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Q: Set up a password policy that has a maximum failed login attempts and a reset after a certain period of time I tried using pwpolicy to set this up. I was able to set up maxFailedLoginAttempts, but setting minutesUntilFailedLoginReset doesn't seem to do anything. When I query pwpolicy using:
pwpolicy -n /Local/Default -getglobalpolicy
I keep seeing that minutesUntilFailedLoginReset=0 even though I just set it to 60. I even tried changing this for one user, and it claims it was changed but when I query the user's policy or the effective policy nothing has changed.
A: I’m assuming that you’re aware that pwpolicy doesn’t affect Admin accounts (tho it may show you otherwise, leading to believe that it does).
I also asume that you’re running the commands as sudo or at least have tried.
Other than that, I haven’t tried that value myself. As a side (and curious) note the minutesUntilFailedLoginReset is not in the manpage for pwpolicy.
man pwpolicy
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Q: Growl Notifications for Stack Exchange websites? I'm looking for a way to get Growl notifications for new questions on the Stack Exchange websites, matching some pre-defined tags.
I've tried SENotify, but it didn't work for me. Any alternative?
A: I get Stack Exchange Growl notifications using Adium + Stackguru.
A: RSS Growler + feeds?
A: Have a look to Newt on StackApps, I'm currently using it and it's a pretty neat and solid app.
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Q: Mac startup key sequences What are the Mac hardwares various startup key sequences?
On the older Macs, Shift used to be start without extensions, Ctrl-Apple-O-F would boot to OpenFirmware, (but didn't the Intel Macs switch to EFI BIOS's?)
If the shortcut is hardware specific, please note it.
A: Google is your friend: http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/Tech_Notes/Mac_Keys.shtml
*
*Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD): commandoptionshiftdelete
*Boot from CD (Most late model Apples): C
*Force the internal hard drive to be the boot drive: D
*Boot from a specific SCSI ID #. (# is SCSI ID number): commandoptionshiftdelete#
*Zap PRAM: commandoptionPR
*Boot into open Firmware: commandoptionOF
*Clear NV RAM. Similar to reset-all in open Firmware: commandoptionNV
*Disable Extensions: shift
*Rebuild Desktop: commandoption
*Close finder windows (hold just before finder starts): option
*Boot with Virtual Memory off: command
*Trigger extension manager at boot-up: SPACE
*Force Quadra av machines to use TV as a monitor: commandoptionTV
*Boot from ROM (Mac Classic only): commandoptionXO
*Force PowerBooks to reset the screen: R
*Force an AV monitor to be recognized as one: commandoptionAV
*Eject Boot Floppy: Hold Down Mouse Button
*Select volume to start from: option
*Start in Firewire target drive mode: T
*Startup in OSX if OS9 and OXS in boot partition: X or commandX
*Attempt to boot from network server: N (Hold until Mac Logo appears)
*Hold down until the 2nd chime, will boot into 9?: commandoption
*OSX: Watch the status of the system load: commandV
*OSX: Enter single-user mode (shell-level mode): commandS
A: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1533
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Q: Verify that entries in iTunes are actually on disk I have a ton and a half of songs in my iTunes (Windows 7). I recently consolidated my library from 3 different Hard Drives.
I also deleted some of the unwanted music folders on my C Drive (but I forgot to make a list so I could delete from iTunes).
I want to verify that all the songs in the library actually exist on disk.
It is physically impossible for me to just play each song one at a time to find out if it exists or not.
I know that I have to disconnect my HDDs (just keep C drive) to do this.
I know that I can export the library and purely check for the existence of file://D/ and file://E/, but that won't cover the music files blown away from the C drive.
How do I verify that all entries in iTunes have a physically valid file on my C drive?
A: User "sentinel"'s approach is simple and elegant, but I cannot make it work. Steps 1 & 2 produce a playlist with ALL items, including those in the Library that do not have files on the disk. The Select All in Step 1 selects all items, whether present on disk or not, and thus the playlist created from selection includes the bogus entries as well. Therefore, Step 3 yields nothing. (Am I missing something?)
Meanwhile I found a post elsewhere from someone calling him/herself dlegros in 2005, and though it is a workaround, it does work:
*
*Caveat: for this to work you need to use a field in the Get Info form that you do not use or do not care about, because you are going to ultimately erase any information that currently exists in that field for every song in the library. In this example we are going to use BPM (Beats Per Minute) as this seems rarely used and is not important to most people. If BPM is important to you, don't do this, or find another field you don't care about. You must use a field that is editable in the Get Info form.
*Display your Music Library.
*Add the BPM column to your view (in Windows right click the column headers and select Beats Per Minute).
*Edit >> Select All
*Open the Get Info form (File >> Get Info, OR Ctrl-I, OR right click one of the selected items and choose Get Info). Make sure all of your songs are still selected and that the title on the top of the Get Info form says "Mulitple Item Information".
*Change the BPM field to 999, make sure the check box next to that field is the only one checked in the form so that no other data will change, then click OK and wait for the library to process the change. This will only change items when iTunes can find the file on disk.
*Click the BPM column header to sort by BPM. Everything that has blank BPM, or BPM not equal to 999 is a missing file. Because you sorted, you see all the missing items together. Select the block of missing items and delete them.
*Though not completely necessary, Select All once again, Get Info, and change the BPM field to blank, select the checkbox next to BPM, and OK to reset them all to blank.
*Select the column headers and remove Beats Per Minute from the view.
If there is a more straightforward approach, please let me know :)
A: *
*Choose Edit > Select all.
