Please note that though we've mentioned iPhone in the tips and tricks below, most of them are applicable for the iPad and iPod touch as well.
1. How to Transfer Data From Your Old iPhone to Your New iPhone
You can checkout this post to transfer contents from your old iPhone to your shiny new iPhone.
2. Turn on Find My iPhone (or Find My iPad or Find My iPod) on your iOS device:
One of the first things you should when you buy an iOS device is turn on the free Find My iPhone (or Find My iPad or Find My iPod) service so you can track your missing iOS device from another device. Here are some simple steps to turn it on:
- Launch the Settings app from your iOS device's home screen, and then tap iCloud.
- If you are asked to sign in with your Apple ID, then you haven't set up iCloud on this device. Setup iCloud by following these instructions.
- When you tap on iCloud in the Settings app, you will see Find My iPhone (or Find My iPad or Find My iPod) at the bottom of the screen, tap to it, and when asked to confirm you want this option, tap Allow.
3. 6 iPhone Keyboard Tricks You Should Know
If you're using an on-screen keyboard for the first time then you may have still not exploited the complete functionality that the iPhone keyboard offers. Checkout this post for some useful iPhone keyboard tricks.
4. Tips to Improve iPhone's Battery Life
Apple is expected to fix some more bugs affecting battery life in iOS 5.0.2, but until then you can checkout this post to improve your iPhone's battery life.
5. Tips to keep your iOS device secure
While you can count on Apple to promptly fix major security flaws as it finds them, it's important that we do our part of the job to ensure that our iOS device is secure to reduce the risk of having our web mail account hacked; or our online identity stolen; or losing valuable personal information. Checkout this post for some tips to keep your iOS device secure.
6. How to Create Free Ringtones And Alert Tones
You can checkout this post for the step-by-step instructions to create free ringtones and alert tones for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch instead of buying ringtones for $1.29 and alert tones for $0.99 from the Tone Store.
Japanese users make extensive use of emoticons in their text messages and web pages. The use of these emoticons, called Emoji, is so prevalent that a standardized set of emoji icons are built into all the wireless handsets - including iOS devices. You can checkout this post to enable Emoji icons.
8. How to Recalibrate Your iOS Device's Home Button to Make it More Responsive
You may not need to use this tip now, but in case you find that your home button has become a little unresponsive or laggy do remember to try this trick before concluding that it is a hardware issue.
9. Create Custom Home Screen Shortcuts For Settings Toggle
SBSettings is one of our favorite jailbreak apps. It offers a faster way to access iPhone Settings from any app without going through the hassle of exiting the app and launching the Settings app. It is probably one of the top reasons why users jailbreak their iOS Device.
But if you don't want to go through the hassle of jailbreaking your iOS device just for it then checkout this post to create custom shortcuts for settings toggles that can be accessed directly from your iOS device's home screen.
Unfortunately, it looks like this trick will not work in iOS 5.1, which is currently being beta tested.
10. How To Enable Night-Reading Mode In Any App
Checkout this nifty trick to enable night reading mode in any app.
If that wasn't enough, checkout these tips and tricks as well:
Hope you found these tips and tricks for your new iPhone, iPad or iPod touch useful. Don't forget to let us know which one is your favorite.
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