List of Hidden iPhone 3.0 Features, Launch Unlimited Apps with Spotlight

[MacRumors]

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MacRumors forum user bndoarn has organized a massive list (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=715629) of hidden 3.0 features. The list is over 96 individual features so far. Some are more significant than others, of course. Here are a few interesting highlights:

- There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight. You can also use this to hide any apple application (i.e. weather and stocks)
- In the Settings -> General -> Home Button you can now set the double click to the new search feature or the camera
- Notes now has data detectors. Links are clickable, phone numbers are callable, email address are emailable, and address are locatable (using Maps)
- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted
- You can now have 11 home screen pages instead of nine
- Now there is a different way to force quit apps. now you have to hold the sleep/wake button until the red slider appears, then you press and hold down the home button to quit the app

The first on the list is perhaps most notable, allowing you to use Spotlight as an application launcher to avoid swiping through pages and pages of apps and also installing more than the allotted number.

Article Link: List of Hidden iPhone 3.0 Features, Launch Unlimited Apps with Spotlight (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/18/list-of-hidden-iphone-3-0-features-launch-unlimited-apps-with-spotlight/)

[theheadguy]

Very nice -- I love subtle improvements; they don't always need to be announced.

[NotoriousLefty]

How do you hide the apple apps with out filling 11 pages of apps?

[badcrumble]

How do you hide the apple apps with out filling 11 pages of apps?

I would like to know this also. Since the 3GS will fill up more than one page just with the Apple apps, it'd be good to know just so I can organize things a bit better.

[talkingfuture]

Don't think I'll ever buy enough apps to fill 11 home screens!

Looks like a solid update so far, will get it for my touch later.

[alhasa]

that new force quit thing could cause some confusion.. and hence loads of new forum posts :rolleyes:

[mobi]

"There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight."

Who wants to try this? Does this slow down the OS?

[jdl8422]

Im sure someone has posted it, but I didnt see it anywhere on here. The SMS icon is updated as well as the phone and ipod ones, they have have a diagonal line pattern.

[awatte00]

also if your on the first home page and hit the home button it brings up spotlight so you don't have to swipe also instead of setting it up for the double tap 

[Optimus Frag]

Really impressed with 3.0 so far. The search and launch facility alone was worth the wait.

[VanMac]

Spotlight as an application launcher is an excellent idea. Kudos on the 'hidden' features.

[dubhe]

I like the simple feature that in Safari you can clear the page you are on and start a new one, by clicking the new page at the bottom right, instead of adding a new page, just close the current one and a blank will appear.

[CrackedButter]

I want the option to hide the Apple apps at least. They take up a page by themselves.

[OddyOh]

For me the best new feature is playing any podcast at 2x speed, or changing speeds on the fly. I no longer need my Automator script(s) or Doug's iTunes Applescripts to remaster everything as an Audiobook just to make it play faster. This single revelation will let me keep my iMac for another year. :)

Well done, easily worth $10 for my 2nd Gen Touch!

[furtherout]

if you start a movie/tv show on wifi. and go off the wifi network. itll finish over 3g.

[Maury]

- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted


It's more general that that, when one app launches another, exiting that app will take you back to where you were. I've seen the same behavior exiting YouTube.

This is VERY VERY NICE.

Maury

For me the best new feature is playing any podcast at 2x speed, or changing speeds on the fly.

Yeah, I'm going to double the number of podcasts I get. It works really well.

Maury

[Mugs]

hey, I was just wondering is it possible to get the battery to show the percentage of how much is left, cus I remember seeing this in the early builds and it's something I'd love to have. Thanks

[furtherout]

hey, I was just wondering is it possible to get the battery to show the percentage of how much is left, cus I remember seeing this in the early builds and it's something I'd love to have. Thanks

only on 3GS.

[Luke1robb]

- Links are clickable... and address[es] are locatable (using Maps)

This is HUGE, but can you click addresses in Messages? That, I think, is crucial for when someone is like "let me send you the address". I guess you could C&P it now, but still...

[Tokyo]

I don't think I have seen anyone mention the new feature in Mail settings to Load Remote Images--or more significantly, to NOT load them. This was missing previously, and meant spammers could track you whenever you opened an email with an image referenced in an HTML IMG tag. Which happened a lot if you used your finger to swipe-delete email--a gesture that all too often resulted in opening the email instead of deleting it. The new option to not load remote images is very welcome.

What they did not add but should have: bulk-mark-as-read, and all-accounts-in-one. WTF, Apple?

[griz]

- Notes now has data detectors. Links are clickable, phone numbers are callable, email address are emailable, and address are locatable (using Maps)

Yes, but is wallpaper lickable?

[Mad Mac Maniac]

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- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted


Article Link: List of Hidden iPhone 3.0 Features, Launch Unlimited Apps with Spotlight (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/18/list-of-hidden-iphone-3-0-features-launch-unlimited-apps-with-spotlight/)

Umm... I remember this happening in 2.x

[Mazda 3s]

I've noticed before in Safari with multiple tabs open, going back to a previously used page would cause the page to refresh (due to lack of memory), and the back navigation button would be greyed out.

However, with 3.0, going back to a previous tab that refreshes when you access it doesn't grey out the back button anymore -- it actually keeps your list of previous pages intact.

[tivoboy]

that new force quit thing could cause some confusion.. and hence loads of new forum posts :rolleyes:

yes, I noticed this last night. I always try to force quite some apps when moving around, but it didn't work Good to know it is still there in some fashion, wonder why they didn't keep it the old way, I guess to make way for VC access

[Mazda 3s]

Oh, and how about "missing" features... Like "Mark All Read" in Mail :mad:

[tivoboy]

Im sure someone has posted it, but I didnt see it anywhere on here. The SMS icon is updated as well as the phone and ipod ones, they have have a diagonal line pattern.

yes, and some others too like the ipod and some backgrounds I have found.