*Now choose File > New playlist from selection. Call the playlist "Exist". Only the listings that exist on disk will be added to this playlist.
*Now create a smart playlist called "Do Not Exist" with the conditions: Playlist is not "Exist", and Media Kind is Music.
The smart playlist called "Do Not Exist" now contains all the audio listings that do not exist on disk. To remove these listings, select all of them and hold down Shift as you press Delete.
A: sentinel's answer is now 7 years old but still works... almost. It won't work currently as stated.
Modifying it slightly, here's the new procedure as of 4/4/2017:
*
*Create a new playlist called "Exists". Do not select any music first, just create it blank. If you select all and "New Playlist from Selection", iTunes will NOT verify the songs, so don't do that. Just create the blank playlist.
*Select-All on your music and drag all the songs to that playlist. This will take a couple minutes to process, as it's verifying that each song can be found.
*Optional - Select All on your songs again and try to create a "New Playlist from Selection", to an "Exists - Old Method" playlist. Then compare the song count of that playlist to the song count of the new method's "Exists" playlist. The new method will have fewer songs if any weren't found.
*Same as the old method, create a Smart Playlist named "Not Exists" or whatever, with rules "Playlist is not 'Exists'" and "Media Kind is Music". Right click and update if it doesn't update on creation.
That playlist will contain all the songs that weren't found. If you know they were just duplicates or whatever, you can simply select all, right click, and "Delete From Library" to clear them out and leave the non-duplicates.
That cleaned up my own library after I'd moved some directories around and re-added them.
And until I did that, Sync'ing to my iPhone was erroring out on some of those duplicate songs and thus not syncing the songs at all, even the duplicates that DID exist.
Thanks for pointing the way, sentinel!
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Q: How do I sync apps that I have bought on the iPhone? I have bought a number of apps on my iPhone. When I try to set up syncing with iTunes it says that this will remove all of the apps.
How do I make iTunes not want to replace all of the apps and instead just make a backup of the existing ones?
A: I had this same issue after I recreated my iTunes library. This may be totally off because it was about a month ago, but I think I did this:
*
*canceled the sync
*clicked on the iPod under devices or whatever (maybe I secondary clicked)
*I think after I clicked (or secondary clicked) on it, there was an option to copy purchased items
Sorry this is so vague, it's been awhile :)
on edit:
I just tested this out by alt clicking iTunes, creating a new library, and connecting my iPod. It's pretty much exactly how I described.
*
*cancel the sync
*secondary click the iPod on the left
*click "transfer purchases"
Afterwards, you can sync, and everything will be erased and rewritten to the iPod.
I'm not sure why Apple makes this so confusing. The only reason I can come up with is that they want people to have to repurchase stuff but that seems a little over the top even from Apple.
A: When you plug your iPhone into your computer and sync it with iTunes, it will first copy purchased apps to iTunes (it shows this on the status window), then complete the sync.
I purchase apps on my iPhone/iPad all the time and don't worry about it, just plug in and sync.
A: I asked the same question on SuperUser a while ago, and nobody could give me a solid answer.
What I ended up having to do is just download all the apps that I wanted in iTunes then sync my iPhone. I cannot remember if iTunes actually removed the apps that I did not already have in iTunes, but in the end it worked.
PS. I hope you don't have too many apps :)
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Q: Does Chase's QuickDeposit feature work on the iPod Touch 4G? Now that the new iPod Touch has a camera, I'm thinking of buying it.
However, since Apple crippled its resolution (960 x 720), I'm not so sure.
Does Chase Mobile's QuickDeposit feature work with the lower camera resolution?
A: looks like they just updated to version 2.8.1202, release notes say "Quick Deposit for iPod touch - Now you can use your camera-enabled iPod touch to make a deposit."
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Q: Good way to keep iPad clean? I don't have a case or screen protector just yet for my iPad. What is a cost effective way to keep the screen clean and remove fingerprints?
A: Use a micro fiber cloth, like the ones used for cleaning glasses. Works for my touch screen devices all the time and needs no extra liquids or any other fancy gear.
A: I LOVE the iKlear products. I spilled hot tea all over my MacBook Pro about 3 weeks after I bought it. There were streaks of tea all over the screen and external case. Luckily I was using a moshi keyboard cover which kept the liquid out of the keyboard area and probably saved my machine.
After I completely tore it down to make sure there was no internal damage, I tried cleaning the screen with a microfiber cloth and a small amount of water. It worked alright but I could still see the streaks and even fingerprints and keyboard marks when I held the screen up to a light. So I spent some time researching the best external cleaning solution and iKlear seemed to be held in high regard.
I got this kit from Amazon and it's truly amazing how well the solution and cloths work to clean the glass screen. The tea streaks and every other little smudge and bit of goo came off like magic. Literally takes about 15 seconds to clean the screen to a mirror finish. It works very well on the aluminum case and keyboard as well.
I also use it on my iPod Touch and Motorola Droid. Since the iPad is made out of the same stuff as the MBP and the iPod, I highly recommend this stuff. You spent all that money on your iPad, i think it's worth an additional 20 bucks or so to get a good cleaning solution.
A: Use the Fingerspoo iPad wallpaper and you won't notice fingerprints anymore.
A: Options:
*
*Almost every Apple product except the iPad seems to come with a microfibre cloth, which I would recommend you use.
*If you have a case for your iPad, I have seen some people buy a regular microfibre cloth and keep it in the case. Maybe even cut it to about 1/4 the size for portability.
*The Apple store actually sells little microfibre cloths. They are pretty expensive though and are VERY small.
*Use your shirt.
