Error Correction

If you make an error or want to go back and add a word or letters you can move the cursor to make a correction.
Hold your finger down and hold anywhere in the text to bring up the magnifying glass.
Whilst still holding down, drag the magnifying glass and cursor anywhere in the text. When the cursor is exactly where you want it release you finger.
You can now add or delete text from where the cursor is.

Reset The Custom Dictionary

If you feel you’ve really made a mess of your custom dictionary, and the iPhone keeps suggesting ridiculous alternate words, you can reset the custom dictionary by going to Settings --> General --> Reset and tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary.

The iPhone Dictionary

The iPhone has a dictionary built in. As you type, it compares what you’ve typed against the words in that dictionary. If it finds a partial match, it displays a suggestion just beneath what you have typed.
If you accept the suggestion by tapping the Space or full stop, great.
If you allow the ‘mistake’ to stand, the second time you type the same word and reject the correction, iPhone adds the new word to its custom, dynamic dictionary. From now on, it will accept the new word and will even suggest it the next time you type something like it.

Turn Auto-Correction On / Off

To turn all auto-correction features on or off to go Settings --> General --> Keyboard and turn Auto-Correction on or off.

Move Dock Icons

Just press and hold any icons on the screen, then drag them while they are shaking. You can put any 4 icons on your dock (grey bar at the bottom of your iPhone).

Dismiss Keyboard Suggested Word

To dismiss the keyboard suggested spelling of a word, you can tap on anywhere of the screen. You do not have to try and press “x” button at the end of the word.

Avoiding the Extremes

 If you want to enhance your iPhone battery lifespan remember to avoid temperature extremes. Avoid using your iPhone at temperatures higher than 95° F (or 35° C) and in very cold environments. Using the iPhone in very hot conditions can inflict permanent battery damage whereas cold temp usage causes temporary battery performance degradation.

How To Maximize Your iPhone Battery

1. Turn down the LCD brightness.
2. Turn off Wifi when not in use.
3. Turn off 3G till you need it.
4. Turn off Vibrate in Games. 
5. Limit use of GPS tracking. 
6. Buy Apps and Songs in iTunes.  (then transfer to phone via cable) 
7. Set the Autolock to 1-minute.
8. Set EMail Push to Off, and switch to Fetch Time. 

How to Force Quit An App

Have you ever been using an app and it’s become completely frozen? You can actually apply a force quit on it by pressing the Home button for at least six seconds.

How to Select Other Domain Name Endings

When you type a website URL in the address bar, you can now hold down the ".com" button to get a selection of other domain name endings and tap on any of the endings to insert them in the address bar.

Swipe to delete

In the Mail app and many others that use lists of items, you’re able to quickly delete an item by swiping your finger across the item… sort of emulating crossing something off a list. Doing so exposes a Delete button so that you’re able to confirm your action.

Caps lock

Double-tap the Shift key to lock it.

Saving images in Safari and Mail

Touching an image in Safari or Mail for a couple of seconds will present you with an action sheet which will enable you to save the image. they get stored in the “Saved Photos” library

Screenshots

Simultaneously press the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons to take a screenshot of your current screen. You’ll hear a camera shutter sound, your screen will flash white, then the screenshot will appear in the “Saved Photos” library of the Photos app.

quick scroll to top

Tapping the status bar (the bar at the top with the clock) will make scrollable content scroll to the top. It comes in handy in situations like when you’ve scrolled down a long web page or mail message and you quickly need to get back to the top.

Rebooting your iPhone

Your iPhone suddenly becomes unresponsive. Pushing the Home button does nothing. Hitting the On/Off button produces the same discouraging result. What do you do?

Trying pressing and holding both Home and On/Off; after about 10 seconds the Apple logo will appear, the phone will now reboot it will take longer than normal but it will reboot.

Save email messages as drafts

If you want to save a message you’re working on so you can come back to it later, tap Cancel. Instead of deleting the message immediately, Mail pops up a dialog asking you to Save, Don’t Save, or Cancel. Tap Save and the message is placed in your Drafts folder.

more info about links in browser and emails

by holding your fingertip down on a web link instead of tapping it produces an information balloon that displays the underlying URL, now you can see if the link is going to really take you to the BBC :P

Make a call from Safari

If you find a phone number in Safari that you’d like to call, i.e the local taxi company then there’s no need to write the number down and then switch to the phone component. You can just tap the number and the iPhone will dial it for you!.

Note: this is the same for emails and texts also.

Nearly create a home page in Safari... ;D

Add your new home page to your bookmarks list and then move it to the top of your bookmarks list.
to load it first go to the bookmarks button and then the pages bookmark itself,  this will help you get you to your favorite Web page with a minimum of fuss.

Get a bigger keyboard in Safari for Web browsing

To get a bigger keyboard in Safari for the address you need to rotate the iPhone horizontally before tapping the address bar, in doing this the Safari window will switch to horizontal mode; then, when you tap the address bar, the onscreen keyboard also appears horizontally. More important, it will also be much larger than the standard vertical keyboard, making data entry a little easier.

 

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