100+ 3.0 Hidden Features

[taran420]

almost all the features discussed here and even more are listed here
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/671948/

just so everyone can find more features they dont know about, thats a great thread

 

[bndoarn]

When using some apps with a volume slider with a dock connector it will not show the volume now and say "Dock Connection" since it doesn't need it anyway. I am hoping that 3.0 software will allow apps like Slacker and Pandora to skip to the next track by hitting the next track on my car stereo.

that one's already up there but it also disappears in the music app (or iPod app if using an iPhone) and on the playback controls when double clicking the home button. it will also disappear if you are not connected to a dock and if no headphones are inserted.

Do we know if your calendars now match the same colours as your iCal? And if we change the calendar colour in iCal does it update on the iPhone as well?

Thanks

i would check but i don't have a mac so i don't have iCal. sorry

 

[digbyp]

Here you go! Hopefully this is what you meant

How do you get the from field to display?

 

[sseelman]

almost all the features discussed here and even more are listed here
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/671948/

just so everyone can find more features they dont know about, thats a great thread

Looks like that post has not been updated since mid April. Some of the info might be out of date compared to the GM release.

 

[DavieBoy]

In 3.0, there appears to be no limit to the number of apps you can have installed. Although it stops with 11 pages, it just doesn't show icons for any apps you install beyond that. I have 203 applications installed, 67 of which are not accessible via the home screen, yet show up as search results in Spotlight.

I wonder if you would be able to choose which icons are hidden. I remember once i moved an icon to my last screen which was full and it forced the last icon on that screen to disappear.

"• on previous versions, whenever you restored from a back up, the original apple applications would go back to the position they were at before the restore but the app store applications wouldn't. now, app store applications go back to their position from before the restore"

BEST NEW FEATURE - especially if you have to do some funny install technique in order to get your least liked apps to disappear.

 

[Excellerator]

BEST NEW FEATURE - especially if you have to do some funny install technique in order to get your least liked apps to disappear.

Too bad they didn't make it so you can press and hold the icon like when you delete and on the opposite corner make a hide x or something. That would be great for apps you want but don't NEED on a home screen.

 

[bndoarn]

"• on previous versions, whenever you restored from a back up, the original apple applications would go back to the position they were at before the restore but the app store applications wouldn't. now, app store applications go back to their position from before the restore"

BEST NEW FEATURE - especially if you have to do some funny install technique in order to get your least liked apps to disappear.

agreed. i used to restore a lot (i was kept going from jailbroken to not jailbroken, i couldn't make up my mind ) so i always had to rearrange the icons when i was done but i could never remember the exact spot they were in and it got on my nerves. eventually i just started taking screenshots and going by that.

"• when moving icons on the home screen and you move an app to a different page, if you keep the icon to the edge of the page it will go on to the next page. previously you have to move the icon away from the edge before you could keep moving it to other pages."

i also like his one because i used to always mess up my arrangement if i had to move icons across full pages.

 

[DavieBoy]

agreed. i used to restore a lot (i was kept going from jailbroken to not jailbroken, i couldn't make up my mind ) so i always had to rearrange the icons when i was done but i could never remember the exact spot they were in and it got on my nerves. eventually i just started taking screenshots and going by that.

Yea, I have all my pages full and I keep them organized. it was torture putting them back after a restore and a reason I would not restore that much.

The iPhone works so much better if you restore every two or three weeks.

Too bad they didn't make it so you can press and hold the icon like when you delete and on the opposite corner make a hide x or something. That would be great for apps you want but don't NEED on a home screen.

Wow, what an idea!!! There are just so many apps I want to keep but will only use every couple of months...

 

[bndoarn]

i wonder if you can use the hide method to hide the crappy stocks and weather app.

EDIT: yes that works. i don't have to deal with them anymore

 

[iphones4evry1]

it also seems different when sending a sms, the sending bar now replaces the name at the top instead of being imposed over the message history.

What does the camera button do? Does it take a photo and send it in SMS ?
.

 

[DavieBoy]

i wonder if you can use the hide method to hide the crappy stocks and weather app.

EDIT: yes that works. i don't have to deal with them anymore

What is the "hide method"? Just filling the last page then pushing them off of that last screen or is there something more official?

 

[bndoarn]

What is the "hide method"? Just filling the last page then pushing them off of that last screen or is there something more official?

yes. fill up your last page and put the icon that you don't want as the last one. now move one more icons to that page and that last one will disappear. as far as i know this is the only was to do it.

 

[dejo]

What does the camera button do? Does it take a photo and send it in SMS ?
.