The thing I don't like is the Green SMS icon no longer says SMS or anything, just Green icon with White bubble.

[twoodcc]

that's great! being about to install as many apps as i want is priceless

[coffeemaciphone]

I've noticed...

-Background music in apps now fades out instead of cutting out when closing apps.

-When you're on the lock screen and listening to the iPod function, double-tapping now shows the artist,album and song - instead of just song and artist.

-The graphic for scrubbing video has now got a highlighted ring.

-Pressing the Home button whilst on the first page takes you to spotlight.

-Stopwatch has changed to show the current lap time above the total time

[polaris20]

For me the best new feature is playing any podcast at 2x speed, or changing speeds on the fly. I no longer need my Automator script(s) or Doug's iTunes Applescripts to remaster everything as an Audiobook just to make it play faster. This single revelation will let me keep my iMac for another year. :)

Well done, easily worth $10 for my 2nd Gen Touch!

Absolutely. I can now actually get through all my tech podcasts in a week, instead of having them pile up on me. I was about to give up some of them because I just didn't have time.

[mrrory]

I'm afraid I might already know the answer to this, but it seems I don't have the ability to record video using OS 3 on my 2G... Looks like I'll be jailbreaking and using Cycorder again then. Disappointing. Very disappointing. :mad:

[TheNightPhoenix]

Umm... I remember this happening in 2.x

Stole my words, I'm pretty sure that it always did this even on 1.0

[bndoarn]

wow, i actually made the front page. that's pretty cool :cool:. although i can only imagine the amount of traffic i'm going to get from this. i'm going to be updating that thread forever. lol.but at least it gives me something to do while i wait for 3.0 jailbreak

[ennerseed]

If you record a voice memo that's considerably long and try to email it, you get a message telling you its too long and you need to shorten it. this then brings up an audio scrub bar with a resizable selection scrubber, so you may choose a section and size.

Treadway

[MikeDougherty]

If you open an internet app in a Wifi Hotspot that requires you to login via a browser, a single WebView will popup, you authenticate, then it goes away. Previously, you had to quit Mail, open Safari, authenticate, then go back to Mail. Now, at least for Mail, you get a popup, and once access to the Hotspot has been granted, back using Mail as normal.

I noticed this with Mail the other day. Not sure if it works with all internet related apps, but it certainly works well with Mail.

[vrillusions]

How do you hide the apple apps with out filling 11 pages of apps?

The way I've "hidden" them in the past (still waiting for 3Gs) just move the app to a blank page at the end. First install all the apps you want and get them arranged properly (for example I always leave the bottom row blank) then take the apps you don't want but can't/don't want to delete and move them to the last page. It's not really hidden, just out of the way.

[saturniphone]

It's more general that that, when one app launches another, exiting that app will take you back to where you were. I've seen the same behavior exiting YouTube.

This is VERY VERY NICE.

Maury

This is not true -- it is not general behavior. I'm looking at an app right now that does not do this. Youtube, Quicktime player, and the phone have done this since 2.x. Not sure how you call this a 3.0 feature.

[ineedamac]

- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted


I disagree with this one. I was usng the AOL radio app when a call came in and after the call I was left with the main screen. Not sure if it is a bug in the AOL rafio app or not.

[saturniphone]

Macrumors,

You can't hide app without installing 11 whole pages. Your post is very misleading.

You left out the ability to forward and delete individual text messages.

[transam7816]

I LOVE the ability to copy what's in the calculator field

[jnguyen4]

I love being able to see call durations for each individual calls..

[jnguyen4]

Macrumors,

You can't hide app without installing 11 whole pages. Your post is very misleading.

You left out the ability to forward and delete individual text messages.

that wasn't hidden though. that was announced.

[eliotw]

Finally can tap on phone numbers in appointments and call them directly! http URL's work too!
:)

[electronicmale]

I've always hated the fact that the iPhone won't show every email in my Mail; it leaves out messages sent from my laptop, or messages in the Trash on my laptop...

But the new Mail search in 3.0 searches mail from the whole MobileMe cloud!

From an email from MobileMe:

"Search all your messages. Using email search on your iPhone or iPod touch, you can now find and retrieve any MobileMe Mail message, including messages stored in the MobileMe cloud, even if they are no longer on your device. You can search the To, From, and Subject fields of all the messages in your Inbox or any folder you select."

[BongoBanger]

- There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight. You can also use this to hide any apple application (i.e. weather and stocks)

And still no subfolders.

*facepalm*

[sfh]

You can listen to itunes through bluetooth too

[macfan70]

"There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight. You can also use this to hide any apple application (i.e. weather and stocks)"

How is this done?

[neilmcd]

I'm not sure if this is new but I've only just found it since upgrading... you can select which Exchange folders to push now other than just the inbox.

[farleysmaster]

The micro-fine scrubbing of mp3s is a very welcome addition.

[ztark]

when in Messages and looking at a text thread, you can now click the edit button at the top right of the screen and select any number of individual messages and delete/forward them. This will be great for forwarding only the important part of a conversation or deleting embarrassing text without losing an entire conversation.

[NinjaHERO]

Yes, but is wallpaper lickable?

That's only on Willy Wonka's iphone.


I do wish we had a better apps organizer. I had over 9 pages on my phone previously, once I updated the other 2 pages of apps appeared. I was two away from complete 11 page fill. I guess I will get to test this spotlight for hidden apps pretty soon.

