The iPhone 4 is barely out of our hands and it’s likely you’ll feel the same about your new iPhone 4. After six months with our iPhone 4s we’ve learned a few tricks that’ll make your experience even better. Here’s five things you never knew about your new iPhone 4…
1. Teach your iPhone 4 your personal vocabulary
When it comes to choice language or slang, the iPhone 4 dictionary can get a bit confused but don’t worry, it’s a quick learner but only if you know how to teach it. To add words to the iPhone 4 dictionary following this rather curious path: head to settings > general > keyboard and add the Japanese keyboard as a secondary keyboard. Now whenever the keyboard is up you should see a button marked “Edit User Dictionary”. Click that and press the add symbol to enter the word yo uwant the phone to remember.
2. Your iPhone 4 can share part of an email rather than the whole thing
If you’re looking at an email on your iPhone 4 and only want to foward a part of the text, highlight it and then press forward. The new message will contain only the text you want to send on.
3. Fire off multiple photos from your iPhone 4
Initially you’ll probably find yourself just sending one photo at a time from your iPhone 4 but there is a better way. When you’re looking a photos in the camera roll using thumbnail mode look for the little box with an arrow in it in the bottom left hand corner. On this screen that’s the Select Items button. Tap up to 5 thumbnail and you’ll be able to share them all in one go via email.
4 Lock your iPhone 4 screen
If you’re lying in bed reading it’s annoying when the iPhone 4 orientation keeps moving from portrait to landscape. You can solve this by activating Portrait Lock. Double tap the Home button to reveal all the running apps, then swipe your finger to the right to reveal iPod controls and the Portrait Lock.
5. Make iPhone 4 read to you
In Settings head for Accessbility and turn on VoiceOver. Open a book in iBooks, tap the first line and swipe down the page with two fingers to make the iPhone start reading the book to you. It will turn pages automatically and keeps going until you tap with two fingers to stop it.
