Becoming A Savvy IPhone User: A Guide

Richard Vanderhurst_Becoming A Savvy IPhone User A Guide

Millions of people love using the iPhone. Why does everyone love the iPhone? Read the tips in this article and you will become a bigger fan of the iPhone than you already are.

If you find that Siri’s voice is a bit annoying to you, you do have choices. The first step is locating Siri on the “general settings” screen. Under your Siri settings, you have the option of changing the language that Siri speaks to English, French, or German. You can also change her accent to reflect either an Australian or British accent. Siri’s British voice is actually that of a male.

Everyone wants to get the best use of their phone, but there are a lot of tricks to learn, like how to delete an email by just swiping your finger. In your inbox, pulling your fingertip across a message (like crossing an item off a list) will bring up a delete button you can use to instantly get rid of it.

Avoid placing your phone in extreme temperature areas. An example of this would be a job in which it is necessary to go into freezers constantly. Avoid bringing your phone into areas like this. Condensation forms in a phone if the temperature drops too low.

Load your iPhone up with exciting, distinctive sounds! You can now use your own tones for just about anything on your device, including emails and tweets. Apple allows you to purchase sound bytes that can be used for all of your iPhone’s alerts.

You may be wanting to add an accented or umlauted letters but are not sure how. Here is how to find them. Press the letter you want to change to bring up the options. You will get a box that shows you several extra keys. This will allow you to type with fancy lettering as much as you want.

When your iPhone isn’t in use, you want to keep its screen at the darkest possible setting. The phone’s screen brightness is directly tied to how long your battery will last. Dark screens mean longer periods between recharging your phone.

Smaller windows on your Safari browser can be painstaking to navigate through. Thanks to inadvertent finger placement, you might end up scrolling the main page up or down instead of the window. Zooming in close to the window might help you avoid this problem. Also try using two fingers to scroll instead of one.

If your iPhone gets wet, you can dry it with rice. It is common to drop the phone in a water puddle, the toilet or something wet. Use a paper towel to wipe the phone, then place it in a rice packed bag. Use this as an alternative to a hair dryer. This should dry out the phone, usually after a few hours or by waiting until the following morning.

Play around with your iPhone. If you take the time to try out the various features that you find on your own you can learn a lot. Although it can take some time to learn your iPhone through experimentation (hours or even a couple of days), you’ll be much more confident in your iPhone abilities afterwards.

You can go to the sound settings and turn “keyboard clicks” on so that you hear an audible click whenever you type. This could help reduce the number of errors you make since you can hear when the phone has registered the letters you have touched.

As you type sentences on the iPhone, double tap your space bar when conculding a sentence. Adding a period this way can save a lot of time and effort. This avoids having to switch to the number keypad which saves you a lot of time.

There are a lot of great features that are on your iPhone straight out of the box, like a full dictionary. This resource is available in practically all the apps you can run on your phone. Simply press and hold a word and then choose “Define” when options pop up.

The iPhone will show you a preview of any incoming messages right on the main lock screen. You may like this feature, or you may hate it. If it’s the latter, you should be happy to know that disabling this feature is something that can easily be done. Under Settings, choose Notifications and then Messages. Here you have the option to turn the Show Preview setting to OFF.

If your iPhone has a guarantee, make sure to keep it safe. A bit of insurance might be worth the purchase as well. This guarantee and insurance will cover you in case something goes wrong. Also, a case can save you a lot of money in the future and help avoid damage.

Would you like your iPhone’s alert tones to stand out from the crowd? YOu can customize your alert tone if you follow this simple procedure. Go to Settings, then press the Sounds button. Select the musical alert that appeals to you. Then choose buy more tones.

Use your phone to send pictures to your family and friends. There are two main ways to do this. First, you can save the image and then add it as an attachment to an email, or you can go to your Facebook application and upload it there for everyone to see.

Avoid laying your iPhone in the sun. If the phone is placed in sunlight for a long time, it could be completely ruined. While internal components are durable enough to withstand typical weather conditions, extreme heat and exposure to direct sunlight can wreak havoc on the device.

It can be frustrating when your iPhone freezes up on you. If pushing the Home or Sleep buttons does nothing, first try holding the Home button for six seconds. This ends the session for all of your locked apps. If you still get no response, try holding down the two buttons simultaneously for ten seconds. Doing this should cause the Apple to pop up on the screen and your mobile device will reset.

Again, almost everyone owns iPhones nowadays. Now that you know more about what an iPhone is capable of doing, you may even want one too!