[bndoarn]

"There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight. You can also use this to hide any apple application (i.e. weather and stocks)"

How is this done?

it's better if you have all of your home pages full. you can still do it without them being full, but they will come back if you reset the device, enable then disable restrictions, or install a new app. but to do it, move 16 icons to the 11th home screen page (there can be blank pages in between). put the icon you want to hide as the last icon on the page. now just take on more icon and more it on to the page. the icon that was in the last spot disappears but is still reachable through spotlight.

[BPresley321]

More and more hidden features I see, more and more I appreciate this update. The way apple markets it, like on their website, only mentions the top 10 or 20 updates but all these little things get me just as excited as the few big updates.

[nagromme]

Great list!

This one was new to me--basically tabbed browsing for mobile Safari! News sites and forums just got a lot better:

Taping and holding a link in Safari now brings up a menu with "Open" "Open in new window" and "Copy" which copies the link location (found by jman240)

[shen]

i just love that i have the first generation and with update only 2 phones are nicer than mine. the 2 newer generations.

best. phone. ever.

[mkrishnan]

The way I've "hidden" them in the past (still waiting for 3Gs) just move the app to a blank page at the end. First install all the apps you want and get them arranged properly (for example I always leave the bottom row blank) then take the apps you don't want but can't/don't want to delete and move them to the last page. It's not really hidden, just out of the way.

This (actual hiding of apps) has traditionally been a feature of jailbreak utilities also, so probably will show up again with the 3.0-compatible tools from the Dev Team (Pwnage, QuickPwn, and ultrasn0w). Otherwise, I'd do what vrillusions said. :)

[climbrate]

OS 3.0 has a lot of nice features, but you still can't generate an email and decide to attach a picture, let alone a document. Or, how about being able to disable SMS's popping up on your screen. I see you can search for emails within mail, but you can't delete them from there. Anyone notice the missing "SMS" in the SMS incon! Or better yet, how about creating some cool new icons or give us some new backgrounds to enjoy. At least we got copy and paste, right...for free! Anyone else still missing features that seem like a no brainer?

[clarksonknight]

Not necessarily OS 3.0 functionality, but iTunes + iPhone OS: It would be really nice to be able to arrange my App layout via iTunes. Granted they've made it slightly nicer on the iPhone with a couple of tweaks, but I'd welcome the opportunity to change the layout via iTunes.

[autrefois]

Umm... I remember this happening in 2.x

Yes, it happened inconsistently, but it definitely did happen.

A few of them aren't hidden; for example, unless I'm crazy, they demoed the fact that Notes had data detectors either at WWDC or the March iPhone event. Either that, or someone posted an image about it before the launch, because I am positive I knew about this beforehand.

I knew about most of the features highlighted in the OP from reading other articles, but it's very good to have a list of all of these less-known features all in one place!!

[chimerical]

http://www.macrumors.com/images/macrumorsthreadlogo.gif (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/18/list-of-hidden-iphone-3-0-features-launch-unlimited-apps-with-spotlight/)
- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted


Didn't it already return us to the app if we were interrupted by a phone call? That was the behavior I was seeing prior to 3.0.

Edit: Oh, I see. It was inconsistent before. What changed? It's just more stable?

[chimerical]

Not necessarily OS 3.0 functionality, but iTunes + iPhone OS: It would be really nice to be able to arrange my App layout via iTunes. Granted they've made it slightly nicer on the iPhone with a couple of tweaks, but I'd welcome the opportunity to change the layout via iTunes.
+1. For those of us who are OCD.

[danielchow]

Yes, but is wallpaper lickable?

ooo, this is a tasty idea.

a protective cover with flavorings of your choice for the iphone. i can imagine the user manual: lick twice or flick and lick to change tunes or to fast forward.


:)

[gnutz]

http://www.macrumors.com/images/macrumorsthreadlogo.gif (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/18/list-of-hidden-iphone-3-0-features-launch-unlimited-apps-with-spotlight/)

MacRumors forum user bndoarn has organized a massive list (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=715629) of hidden 3.0 features. The list is over 96 individual features so far. Some are more significant than others, of course. Here are a few interesting highlights:

- You can now have 11 home screen pages instead of nine

Article Link: List of Hidden iPhone 3.0 Features, Launch Unlimited Apps with Spotlight (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/18/list-of-hidden-iphone-3-0-features-launch-unlimited-apps-with-spotlight/)

So why not just make 10 the highest?

"But these go up to 11..."
Nigel Tuffnel

[DipDog3]

Good List!

Didn't know all of them.

[RyanR.]

I LOVE the ability to copy what's in the calculator field

I didn't know about this until reading your post, but I WILL use this :D

[RyanR.]

ooo, this is a tasty idea.

a protective cover with flavorings of your choice for the iphone. i can imagine the user manual: lick twice or flick and lick to change tunes or to fast forward.


:)

This worked ...:eek:

Sad to say I had to try.... :D

[Chrisedge]

I noticed some changes to the "recent" menu under the phone. City State appear under each number, and if someone in your contacts calls you, it says which line (Home, Mobile, etc..) under their name.

[chaosconan]

This is stupid. I tried it and it's really silly.

The only way to hide applications is to load 176 apps. The 177'th and beyond gets installed but can only be accessed through spotlight.

What's even really stupid is that there is no way to move a hidden app on to your springboard. I found the apps using spotlight but it does not allow me to move it to my springboard.

So, no way to move apps from springboard to hidden or backwards after filling up 11 pages. This suck!!!.