A: I just use wet wipes. Gets chocolate off too
A: I have quite a few microfiber cloths around the house that I use for detailing cars, and I usually keep one of those out (that hasn't been used on the car) to wipe my iPhone and iPad.
A: Yesterday I was using mine in a meeting, and a guy next to me said, "What do you use to wipe the screen down?"
I said, "My shirt." And I demonstrated my super-fancy wipe-the-screen-on-my-shirt maneuver I've worked out.
It's cheap, and it works. It's not exactly high class, but whatever.
A: In Belgium, we don’t have “real” Apple Stores yet, but we do have Switch, which is the official Apple reseller in our country.
Anyway, they sell this iClean product which can be used to clean your Mac. Guess what? It also works fine for iOS devices. It comes with a microfiber cloth included and it works really well for me.
A: Wash your hands!
Of course you would have to do it every 10 minutes or so... Or maybe just every 2 or 3 hours, if you work in a cold environment and don't sweat - different than hot Brasilian weather. =(
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Q: iPad 3G, is it only 3G Can the iPad 3G only use 3G and Wifi, or can it use Edge or 2G (the little blue dot on iphone)?
A: The iPad uses the same mobile chip set as the iPhone and cam (depending on your data provider) use Edge (denoted by an E) or GPRS (seen as a circle).
O2 in the UK definitely does.
A: "3G + WiFi" is just a commercial tag line.
the 3G part stands for internet access throughout a mobile connection, usually using a SIM Card.
The full range of connections on a "3G" model can be found in the Technical Specifications of the product, in this case:
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Q: MacBook Pro Memory This relates to my previous question regarding my MacBook Pro. Why is my MacBook Pro quitting and/or failing to start up?
I need to replace one of my 2G DIMMs and in shopping around at Crucial and OWC I notice that they also carry matched sets.
So, is there any reason that I should spend the extra $ and replace both DIMMs as opposed to just the bad one?
A: From my experience with PC's (not mac's), it's not absolutely necessary that you match your RAM. However, it's also a bit of a crapshoot because different RAM modules have different timings and voltage requirements, so:
*
*if you use modules with different timings, you'll have to run both modules at the lowest speed or risk instability in the module with the lower speed timings.
*if the modules have different power requirements, you run into the same issue as above. If you run at the lower of the voltages, the higher voltage module may be unstable. If you run at the higher voltage, the lower voltage module may be unstable or even fail.
Hopefully someone else can comment on how this applies in an Apple computer since there is no way that I know of to modify voltage and RAM timings. Note however, that even in a PC, two completely different RAM modules usually work without incident if you match voltages and use the lower of the two modules timings. Even different voltages will usually work.
I would look for a module that carries the same specifications as your original RAM, at least as far as timing (latency) and voltage are concerned. If you can find one then I wouldn't be very concerned about using it with your existing RAM stick. The chances of it being incompatible or causing instability would be very low in my opinion.
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Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut for launching Activity Monitor? I can't seem to find a shortcut for launching the activity monitor. Does it have one?
A: Save in AppleScript Editor and assign a shortcut in FastScripts or some other way:
tell app "Activity Monitor"
reopen -- makes a new window if there are no existing windows
activate -- brings the app to front
end tell
A: Create in Automator an Action to launch Activity Monitor:
Then in System Preferences -> Shortcuts Tab -> Services set a keyboard shortcut for the created service:
A: Otherwise of Spotloight that @Calavera suggest you can use 3rd-party software such as:
*
*QuickSilver
*Namely
*TigerLaunch
*HimmelBar
*LaunchBar
I myself use QuickSilver and set shortcut ⌘+space to run it and type some part of "Activity Monitor" and press ⌫ so Activity Monitor will run.
A: For starting apps, scripts, etc. with a single shortcut, there exist some specific tools.
*
*NuKit - free trial, download from MacUpdate or their site.
*Apptivate - 2.0 is no longer free and as of now, it's unfortunately traded usability for eye candy.
Apptivate offers to switch away from apps with the same shortcut. The NuKit team promised to add it soon.
A: You can use System keyboard shortcuts, Services and Automator to do this.
See my answer to a similar question here
A: A simpler way is using aliases. Most pro users use them pretty frequently and I have one for launching Activity Monitor as well.
Even on macOS Big Sur my default shell is bash and not zsh. Put the following line in ~/.bash_profile file: (I switched to zsh finally. All of my bash aliases worked fine except for the ones containing special characters. I just added a \ in front of the special characters to escape them and then it all worked as expected.)
Put the following line in ~/.zshrc:
alias am="open -a activity\ monitor"
Now, all you have to do is type am in Terminal, press enter, and it opens Activity Monitor.
FWIW, here's other aliases too that I have in my ~/.zshrc that have incredibly improved my ability to use macOS:
##### ---------- File Access Commands.... ----------
alias ll="ls -lahG"
alias co="curl -O"
alias editsh="nano ~/.zshrc;source ~/.zshrc"
alias mv="mv -iv"
alias cp="cp -iv"
alias cll="clear;ll"
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ..\..'
