If you use an iOS device: an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, these handpicked Tips will quickly make you a more powerful user. Stop fumbling; start enjoying.
- Arrange Application icons on the iPhone or iPod touch
- Do you have several screens of Applications on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Is it hard to find the ones you need? Customise how they display.
- Use iTunes to arrange apps on your iPhone screen
- In 2009 updates to iTunes, allowed you to arrange apps on your iPhone or iPod within iTunes and then apply those changes to the handheld device. Here’s how.
- Use text macros on your iPhone and iPad with iOS 5
- Typing long email addresses, complex names or standard messages is a breeze with the new Shortcuts feature on iOS 5. Here’s how to put Shortcuts to work for you.
- Silence your iPhone
- We expect to do everything on the iPhone via the touch screen, but we mute it quickly and easily with a hardware button.
- Restart or Reset your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
- Is your iPhone ‘stuck’? Restart it or Reset it.
- How to share an iPhone Personal Hotspot to iPad
- Use your iPhone to provide an Internet connection for your iPad with Personal Hotspot.
- Give each friend their own iPhone ringtone
- Give your special friends their own special ringtones so you always know who’s calling even without looking at the iPhone screen. Here’s how.
- How to use your iPad or iPhone as a second monitor
- I work with a MacBook Pro on my lap and don’t use an external monitor. But once in a while I need just a little bit of extra room on my screen. Did you know your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch can be an extra screen? Here’s how to make it happen.
- How to stop your iPad screen from flipping while you read
- So you’re lying in bed reading and move slightly, causing your iPad screen to suddenly switch from landscape to portrait. How annoying is that! Especially when it’s so easy to control it. Here’s how. With info for iPhone users too!
- How to transfer web browser bookmarks to the iPhone
- It’s silly to constantly type URLs into the Safari Address Bar on your iPhone. Use bookmarks from your Mac instead. Here’s how to synchronise Safari, and other, bookmarks.
Jiggling icons.
Arrange apps in iTunes.
A new Shortcut in iOS5.
iPhone ringer icons, against a background of the BubbleWrap game.
The Restart arrow on my iPhone screen (left) and the Apple logo (right).
The Hotspot is on and has one connection.
My default Ringtone and Text Tone settings.
Air Display.
Lock Rotation or Mute.
Sync Safari bookmarks to iPhone.
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