iOS 5: All the Little Things (Undocumented Features)

[alldrmgrl]

Can you swipe more than the weather.
Any pic's?

[Larrywb]

Originally Posted by hipnetic

The dictation feature is my favorite new feature. It works really, really well. You can say various punctuation symbols to insert those (e.g., comma, period, colon), but I had a tough time figuring out how to insert a line break. I did some searching and I think I came across a manual for Dragon Dictation which uses Nuance and I believe that Nuance is what's used by the iOS dictation. Sure enough, the commands they use worked for iOS. So to insert a line break, you say "New Line" and to insert two line breaks, you say "New Paragraph".

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!

[vastoholic]

Originally Posted by Larrywb

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.

[moonman239]

Originally Posted by hipnetic

The dictation feature is my favorite new feature. It works really, really well. You can say various punctuation symbols to insert those (e.g., comma, period, colon), but I had a tough time figuring out how to insert a line break. I did some searching and I think I came across a manual for Dragon Dictation which uses Nuance and I believe that Nuance is what's used by the iOS dictation. Sure enough, the commands they use worked for iOS. So to insert a line break, you say "New Line" and to insert two line breaks, you say "New Paragraph".

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."

[QuarterSwede]

Originally Posted by moonman239

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.

[Blackforge]

Originally Posted by vastoholic

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.

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"

[vastoholic]

Originally Posted by Blackforge

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!!

[fiveainone]

nevermind

[luk492]

thanks guys for this!

[Tech198]

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

[A1ik]

iPhone 5 dances when receives calls:

[RylanH16]

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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Originally Posted by A1ik

iPhone 5 dances when receives calls:

YouTube: video

lol how doesnt it fall over

[MarbleMedal2084]

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.

[shandyman]

Originally Posted by xiaojie123

Pandora recently updated their app to take advantage of lock screen album art. I haven't seen any other 3rd party apps do this yet so I presume it's an iOS 5 feature.

I also wonder if this now streams Pandora album art to Apple TV.

Spotify did it here in the UK a while back, prob a year and half.

[Abutterflygirl]

Originally Posted by HoltVideo

I found that if you attempt to use the red-eye removal tool, and it doesn't detect red eye... you are stuck. There is no back, or cancel button to get you back to the camera roll.

...but that's not really a feature...

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.

[lelisa13p]

Originally Posted by carljohnson1

yes, we would like to know some undocumented features

And you had a burning need to snark at a post from Oct 2011?