##### --------- Git Commands --------
alias gtalias="alias | grep \"^alias gt\""
alias gts="git status"
alias gtd="git diff"
alias gtpull="git pull"
alias gtlog="git log"
alias gtc="git checkout"
alias gtcmas="gtc master"
alias gtb="git branch"
alias gtpush="git push"
alias gtst="git stash"
alias gtstpop="gtst pop"
alias gtstapply="gtst apply"
alias gtstsv="gtst save"
alias gtstli="gtst list"
alias gtctall="git commit -a"
alias gtmm="git merge origin/master"
alias gtsu="git submodule update"
#### Application & Web Access Commands - 1
alias int="open -a IntelliJ\ IDEA\ CE"
alias slk="open -a slack"
alias am="open -a activity\ monitor"
alias rdc="open -na Microsoft\ Remote\ Desktop"
alias smc="open -a Cisco\ AnyConnect\ Secure\ Mobility\ Client"
alias rdt="s https://www.reddit.com/"
alias frdt="ff https://www.reddit.com/"
alias mu="osascript -e \"set volume output volume 0\""
alias fv="osascript -e \"set volume output volume 100\""
alias tv="open -a tv"
alias cln="open -a clion"
alias mail="open -a mail"
alias keys="open -a KeyChain\ Access"
alias ss="open -a screen\ sharing"
alias dul="open -a disk\ utility"
alias maps="s https://maps.google.com"
alias map="open -a maps"
alias msg="open -a messages"
alias ft="open -a facetime"
alias pref="open -a System\ Preferences"
alias tpb="ffp https://thepiratebay.org/"
#### Application & Web Access Commands - 2
alias ntw="open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Network.prefPane/"
alias dsp="open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane/"
alias pdf="open -a preview"
alias ppt="open -a Microsoft\ PowerPoint"
alias pages="open -a pages"
alias knote="open -a keynote"
alias news="open -a news"
alias P="open -a photos"
alias c="open -a google\ chrome"
alias cprv="c --args --incognito"
alias intn="open -na IntelliJ\ IDEA\ CE"
alias v="open -a vlc"
alias nv="open -na vlc"
alias s="open -a safari"
alias ns="open -na safari"
alias m="open -a music"
stck="https://stackoverflow.com/"
alias sto="s $stck"
alias csto="c $stck"
alias fsto="ff $stck"
alias yut="s https://www.youtube.com/feed/history"
alias dict="open -a dictionary"
alias wiki="s https://en.wikipedia.org"
##### Machine Admin Commands
alias apon="sudo networksetup -setairportpower en1 on"
alias apoff="sudo networksetup -setairportpower en1 off"
alias apc="apoff;apon"
alias apc-="apon;apoff"
alias rshut="sudo shutdown -r now"
alias hshut="pmset -g batt;sudo osascript -e \"set Volume 0\";brt 0.01;sudo shutdown -h now"
alias sshut="sudo shutdown -s now"
Side Note: To learn how to migrate your aliases from bash to zsh, see this.
A: Not by default, but you can create one in System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Keyboard Shortcuts. Or you can use spotlight:
*
*type ⌘ + space
*start typing "activity monitor"
*as soon as activity monitor is highlighted in the spotlight list, hit return
A: You can you use BetterTouchTool to create keyboard shortcuts and even use the trackpad to create a gesture instead of keyboard shortcuts.
A: Hammerspoon is my favorite and is probably the most easiest to install and configure.
Here is the init.lua code for launching the Activity Monitor.
hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd","shift"}, "Escape", function()
hs.application.open("Activity Monitor")
end)
PS: I mapped my command key to control. So by mapping the hotkey to "cmd+shift+escape", I get similar functionality that I get in Windows(for opening the task manager)
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Q: Using JiTouch with synergy Is it possible to make Jitouch work with Synergy? Jitouch allows me to make gestures correspond to actions in different applications, but it doesn't allow me to select Unix programs (like the Synergy server) as a target.
A: The reason for this is that the Synergy server doesn't have an OS X frontend. I have the same issue with my Logitech mouse configuration -- I want to have a different scroll speed for Synergy because when I have acceleration enabled, the remote computer doesn't scroll properly. So I'd like to disable acceleration only when using synergy.
The solution would be to package synergys as an OS X app which, when you move your mouse to the remote computer, brings itself to the front (so that the menu bar contains only the Apple menu and a "Synergy" menu). I have planned for a long time to create such a wrapper which would accomplish this but just haven't had the time.
I didn't realize others would be interested in the same idea... If I ever complete that project I'll be sure to let you know! Or, maybe we should file a feature request with the synergy project? :-)
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Q: Custom iPad theme not showing up correctly I created a theme for iPad and am having a couple problems with it. In my theme are two custom icons, a wallpaper, and two png files for dock (one for landscape and one for portrait). The file structure for the theme is as follows:
CustomTheme.theme
*
*Bundles
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*com.apple.springboard
*
*SBDockBGT-Landscape.png
*SBDockBGT-Portrait.png
*Icons
*
*Coverflow.png
*MediaVideo.png
*Info.plist
*Wallpaper.png
1.) The two icons were created as the same size in Photoshop, but when I SSH the theme to the iPad, one is displayed bigger than the other.
2.) The other problem is my theme wallpaper is zoomed incorrectly and does not change orientation. It displays correctly when I use the Set As Wallpaper option from iOS though. I just want to know how do do it in a theme...
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Thomas
A: Switching off SummerBoard Mode fixed the icon issue.
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Q: Can I get HDR on the 4th gen iPod Touch by upgrading to iOS 4.1? I got to see the whole keynote at September 1st and assumed that iOS 4.1 would bring HDR to iPod Touch (4th gen) and the iPhone (3Gs and 4).
Today I got my iPod Touch and I don't get it, where's the HDR button? I get that there is no flash (was announced), but HDR Button should be there, right?
Did I wrongly assume that iPod Touch would have HDR?
A: HDR photo is only available on iPhone 4 with iOS 4.1. Also, the rear camera is less then 1MP where iPhone 3 is 5MP.
iPod Touch's Software Update page does not list HDR photo.
