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So, many people will have downloaded the new iOS5 to there handsets, and some are even lucky enough to have the new iPhone 4S.
But how many people are baffled about the new functions and how to use them? If you have any questions or need any help with any of the aspects of the new iOS5, then please ask and we can all help each other out.
I'll start us all off with an example -
One that seems to pop up is how to use the camera from the locked screen?
If you double tap the home button from the locked screen, you will see a camera icon appear in the lower right corner. Push this and then the camera function opens up. You can also use the volume up button to take the picture 
This is NOT what I was hoping the WiFi Sync feature would be like...
Perhaps I am being naive but I was hoping that as soon as i came into range of my Home Wifi that a sync would just happen!
So wire-free synchronisation isn't quite there yet!
How to WiFi Sync iOS5 to your iTunes:
1) First you need to connect your phone to your PC and allow it to sync with iTunes.
2) In iTunes, click on your device and make sure that you are in the "Summary" window.
3) Come down to Options and Tick - "Sync with this iPhone over Wifi"
4) Click Apply and disconnect the phone from your PC.
5) With iTunes open on your PC, Plug the Phone into a Power socket.
6) On your phone, open Settings, then General Settings.
7) Scroll down to "iTunes WiFi Sync". You will see the word Sync is now in Bold Black lettering.
8) Before I had time to press the word sync it had already started.
That's it Sync Done!
I unplugged the phone during the Sync to see what happened and it just carried on. Up to you if you want to risk it?
TSD
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Want a customized vibrate for each caller or that someone special, here's how -
Settings > General > Accessibility > Custom Vibrations > On
Then go to
Settings > Sounds > Vibration Patterns
From here you can select an option or even create your own
If you want a specific contact to have a unique Vibrate alert then follow this -
Contacts > Select the contact you want to assign a unique vibrate pattern to > Edit > Vibration > Select the option you want
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Another feature, maybe just for fun for most, is the LED Flash for Alerts. When on, this prompts your phone to trigger the LED when you receive a message, email or if the phone is on silent
Settings > General > Accessibility > LED Flash For Alerts > On
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Hidden web browsing.
You can prevent Safari from remembering your history when browsing as follows -
Settings > Safari > Private Browsing > On
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You can also delete individual numbers in your recent calls. This was always something I was surprised took Apple so long long to implement!
In your recents list on calls, the number you want to remove you simply swipe left to right across that number and you get the option to delete it from the list.
You can also click 'edit' in the top right of the screen and delete by clicking the red circle on the numbers you want to remove.
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Another feature that I like, but seems to have a mind of its own, is the reader function in Safari.
When browsing a site that has a lot of pictures or imagery, you sometimes get the option in the address bar that says 'Reader'
When you click on this it removes all the images and lists just the text to make it easier to read.
I found the BBC site works great for this when you drill down to a story, but some sites don't offer the feature at all, I guess some sites may not offer it just yet or that Safari is struggling to determine what is just text relevant to that story.
Great thread Bobbin!
To make this easier for people to use, I've renamed it to a hints and tips thread. That way it'll just be comments added by the community, and we can harvest stuff from the main question threads to add here.
I've also edited the reply titles to specify the feature they help with- this will help with search optmisation and make the useful into easier to find, hope you don't mind
The new threads I've created with posts moved from this thread are:
Using Siri with contacts with similar names
Making sure my iPhone uses WiFi when possible
If you want to lock the screen into portrait mode (e.g. if you're reading a book or an email while in bed but get sick of the screen flipping to landscape) then you can do this by double tapping the home button to bring up the task manager then scrolling across to the new portrait lock button (shown below in the bottom left corner)
An old one from earlier models but still very useful for those who might be new to using an iPhone (I've seen quite a few questions on the internet on how you actually do it)
If you ever want to do a screen capture on your phone just press down the power button and the home key at the same time. You'll hear a clicking noise and the image on your screen at that moment will be stored directly to your Photos
It was always a pain in the past to have to launch a third party app to crop a photo you've just taken with the camera
Now you can do this within Photos. Just click edit (top right corner) then crop (bottom right corner) and adjust your image however you want it by dragging on the screen. When you're happy click the yellow crop button.
The constrain option at the bottom is also useful if you want an automatically sized crop frame to appear, e.g. 3 x 2, 5 x 7, 8 x 10, 16 x 9 etc.
Perhaps my favourite improvement of iOS 5 (especially coming from an earlier software version on my 3GS). Enter 'Photos' and there's an edit button on the main album screen. Press this and it'll populate an 'add button'. Here you can generate a new album directly on the phone. Once created go into one of your already populated albums, tick the photos you want in your new album and it'll make a copy of them. Great for tidying up your photos rather than having one massive camera roll.
redpages wrote:An old one from earlier models but still very useful for those who might be new to using an iPhone (I've seen quite a few questions on the internet on how you actually do it)
If you ever want to do a screen capture on your phone just press down the power button and the home key at the same time. You'll hear a clicking noise and the image on your screen at that moment will be stored directly to your Photos
Just to expand on that a bit.
You have to press and release the two buttons to take a screenshot - if you hold them down waiting for the shutter click sound you'll get the Power Off slider as this is the way to reset an iPhone that has locked up (stopped responding).
Also, as well as the shutter sound, the screen flashes white when the snap has been taken - this is because you don't hear the shutter click if you have the Mute switch on.
