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iOS 5: All the Little Things (Undocumented Features)

PatrickOMFG said:
To enable the Emoji keyboard go to Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards > Add New Keyboard

Choose Emoji, then whenever you're typing, you'll see a globe beside the space bar allowing you to access emoji.
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OMG!! Thank you so much for that tid-bit! I just came from a BB and was kind of missing :(a few of it's features. Now I'm getting back on track with all these "Little Things" which are BIG things for me and my new iPhone! :D
 
hipnetic said:
The dictation feature is my favorite new feature. It works really, really well. You can say various punctuation symbols to insert those (e.g., comma, period, colon), but I had a tough time figuring out how to insert a line break. I did some searching and I think I came across a manual for Dragon Dictation which uses Nuance and I believe that Nuance is what's used by the iOS dictation. Sure enough, the commands they use worked for iOS. So to insert a line break, you say "New Line" and to insert two line breaks, you say "New Paragraph".
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as posted on MacRumors...

http://blog.crushapps.com/2011/10/more-fun-with-siri-dictation/

a whole list on Siri commands.
 
I think I just found a feature that hasn't been posted, yet. I noticed that the alarm feature has been caching the past few alarms that I've set. I remember in iOS4, it would remember the last date/time of the alarm, but iOS5 seems to remember the past few different alarm times that have been set, making it easy to set multiple alarms and/or setting past alarms.
 
sorry about this, i know this has no thing to do but i need help!

ok, so i have a 32gb fourth generation ipod touch, i had ios 4.1 on it and i had never upgraded it since i bought it, i jailbroked it like last year using greenpoison, anyways i wanted to upgrade to ios 5 so wat i did was to try to restore my ipod first, however when trying to resetore i got error 1602 and now it just says connect to itunes, i allready tried putting into recovery more and restoring it once again but it didnt work, and i tried jailbreaking it again wit the exact same greenpoison as before but that didnt work either!

wat can i do!?

thanx!
 
2526 said:
sorry about this, i know this has no thing to do but i need help!

ok, so i have a 32gb fourth generation ipod touch, i had ios 4.1 on it and i had never upgraded it since i bought it, i jailbroked it like last year using greenpoison, anyways i wanted to upgrade to ios 5 so wat i did was to try to restore my ipod first, however when trying to resetore i got error 1602 and now it just says connect to itunes, i allready tried putting into recovery more and restoring it once again but it didnt work, and i tried jailbreaking it again wit the exact same greenpoison as before but that didnt work either!

wat can i do!?

thanx!
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Try the hack forum
 
aicul said:
If you power-off iphone and restart it, all your previously running apps will stll be runnin
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No they aren't. The app switcher displays all previously used applications, whether they are currently open (occupying memory) or not. This is how it has always behaved.

MXChristian11 said:
wow. finally!! thanks, been on iOS 5 since beta, and I just found this out.
embarrassed. but great find!
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Actually you could this in iOS 4. At least on the iPad.
 
Maverickster said:
If you have duplicate contacts in your iCloud Contacts List and your Exchange Contacts List, and you are viewing "All Contacts", it is displayed as a single contact under the heading "Unified Info" and it identifies the "Linked Cards".

It is not 100%, but close. I wish there were a way to force it to link the cards for the ones it missed, but I can't see how to do that.
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You actually can manually link contact cards. Just go into the contact that you have duplicates of that have not been linked, click to edit the contact, scroll down, and then where it shows linked cards you can choose "link contact" and choose the contact you want to add to the list. Save and voila!

I just had to do this with a bunch of my contacts, as my transition from Android to iOS left a lot of duplicates in my address book
 
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PatrickOMFG said:
To enable the Emoji keyboard go to Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards > Add New Keyboard

Choose Emoji, then whenever you're typing, you'll see a globe beside the space bar allowing you to access emoji.
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but now instead of the globe that button is now for dictation??
 
Airmark1 said:
You can use the split keyboard on the iPad. Settings general keyboard spli. Then select through the keyboard arrow icon


You can "swipe" to advance through the days on your Calendar on the iPhone (this might be old)

You can tell if you are texting or iMessageing vie the blank line right before you start typing.
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Split Keyboard is a Setting lol...it was set after the update and I thought it was a bug...PHEW!
 
iPad Calendar Pages

The joy I felt turning the pages of iCal, on the iPad, is difficult to describe.
 
I've been listening online my favorite album, from here
Aeiou

and I just noticed that Safari now automatically switches to the next song (when the last one is over.), which it didn't on iOS 4.3.5
 
I don't know if it's a new feature or not(or whether it's done through the OS or iCloud) as I have just now added a second iOS device but bookmarks on books are synced across devices. I can start on my iPad at the house and pick it up in the waiting room on my iPhone. Very very nice feature.
 
Mail now shows Gmail's "starred" items as "flagged". And vice versa.

Safari finally supports css properties position:fixed and overflow:scroll!
 
boomhower said:
I don't know if it's a new feature or not(or whether it's done through the OS or iCloud) as I have just now added a second iOS device but bookmarks on books are synced across devices. I can start on my iPad at the house and pick it up in the waiting room on my iPhone. Very very nice feature.
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the reading list is synced too! Even better, some games can be started on your ipad and continued on your iphone (or vice versa).
 
If you get Wolfram Alpha app then Siri becomes about 11 times more intelligent, happily answering questions like: 'What is highest mountain on Earth? What is 15% of $92 etc. Nice pop-up interface too.
 
Autocorrect no longer tries to change hell to he'll. I HATED that. This alone was worth the time/hassle of upgrading to iOS 5.
 
wms said:
If you get Wolfram Alpha app then Siri becomes about 11 times more intelligent, happily answering questions like: 'What is highest mountain on Earth? What is 15% of $92 etc. Nice pop-up interface too.
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Thank you!

I had purchased Wolfram Alpha a long time ago but had taken it off my iPhone 4 so it wasnt on my 4s.

Steve
 
jatt559 said:
I was sending an iMessage to a friend... and while it was still sending, I wanted to copy it so I can send it to another friend. I noticed the option to send as text message.
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I don't have this option how did you do this?

iToNe24 said:
u can copy pics in the new album but then u cannot delete the original pics out of the camera roll
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I wish you could delete them after moving them to a different album. I take a lot of pictures of my dogs and would always delete them after going through iPhoto and what not to put them in their own folder.
 
wms said:
If you get Wolfram Alpha app then Siri becomes about 11 times more intelligent, happily answering questions like: 'What is highest mountain on Earth? What is 15% of $92 etc. Nice pop-up interface too.
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normwood said:
Thank you!

I had purchased Wolfram Alpha a long time ago but had taken it off my iPhone 4 so it wasnt on my 4s.

Steve
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I'm pretty sure you don't need the WolframAlpha app..Siri uses WolframAlpha when she needs it. Both of these examples work on my phone and I've never downloaded their app.


I even did.."what is 3% of $1500 in Japanese Yen, and she showed me! :)
 
flatfoot99 said:
the reading list is synced too! Even better, some games can be started on your ipad and continued on your iphone (or vice versa).
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I have iCloud set up on my iPad and iPhone 4 and my games nor data is synced between the two how do you get that set up
 
think i just found another one, well at least i havnt seen it written anywhere...

If you tap any key on the keyboard with 2 fingers, it types it twice...

i.e
2 fingers on backspace goes back 2 spaces not 1...

i.e
letter O pressed with 2 fingers types OO on the screen.

handy little tool for speed
 
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