A: Do yourself a favor and buy Pro HDR. This works just great on my iPhone 3GS, even though it is slower than the Apple HDR feature.
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Q: iPhone photo download workflow for ONLY new photos onto Mac Cross posting this from SuperUser AND Photo.StackExchange since I have a bounty on it and have no replies yet, hopefully will get more attention here ;)
I'm finding my iPhone photo download workflow to be a bit cumbersome.
Here are my requirements:
*
*Download photos+video off my iPhone Camera Roll, but keep photos on iPhone
*Only display/download new photos+video on iPhone since last download
*Avoid iPhoto, ideally, because it makes me a bit nervous
*Have all my iPhone-taken photos+video available to view on my iPhone
*Maintain all EXIF/GPS metadata at all costs
Currently, I use regular folder structure + Picasa for all of my digital photos, however for my iPhone, I use iPhoto because it will "only display new items" when I go to import photos off my iPhone
I'm finding that will 5000+ photos+videos on my iPhone, iPhoto generally takes a while (2-10 minutes) to 'find' my iPhone after I plug it in.
Ideally, I'd like to just use OSX's built in ImageCapture.app to download iPhone photos, but it loads/displays ALL the photos, not just the new ones since last sync (as iPhoto does..). I then have to know which was the last downloaded iPhone photo and download only the newer ones.
Picasa Import also loads/displays ALL photos on the iPhone (which is very cumbersome with so many images to load off the device...)
I guess I'd like to know if anyone has a similar workflow/requirements and how they do it.
My current plan is to set up a workflow that removes photos from the Camera Roll as I download them, but then have iTunes sync them back on as albums based on folders - I may even automatically resize them so I have smaller versions on the iPhone and the original full size versions on my Mac (so conserve previous iPhone storage space) [UPDATE: iTunes automatically does this, which is too bad because it means I no longer have FULL SIZE backups on my phone, only on my computer...]
A: What you’re asking is a hell of automation and it can’t be done “just” like that.
I suggest you try to make a combination of Automator and Smart Albums on iPhoto. Things you want to know about iTunes: EXIF is not preserved when Synced to iPhone through iTunes which is part of your requirements.
You could use a Smart Album in iPhoto and Flag the pictures you want to transfer then create another Smart Album with those flagged pictures and only transfer those (or vice versa). Use Keywords to your advantage. Consider a nice app like Keyword Manager for iPhoto to help you with that.
I have no idea why iPhoto makes you nervous, but you should be pointing at iTunes for that…
iPhoto is perfectly suitable for picture maintenance and sorting. You can later use automator to resize them and do fancy things (even tagging!). The same can be said about Aperture.
Your workflow should be, download to iPhoto automatically. Classify, Tag, Delete Bad ones, Adjust, Edit, and transfer to your devices for later viewing (and backup). If you just want to have a backup up of what you do, let Time Machine do it’s work with your iPhoto Library or add another step, use Image Import (or Cameras) to organize, then add to iPhoto for treatment and later transfer to your device(s). The original imported folder will be untouched and, eventually backed up by Time Machine too.
A: why don't you use Automator to do the workflow you pretend?
Automator is very powerfull and you can find much more Actions on Apple website that you can complete your workflow.
The Automator Comunnity is also amazing and posting your questions there you will get an answer quickly!
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Q: How can I gift an iPad app from iPhone OR via Web? I would like to gift an iPad app to my friend. I don't have iTunes installed on my work laptop and right now I don't have my iPad with me.
All I am trying is checking it on App Store on my iPhone, but the search is not listing the iPad version, instead it's only showing iPhone version of the same app.
I also tried via browser, but no luck.
Do I have to wait until I go home and do it from either iTunes on my Mac or iPad?
Looking for some solution!
A: At the moment, you have to use iTunes to gift an application for iPad.
If the application is universal, then you can gift the app with your iPhone.
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Q: Is anyone else having signal strength problems on an iPhone 3GS since the iOS 4.1 upgrade? Since upgrading my iPhone 3GS to iOS 4.1, I've periodically seen 1 bar or "Searching..." at home and work where I used to have 4 or 5 bars. And I've sent text messages with 4 bars, only to have it immediately drop to 1 and the text message error out.
I'm trying to learn if I'm alone with this issue (and should therefore bring my phone to my local Apple Store—after trying a restore just so I can say I did when they inevitably suggest that), or if this is a common problem (and we should then file bugs at bugreport.apple.com).
Update (to answer Louis Gerbarg's question): I've installed every new update, so I believe I upgraded from 4.0.2 to 4.1. I think I noticed Apple's bar display calibration changes after the 4.0.1 upgrade, though the difference was subtle. I did not have dropped call problems and errors sending text messages until the 4.1 upgrade.
Update #2: I restored my iPhone to factory defaults (but still with 4.1 installed), and still had the problems. So I took it to my local Apple Genius Bar and explained this, and they exchanged the phone for a new one. The new iPhone 3GS had 4.0.2. But I still don't have the problems after installing 4.1. This must have been a hardware issue.
A: Did you move from 4.0 to 4.1, or from 4.0.1/2 to 4.1? Between 4.0 and 4.0.1 Apple changed the calibration of the bar display, such that at a given signal strength it shows a fewer bars. They did that in response to the iPhone 4 antenna publicity, but the changes were done for all devices that support 4.x.
So, if you went straight from 4.0 to 4.1 getting fewer bars is expected, though if you are dropping calls where you previously didn't that is a real issue, or if you updated from 4.0.2.
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Q: Best way to merge mp4 files Got a bunch of .mp4 videos (info shows H.264 Video + AAC Audio) that are chapters of a larger video.
