Apps, Settings and Other IPhone Advice

You may have taken your time to buy an iPhone, wondering what the big deal was. When you finally get your own iPhone, you start to realize what all the talk is about. The iPhone is without a doubt the most exciting phone to emerge in many years. Keep reading for some wonderful things you can do with your new phone.

If you are working in one app and want to return to an app you were previously using, take advantage of app switcher. App switcher is accessed when you tap twice on the home button. You will see all of your recently opened apps, and can easily switch from one to the other.

Use your phone horizontally when you are inputting data. It is easy to forget, but the keys are much larger when the phone is horizontal, so it is so much easier to accurately input text. If you do not already have that capability on your phone, you can get the application from Safari.

To conserve battery life, lower the display brightness of your screen. You only need a bright screen in dimly lit situations, so lower it during the day or anytime you will not be using the phone for some time. This is a great way to conserve battery life and avoid having to charge your phone so often.

Save the settings of your home wireless network on your iPhone so that it connects to the Internet right away when you come home. Do not hesitate to protect your home wireless network with a strong password so that no one else can use it: after all, you will not have to remember your password once you save it on your iPhone.

Check your bank and see if there is an application you can use through your phone. Your bank should have a free application you can use to monitor all of the transactions you make on a daily basis. This is a good way to make sure that there is nothing fishy with bank accounts.

If you are looking to zoom in on an internet page on your iPhone, you can do this by putting both fingers on the screen and moving them in separate directions. This will help a lot when you are on a page that has a font that is too small, and you want to see it more clearly.

If your favorite application freezes on you, simply hold down your home button for about six seconds. This will end the application, allowing you to reopen it and continue with your work or fun. This is a simple way to manage apps that are acting up, and it helps to prevent a lot of frustration.

If your emails start to pile up, then stop wasting time and deleting those messages one by one. It's rather simple to delete them all at once. By going to your inbox, simply click on the edit button and check all the emails you want to delete. Then simply hit the delete button, and they're all erased!

If you are using multiple email addresses through your iPhone be sure that you give them very different names. It has been found that the phone cans glitch and applies the same settings to both accounts, even if you want them to be different. Just be sure they are distinct to avoid this problem.

These are just a few of the wonderful things you can do with your phone. Developers are trying new things every day, so you will have even more to do in the days to come. Use the tips you've just read to really get the most from your new iPhone, and you will look like an old pro.