Hidden Features of iPhone OS 3.0

Im guessing that you know by know that Apple reported 100 new features in the new iPhone OS 3.0 . No matter if some of them seem identical, there are 100 new features and pretty much this OS rocks.If you dont know all of them , you can check them out in the link above. You can find , though, a lot of hidden features inside this new OS.

• you can now download apps redeemed from promo codes on the device. previously you could only redeem them and had to download them in iTunes

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• If you had a Safari Bookmark on the home screen, and the website didn’t have it’s own icon when you made the bookmark, if the website ever does get an icon, it will auto update on the home screen

• in Stocks if you “swipe” the mini-graph left, then a more detailed stock quote will show up with Open/High/Low/Volume/PE/Mkt Cap/52w High/52w Low/Avg Volume/Yield…and if you swipe another time to the left then news for that stock comes up and the news is scrollable in the vertical direction.

• when exiting an app, the minimize effect now has shading to make it seem more like it’s disappearing into the distance.

• when call forwarding is activated there is now an icons next the the carrier name

• in Stocks the right side of a stock quote, when tapped, used to toggle between value change and percent change. Now it also includes market cap.

• in Messages, the “Send” button is now grayed out until you start typing

• The keyboard letter keys are a few pixels narrower than in the last OS, and the spaces between the keys slightly wider

• Mail preview loading is much faster

• You can now share a contact

•You can now add 20 places to weather

• Messages has a new icon

• Unknown incoming calls show the location of the call

• if you start a movie/tv show on wifi. and go off the wifi network. itll finish over 3g.

• You can send as many pictures as you want in Mail. usually you can only “share” 5. this still holds true but with copy and paste you can copy as many photos as you want into the mail app.

• photos no longer turn upside down

• Podcasts are now sorted in ascending order by date/time stamp.

• When you attach a photo in mail, you can magnify it like you would text. Just tap and hold on the image.

• In one of the last iPhone OS updates Google Maps changed by default from Miles to Km in the UK and the only way to change it back was to change your region. This has now been fixed.

• When logging on to a secure website the Name of the site turns green and has a lock on it.

• messages now has its own tab in the settings along with store.

• you can close apps while they’re opening. previously you had to wait until the app was fully loaded until it would close

• when apps that play audio are closed, the audio now fades out instead of abruptly quitting.

• international keyboards are now more accurate

• Time elapsed and time remaining in songs, podcasts, etc. are now always displayed in double digits. For example it will display -02:45 instead of -2:45.

• At the end of one video podcast episode it will now play in the next episode available in the videos section of the iPod app.

• The iPod app “scrubber” now is outlined and glows when selected with little directions under it that explain what to do.

• when you bring up playback controls and hit play when nothing is playing, it will automatically shuffle your songs. previously it played them in alphabetical order.

• When the is iPhone vertical, videos played through the iPod app will fit to screen. In 2.X they always played as if the iPhone was horizontal.

• you can zoom further into photos in the Camera Roll then you could with 2.0.

• iPhone 2.2 would search your Exchange global addressbook, if you started typing a name into an email’s To: field, but now you can search the global Address book directly from your Contacts app, and get telephone numbers too!

• You can now select which folders to push from MS Exchange so you can have folders other than inbox synced

• Previously TV episodes within a season were listed on the iPod in reverse sequence (eg. ep3, ep2, ep1) – but now they are listed in the more usual ascending sequence (ep1, ep2, ep3, etc).

• TV Show seasons are now grouped together into one group.

• when using the camera, if you tap on the previous photo (bottom left) and go to the flimstrip, you can select “Done” to go back to the camera.

• The App Store now shows your current account on the bottom of each search page. Clicking on it will allow you to sign out or login to view/edit account information.

• When you buy something from the iTunes App, the purchase now goes into your general iTunes purchases list, instead of a specific “iPhone purchases” list.

• 3.0 has LDAP Directory support. It now searches through my company directory as I’m typing a name or email address.