I'd like to merge them, but not sure which is the best way. I don't have Quicktime Pro, but I'll get it if that's the best way to do this.
Edit: Just to clariify this is Mac OSX 10.6 I'm on.
A: Virtual concatenation script demuxer
You only need ffmpeg
*
*At the end, write the video files that you want to combine into a text file. Here is an example, it is best to drag the video files into the text file. The name of the text file is in my example files.txt
file 'Video 1.mp4'
file 'Video 2.mp4'
file 'Video 3.mp4'
file 'Video 4.mp4'
Now open the terminal and enter. Finish.
ffmpeg -safe 0 -f concat -i files.txt -c copy output.mp4
A: You don’t specify your OS but if you have OS/X, then you probably have iLife, then you have iMovie. Merging all that with iMovie is extremely trivial. Just import the videos to iMovie and compose the final movie using all the parts you want to use.
Effects, Transitions and Captions are a bonus ;)
A: Quicktime Pro is a must-have in such situation. iMovie is great if you need a simple tool, but you may loose quality in the process.
A: Yes, Quicktime can connect 2 Mpeg4s but if you want to upload to a video platform like Youtube or Vimeo they will still appear as 2 videos and will not upload properly. They must be "stitched" together by a program designed to do this. There are 3 ways to do this that I know of.
*
*Importing each MP4 into an editing program, editing them together and exporting the sequence to Mpeg4 (if your Editor has this capability. If not you must export at whatever formats your editor allows and then encode the sequence in another program). This is time-consuming and there will be a small loss in quality depending on your Editor as you have encoded them twice (on Import and then again on export).
*There are apps designed to stitch multiple Mp4s together like the free "MP4 Joiner". They will do it quickly and work well if each Mp4 compression parameters match. For example if one has a resolution of 1920 X 1080 and the other is 1280 X 720 or if one was compressed at 4000 Kbps (Kilobytes per second) and the other at 5000 Kbps or if different codecs were used the app cannot connect them.
*You could use a professional compression/encoder program like Sorenson Squeeze, Telestream Episode, Apple Compressor, or Adobe Media Encoder and re-encode your Mp4s to Mp4 using the same settings. These are expensive programs but will do the job without quality loss. There are others programs that can do the job for far less money or even free like Handbrake, just Google Mp4 Encoders. If you use a decent program there will be little or no loss in quality.
A: Well, I'm late to the game but the best way IMHO would be to just use mp4joiner and be done with it.
It just does one thing, merging mp4 files, and does it really well and simple. Also: Free and open source and also working on Linux and even Windows.
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Q: How can I open password protected Word documents on my iPad for free? I would like to open a password protected Word document on my iPad. I've found paid solutions but nothing for free. Am I missing an option?
A: Try GoodReader which is very inexpensive ($0.99) and most useful app on iPad. I use it all the time both on iPhone and iPad.
A: The free GMail app can open password protected .docx attachments.
A: This video saved me...100% working method to unlock a word document
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxhEFJPAv9w
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Q: How can I use my existing Time Machine drive on the network? I have an external HD that I've been using as a time machine for my MBP. Here's what I want to do:
*
*attach the drive to my desktop machine
*configure time machine on my MBP to use the drive as a time machine through the network
*retain my existing backups...
So I want time machine to continue using the same backups it always did when the drive was connected locally. I do not want to start from scratch.
I know how to set time machine to use a network drive rather than a locally attached drive, but it doesn't recognize the existing backups (it wants to start over). I'm not afraid of the terminal... how can I get this working?
on edit:
I got a large drive to use during the conversion, but the link below didn't help because there was no hex id to be found on my machine in the second step :/
A: You'll need to convert your current local-style Time Machine into a sparsebundle before it will be usable in TM over the network. You'll need some temporary storage somewhere to create your converted backup into during this conversion.
I don't know the exact conversion procedure but here are some Google'd links:
http://www.tidbits.com/Talk/1960
http://jason-townsend.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-transfer-local-time-machine.html
Something along the lines of hdiutil convert -format UDSB
A: If you have Mountain Lion, you can create a sparse bundle disk image, enable owners on that image, and copy over the "Backups.backupdb" folder from your Time Machine drive into the sparsebundle image using Finder
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Q: Remove all duplicates on iTunes library I want to remove all duplicates from my library, to consider a duplicate the song must have the same encoding, bits, duration.
A: "Show duplicates" been removed from iTunes 11. As we are left with having to use 3rd party apps to remove duplicates now, Tune Sweeper is the one I use.
A: If you enable iTunes Match, duplicates will now be marked with an icon:
Note however that such files do not need to have the "same encoding" to be recognized as duplicates. Also note that (inconveniently) the file marked by Match as a duplicate (and thus "skipped") may not have the "best" encoding of the duplicated files. For example, you might see this:
In this case, in order to end up with a single song, managed by Match, with the high bit-rate song on your machine, you will need to delete both songs, leaving just the one managed by Match (the first one above)
and then download the "Purchased" song from iCloud
A: Here are two more options:
Free - DupeGuru
Shareware - iDupe
I haven't tried DupeGuru yet, but iDupe worked quite well for me, though I had to batch up my checkin. First I'd select iTune's buggy "display dupes" and then I'd use that selection to run iDupe on. This sped things up quite a bit. I'm interested to see whether DupeGuru improves things by checking audio finger prints.
A: You can use the default iTunes engine to find duplicates :
File > Display Duplicates
Or, use a third-party software like TuneUp or TidySongs.
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Q: Is it possible Select and Autocopy in Mac I would like autocopy for every text that I select to avoid to do several CMD+C.
