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Quiting applications:
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| You can easily quit applications |
Multitasking is a brilliant feature in the latest version of iOS. Nevertheless, there are times when you want to close a program either because it's a hindrance and you don't want it to eat up your battery life by running in the background. In order to close an app, double tap the home button to access the multitasking drawer. Simply tap and hold on the app icon. The app should start jiggling with a red circle and a minus sign on the top left corner of the icon. Just tap on the red circle and it will shut down the app.
Lock the orientation of your screen:
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| Portrait orientation locked |
Because of the inbuilt accelerometer present on the iPhone, iPad as well as iPod, iOS automatically shifts orientation of the screen either from landscape to portrait and vice versa based on the movement of the device. At times, this would be undesirable. In order to lock the orientation of your screen, double-tap on the Home Button of your device for the multitask drawer to pop up. Simply swipe to the left menu and again to the left of the iPod controls. You'll see the orientation lock button. Tap on this to lock in portrait mode.
Searching on the iPhone using Spotlight:
Instead of opening Safari and navigating to a search engine, you can directly do it from mobile spotlight. Navigate to the search screen on your iPhone and type in what you are looking for. iOS will give you options to choose between Web Wikipedia.
Folders:
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| You can move apps to folders |
You'll begin using multiple home screens as the numbers of apps on your device keep growing by the day. By making use of folders, you can club multiple applications together into one icon and minimize the usage of your home screen space for better navigation. Tap and hold on an app till your apps starting jiggling. Drag one app onto another to create a folder and put them both in it. Your iPhone will automatically give the folder a name based on the common category of your apps. You can choose to change the name of the folder. Similarly you can drag more apps into this folder. You can add up to 12 apps into one folder. To remove simply drag the app put of the folder.
Spell check:
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| Use spell check to get rid of errors |
Despite the advantage of the auto correct feature present in iOS, it also has the ability to add to your agonies by changing hell to he'll iOS 4.0 can now inform you when a word is misspelled by placing a red scribbled line right underneath the miss pelt words. To change any spelling you simply have to tap on the word once and your iPhone will give multiple options.