[theDreamer]

So today I was going through my phone and was thinking about the little things I do that is not written on an Apple or AT&T website or manual about the iPhone.

~In Stocks, if you tab on the +/- number you can rotate between % and direct numbers
~In Safari, if you tab on the top bar it will scroll to the top of the page for you

So what have you all figured out, learned, been told about your iPhone?
Something I wish I could figure out is how to make safari scroll to the bottom of a page, anyone know how to do this?

[terryshaw09]

i heard the iphone can communicate with aliens but not much else.

[bmn]

Anyone know a simple way to get the phone 'Contacts' list to sort by First name rather than last name? All my contacts on my old phone were inputted in that method so now its very difficult to find some contacts (especially because I took a shortcut and named lots of contacts "Bob New-Cell" and so forth).

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[::maroma::]

Originally Posted by bmn 

Anyone know a simple way to get the phone 'Contacts' list to sort by First name rather than last name? All my contacts on my old phone were inputted in that method so now its very difficult to find some contacts (especially because I took a shortcut and named lots of contacts "Bob New-Cell" and so forth).

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Go to: Settings > Phone > Sort Order

[bmn]

thank you thank you thank you!

[analogue SPRINKLES]

on the keyboard holding down some letters like e give you options for accents.

[dvenne]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

on the keyboard holding down some letters like e give you options for accents.

Thanks, I did not know that. À la prochaine...

[::maroma::]

Something I noticed that was changed with the latest update is this:

Before the update when I was listening to music (or whatever), my iPhone went to sleep (screen goes black), and I hit the Pause button on the headset, after a couple minutes hitting the button again wouldn't start the music back up without having to wake the iPhone and then unlock it (slide finger) to bring it to the iPod screen. Now you can just wake it up and hit the Play/Pause button on the headset to get it going again. No need to unlock it or hit any other buttons on the iPhone itself.

That's something that bugged me a lot. Now its way easier to start up whatever you were listening to after pausing it for a couple minutes.

I know you can bring up the iPod controls now on the "unlock" screen by double tapping the Home button, but there's no need to do that if you are using a headset with the play/pause button. This new "feature" basically saves me a finger slide, which doesn't sound like much but to me was actually pretty annoying.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by ::maroma:: 

Something I noticed that was changed with the latest update is this:

Before the update when I was listening to music (or whatever), my iPhone went to sleep (screen goes black), and I hit the Pause button on the headset, after a couple minutes hitting the button again wouldn't start the music back up without having to wake the iPhone and then unlock it (slide finger) to bring it to the iPod screen. Now you can just wake it up and hit the Play/Pause button on the headset to get it going again. No need to unlock it or hit any other buttons on the iPhone itself.

That doesn't seem to be the case with me with version 1.1.1. I still had to unlock it after a few minutes just to get the music going again.

[::maroma::]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

That doesn't seem to be the case with me with version 1.1.1. I still had to unlock it after a few minutes just to get the music going again.

Hmm that's odd. Works every time for me. Can anyone else chime in on this?

[VALET dude]

i can bring up the player control even while it still on LOCK. just simply double tap the HOME button. : )

[jorgem4]

Thanks for these tips + tricks....keep them coming !

[brugesman]

It seems like the iPhone can do everything.

[Eug]

Hold the power button and then press the home button to take a screenshot.

Double tap a text column to automatically have it fill the width of the screen. Tap it again to shrink the screen.

Double tap near the bottom of a webpage to scroll down.
Double tap near the top of a webpage to scroll up.

Hold the "." button on the Mail keyboard to get stuff like ".com", ".org". In the Safari keyboard, hold the ".com" button for the same thing.
If you have the Canadian localization turned on, you can get ".ca" as well. You get different ones for other localizations.

Double tap the space bar to get ". ".

Tap the little dots at the bottom of the home screen to scroll between pages.

If there are a lot of very small hard to read links on a shrunken page, press and hold your link to and it will expand into a dialogue box so you can verify you have the right link. If it is, then let go and the link will load. If it isn't, then just slide your finger away.

Originally Posted by VALET dude 

i can bring up the player control even while it still on LOCK. just simply double tap the HOME button. : )

Works for me too.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Here is the best one.... Double tap in google maps with TWO Fingers to zoom out. Wish that worked with photos as well.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by ::maroma:: 

Hmm that's odd. Works every time for me. Can anyone else chime in on this?

It only worked if iPod was the foreground app in OS 1.X but in 2.0 it seems to work every time. So far at least.

[Eug]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

Here is the best one.... Double tap in google maps with TWO Fingers to zoom out. Wish that worked with photos as well.

Well, you can double tap with one finger. However, it just alternates between max and minimum size.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Originally Posted by Eug 

Well, you can double tap with one finger. However, it just alternates between max and minimum size.

Well that just not the same thing now is it?

[richwig83]

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 

Here is the best one.... Double tap in google maps with TWO Fingers to zoom out. Wish that worked with photos as well.

Ahh every day is a school day.... thanks for that one. Im beginning to think that apple should have written a manual so we were not expected to guess these things!!!