The only way to move an app to your springboard is to delete couple of apps thats on your 11 pages and cold reboot... After the reboot those missing apps that you deleted gets replaced with apps from the hidden. The worst part of this is that you don't know which hidden app will appear. You have to delete until the ones you want appear after the reboot.

So, the only solution I was able to come up with was
1. backup your data (for apps that will be on your springboard and hidden)
2. delete all the apps on your springboard that you want hidden
3. using itunes sync up all the apps that you want on your springboard exactly 176.
4. then sync up the reset of the apps on your itunes which will be in the hidden
5. restore the data which will bring back data for those apps in the hidden

Wow, this is silly..

All this could have been avoided if they just gave us 1 option and that is
in spotlight be able to select which you want on springboard or not; like an edit icon (upper-right-corner), click on it and just put checks on the ones you want on springboard and the rest will be in the hidden. And this will allow me to limit the number of pages i want. I can select up to 3 pages of apps and the rest will be hidden. what a missed opportunity.

[Peepo]

If you start an email and decide that you want to add a picture after the fact it is simple. Just press the Home button, go into the Photos App, select Camera Roll (or wherever your pictures are) then press the send icon on the bottom left. Select one or more photos and then press copy. Press the Home button and then re-launch Mail and your message will still be there intact and you can go paste the pictures in the body of the Mail.



OS 3.0 has a lot of nice features, but you still can't generate an email and decide to attach a picture, let alone a document. Or, how about being able to disable SMS's popping up on your screen. I see you can search for emails within mail, but you can't delete them from there. Anyone notice the missing "SMS" in the SMS incon! Or better yet, how about creating some cool new icons or give us some new backgrounds to enjoy. At least we got copy and paste, right...for free! Anyone else still missing features that seem like a no brainer?

[caffeinejoe]

The "Recent" list in the Phone app lists whether the recent call was an outgoing call, shown with a tiny handset icon with an arrow pointing away. Also all calls are identified as either home/work/mobile/main etc. Nice touch.

[cacibi]

I would think two more useful features for double-click functions would be:

1) Open Voice Recorder AND start recording
2) Open video camera AND start recording

[BornAgainMac]

This is good to know. Now I can sync every app I have and not worry about running out of space. I'll just have some random apps that are not viewable. Now there should be a way to organize apps better into categories or determine which apps that don't make it on the first 11 screens.

[YoGramMamma]

Which I have seen no mention of YET,

is the fact that when you are surfing in Safari and you press and hold on a link, it gives you the option to open that link in a new window / copy the link / open in the current window.

THIS is HUGE for me because i always hated searching for something and always having to navigate away from the page that i wanted to keep open, especially since the iPhone doesn't know how to properly cache any page.

[bndoarn]

**About to End**
that post is about to end because there is an alloted amount of characters you can have in a post and i'm about to run out.

[iamPro]

Any logical reason from Apple for not letting us organize apps both on the phone and in itunes?

At least I know it is a pain to drag an icon through 5+ pages full of apps without messing up and have to rearrange all over.

Custom folders is an easy solution... don't know why Apple won't do this.

Or at least give us the ability to rearrange apps on our phone via itunes using or computers.

[edmundo]

you still can't generate an email and decide to attach a picture
Sure can: switch to your Photos app, select picture, click on it, "copy", go back to your mail, paste. Or use the Copy function in the images listing (bottom left button)
let alone a document
No finder. You can however link to a Google Doc pretty easily.
Anyone notice the missing "SMS" in the SMS incon!
No. There is no more "SMS" icon, it's now "Messages" since it does SMS and MMS.
Or better yet, how about creating some cool new icons or give us some new backgrounds to enjoy.
You can create your own backgrounds so that one's not much of an issue. Icons... well Voice Memos is a new one, and they modified the Messages, Phone and iPod icons (Messages lost the "SMS" in the bubble and all three now have striped backgrounds). But why change icons for the sake of changing them? Messing with people's heads?
Not necessarily OS 3.0 functionality, but iTunes + iPhone OS: It would be really nice to be able to arrange my App layout via iTunes. Granted they've made it slightly nicer on the iPhone with a couple of tweaks, but I'd welcome the opportunity to change the layout via iTunes.
God yes, remove the godawful list of checkboxes in the Applications tab and give us a graphical D&D selection+organization thing.

Also, allow the removal of Stocks and Weather, they just take room on the phone...

Anyway biggest missing feature/opportunity for me is the impossibility to record calls (you can run the recorder and drop in e.g. a game though, it works)
At least I know it is a pain to drag an icon through 5+ pages full of apps without messing up and have to rearrange all over.
That's been partially fixed: if you keep the app on the border of the screen, the pages will keep scrolling and it won't mess up your pages.

[Enuratique]

Sorry if this has been addressed before (I've done a MRoogle and forum search). I've noticed that after the 3.0 update, if I have my iPhone hooked up to my PC at work and am listening to music on the iPhone (headphones plugged into iPhone and not thru iTunes), every time a new song starts (eg: if I'm listening to an album, at the start of the next song) the screen's backlight will turn on and fade after a minute (as per my settings)... I don't remember this happening with OS 2.2.1 - is this a new feature or has it always done this and I've never noticed...

I haven't tried listening to music undocked to see if it still does that (I would think it wouldn't do that since it's a colossal waste of battery power)

[LAS.mac]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but:

- There is not (yet!) the option to create an additional folder for e-mails (say, a folder I'd call, maybe, "important messages") where I can save messages I want to keep)?

- Still no Flash support in Safari?

Other improvements are welcomed, though...

