TIPS

Locate your lost iPhone.

If you’ve lost your iPhone, Find My iPhone can help you locate it on a map and protect its data. Display a message on its screen, remotely set a passcode lock, or initiate a remote wipe to delete your data.

Choose your wallpaper.

In Settings, choose Wallpaper, tap the image of the Lock and Home screens, then tap one of your photo albums or tap Wallpaper for the Apple-designed images. Find the image you want, tap Set, and then choose whether to use it as wallpaper for your Lock screen, Home screen, or both.

Scroll to the top fast.

In Safari, Mail, Contacts, and many other apps, tap the status bar at the top of the screen — which displays the network information, time, and battery level — to scroll quickly to the top.

Learn some keyboard tricks.

• Tap the space bar twice, and iPhone adds a period and capitalizes the next word.
• To enter a number or symbol quickly, touch and hold , then select the key you want. Lifting your finger returns you to the alphabet keyboard.
• Touch and hold a letter to reveal a list of special characters.

• Take a picture of your screen.
• Press and hold the Home button, then press the Sleep/Wake button. Your screen flashes and the picture of your screen appears in your Camera Roll.
• Create an iPod playlist.
• In the iPod app, tap Playlists, then tap Add Playlist and give it a name. Now tap any song or video to add it to the playlist. You can add individual songs, entire albums, or all songs by an artist.
• Tap to focus the camera.
• While shooting video or photos, tap the screen where you want to focus. iPhone will also adjust the exposure and white balance automatically.
• Place a call on hold.
• On iPhone 4, touch and hold the Mute button to put a call on hold (GSM model only).
• Get back to your draft.
• In Mail, touch and hold the Compose button to switch to your last saved message draft.
• Read the iPhone User Guide.
• For more tips, tricks, and instructions, tap the Bookmarks icon in Safari, then select iPhone User Guide.