Everything IPhone: Tips, Tricks, Techniques And Advice
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
You can make the most of your iPhone if you just learn to fully use it. There are so many useful apps and features that the uses for an iPhone are seemingly endless. No matter what your interests in life, or the things you need from a phone, iPhone can usually do it. They can also do things that you might have never even dreamed of. Use the tips from this article to help you find more ways the make the most of your iPhone.
Are you wanting to know how to disable your iphone 3G or Edge Connection? You have to get into the cellular data network by going into settings, then general, and then network. Type some generic words into the username and password fields, and this is just so iphone doesn’t hand over the correct values to your service provider. If you need to restart your phone, then do that as well.
Utilize the contacts section of your iPhone to organize all of your friends and family. This is very important as you can alphabetize all of your contacts and also include a lot of information pertaining to each contact. Also, on the contacts screen, you are able to click on a name and call or text them immediately.
Before putting your iPhone to sleep, press the home button. This ensures that all apps are turned off, and it saves you battery life in the process. If you simply put the phone to sleep without pressing home, you may have some apps running in the background and reduce your battery life.
One of the great benefits of an iPhone is the ability to use Facetime, which you should fully take advantage of. This function allows you to see your friend or family member in video on the other side of the phone. This helps to personalize your conversations so that they are more profound and fun.
Take full advantage of the video function in the camera section of the iPhone. This allows you to take high-quality videos of up to a minute long into your phone. When you are completed with your video, you can go to the photographs section and replay or send the video to a friend.
If you misplace your phone often, consider getting a phone finder or “Find My iPhone” app. This app is free and uses the iPhone’s built-in GPS to locate the phone. This is useful for when you are trying to figure out where you left your phone, but it has also been used by law enforcement to help find stolen phones.
To conserve battery life, lower the display brightness of your screen. You only need a bright screen in dimly lit situations, so lower it during the day or anytime you will not be using the phone for some time. This is a great way to conserve battery life and avoid having to charge your phone so often.
As you can see, the iPhone has so many ways that it can be used. There are great features along with new apps created everyday that can cater to most obscure interests. Your iPhone can quickly become indispensable if you learn to use it properly. You will wonder how you could have ever lived one day without it.