[hectors92]

anyone else notice that there's different levels of fast-forwarding? hi-speed, half-speed, quarter and fine; something lot's of people complained about before. small, yet useful change. you swipe your finger down as you ff to change speed.

[WannaSwitch]

Gotta tell you, the thing I am most excited about it the ability to dial a number out of a calendar appointment. I have conference calls on my calendar, and that's been a big pet peeve of mine that the alarm comes up, but I can't dial the call from the calendar appointment. Just went in a looked, and lo and behold, the phone numbers are clickable now. I still have to remember the conference code, but that's a lot easier to do then trying to remember or write down the whole thing before I dial it.

That was the one thing I missed when I got the 3G to replace a Treo, so now my life is complete...

[ooALoo]

I've noticed that now whenever I receive a text message it doesnt display the contents of the message in a pop-up box just the fact that I've received a message and who it's from. Not really useful but something I prefer. :)

[thevibesman]

- Notes now has data detectors. Links are clickable, phone numbers are callable, email address are emailable, and address are locatable (using Maps)


Great new feature, but really hidden? I thought they announced this at the March event when discussing new 3.0 features--I don't have time to find the video and check, maybe they said it, maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part.


- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted


As some other people mentioned, I thought I had this functionality on 2.0 most of the time. When it didn't work, I always assumed it was an application crash (I thought it was maybe a RAM issue or bad code in the handling of call interruptions, I wonder what the issue was since it looks like it was on Apple's end).

[avn]

Now when typing in on the url bar in safari, holding down .com will give .net, .edu, and .org as alternates to .com.

Likewise, holding the period down when typing an email address will give you the same choices as well as the period.

[ericvmazzone]

+1. For those of us who are OCD.

How'd you know I'm OCD? Does it really show?

[G4R2]

No doubt someone has mentioned this and if so my apologies for the repetition:

In Safari tapping and holding a link causes a pop up menu to appear allowing you to open the link in a new page- Just as you would expect but was missing pre-OS 3.0.

[edmundo]

Now when typing in on the url bar in safari, holding down .com will give .net, .edu, and .org as alternates to .com.
It already did before...
No doubt someone has mentioned this and if so my apologies for the repetition
If you have no doubt somebody's already mentioned it... why mention it?

[bartonlynch]

I don't know if I am the only one, but every time I get on my iPhone's mail app it says "receiving mail" (or whatever it says) then quits the app! I've restored it and put everything back and it still does the same thing. This also happens on my son's iTouch when he goes to the WiFinder app.
What is wrong?

[WannaSwitch]

Gotta tell you, the thing I am most excited about it the ability to dial a number out of a calendar appointment. I have conference calls on my calendar, and that's been a big pet peeve of mine that the alarm comes up, but I can't dial the call from the calendar appointment. Just went in a looked, and lo and behold, the phone numbers are clickable now. I still have to remember the conference code, but that's a lot easier to do then trying to remember or write down the whole thing before I dial it.

That was the one thing I missed when I got the 3G to replace a Treo, so now my life is complete...

Update after fiddling around a bit, if the phone number is in the "location" field of the calendar appointment, it still will not dial it. Only if it's in the "noted" portion of the appointment. However, now I can copy and paste from the title portion into the notes field and dial from there, or make that addition within Outlook that syncs up, so it will be there when it pops up.

[kc5vcx]

I'm glad that notes and calendar items now have data detection to identify phone numbers, but I still can't find a way to have it identify the number with a pause. It seems to recognize 1-800-1234x1234, but doesn't pause and continue with the digits. I tried a p and comma characters but that breaks the detection. Also, it doesn't recognize the number if it's in the location field. Any other ideas?

The point is that I'd like to be able to call into meetings that have unique conference codes directly from the calendar items. As I understand it blackberry supports this. Does anybody have any other solutions other than creating contacts for each?

Thanks.

[Di9it8]

This worked ...:eek:

Sad to say I had to try.... :D

You've got your music licked:D
Can't wait for the oleochocolenic coatings....

[jnguyen4]

Which I have seen no mention of YET,

is the fact that when you are surfing in Safari and you press and hold on a link, it gives you the option to open that link in a new window / copy the link / open in the current window.

THIS is HUGE for me because i always hated searching for something and always having to navigate away from the page that i wanted to keep open, especially since the iPhone doesn't know how to properly cache any page.

dude read through posts.. many ppl have said it.

[zachattack936]

This will likely sound weird, but does anyone else feel that the vibration is different after 3.0? To me it feels different...

[age234]

This worked ...:eek:

Sad to say I had to try.... :D

Do the snozberries taste like snozberries?

[Riant99]

I observed that the voice memo app can be fliped vertically so that the microphone can be directed towards the speaking person.

I tried it when the record in on. Not sure if this is mentioned anywhere

Thanks

Riant99

[macfearless]

really don't like the force quit function now. especially considering my sleep/wake button doesn't work.:confused:

[eastercat]

Which I have seen no mention of YET,

is the fact that when you are surfing in Safari and you press and hold on a link, it gives you the option to open that link in a new window / copy the link / open in the current window.

THIS is HUGE for me because i always hated searching for something and always having to navigate away from the page that i wanted to keep open, especially since the iPhone doesn't know how to properly cache any page.
+1 This is my favorite unannounced feature. It's so much more useful to me than something like video recording. This is what I love about Apple.

[G4R2]

It already did before...

If you have no doubt somebody's already mentioned it... why mention it?

I find that self recrimination is the best way to avoid getting flamed for reposting something someone may have said in some related or unrelated thread either here or on the Googlenet.

[kymac]

nothing major, and not a feature but i noticed that when playing music through a 30pin accessory (my fm transmitter in the car), the volume bar is not present on the music screen any longer.. just previos, play/pause, and forward icons across the bottom.

