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List of Hidden iPhone 3.0 Features, Launch Unlimited Apps with Spotlight

Screen backlight change when playing music?

Sorry if this has been addressed before (I've done a MRoogle and forum search). I've noticed that after the 3.0 update, if I have my iPhone hooked up to my PC at work and am listening to music on the iPhone (headphones plugged into iPhone and not thru iTunes), every time a new song starts (eg: if I'm listening to an album, at the start of the next song) the screen's backlight will turn on and fade after a minute (as per my settings)... I don't remember this happening with OS 2.2.1 - is this a new feature or has it always done this and I've never noticed...

I haven't tried listening to music undocked to see if it still does that (I would think it wouldn't do that since it's a colossal waste of battery power)
 
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but:

- There is not (yet!) the option to create an additional folder for e-mails (say, a folder I'd call, maybe, "important messages") where I can save messages I want to keep)?

- Still no Flash support in Safari?

Other improvements are welcomed, though...
 
fast forwarding

anyone else notice that there's different levels of fast-forwarding? hi-speed, half-speed, quarter and fine; something lot's of people complained about before. small, yet useful change. you swipe your finger down as you ff to change speed.
 
Gotta tell you, the thing I am most excited about it the ability to dial a number out of a calendar appointment. I have conference calls on my calendar, and that's been a big pet peeve of mine that the alarm comes up, but I can't dial the call from the calendar appointment. Just went in a looked, and lo and behold, the phone numbers are clickable now. I still have to remember the conference code, but that's a lot easier to do then trying to remember or write down the whole thing before I dial it.

That was the one thing I missed when I got the 3G to replace a Treo, so now my life is complete...
 
I've noticed that now whenever I receive a text message it doesnt display the contents of the message in a pop-up box just the fact that I've received a message and who it's from. Not really useful but something I prefer. :)
 
MacRumors said:
- Notes now has data detectors. Links are clickable, phone numbers are callable, email address are emailable, and address are locatable (using Maps)
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Great new feature, but really hidden? I thought they announced this at the March event when discussing new 3.0 features--I don't have time to find the video and check, maybe they said it, maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part.

MacRumors said:
- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted
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As some other people mentioned, I thought I had this functionality on 2.0 most of the time. When it didn't work, I always assumed it was an application crash (I thought it was maybe a RAM issue or bad code in the handling of call interruptions, I wonder what the issue was since it looks like it was on Apple's end).
 
.com now goes to .net .edu and .org

Now when typing in on the url bar in safari, holding down .com will give .net, .edu, and .org as alternates to .com.

Likewise, holding the period down when typing an email address will give you the same choices as well as the period.
 
No doubt someone has mentioned this and if so my apologies for the repetition:

In Safari tapping and holding a link causes a pop up menu to appear allowing you to open the link in a new page- Just as you would expect but was missing pre-OS 3.0.
 
I don't know if I am the only one, but every time I get on my iPhone's mail app it says "receiving mail" (or whatever it says) then quits the app! I've restored it and put everything back and it still does the same thing. This also happens on my son's iTouch when he goes to the WiFinder app.
What is wrong?
 
WannaSwitch said:
Gotta tell you, the thing I am most excited about it the ability to dial a number out of a calendar appointment. I have conference calls on my calendar, and that's been a big pet peeve of mine that the alarm comes up, but I can't dial the call from the calendar appointment. Just went in a looked, and lo and behold, the phone numbers are clickable now. I still have to remember the conference code, but that's a lot easier to do then trying to remember or write down the whole thing before I dial it.

That was the one thing I missed when I got the 3G to replace a Treo, so now my life is complete...
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Update after fiddling around a bit, if the phone number is in the "location" field of the calendar appointment, it still will not dial it. Only if it's in the "noted" portion of the appointment. However, now I can copy and paste from the title portion into the notes field and dial from there, or make that addition within Outlook that syncs up, so it will be there when it pops up.
 
phone number data detection

I'm glad that notes and calendar items now have data detection to identify phone numbers, but I still can't find a way to have it identify the number with a pause. It seems to recognize 1-800-1234x1234, but doesn't pause and continue with the digits. I tried a p and comma characters but that breaks the detection. Also, it doesn't recognize the number if it's in the location field. Any other ideas?

The point is that I'd like to be able to call into meetings that have unique conference codes directly from the calendar items. As I understand it blackberry supports this. Does anybody have any other solutions other than creating contacts for each?

Thanks.
 
YoGramMamma said:
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.
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dude read through posts.. many ppl have said it.
 
This will likely sound weird, but does anyone else feel that the vibration is different after 3.0? To me it feels different...
 
Voice memo flip vertical

I observed that the voice memo app can be fliped vertically so that the microphone can be directed towards the speaking person.

I tried it when the record in on. Not sure if this is mentioned anywhere

Thanks

Riant99
 
really don't like the force quit function now. especially considering my sleep/wake button doesn't work.:confused:
 
YoGramMamma said:
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.
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+1 This is my favorite unannounced feature. It's so much more useful to me than something like video recording. This is what I love about Apple.
 
edmundo said:
It already did before...

If you have no doubt somebody's already mentioned it... why mention it?
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I find that self recrimination is the best way to avoid getting flamed for reposting something someone may have said in some related or unrelated thread either here or on the Googlenet.
 
nothing major, and not a feature but i noticed that when playing music through a 30pin accessory (my fm transmitter in the car), the volume bar is not present on the music screen any longer.. just previos, play/pause, and forward icons across the bottom.
 
LAS.mac said:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but:
- Still no Flash support in Safari?
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I can say, with a decent amount of confidence, that you won't ever see Flash support making it to a non-jailbroken iPhone. Adobe made it, and it's ready to go, but Apple won't implement it for a long, long time--if ever.


On a brighter note, you can now edit contact information directly from Messages instead of having to leave messages and then going to Contacts.
 
Landscape/Portrait Keyboard Rotation

You can now switch between portrait and landscape view while the keyboard is active. This works in Mail, Messages, and Notes, but not Safari. Safari acts the same as it did in previous versions — while the keyboard is out, screen rotation is locked.

See a screenshot of the keyboard rotating in the I-can't-believe-I-actually-timed-that-right image attached to this post.
 

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chaosconan said:
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.

...

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.

...

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.
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Now, maybe I'm the only one that ever had 9 full pages on iPhone OS 2.x, but I can tell you that even in OS 2.x, you could load more than the 9 pages worth of apps. I download tons of free trial apps that I don't want to use immediately, and doing that (plus my actual purchased apps that I want to keep), I filled up all 9 pages and still saw that apps were installing. chaosconan is right that the only way to then access those apps though was to delete other apps and restart your iPhone, which would then move the next app just off the screen onto the springboard. Anybody with the latest version of 2.x that hasn't upgraded yet can try it and confirm it... I've been doing it for months.

As for leaving apps hidden the way suggested above though, the problem is that if you can't see them, you can forget about them, and forget that they're taking up space. As much as I'd love to hide plenty of apps from my phone to clear up space, I know that there are plenty whose names I'd forget and I just wouldn't notice that they were there taking up space anymore, which would unnecessarily slow down my phone in the long term.
 
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