It has been more than a week since Apple released the much awaited iPhone OS 3.0 which included 100 new features such as Copy and Paste, Spotlight, Bluetooth, Push Notification, MMS, Tethering (last 2 not yet available in US) and more.
But the fun part is to discover the features that Apple didn't mention. So in case you haven't stumbled upon them already, checkout some of the hidden features in iPhone OS 3.0 after the jump so that you can start using them.
- You can now have 11 home screens instead of the previous limit of 9 home screens. So you can now launch 32 more iPhone apps from your iPhone's home screen.
- Thanks to Spotlight for iPhone, there is no limit on the number of iPhone apps that can be installed on the iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0 assumming that you have the required storage space on your iPhone. If you install more applications then the home screen icon limit, you can now access them using Spotlight.
- This hidden feature addresses one of the minor annoyance in previous iPhone OS. When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the iPhone app you were using before you were interrupted.
- iPhone's virtual keyboard has also been updated with few more extra special characters while holding certain characters down similar to the ".com" button. In iPhone OS 3.0, when you hold down the "." you also get "...". The dash "-" also displays an em-dash "-" and quotations and apostrophes display "<<" and ">>" and can also be curved.
- Along with Spotlight, Apple has also added Camera app to the Home button settings (Settings > General > Home Button) in iPhone fimrware 3.0 so if the Camera application is your favorite iPhone; you can quickly launch it from your iPhone's home screen or any other iPhone app by double-clicking on the Home button.
- You now have another option to force quit an unresponsive iPhone app. You can hold the sleep/wake button until the red slider appears, then press and hold down the home button to quit the iPhone app.
- You can undo typing by shaking the iPhone. When you are in the Mail, Messaging, Safari or Notes applications, after you typed a word/several words, just shake the phone and a pop-up will appear, asking you whether you want to undo what you have just entered.
Please don't forget to drop us a line in the comment section below to tell us which hidden feature you liked the most from this list or if you would like to tell us about a feature that you have stumbled upon in iPhone OS 3.0.
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NICE. SOME THESE I NEW ALREADY THO.
You will have 'Notifications' option in Settings to toggle notifications ON/OFF once you install any app that supports push notifications. I dunno if you already know about that but it is a pretty new thing to me.
Didn't apple show the undo feature at keynotes?
Tell you what I found on safari… If you press and hold a link it gives you an option to open in a new window. Exellent
New Music Scrubbing feature
Now if u try to scrub through your music then drag ur finger down the screen, it scrubs more slowly to make it more precise…
Can't wait for the Dev team to unlock the 3GS, i'm stuck with my 2gen Iphone till then……..
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lol they're hardly hidden features!!
By hidden, they mean they weren't mentioned
Thanks! i noticed that if you hold the home button, it doesnt force quit the app… now i find out you have to hold the power button, then the home button…
Nice to know about the shake-to-undo feature. It appears that you can undo several levels as well as redo (if you have already undone it) by using the same method.
Is there an option to copy text from webpages without having to copy the entire rows from tables? I think the copy mechanism is based on the assumption that there is no harm in copying too much text (as you can remove what you don't want after pasting), but sometimes this isn't possible/practical (e.g., the target field is too small or doesn't accept multi-line text and what you want is not in the first line).
Does anyone know how the push stuff actually works? I have a jb iphone and i cant get beejiveIM to work on iphone 3g, my friend was using it on non jb iphone and pushed works fine. Why does activating through jb kill off push notification? Apparently i no longer get the constant connection back to apple's servers?
Ah heck I bought a cheap phone on 3 for msn and skype so I'm not all that fussed. (and yes 3's network is rubbish)
wish they would put a feature in to choose whether or not you want landscape text feature – it's annoying as hell and sometimes sticks
When creating a contact, you now can specify iPhone
as the type of number instead of mobile. Maybe for
multimedia texts?
Also, there's a few map corrections. You can now go to the map directions when you are using from "current location" and reload directly holding the text current location without having to retype it. When you look at current locations that it found it tries to provide you with your estimated address.
These are hidden "features"? More home screens and being taken back to what your doing is something that should have already been there. These are tweaks not features.
I can pee farther than you can!
About a week ago I stumbled upon the following link, which gives a rundown of every single feature of the 3.0 firmware…. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=715629
What about launching iPod and shake to skip? Did they mention that?
Good notes
One important issue I've found with the 3GS voice feature is even when your phone is locked, activating the voice feature will still call any telephone number. Apple should tweak this.
i think its because of that new location thingy
Not many people also know that now… text's can be deleted one by one! YAY! I just hope they'd do the same with calls.
One 3.0 feature that I stumbled upon the other day:
You can toggle the speed of podcast playback –
.5 speed to slow it down, and 2x speed, great for getting through lots of content.
Can now effectively get through twice as much content as before! Probably the most useful feature I've discovered
whatever kiddo
it depends on what your copying out of, i think. when your in safari, and you hold down on what you want to copy, its says copy and then has two blue bars surrounding the word or words, just drag the blue bars to include what you would like. In texting though, I'm not sure you have the choice, though. I'm not a pro at this at all, but this is one thing I sorta know how to do =)
The setting is under settings/general/passcode lock and you can turn voice dial on or off when the phone is locked. No need for Apple to tweak this. They already gave you the option.
battery percentage, option i like this
Has anyone noticed the option to display the actual battery percentage next to the battery bar? Just dicovered this feature last night, haha.
Beejive IM used jailbreak or copyright detection and they believe it's naughty for you to use their program for free, maybe this is a limitation of theirs?
Good one I didn't kno about that one thanx!
thank you dev-team for all the info and software
Not sure if this is new but you can now choose iphone as a contact number source instead of plan old mobile.
Nope, I couldn't find the option to display the battery percentage. Where is it?
you can go to next song by shaking phone
Just because you JB doesn't mean you are stealing software. You seem ignorant on the subject, perhaps you should read up a little on the normal reasons people JB, not just the one shady reason.
well i just found this out today..once u update to anything..u are now forced to have an at&t sim card in order to activate it..at&t screws u over again
I have a 2g iphone running on 2.2.1. Like to upgrade to OS 3 but afraid it cannot be unlocked using your Redsnow as the detail by detail guide you published is for 3G on OS 3. I am from the Philippines
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