[PureRED]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but:
- Still no Flash support in Safari?


I can say, with a decent amount of confidence, that you won't ever see Flash support making it to a non-jailbroken iPhone. Adobe made it, and it's ready to go, but Apple won't implement it for a long, long time--if ever.


On a brighter note, you can now edit contact information directly from Messages instead of having to leave messages and then going to Contacts.

[jhodulik]

You can now switch between portrait and landscape view while the keyboard is active. This works in Mail, Messages, and Notes, but not Safari. Safari acts the same as it did in previous versions — while the keyboard is out, screen rotation is locked.

See a screenshot of the keyboard rotating in the I-can't-believe-I-actually-timed-that-right image attached to this post.

[djpaetkau]

This is stupid. I tried it and it's really silly.

The only way to hide applications is to load 176 apps. The 177'th and beyond gets installed but can only be accessed through spotlight.

...

The only way to move an app to your springboard is to delete couple of apps thats on your 11 pages and cold reboot... After the reboot those missing apps that you deleted gets replaced with apps from the hidden. The worst part of this is that you don't know which hidden app will appear. You have to delete until the ones you want appear after the reboot.

...

All this could have been avoided if they just gave us 1 option and that is
in spotlight be able to select which you want on springboard or not; like an edit icon (upper-right-corner), click on it and just put checks on the ones you want on springboard and the rest will be in the hidden. And this will allow me to limit the number of pages i want. I can select up to 3 pages of apps and the rest will be hidden. what a missed opportunity.


Now, maybe I'm the only one that ever had 9 full pages on iPhone OS 2.x, but I can tell you that even in OS 2.x, you could load more than the 9 pages worth of apps. I download tons of free trial apps that I don't want to use immediately, and doing that (plus my actual purchased apps that I want to keep), I filled up all 9 pages and still saw that apps were installing. chaosconan is right that the only way to then access those apps though was to delete other apps and restart your iPhone, which would then move the next app just off the screen onto the springboard. Anybody with the latest version of 2.x that hasn't upgraded yet can try it and confirm it... I've been doing it for months.

As for leaving apps hidden the way suggested above though, the problem is that if you can't see them, you can forget about them, and forget that they're taking up space. As much as I'd love to hide plenty of apps from my phone to clear up space, I know that there are plenty whose names I'd forget and I just wouldn't notice that they were there taking up space anymore, which would unnecessarily slow down my phone in the long term.

[richard4339]

Macrumors,

You can't hide app without installing 11 whole pages. Your post is very misleading.

You left out the ability to forward and delete individual text messages.

I wish you could hide them without 11 pages though... Maybe Apple will give us the ability to hide them in 4.0...

Also, how do you forward texts? I haven't found that yet. Edit: Found it. Finally! I've wanted this!

yes, and some others too like the ipod and some backgrounds I have found.

The thing I don't like is the Green SMS icon no longer says SMS or anything, just Green icon with White bubble.

I hadn't thought about their reasoning until you said that, but technically, its no longer just for SMS... Its now SMS/MMS...

[gooberq]

Does any one know whether this is possible in 3.0, add a new contact when on call. ?

[Kraker]

Does any one know whether this is possible in 3.0, add a new contact when on call. ?

Please, I hope some one says yes to this!!!!

[wolverinemarky]

hey does anyone know if one of the new features is signatures for sms messages?

[pubwvj]

There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight. You can also use this to hide any apple application (i.e. weather and stocks) ... You can now have 11 home screen pages instead of nine.

Yea-ha! I hate stocks and the default Weather app is not as good as 3rd party versions. Thank you, Apple, for letting us hide the useless, screen hogging default apps! This was the #1 feature I wanted. I have more than 11 screens worth of applications I would like available. The other thing I really wanted was a way to organize things. I suggested via Apple/Feedback that they might want to investigate the revolutionary concept of directories and folders. I hear back in the early 1980's this was used on some computers...

[mthwsms]

A buddy of mine just sent this to me. It's been the easiest that I've seen to set up tethering on new 3.0 Firmware for the 3G. You can actually visit this site on THE SAFARI BROWSER ON YOUR IPHONE and activate it immediately.

http://help.benm.at/help.php

[BG-Mac]

I'm getting more and more excited about iPhone 3GS. Would have liked a case redesign, but that can wait till next year and (maybe) Verizon.. :D

[libertyforall]

3.0 does not allow Spotlight phone number search! How could this be?! enter a phone number or part of one in the spotlight search and you get NO RESULTS! Big omission, Apple...

[siddif]

Something i noticed which is very small but good in my case.

When your listening to a compilation album and double click the button instead of saying "Various Artists" i will say the song artist (i.e song artist is show over album artist) good for all us music fanatics =D

[cg165]

I want the option to hide the Apple apps at least. They take up a page by themselves.

I'm not sure if anyone has thought of this...but use the parental controls to turn off the apple apps you don't want, then they won't appear.

[cantman]

Is bluetooth stereo now available with this update?

[stownsend3]

I'm not sure if anyone has thought of this...but use the parental controls to turn off the apple apps you don't want, then they won't appear.

unfortunately the only apply apps you can disable are safari, youtube, itunes / app stores, camera, and location based services.

on another note, in the settings menu... is it just me or are the icons or text smaller than before?

[joemama]

Now that the iPhone (finally) has voice-dial, oopps, I mean voice control, do you have to use the wired Apple headphones with mic?

Are there any wireless bluetooth headsets that can be used?

