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22 iPhone / iTouch OS 3.0 Tips and Tricks
Brandon Davenport1. Control Scrubbing Rate
Scrubbing refers to rewinding or fast forwarding through a video, song, podcast, or audiobook by scrolling the grey "position" ball left or right near the top of the screen. You may have noticed in the past that it was difficult to get to the exact spot you want to be.
With iPhone 3.0, simply hold the ball, and slide your finger down. The lower you slide your finger on the screen, the slower scrub rate you will scroll with.
When you scrub directly on the position bar, you go at Hi-Speed. When you scroll down some, you go at Half Speed. Some more and you get Quarter Speed, and a bit more you get Fine Scrubbing. Apple made it very easy to get to where you wanna be in a media clip.
Note: This works even for videos on websites where it doesn't explicitly say what "scrub speed" you're operating at.
2. Hold "Live" Phone Number
When you come accross a phone number in Safari or anywhere else that's "live", meaning highlighted blue like a URL, you can press and hold it for the following options:
- Call #
- Text message
- Create new contact
- Add to existing contact
In the screenshot above I pressed and held the "1-800-MY-APPLE" number on Apple's support site. Just tapping on the number without holding it prompts the familiar "Call" option.
3. Email More Than 5 Photos At Once
In our 40 tips article the "share up to 5 photos via email" tip was mentioned. Turns out (thanks to one of our commenters) there's an easy work around to the 5 photo per email limit. Simply use "Copy" instead of "Share".
How it works:
1. Go to your camera roll
2. Click the arrow in the bottom left corner
3. Select as many photos as you'd like
4. Press copy
5. Open Email
6. Paste and send all the photos you want!
4. Press And Hold A Number For Other Font
I'm not quite sure as to the purpose of this new feature, but it certainly is a new one. When typing, hold any of the numbers (0-9) on the keyboard and you can choose to write the number in a larger, different styled font.
Notice how the alternate font is also less bold.
5. View .gif Images
You can now view .gif images on your iPhone. When you receive a gif file as an attachment via email, it will be displayed in all it's semi-automated glory. However, when you try to save the image, it only saves a still shot of whatever position the image was at that moment. Even though .gif images aren't all that common these days, it's still nice to know that your iPhone can handle them.
