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iOS 5: All the Little Things (Undocumented Features)
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or you can say "next line" I also say "hyphen" and it works.
example:
Jim"hypen" "next line"
I'm running late, be there in a few minutes "period" "next line"
"hyphen"Larry
* I like how you can send an actual legit email through dictation!
Oddly enough the spam bump above me reminded me to ask a question.
Is there a way to dictate individual letters like. I can't remember the instance that I was trying to use it the other day, but for example trying to dictate model number or something like "C87NF54". Is it possible to have the dictation not write "see 8 7 in eff 5 4". I'm not sure if that's how it would actually type. I just remember driving the other day trying to text someone using dictation and I was stumped on how to get it do something like this so I just waited till I hit a stop light eventually.
I like the fact that there's dictation, but I can see two ways to improve it and Siri:
1) I shouldn't have to tell it to put in punctuation. It should be able to know where to put it in.
2) My speech is imperfect. The iPhone/iPad should detect any imperfections in my speech and figure out what I want the device to write.
Example: Currently, if I say "I'd like to go to NYC, but..uh...travel there is...just...just too cheap-I mean, expensive," my phone will write "I'd like to go to NYC but uh travel there is just just too cheap I mean expensive," when it should write "I'd like to go to NYC, but travel there is just too expensive."
So you want them to add interpretation. I'd love that too but there just isn't the algorithms yet. Nuance is the best out there currently.
Say the word "letter" in front of the letter you want to be placed into the message. So for example: "letter C 8 7 letter N letter F 5 4"
never thought of that. figured it would try and type everything I said. Thank you!!
Swipe, swipe, swipe
Not sure weather this has even been metioned, but you don't have to go back to Home screen, or pull up the Recent app list, just to switch between multiple running apps,
Just four finger swipe left/right
Works just like in Mountain Lion
Not sure weather this has even been metioned, but you don't have to go back to Home screen, or pull up the Recent app list, just to switch between multiple running apps,
Just four finger swipe left/right
Works just like in Mountain Lion
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Cropping error
Sometimes when I'm in the photo app and tap the crop button the screen goes white and my iPod restarts. It really pissed me off the first time.
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lol how doesnt it fall over
Sometimes when I'm in the photo app and tap the crop button the screen goes white and my iPod restarts. It really pissed me off the first time.
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lol how doesnt it fall over
On any sort of iPhone. You can push the lock screen button and the home button at the same time to take a picture of ur screen. Something I didn't know until 3 months after I got the phone.
All you have to do is tap on the black mark and it goes away. You don't need the back button for this feature. It's kinda like a marker and an eraser.
yes, we would like to know some undocumented features
And you had a burning need to snark at a post from Oct 2011?
I was definitely able to use the emoji keyboard on my first gen iPad (which only runs up to iOS 5)