[Jojo0203]

3.0 absolutely sucks. My PDF files FREEZE when I open them in an email, the phone's responsiveness has slowed, and the battery life is worse! The call reception is terrible, and 3G doesn't even work 90% of the time (Switches to Edge and even to the other service with the little circle, whatever that is?) When I upgraded, it added a completely blank page for my icons right after the home page. I had to move them one by one, ridiculous. I was really excited that this 3.0 was going to make the phone better, but it's worse. How can I get the old OS back?

[BTW]

Yes, but is wallpaper lickable?

Maybe blendable. :p

[Gizwald]

Not sure if it's a new feature, or one I never noticed, but home+lock=screen capture.

[jnguyen4]

Not sure if it's a new feature, or one I never noticed, but home+lock=screen capture.

wow... u r slow.

[chaosconan]

Forget about directories and folders. Just use tags...

Tags are much more flexible and is the trends. As you download an app and is placed onto the springboard you can assign a tag onto it by pressing on the icon for more than 10 seconds or so. So, pressing on the icon will vibrate it for movement and if you keep holding on it it will bring up the keyboard for tag assignment.

Next as you create new tags that did not exist before a new tag icon appears on the springboard making the app icon disappear. As you continue to tag icons on the springboard they disappear into that tag icon.

Under settings there should be a tag manager where you can assign colors and change the default icon with photo pictures and so forth.

[dionikolas]

Also, i am not sure if it was on 2.2.1 firmware, but when you push the white dot to move the song forward or backwards, it says below "slide your finger down to adjust the scrubbing rate" which is adjusted to, "high speed scrubbing, half speed scrubbing, quarter speed scrubbing, fine scrubbing" its really cool!

[fef714]

also if your on the first home page and hit the home button it brings up spotlight so you don't have to swipe also instead of setting it up for the double tap 

Well thats more of two single taps, as opposed to a double tap. You have to wait a second in between.

[fef714]

3.0 absolutely sucks. My PDF files FREEZE when I open them in an email, the phone's responsiveness has slowed, and the battery life is worse! The call reception is terrible, and 3G doesn't even work 90% of the time (Switches to Edge and even to the other service with the little circle, whatever that is?) When I upgraded, it added a completely blank page for my icons right after the home page. I had to move them one by one, ridiculous. I was really excited that this 3.0 was going to make the phone better, but it's worse. How can I get the old OS back?

Are you kidding, my iPod touch is noticeably faster, plus all the awesome features! I'm happy with it.:)

[fef714]

Forget about directories and folders. Just use tags...

Tags are much more flexible and is the trends. As you download an app and is placed onto the springboard you can assign a tag onto it by pressing on the icon for more than 10 seconds or so. So, pressing on the icon will vibrate it for movement and if you keep holding on it it will bring up the keyboard for tag assignment.

Next as you create new tags that did not exist before a new tag icon appears on the springboard making the app icon disappear. As you continue to tag icons on the springboard they disappear into that tag icon.

Under settings there should be a tag manager where you can assign colors and change the default icon with photo pictures and so forth.

What is this? it sounds cool, but I have never heard of it. Is it like an App or part of 3.0?

I know I'm stupid :p

[Gizwald]

wow... u r slow.

And u r lazy. I never noticed this feature before. Guess it was just a coincidence that I did this just after installing 3.0 :P

[goodwilldrums]

I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned.

But when you press the menu button while on the first menu, it takes you to search. This is just another way of getting there, instead of swiping to the left!

[chaosconan]

What is this? it sounds cool, but I have never heard of it. Is it like an App or part of 3.0?

I know I'm stupid :p

It's a response to those that want to use directories or folders to categorize apps on the Springboard. I was arguing that tags is the way to go.

I wish it was in OS 3.0 but sad to say it's not.

[chaosconan]

I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned.

But when you press the menu button while on the first menu, it takes you to search. This is just another way of getting there, instead of swiping to the left!

If you change double-click for the home button under your general settings to search and turn off ipod control you can get the search page from within any app as well as any springboard page.

If you don't launch any app or documents under search page and just close the keyboard it takes you back to the Springboard first page instead of back to the app that you were in. This means that the Spotlight is not a separate app and is part of the Springboard app.

[PlayWithTV]

Another feature that someone may have already mentioned: shake to UNDO.

[chaosconan]

Another feature that someone may have already mentioned: shake to UNDO.

Shake again to redo..

[goodwilldrums]

A buddy of mine just sent this to me. It's been the easiest that I've seen to set up tethering on new 3.0 Firmware for the 3G. You can actually visit this site on THE SAFARI BROWSER ON YOUR IPHONE and activate it immediately.

http://help.benm.at/help.php

This really works! I am currently tethering!! And I must say, it is better than PDAnet! :D

[bndoarn]

Macrumors,

You can't hide app without installing 11 whole pages. Your post is very misleading.

You left out the ability to forward and delete individual text messages.

for one thing, i didn't leave forwarding and deleting text messages off. that was only 6 features of the 100+ in the original post. and for another thing, you can in fact hide apps without installing 11 whole pages, look at the attachments below. in the first one, the dots with red circles are blank pages. in the second picture is when i hid the stocks app. so i hid an app with only four pages. the only problem is that they come back whenever you reset the device, enable then disable restrictions, or install an app form the app store but can you in fact hide them without 11 pages

[larrymarshall2]

Not sure if this was already mentioned, but another feather added was in the ipod. If you scrub through the song you do fast scrubbing or more subtle scrubbing by dragging your finger down the screen to activate more fine scrubbing to get to more precise areas of a song. Also the playhead circle highlights up now when you begin to scrub!

[Demosthenes427]

Yes, but is wallpaper lickable?

