QuickTips Index
How to Reboot or Restart a Frozen iPod touch
Using an iPod touch is usually a pretty smooth process. But from time to time, you’ll find that an app crashes and locks the iPod or that the touch freezes up completely.
Why Do iPod touch Software Updates Cost Money?
Owners of an iPod touch know something that few other iPod or iPhone owners know unless they pay very close attention when Apple releases new software for these devices: major software upgrades that are free to iPhone users cost US$10-$20 for iPod touch owners. The question many iPod touch owners ask is: why?
iPod Trade In Programs
Thinking of upgrading to a new iPod? Get credit for your old one and lower the cost.
Using iPhone Voice Control with Phone
Voice Control works with both the iPod and phone apps of the iPhone 3GS. When it comes to the phone, Voice Control is especially useful if your iPhone is in a pocket or you're driving and want to keep your eyes on the road while making a call.
Using iPhone Voice Control with Music
Voice Control works with both the iPod and phone apps of the iPhone 3GS. When it comes to music, Voice Control is especially useful if your iPhone is in a pocket or backpack and you want information about what you're hearing or to change what's playing.
What Languages Does Voice Control Support?
As of its June 2009 launch, iPhone Voice Control supports speech recognition in 21 languages.
Activating iPhone Voice Control
Voice Control can be activated by remote control or by using the iPhone hold button
How Well Does Voice Control Hear Music Names?
In anecdotal testing, I've found that while Voice Control is very good at understanding the names of the people from my address book that I want to call, it's pretty poor at understanding artist, album, or song names.
How to Turn Off the iPhone 3GS
In most cases, iPhone 3GS users don't want to fully turn their phones off when they're not using them. Instead, most of us usually just want to put the phone to sleep to conserve battery and prevent accidental calls. However, you might want to turn your phone off when it's got very low battery.
How to Reboot or Restart the iPhone 3GS
As it becoming clear the more and more features it gets, the iPhone 3GS is basically a small computer that can fit in your palm or your pocket. And though it may not look like your desktop or laptop, sometimes it needs to be restarted just like those bigger machines
Spotlight, the iPhone Search Tool
With the introduction of iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has made it much easier to find content on your iPhone with Spotlight, its search tool. Spotlight allows you to easily find and use the contents on your iPhone that match your search sorted by the apps they belong to.
Shake to Shuffle on iPhone OS 3.0
Shake to Shuffle is a neat feature that takes advantage of the iPhone's built-in accelerometer. This feature does very much what you'd guess: by shaking the iPhone, you're able to shuffle the songs you're listening to and get a new, randomized playback order. Here's how to enable and use it.
Where to Buy iPhone Insurance
For small, expensive, often-dropped devices like cell phones, insurance is becoming an increasingly common add-on purchase. After all, if you spent $300-$400 on a phone, what's another $50 to ensure that it will keep working for the life of you cell phone contract? With the iPhone being one of the hottest phones on the market, many people are looking for iPhone insurance from Apple or AT&T. There's just one problem.
Apple TV-Compatible Remote Controls
The Apple TV comes standard with the palm-sized white remote control that's become a common element of the Apple ecosystem in recent years. But, the remote that comes with your Apple TV isn't the only remote that can control the device.
Double Space = Period, an iPhone Texting Shortcut
A texting shortcut that can help you type faster and more efficiently on the iPhone's onscreen keyboard.
Use iPhone Silent Mode or Vibrate By Turning Off the iPhone Ringer
To turn off the ringer on the iPhone — and turn on vibrate or silent mode — all you need to do is flip a switch.
The Onion's Celebrity iPod Interviews
Celebrities love their iPods as much as anyone. The Onion's AV Club asks various celebrities about their playlists and what it says about them.
iPhone Sensors
There are three sensors built into the iPhone that allow it to perform some of its coolest tricks. Learn about them here.
International iPhone: Avoid Data Roaming Charges
The iPhone's unlimited data plan is not avaialble when you take a U.S. iPhone overseas. There, you're phone will be in roaming - a status that costs more to make calls or download data. Since the iPhone constantly checks email accounts, data roaming can quickly add up to a bill of hundreds or thousands of dollars.
How to Quit a Frozen Program on the iPhone 3G
The iPhone 3G is essentially a small computer and just like on larger computers, sometimes programs freeze and keep you from using the phone for anything else. In this situation, it’s easy to quit that program.
How to Reset the iPhone 3G
Sometimes, the iPhone 3G gets so frozen that the standard force quit process for programs doesn’t work. In that case, you’ll need to reset the iPhone.
How to Turn Off an iPhone 3G
The iPhone 3G goes to sleep by default after it’s been inactive for a certain period of time. That’s just putting it to sleep, though. In some circumstances – like a very low battery – you may want to actually turn the iPhone off.
When You Can’t Report an iTunes Store Problem
Sometimes, problems with making purchases from the iTunes Store are so tricky or weird that you can’t follow the standard report a problem process for getting iTunes support.
Paid For iTunes Store Item, But Download Never Happened
Problems with purchases at the iTunes Store can take some funny turns. Sometimes you’ll make a purchase, get billed, and receive your confirmation via email, but the thing you bought will just never download. If this has happened to you, are you stuck? Have you paid for something you’ll never get?
iPhone Tips: Stop Accidental iPhone Hang Ups
Most iPhone users have probably experienced the annoyance, or even occasional embarrassment, of their cheek hitting the iPhone’s “end call” button and accidentally hanging up on the person they’re talking to.