Is there any way or application to do this?
A: I don’t know of any software that does that at a system level and apparently, neither do these guys at SuperUser. ;)
The reason why there’s no extension that does this for Safari yet is because the API for Extensions on Safari doesn’t support Clipboard mechanism at this time.
A: You can get this for Terminal by using iTerm instead
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Q: Is there are place to report missing/incorrect album art to the iTunes team? I know there are various ways to get/replace album art in iTunes and other questions about that. Some of them don't provide as good quality art as from iTunes (Store). Some of them also inflate file sizes by putting the image in each album. However, one thing I've noticed is that sometimes art gets updated in the store to better reflect the CD I ripped, or missing art becomes available. For example, Bob Dylan albums used to always get the ugly "Bob Dylan Collection" cover (same for each) whereas now they get the real original covers.
Is there somewhere to report mistakes and omissions to the team responsible? It seems that overall quality could easily be improved if Apple accepted "bugs" on this. The mistakes often seems quite strange - for example, the album is in the store with the correct artwork and yet you get the wrong art downloaded or none at all. I recently got correct art for an unusual independent artist who I thought had self-published his album, followed by nothing for Phil Selway's much more famous new album. This album is available (correct art) in the store!
A: you can always use Apple Feedback page to submit any kind of request.
if you have this problem in our own iTunes Library, it is easy to assign a new cover to the song or album by just dragging the cover to it or using the GetInfo option, you know how to do this right?
if you install Last.fm app you can simple play a song and then drag the last.fm cover into the artwork of the iTunes song.
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Q: Change the default IMAP Inbox folder on Mail.app Ever since I started using Priority Inbox in Gmail I don't really care about my main INBOX folder on Mail.app. Is it possible to change the default INBOX folder to [Gmail]/Important?
A: This is a very old tip but I can confirm it works. There is also some useful information in the comments section with regards to this.
Forcing the default mailbox in Mail
Apart from this hack there is no other way to do this. I am assuming the global inbox functionality is the reason not allowing you to change it.
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Q: Is there an iPod app to easily switch wifi on and off? Is there an app whose only purpose would be to change the wifi prefs, by starting or stopping the wifi on iPod Touch? I would like to have an icon on the home page, and a simple click on it will switch the state of the wifi.
A: Through the App Store? No. Apple's guidelines don't allow apps to turn on or off Wifi.
Jailbroken? Yes. There are program such as SBSettings that will do just what you want to do.
A: As an alternative, if you're running iOS 4+ you can go to the Settings icon and then there's the 'Flight mode' option at the top which does just that. Not as a simple as you were hoping for, but it is just a click and a swipe.
I have a Linksys WAG160N which my iPod disagrees with so I frequently have to reset my wifi this way, and it's much quicker than the old iOS 3 workflow.
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Q: Merge two accounts on iTunes? I just noticed that I have 2 different accounts on my computers. Is it possible to ask Apple to merge them and been able to share the music I bought on each account ?
A: Two days ago I received an email from apple support. The author told me
Leider muss ich Ihnen mitteilen, dass es nicht möglich ist, iTunes Accounts miteinander zu verbinden.
which means
Unfortunately I have to tell you that it is not possible to merge iTunes accounts.
A: There is no provision to re-sign the files that have been downloaded so by policy and by design, purchased items remain under the Apple ID used to purchase the item.
This means you can't divide up purchases after the fact (but you can agree to share the password and share the 5 authorized computers) even if you split up with a partner who shared an account with you.
You also can't "combine" past purchases - that account and password need to stay around and you can register a new "email" for communications of password resets but that original apple ID remains even long after you've left AOL or whatever name you originally used to purchase items.
A: Things have changed a bit since the accepted answer to this was written…
iCloud accounts cannot be merged, even now in 2019.
What you could do is set up Family Sharing & invite your old account to the "family", that way you can have legitimate access to purchases made on both accounts.
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Q: iTunes Utility - Merging Libraries I would like to merge three separate iTunes libraries. Here is more information:
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*Currently have 3 separate iTunes libraries on 2 laptops and and dekstop.
*Want to merge all three onto the desktop (i.e. it has all content), while maintaining the other two laptop based libraries as-is.
*I want to avoid getting a slew of duplicates within the merged library.
*I am not concerned about maintaining the library (i.e. playlists, etc.) on desktop.
*I am not concerned with maintaining perfect sync, so could repeat the necessary procedure periodically to remerge libraries.
I am ok with using the command line, Python or applescript if that's the way to go.
A: You can sync libraries one-way with rsync:
rsync -av --force --delete --size-only ~/Music/iTunes /Volumes/johndoe/Music
A detailed writeup is here: Keeping 2 iTunes Libraries in Sync
I actually use this technique myself.
Creates a "carbon copy" of a library on another machine which you can then sync to reflect changes.
Works best with two Macs, never tried it with a PC.
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Q: iPhone sometimes goes to sleep running Pandora, sometimes doesn't I use my iPhone4 to listen to Pandora radio at work. I have it plugged in to a standard charge/sync cable, and a headphone jack to my speakers.
Sometimes the screen stays on indefinitely, showing me the current album in the Pandora app. Sometimes, it goes to sleep, and I have to manually unlock it to see the current album. Seems about 50/50, and I have no idea why it sometimes stays on and sometimes doesn't.
How can I get it to stay on, and not go to sleep (I do want it to go to sleep normally when I'm not using it for music, however)
Not sure if this is specific to Pandora, or if I'd see the same issue with the iPod app.
