Helpful+Hints

= Helpful Hints found on a website for use with iOS 5 =

How many do you know or can you use?

List all helpful/useful tricks found in iOS 5 here! From the typical double tap home button to the exotic two finger spread on the keyboard. **Anywhere** **Multi-Tasking Tray** **Home Screen** **Lock Screen** **In An App** Safari Mail Calendar Photos Camera Settings - General Settings - General - Accessibility **Keyboard** Moving/Docking/Splitting Typing **In Specific Areas** In A Text Field In A List Field If some of these don't work, check your settings. You may need to alter a few settings, i.e. the "." Shortcut can be found in the keyboard settings.
 * Double tap home button to bring up the multi-tasking tray
 * Swipe down from the top menu bar to bring down the notification tray
 * If the menu bar is hidden (in a game or video), swipe from the top, then swipe the little hook in the middle down, to bring down the notification tray (or just check the time)
 * Hold the home button and press the power button to take a screenshot
 * With Multi-Tasking Gestures On (Found in Settings - General):
 * Four finger swipe up to bring up the multi-tasking tray
 * Four finger swipe left and right between recent apps
 * Five finger close to go to the home screen
 * When listening with headphones plugged in, removing the headphones will pause whatever you were listening to. Also, audio volume will automatically be set back to what it was before you plugged in headphones.
 * Swipe to the right for music player, volume, brightness, and Mute/Lock Screen options
 * Most music/video playing in an app, can be continued to be played outside of the app. Just close the app, bring up the multi-tasking tray and swipe right. Then hit play. The respective app should be shown to the right of the music player options.
 * Press home button from page 1 to go to spotlight (finder search tool)
 * Press home button once to return to page 1, from anywhere else
 * Long press on an app to cause apps to jiggle, allowing you to move them around. Press home button to stop the jiggle.
 * To group apps into a folder, long press an icon to make them jiggle for rearrangement and drag one on top of the other.
 * You can rename folders by opening them, in jiggle mode, and tapping the name
 * Double tap home button to bring up music player options
 * Tap the menu bar (top of the screen, where time/battery indicators are) to scroll to the top.
 * A lot of apps have a hidden refresh gesture, usually a swipe down or up and release
 * Long press on the + (Add Tab) button for a menu of recently closed tabs
 * Long press on the back/forward keys for a menu of pages to navigate
 * Double tap and hold to make selection
 * Long press the .com key for .net, .org, .com, .us, .edu options
 * You can create [|bookmarklets] or [|more bookmarklets]
 * On a text rich website, press the Reader button in Safari's URL bar for an enhanced reading experience
 * Press the options arrow in the menu bar and press Add to Home Screen to add a shortcut to this webpage to your home screen
 * For gesture based browsing use Atomic Web or another third party browser
 * Set up Gmail as Exchange for push Calendar/Contacts + Email
 * In portrait view, swipe right once to bring up mail list. Swipe right once more to go up a level
 * Remember you can paste images into emails
 * Swipe between pages
 * In month view, double tap day to zoom to that day
 * Long press to insert an event
 * Tap date/time or words relating to date/times (they'll look like links) in emails or web pages to create an event for that date/time
 * Two finger spread on a photo to enlarge
 * Two finger pinch on a photo to shrink back to the gallery
 * Tap and hold for a possible copy action
 * Use the top-right arrow in the gallery to select multiple photos to copy
 * Copied photos can be easily pasted into emails
 * Select Edit on the top menu, you can edit photos simply here
 * Tap to focus
 * Two finger spread/pinch for digital zoom
 * Swipe right/tap gallery photo to go to most recent photos
 * Configure what the side switch does
 * Turn iPad Smart Cover Lock/Unlock on/off
 * WiFi Sync from the iPad
 * Set a Passcode Lock
 * Toggle Triple tap home button action to: invert colors (White on Black), Zoom, VoiceOver, AssistiveTouch, Ask
 * Two finger spread on the keyboard to split it
 * Two finger pinch on the keyboard to merge it
 * Long press on the hide keyboard button to bring up options to split/undock the keyboard
 * Short press on the hide keyboard button and drag to split + move the keyboard up/down
 * Typing in the margins of a split keyboard will trigger the keys you're looking for, i.e. typing just to the right of 'v' will trigger a 'b'
 * You can create an [|Emoji keyboard]
 * Double tap/Two finger tap spacebar to insert a period + space (Three finger tap = period + 2 spaces, Four finger tap = period + 3 spaces, or rapid tap for infinite space insertion!)
 * Long press/Swipe up on the comma key to insert an apostrophe/single quote
 * Long press/Swipe up on the period key to insert a double quote
 * Long press/Swipe up any letter for possible accented characters
 * Long press/Swipe up any symbol for possible related symbols
 * After pressing but not letting go of a key, if you didn't want to press it simply slide away and your key doesn't register
 * Press and hold backspace and after a bit entire words will be deleted at a time
 * Shake the iPad to bring up an action menu with possible undo/redo typing actions
 * Double tap the shift key to enable caps lock
 * Short press the ".?123" key and drag to the symbol you want then release to insert symbol and return to typical keyboard
 * Short press shift and drag to the key you want to save a tap
 * Long press the - for various bullet options
 * Tap to bring up options for possible: Select, Select All, Copy, Paste
 * Tap and hold to bring up a magnifying glass to move the cursor precisely
 * Double tap to select a word, and bring up options for possible: Copy, Cut, Paste, Define, Suggest
 * Double tap and hold to make selection
 * Swipe left/right to bring up a possible delete option