| 1. | Scroll to Top of Page - tap the top bar (time, service bars, and battery) of the page |
| 2. | Domain Resolution - When typing a URL in Safari, you don't have to type the "www" or the ".com" |
| 3. | Domain Suffix - Hold down the ".com" key for ".net, .edu, .org" keys. |
| 4. | Press & Hold For Alternate Characters - Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character |
| 5. | Click & Hold URL's - In Safari, hold a link to see the URL and site name. |
| 6. | Soft Reset - Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep button to restart your iPhone |
| 7. | Take a Screenshot - To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button |
| 8. | Save Any Image from Safari - To save any image from the web to your camera roll, simply press and hold the image and a menu will appear |
| 9. | Fast Forward/Rewind Music & Video - Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows |
| 10. | Delete Emails/Texts/etc - To delete a single email/text, simply "cross it out" by swiping your finger across the email, then press delete. |
| 11. | Double Tap Home Button - Double tapping the home button has several useful functions, including bring up favorites, or music controls when iPod is playing |
| 12. | Live Traffic - You can turn on "live traffic" within the native Google Maps app |
| 13. | Force Quit Apps - If an app is slow or frozen, hold the power button (top) until slider appears to turn off then let go and hold the home button (bottom) until app quits |
| 14. | Shake to Shuffle - shake your iPhone to shuffle music playing within the playlist on your iPod app |
| 15. | Shake to Undo - When deleting or typing something in text/email/notes/Safari shake your iPhone to "Undo Typing" or "Undo Delete" |
| 16. | Google Earth Streetview - Within the Maps app you can click the red circle next to a pushpin to view the real life Google Streetview imagine of the area then move up and down the street with the arrows |
| 17. | Emoji - Buy an app with emoji icons and then turn them on under "Settings>General>Keyboard>International Keyboards>Japanese" |
| 18. | Sleep iPod at Night - To set the sleep timer, launch the Clock. Select the Timer function. Set the amount of time you’d like to listen to your music before the iPod goes to sleep. Tap on the “When Timer Ends” menu and you’ll be brought to a page where you’re able to select a particular alarm that is played when the timer ends. Scroll up and tap on “Sleep iPod”. |
| 19. | Enable the Scientific Calculator - Launch the Calculator application and rotate it sideways to bring up the scientific calculator. |
| 20. | Maneuver between Home Screens - Usually done by swiping left or right across the screen, you can also tap in the area left or right of the home screen indicators. |
| 21. | Caps Lock - If enabled in the settings, double-tapping the Shift button will turn it blue, indicating that Caps Lock is turned on. Tap on it again to disable. |
| 22. | Type Faster - Hitting the space bar twice will put a period and a space (to start a new sentence). And you can hold the #/punction buttons down and scroll to the number or punctuation you need and it will automatically return to the letters screen. |
| 23. | Add words to dictionary - to prevent autocorrect from changing a word you use frequently type it in correctly into the notes app 5 times in a row |
| 24. | Typing Contractions - On an iPhone, if you're typing a word that is common in both contraction and non-contraction form (such as its/it's, or well/we'll), iPhone will auto-correct to the contraction form if you type the last letter of the word an extra time ("welll" corrects to "we'll", for example) |
| 25. | Mark Emails as Read - in Mail, tap "Edit" in top right, select those emails you wish to "mark as read" and then tap the "Mark" button on the bottom right |
| 26. | Quick Camera - with iOS 5 you can quickly open up your camera to snap a photo by double-tapping the home button while on the lock screen. Then just tap the camera icon that will appear next to the slider. |
| 27. | Notifications in iOS 5 - two new "tricks" with notifications in iOS 5 include swiping down from the top to view all recent notifications. And swiping across a single notification on the lock screen to open that specific app. |