• You can now type a second SMS message while the first is in the process of sending.

• when typing lol auto correct no longer makes it LOL

• You have the option to forward a contact on to someone now when you view their contact details.

• on previous versions, whenever you restored from a back up, the original apple applications would go back to the position they were at before the restore but the app store applications wouldn’t. now, app store applications go back to their position from before the restore

• applications no longer install on the first page, even if you have an open space. it automatically goes to the next open space after the first page

• when moving icons on the home screen and you move an app to a different page, if you keep the icon to the edge of the page it will go on to the next page. previously you had to move the icon away from the edge before you could keep moving it to other pages.

• in music if you go to Artist->Album, then the back button on the top left displays the artist’s name, rather than just “albums”

• it shows which phone (mobile, home) or location (Orlando, FL, etc) you dialed under the number or name in Recents

• Recents now also display whether or not the call was incoming or outgoing in the list

• Voicemail also displays what phone the voicemail is from (mobile, home, etc) or the location (city, state)

• Clicking an iCal link (subscription calendar link) will ask you if you want to subscribe to that calendar

• you can control the speed that thing rewind and fast forward by moving your finger vertically along the screen while scrubbing horizontally. different heights on the screen are different speeds

• Safari now has a phishing warning

• In Settings-Phone you can edit ‘My Number’ so it displays at the top of your contacts list

• You can send pictures to emails using the Messages application, just type in the email, input a message (if you want) and attach a picture

• There is a new iPhone setting under phone numbers in the contacts. It still has home, mobile, work, etc, but also now has iPhone

• now there is a different way to force quit apps. now you have to hold the sleep/wake button until the red slider appears, then you hold down the home button to quit the app

• the push notification settings for mail have been moved to the mail, contacts, and calendars menu in settings instead of being on the main settings menu

• you can now have 11 home screen pages instead of nine

• when a text message is recieved and you do not “Slide to view” but want to look at it later, when you open the messages app it will open up to the latest received message

• shake to shuffle is now on the iPhone/iPod Touch

• in the calendar app there is now an availability field. you can chose from busy, free, tentative, or out of office

• When using edit to delete new mail, the new message blue dot appears on the left as well as the delete dot, so you can see what’s unread

• curse words are no longer auto-corrected

• when listening to a podcast or audiobooks, you now have the options to email the link, rewing 30 seconds, or chose the playback speed (1/2x, 1x or 2x)

• when typing a long text message, it enlarges the text box you are typing in to all the way to the top of the screen rather than limiting it to like 4 lines

• when you engage airplane mode you can no longer enter phone preferences and it says airplane mode next to it

• when you create a new calendar event and add a number in the notes field, you now have the option to call that number when viewing the event

• when a ringtone has a long name and is assigned to a contact instead of cutting off the name of the ringtone it just makes the text smaller

• you can now type all emoji icons when in landscape. previously, the landscape keyboard would cut some of the icons off.

• when making a genius playlist, it has little dots instead of letters for every second letter

• smart playlist now update on the device. previously they wouldn’t update until the next time you synced it with iTunes. this means that if you have a smart playlist to include all songs with a rating of 5 stars, whenever you rat a song on the device, it automatically moves to the playlist.

• you can now delete notes using the swipe method as you’ve been able to do in mail

• you can now turn off the second SMS message alert

• when a call has failed, you can slide to call back

• you can now edit contact info from the message app

• when a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted

• when one tab is left in Safari, you can now “close” that tab. when you tap the red X on the last tab, it opens up a blank page

• in previous versions, when you switched to the 123 keyboard and hit space before you typed anything, it would automatically go back to the ABC keyboard. now it won’t automatically go back to the ABC keyboard unless you typed at least one thing with the 123 keyboard. (i tried to not make this sound confusing, lol)

• more keys on the keyboard now have more options when holding them down. “.” now has “…”, “-” now has a longer dash, quotations and apostrophes can now be curved, quotations also has the option for “<<” and “>>”

