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Apple iOS 4 Tips, Hidden Features, Etc...

How do you initiate text passcodes? I don't see an option for that in the messages menu or in the passcode menu under general. Hmmmm.
 
RobNYC said:
When you got to select the wall paper, it will ask you if it's for the home screen or the lock screen or both. Select which one you want. It will ask you that after you pick it though.
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This worked on my 32gb iPod touch. But I don't even have that option on my childrens 8th iPod touch. ( they are all 3rd gen.s)
 
Alesha1111111 said:
This worked on my 32gb iPod touch. But I don't even have that option on my childrens 8th iPod touch. ( they are all 3rd gen.s)
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The 8gb iPod Touch is actually 2nd gen. They didn't update any of the internal hardware on the 8gb Touch when they introduced the 32gb and 64gb Touches. The 8gb Touch will only get the features that the iPhone 3G gets.
 
kaelell said:
just wanted to clarify the above, according to documentation the apps you see in the quick launch dock (double tap home) are not necessarily what is running, and closing these using the above method does not save you processor or close the app from running in the background etc.
The apps you see in this area are icons from all the apps you have run since you last turned off your phone. Its a quick way to launch something you use often.
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This is simply untrue. While the multitasking bar doesn't necessarily represent running apps (it represents apps either running or in a suspended state), if you hit the red (-) button to close a 4.0 app that is running, it is akin to a "Force Quit" on the Mac.

Try it yourself: open a 4.0-built app, go to a different screen or menu in it, then go back to the Home screen. If you went back into the app, it would go to the last state it was in. Now go to the multitasking dock and hit the app's close button. Go back to the 4.0-built app and you'll find that the app is restarting from scratch.

But that close button is the ONLY WAY to close an app. Apple's (IMO flawed) philosophy is that a user should never have to worry about closing an app. They are keeping apps open as long as possible in memory, and then notifying apps to shut down when low. All without the user knowing what's going on. That's why they changed the functionality of the single click of the Home button. In past iPhone OS versions, this would quit the running app and take you to the Home screen. Now it merely puts the app in the background.
 
TexMan said:
ahh just tried again and nothing! Do you have the iphone 4?
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3GS

I seem to have lost the option to choose where my notes are saving I have my gmail account signed in on my phone, but I can't choose (anymore I was able to before) where the notes go when I add notes.

Any ideas?
 
rorschach said:
I wanna know how Gizmodo got this:

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If you notice when searching SMS messages there, it says "xx results." When I do a search for something in my messages that I KNOW I've written more than once it just shows me the last occurrence.
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+1
 
I forget if this has always been around, but I just noticed something.

When deleting photos from your library, your iPhone will remember which direction you last swiped. If you swiped to go back and you delete a photo, you will be taken to the previous photo. If you swiped to go forward and you delete a photo, you will be taken to the next photo.

If my memory serves me correctly, it wasn't like this before.
 
musigny said:
anyone know of an app (legit or otherwise) that enables you to easily toggle between Edge and 3G?

seems like this would be very handy to do quick internets stuff 3G and then go back to boring Edge to save battery.

anyone?
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You can just disable 3G from the Settings > General > Network menu.
 
My 3GS just randomly downloaded the Translator app, for absolutely no reason I can tell... I didn't even go to it in the App Store, it just randomly appeared on my home screen as paused. :confused:
 
renewed said:
In maps, hit the locate button twice and it will move around with you and show which way the top of your iPhone is facing. If this has been discussed, sorry. Feeling too lazy to search. Been playing with my iPhone 4 all day!
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Wow I can't believe I didn't notice this! This would of helped me out many a time.
 
bodhi77 said:
wierd workround, but it works:

turn on a japanese keyboard (in addition to your own language obviously :rolleyes: )

the custom dictionary appears then :confused:
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I already tried this and it didn't work. Apparently, only on the BETA versions.
 
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