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Keeping Up With Technology: Iphone Secrets And Advice While not everyone thinks of their phone as a tool for improving one's life and accomplishing more, the iphone can help them to do just that. To take advantage of your device's possibilities, you must become educated about them. By taking some time to read the below article, you can be on the right track towards obtaining this maximum benefit. If your iphone gets wet, you can dry it with rice. There are many ways you may get your phone wet, such as puddles or toilets. In lieu of a hair dryer, pat the phone dry with a soft towel, then place in a plastic bag along with rice. You will find that the phone is dry within hours, or perhaps by the next day. In order to save your iPhone's battery, decrease its brightness. The phone has a brightness option within its settings area, and this can be amended easily. This will lengthen the time that the battery is powered between charges. When used properly, the iphone is a useful navigational tool. Utilize the map element like a GPS when trying to obtain directions to a particular location, or if you want to find different things like gas stations or grocery stores on the way. Bookmark the map facility so that you can use it whenever needed. Are you tired of the many notifications that come in on your iphone? There is an easy way to stop them. Start by selecting Settings and then selecting the notifications bar. Go to your apps and get rid of anything that you don't want there. Better still, removing these unwanted notifications can also extend the battery life of your device. Any website can be turned into an iphone app listed on your home screen. First, simply visit the site. Once you have the website up, give the "GO" button a tap. Doing this gives you the ability to quickly add the site you are on to your main screen. Finally, you have the option insure my gadget to change it's name once you have added it to your phone. You may spend a great deal of time reading email or browning Safari on your iphone, but you may not know how simple it is to hang onto an image from these locations. All you have to do is touch the image you'd like to save, and hold on for a few seconds. In a matter of moments, a small box pops up and allows you to select and save the image. Compose emails, notes, and messages faster with this easy tip. Should the suggested dictionary word not be desirable when texting, just tap on the screen and clear it. You do not need to hit the small "x" that follows the word. Scroll with either one finger or two when you read a webpage on your iphone. If there are smaller windows within the larger webpage, one-finger scrolling navigates through each individual window. If you use two fingers, this allows you to navigate the full page. If you drop an iphone in water, don't turn it on to check it. Do what you can to dry off the outside and then let the moisture inside have overnight to dry out. While wet, the phone can short out when activated. The calendar section on the iphone is a wonderful functional tool to help you get organized. You can

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Keeping Up With Technology: Iphone Secrets And Advice

While not everyone thinks of their phone as a tool for improving one's life and accomplishing more,the iphone can help them to do just that. To take advantage of your device's possibilities, you mustbecome educated about them. By taking some time to read the below article, you can be on the righttrack towards obtaining this maximum benefit.

If your iphone gets wet, you can dry it with rice. There are many ways you may get your phone wet,such as puddles or toilets. In lieu of a hair dryer, pat the phone dry with a soft towel, then place in aplastic bag along with rice. You will find that the phone is dry within hours, or perhaps by the nextday.

In order to save your iPhone's battery, decrease its brightness. The phone has a brightness optionwithin its settings area, and this can be amended easily. This will lengthen the time that the batteryis powered between charges.

When used properly, the iphone is a useful navigational tool. Utilize the map element like a GPSwhen trying to obtain directions to a particular location, or if you want to find different things likegas stations or grocery stores on the way. Bookmark the map facility so that you can use it wheneverneeded.

Are you tired of the many notifications that come in on your iphone? There is an easy way to stopthem. Start by selecting Settings and then selecting the notifications bar. Go to your apps and getrid of anything that you don't want there. Better still, removing these unwanted notifications canalso extend the battery life of your device.

Any website can be turned into an iphone app listed on your home screen. First, simply visit the site.Once you have the website up, give the "GO" button a tap. Doing this gives you the ability to quicklyadd the site you are on to your main screen. Finally, you have the option insure my gadget to changeit's name once you have added it to your phone.

You may spend a great deal of time reading email or browning Safari on your iphone, but you maynot know how simple it is to hang onto an image from these locations. All you have to do is touch theimage you'd like to save, and hold on for a few seconds. In a matter of moments, a small box pops upand allows you to select and save the image.

Compose emails, notes, and messages faster with this easy tip. Should the suggested dictionaryword not be desirable when texting, just tap on the screen and clear it. You do not need to hit thesmall "x" that follows the word.

Scroll with either one finger or two when you read a webpage on your iphone. If there are smallerwindows within the larger webpage, one-finger scrolling navigates through each individual window.If you use two fingers, this allows you to navigate the full page.

If you drop an iphone in water, don't turn it on to check it. Do what you can to dry off the outsideand then let the moisture inside have overnight to dry out. While wet, the phone can short out whenactivated.

The calendar section on the iphone is a wonderful functional tool to help you get organized. You can

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quickly use this tool by directly adding events instead of always using "+" button. If you are usingthe "Day" view, touching and pressing on each hour will make new events on that time. You havemore time with Fast Scheduling.

Although your iphone does everything it can to make navigating web pages as easy as possible, itcan still be a real slog to scroll back up to the top of a long page. Luckily, you do have other options.Tap the status bar to return to the top of the page. This can save time, especially if you have ascreen that is very long.

People new to the iphone culture are amazed by everything that can be done with the phone.However, most beginners to the phone don't really know to much about what it can really do. Bykeeping this information in mind, you can achieve a higher rate of productivity from your iphonethan you ever dreamed.