• when charging and playing a song, the album art comes up. previously it showed the battery icon

• you can now switch iTunes account straight from the device. you can do this in Settings, iTunes Store, and the App Store

• images taken with the camera are now more crisp

• you can now share, copy, and delete multiple images. just press the icons in the lower left corner and start selecting pictures. you can only share up to 5 pictures and you can only delete pictures taken with the camera an screenshots

• the iPod App now reconizes Japanese hiragana and lists it in the right order if you insert the spelling into iTunes. previously this only worked in the contacts app

• there is now more information displayed for phone calls

• viewing music videos in the iPod/Music app now play in portrait mode rather than showing an image of the video

• the badge for the App Store telling you that you have and update now goes away when you start updating the app. previously it stayed there until it was done updating

• if you play a podcast that has notes included, the notes are now displayed as soon as the podcast starts

• App store reviews no longer default to 1-star ratings – they now default to no rating and require you to choose one

• previously if you device was in a dock and playing music while in other applications, whenever you skipped tracks it would take you too the iPod Application. it no longer does this

• Google Sync allows 25 synced calendars to your iPhone now. previously they only allowed 5

• you can now sync calendar subscribed calendars from iCal

• instead of using spotlight to search the whole in the whole device, most applications now have a search bar at the very top (slide the menu down for it to appear). these only search within that application.

• if you add an address under the “Notes” field in a calendar event or in the notes app, tapping the address brings it up in maps

• you can now agree to the iTunes terms and conditions straight from the device

• instead of swiping to get to spotlight you can also hit the home button from the first home screen page

• text messages seem to be clearer as in easier to read than before

• in the app store, screenshots of the app are now displayed differently. they no longer pop up but instead you just slide through them. (i am in no way affiliated with Skype.)

• when no headphones are inserted or if the device is in a dock, the volume scrubber goes away

• street view and the ability to change the transportation method is now on the iPod Touch. this was previously only on the iPhone

• you can now edit double-click home button preferences on the iPod Touch

• On the App Store, instead of having an updates tab its labeled as “more” where you can check updates or redeem codes. the iTunes is also the same way

•In maps tapping on the blue dot will display the approximate current address. Also, the dot appears to be larger overall

• On the stop watch app, when you hit lap, instead of the timer starting at 0 it keeps going but has a second timer in the top right hand corner

• In the camera app in the lower left hand corner where you would click to go to the Camera Roll instead of a generic logo it shows you a small preview of last photo in the roll

• Taping and holding a link in Safari now brings up a menu with “Open” “Open in new window” and “Copy” which copies the link location

• Notes now has data detectors. Links are clickable, phone numbers are callable, email address are emailable, and address are locatable (using Maps)

• you can now encrypt your iPod/iPhone backups in iTunes

• the device now remembers whether or not you had the video playback controls up the last time you exited a video. it you did have them up, the video starts with them up. if you didn’t have them up, the video starts with them not up

• you can now view .gif images

• when you are in voice recorder and you ‘tap’ the mic image on screen the VU meter pulses (as if you are tapping a real mic)

• you can now add invitees to calendar events (Microsoft Exchange only)

• when bringing up the playback controls on the lock screen it now shows song title, artist, and album. previously it only showed the song title. the font is also smaller

• there is a new UI for using the camera and importing images in 3rd party apps. (using the camera found by Etnies419) (importing images found by iAppTime)

• In the settings -> general -> home button you can now set the double click to the new search feature or the camera

• Number of installed applications now shows under Settings->General->About

• There is an edit button when your inside a conversation and you can now delete/forward each line in a text just like you would in mail

• you can shake to undo typing

• there is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). once you reach the home screen limit, apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in spotlight. below 67 of the 203 apps are not shown on the home screen. you can also use this to hide any apple application (i.e. weather and stocks)

• in messages, the sending bar now replaces the name at the top instead of being imposed over the message history

thx to everybody at MacRumors