Me? :)

[luck]

turn your calculator side way to get more!!!

[Tom]

" Take out your SIM card during backup and sync -"

Why not just put it in airplane mode?

[erichansa]

I just want to turn off the autocorrect. Is there a trick to that? If i send out another text that says 'tuck' instead of 'fuck', i may break my tucking iphone

[Nano]

LOL @ #3
You don't need to take out SIM card. Just put your phone in Airplane mode while you do a backup :)

Thanks for the tips though. Knew them all from playing with the iPhone for eight months now.

[Joe]

Is there *anything* the iPhone won't do? Is there a secret button press that makes it spew out hot crispy bacon or something?

[goosefrahbah]

"I just want to turn off the autocorrect. Is there a trick to that? If i send out another text that says 'tuck' instead of 'fuck', i may break my tucking iphone"

Why not teach your iPhone how to spell "fuck"?

--Just type it in, and wait for your correction to come up, and click on the x, to dismiss it. After a while, it will learn the word.

[Jim McDash]

Dude the IPHone totally ROCKS! Hands down best phone ever.

JT
"URL TROLL WAS HERE"

[bigwinner]

Pretty cool; the double tap space bar hint is especially great.

[emil h]

The problem with #7 is that when you load that bookmark it will open up zoomed to the same zoom level.

Addition to #5: If you want to type "We'll", type in the letters W-E-L-L-L (extra L). This is a way to differentiate "well" from "we'll". This also works with WERE + WE'RE

[Jeremy]

I've recently had the incoming call cancel my sync backup because of the annoyingly long backup time. If I just want to transfer songs or apps (or if I'm in a hurry) I'll cancel the backup process, then it will sync everything else.

But, I wanted to upgrade to the 2.0.1 software, so I put the phone in Airplane mode to avoid a call that'd stop the process. After the installation I got the screen telling me to plug it in to iTunes, but it already was! iTunes couldn't recognize my iPhone for some reason. It took me a while to get it working. All I could do was go to the screen that let me make an emergency call. I tried restarting everthing, unplugging & plugging multiple times.

iTunes kept saying the phone was locked. I tried making an emergency call and the phone told me it was in airplane mode, should it exit out of that mode to make a call? Clicking OK got it unlocked and syncing when smoothly from there.

[Johnson]

These tricks suck; I'm a first time iphone owner/user and I've had it for less than a week and I knew about these "tricks". Weak sauce.

[Michelle]

Thanks for the tips, I didn't know about the spacebar period one!

Michelle

[Skip]

Unplugging your headphones will close the current app (iPod or otherwise).

[Broken Legend]

One cool trick I found was by double clicking the home button while the phone is off or displaying the "slide to unlock" message brings up the rewind, play, fast-forward, and volume controls for the ipod application. You can then press play and rock out or pause the song already playing.

[SERGIO PLUA]

guys i was trying #8 but it is not working at all, help please!

[Fubiz]

Thanks for the tips!

[WOW]

Who the hell didn't know these 'no brainers'?

HAH you newbs.

[Boukisan]

ooooh! oooooooh! I got one!
You can press on the green icon at the bottom left - it has telephone-like features!

[Rich]

You forgot the "pull out your headphones to pause the music one"