THE SNOZBERRIES TASTE LIKE SNOZBERRIES.

I'm liking most of the new subtle features. The only thing I have to complain about is the fact that there's some unusual black square on the lower left corner of my Camera app. Anyone feel like trying to explain this one away for me?

[goodwilldrums]

Not sure if this was already mentioned, but another feather added was in the ipod. If you scrub through the song you do fast scrubbing or more subtle scrubbing by dragging your finger down the screen to activate more fine scrubbing to get to more precise areas of a song. Also the playhead circle highlights up now when you begin to scrub!

The playhead circle also highlights when you scrub in YOUTUBE.

[TheManOfSilver]

OK, I'm sorry if this has been posted elsewhere!

But ...


How do you activate the percentage battery life I've seen some people have in OS 3.0?
Has anyone figured out a way to get a unified inbox like in Mail.app, or is that still missing from the iPhone?


Thanks!

[southernpaws]

Yes, but is wallpaper lickable?


the apples taste like apples?

[jnguyen4]

And u r lazy. I never noticed this feature before. Guess it was just a coincidence that I did this just after installing 3.0 :P

how am i lazy?

[mikeinternet]

Think I found something new.

1st Gen. users with 3.0 now get the more accurate blue dot location in maps.

[iMaggot]

Some good Tips in this thread

[bartonlynch]

I'm liking most of the new subtle features. The only thing I have to complain about is the fact that there's some unusual black square on the lower left corner of my Camera app. Anyone feel like trying to explain this one away for me?
If you take a photo it goes there, I don't like it much, but that's what it is.

Please someone, how do I fix my mail app and WiFinder?

[jdl8422]

Unfortunatley, a new feature is the playlist on the iphone are arranged with numbers at the end, not at the beginning of the list. So now,

the playlist in itunes has numbers first
the library in itunes has numbers last
the playlist has numbers last

I think they all need to be the same and all need to have numbers first.


oh, when I say numbers I mean
ie "311-Uplifter" as a playlist name. Thanks

[TitoC]

What the hell happened to being able to open a calendar event (.ics) directly from the Mail app on the iPhone? I specifically remember this being mentioned when 3.0 was first being announced. Oh, I see. Exchange users gets plenty of love, but us MAC users (i.e. iCal) get none. Nice Apple, nice.

[djpaetkau]

If you take a photo it goes there, I don't like it much, but that's what it is.

The same type of button was always there... I forget what it used to look like, but before it took you to your camera roll, which is exactly what this one does... the only difference is that this one shows you your most recent picture, rather than just a generic icon. I think it could be done a little more cleanly, it just looks off somehow to me, but it is a neat idea.

[mdwsta4]

is there a setting where you can turn off location services for the camera?!
it was one of the most annoying features ever since 2.0 was launched. i like location services for maps and whatnot, but having it popup every time i launch the camera is stupid.

[iPhoneNYC]

I've ordered a 3GS that will arrive this coming week. In the meantime, I upgraded my 1st Gen to 3.0. Seeing that some people reported problems, I just wanted to post that it was as smooth as could be for me. By upgrading I at least get a taste of some of the new stuff while I wait for my phone. I would also report that Mobile Me was jammed up yesterday and there were times that there was no mail so the Apple servers were working pretty hard with all the activation.

[gregnbrown]

No MMS (Yet)
No Tethering (Yet)
No Background Apps
Some iCal invites only displays ics attachment, so you can't add to your Calendar
Can't call phone number from meeting invite location
Text Message in foreground during call - no option to hang up call
Cut/Copy/Paste limited, for example, you can't paste a number in the dialer
Still no Flash Support

[kas23]

No MMS (Yet)
Cut/Copy/Paste limited, for example, you can't paste a number in the dialer


Is there a need for this? Usually all phone number are highlighted in blue, you just need to tap on them to make a call. As for copying and pasting a phone number to send to someone, I imagine you just need to tap and hold (just like copying URLs), but I haven't tried this yet.

[floatingspirit]

This is HUGE, but can you click addresses in Messages? That, I think, is crucial for when someone is like "let me send you the address". I guess you could C&P it now, but still...

about Notes, when did they become syncable? before 3.0? Cuz I don't think anyone mentioned they are getting synced. I've been dying for this.

[ericksgotmac]

Hmm.. I just called AT&T to ask why my "RAZR V3" isn't able to send multimedia text and they said because I have a iPhone Data Plan that it is conflicting with him activating my MMS service? So has anyone else heard this or is it just a bunch of poop?

[scm256]

I have several e-mails and in the old OS when I went into the Mail APP and hit the round arrow icon at the bottom left of the page the phone would check all accounts and they'd show how many mails had come in.
Since getting OS 3.0 when I do that the phone shows no mails but when I then go into each account individually the app finds the mails. I can't see any check box in the settings that would stop the mail from checking all the email accounts at once. Has anyone also noticed this or know how to "fix" the issue.
Thanks in advance.
SCM

[GrimBlazer]

Gotta tell you, the thing I am most excited about it the ability to dial a number out of a calendar appointment. I have conference calls on my calendar, and that's been a big pet peeve of mine that the alarm comes up, but I can't dial the call from the calendar appointment. Just went in a looked, and lo and behold, the phone numbers are clickable now. I still have to remember the conference code, but that's a lot easier to do then trying to remember or write down the whole thing before I dial it.

That was the one thing I missed when I got the 3G to replace a Treo, so now my life is complete...

Are you saying you can do this from the new iPhone 3G S? I have tried but can't find a way to dial a number directly from an appointment. Can you please elaborate? Thanks in advance.