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.
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List of Hidden iPhone 3.0 Features, Launch Unlimited Apps with Spotlight
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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.
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.
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.
Still Missing Basic Functionality in OS 3.0
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?
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?
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.
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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!!
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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
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?
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.
Sorry... had to do it.
So why not just make 10 the highest?
"But these go up to 11..."
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MacRumors forum user bndoarn has organized a massive list 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
So why not just make 10 the highest?
"But these go up to 11..."
Nigel Tuffnel
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 ...
Sad to say I had to try....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
the BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
No finder. You can however link to a Google Doc pretty easily.
No. There is no more "SMS" icon, it's now "Messages" since it does SMS and MMS.
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?
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)
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.