Well, when there's media attached, like a picture, it then becomes an MMS.

 

[bndoarn]

What does the camera button do? Does it take a photo and send it in SMS ?
.

it's for MMS. it lets you select a picture and send it. it currently isn't available in the U.S.

 

[UngratefulNinja]

How do you get the from field to display?[/QUOTE
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Tap the From field and it pops right up

 

[mconnor379]

i guess you need a faster processor to disply battery life by percentage. This is a big **** you apple. They have no way to say this is even remotely hardware related. neither is anything else except magnetometer. Somebody needs to hack the 3gs firmware and get the features for us 3G'ers!!!

I agree fully. Jailbreaked iPhones have had video capture for MONTHS, and there's not hardware limitation for voice recognition either. Wouldn't be so bad if us 3G owners could upgrade at the "newbie" price, but since we can't it'd be nice if Apple didn't omit features from the 3G version of 3.0 simply to try and differentiate it from the 3GS a bit more. Can't help but feel a bit like a pair of Chinese fingercuffs, getting it from both ends.

 

[bndoarn]

I agree fully. Jailbreaked iPhones have had video capture for MONTHS, and there's not hardware limitation for voice recognition either. Wouldn't be so bad if us 3G owners could upgrade at the "newbie" price, but since we can't it'd be nice if Apple didn't omit features from the 3G version of 3.0 simply to try and differentiate it from the 3GS a bit more. Can't help but feel a bit like a pair of Chinese fingercuffs, getting it from both ends.

yea. the original iPhones can use MMS when jailbroken too but apple said that only the 3G and 3GS were getting it due to "hardware limitation."

 

[rpeterslll]

MMS is currently working on my phone in the US with AT&T.

I noticed when sending out a text to multiple recipients, the message sends as a group MMS. Any message that gets replied back to my group SMS stays in the same conversation as the original group SMS I sent out and doesnt get placed in a seperate SMS conversation.

Each message has the name from the person who sent the reply to the group MMS. Attached is a screen shot that shows the feature better.

 

[iphones4evry1]

MMS is currently working on my phone in the US with AT&T.

I noticed when sending out a text to multiple recipients, the message sends as a group MMS. Any message that gets replied back to my group SMS stays in the same conversation as the original group SMS I sent out and doesnt get placed in a seperate SMS conversation.

Each message has the name from the person who sent the reply to the group MMS. Attached is a screen shot that shows the feature better.

Nice! Next, Apple should make something like a "conference call" in text messaging.

 

[BMac702]

Its not really a feature but i noticed for my iPhone, when i reboot it, it shows the Apple logo and then it shows a black screen for a few seconds then the lock screen pops up. As opposed to 2.x.x where the apple logo would be there during the entire boot process and then it would go straight to the homescreen

 

[VespR]

I was crossing my fingers, but yet again, it was not included... Bah. I was thinking about jailbreaking my phone, just to get that feature... I don't really care about the 3rd party apps, not anymore...

I've got the battery % on my iPhone with OS 3.0 GM. Though I had previously jailbroken mine to show it. Now I get the battery percentage and the bar. Looks odd with both..

Also I used BossPrefs to hide 'Stocks' because I never used that or even want it on my iPhone. It hasn't returned in OS 3.0 GM.

Apologies, got to page 3 and this had been cleared up.

 

[palmerc2]

here's something i'd like to see, available in 3.0?

if you have a contact you'd like to text, and they have 3 phone numbers such as mobile, home and work

you obviously cannot text their home or work number, yet when you click 'text message' you have the option to choose between the 3.

is there a way to set the permissions for a particular tag?

like: mobile - yes. home - no. work - no. fax - no.

etc

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

here's something i'd like to see, available in 3.0?

if you have a contact you'd like to text, and they have 3 phone numbers such as mobile, home and work

you obviously cannot text their home or work number, yet when you click 'text message' you have the option to choose between the 3.

is there a way to set the permissions for a particular tag?

like: mobile - yes. home - no. work - no. fax - no.

etc

FYI it *is* possible to text a landline (dunno about in the States, but in Canada it gets read back to you), but you're right, 99.99% of texts are sent to cell phones, so it would be really good if the OS filtered out non-mobile numbers. I guess the issue is that you could have a person's work number listed under "work", but it still could be a cell number that you might want to text.

 

[prospereagle92]

The shake to shuffle feature has been added to the iPod app.

 

[icewing]

Here you go! Hopefully this is what you meant

I'm only on 2.2.1, and I have the same capability. Nubben, what OS version are you on?