A: I figured out a reliable way to make sure the phone doesn't go to sleep while running Pandora:
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*Launch Pandora
*Insert headphone jack
*Connect dock/power cable
If I dock the power cable before launching Pandora, then the screen will go to sleep.
Still not sure why it does this, or if it is specific to the Pandora app, but hopefully this will help someone else out :)
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Q: Way to back-up phone numbers on iPhone? What is a good service to back up my contacts on my iPhone?
A: I use Google services and probably you as well, I love the translate, the email, documents, reader (RSS), etc ...
So, why not using Google Contacts as your "middle men" and sync them with your Apple Mobile device?
A: iTunes can create backups of your iOS device when you:
* Sync with iTunes (disabled if you have iCloud backup turned on)
* Right-click (or Control-click) the iOS device in iTunes under Devices and choose Back Up
Use these steps to manually back up your iOS device using iTunes:
*
*Connect your iOS device to a computer with the latest version of iTunes installed
*Select your iOS device in iTunes under Devices
*Right-click (or Control-click) the device and select Back Up
Resource:
How to back up and restore from a backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
A: By syncing your contacts with your computer (you also get a backup of the data on your phone each time you sync sans music, photos and the actual applications themselves - just the data). iTunes will talk to Address Book on Mac OS X and Outlook on Windows for desktop applications, otherwise you can use MobileMe, Yahoo or even Gmail as well to sync your contacts.
You can also export your contacts as vCards from your phone or address book of choice and save those somewhere.
A: If you've got a GMail account you can use the google exchange support to sync your contacts (and calendars). This uses push updates so you don't need to connect to iTunes to back up your contacts. Full details here
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Q: Mac OS X locks up when I plugin in headphones on MacBook Pro Every time I plug in (or off) my headphones (even white iPhone ones), Mac OS X locks up for about 10 seconds, and then works as normal, and even displays the beach ball. Not everything locks up, as I can still switch screens, etc, but I think the Finder does.
Initially I thought this was related to Flash, as the Flash Player would stop working, but this happens even when the browser is closed.
I don't have any audio related apps installed.
Does anybody have any ideas of what could causing this, or tips on how to track down the problem?
A: Could you try creating a new user and see if it happens there? Create a new user. Restart your computer and log with the new user. Make sure you don’t have anything in the “Login Items” (nothing starts at login).
Also try starting your Mac in “Safe Mode” as described here and see how it goes.
This could be related to a Kernel Extension (ktext) problem.
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Q: How can I assign more than 2 phone numbers to a contact on my iPhone? A large proportion of contacts I have gained over the years have more than two current numbers.
Examples include: home, work, mobile; home, NZ work no., US work no., Spanish work no; etc
I have only worked out how to add two numbers to particular contact; after that, when you click add there is no other options.
This is crazy, this is 2010, I must be doing something wrong, can you help me out?
A: I can add as many phone numbers as I want on the iPhone. When you're in edit mode in the contact, there's always a blank line under current phone numbers where you can start typing a new one.
If you click on the label of the number, you can select a label (work, home) and even a custom label if you scroll to the bottom of the label selection list.
A: When you enter a phone number for the contact, immediately below that number should appear a new place to enter another phone number. You can change the type of phone like work, home, iPhone, blackberry, etc.
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Q: How do you change file associations on an iPad? I would like to change .pdf files to use a different application when clicking on links in a browser.
How can I do this?
A: You can and you can't at the same time. Safari will load the PDF automatically and display it but it will offer a "Open In" button where you can send the PDF to another application if it is configured by the developer to accept PDFs (eg. iBooks, GoodReader, etc.) At present there is no way to direct it directly to another application unless that application will take a URL you could copy and paste.
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Q: How can I set a default zoom level in Safari? I've got a Mac Mini that I'm using as a Home Theatre PC, and my only real complaint is that I can't set a default zoom level in Safari. It's hard to read all that tiny text from 7 feet away from my TV set, so I'm always zooming in.
So: is there some extension or hidden hack way to force Safari to zoom in automatically?
A: There is a wonderful safari extension, SafariMagnifier, which can set default zoom-in scale for every page.
http://www.wannseii.com/safarimagnifier/
A: As Am1rr3zA mentioned, you can select a custom style sheet from the preferences:
I have added these rules to my safari.css file:
html {
zoom: 125%;
}
img {
zoom: 75%;
}
@media print {
html {
zoom: 100%;
}
}
It has a lot of annoying side-effects though. But ZoomBySite and AllPagesZoom have the same side-effects, and there is also a noticeable delay before AllPagesZoom changes the zoom level.
A: If you go to "preferences" in the Safari tab and then to "advanced" you can click the "Never use font sizes smaller than" button and then pick the font size you want. Then you won't have to squint and get real close to the screen to read it anymore.
A: All Pages Zoom
...allows to "easily set one zoom level for all websites and have it remembered." I'm using it in Safari 5.1.7.
You can download it from Apple's extension gallery under productivity or directly from the developer.
A: After 6 years, we finally have this feature in native Safari 10, so no more CSS or extension required (I used to apply CSS, but it broke many sites as pointed out by @adib):
UPDATE: Thanks to @wisbucky, Safari 11.0 actually has a new design. It can now memorize the zoom level per site. Also, we can custom this by the menu item "Safari" --> "Settings for This Website...", and the exact option "Page Zoom" can be found there. More detailed information can be found here and here.
A: According to this post from Apple's Safari Support discussion forum:
1) Create a file named defaultzoom.css (or any name you like, just make sure it has a css extension.)
2) Copy and paste in the following:
body {
zoom: 130%;
}
change 130 to whatever number suits you. >100 means zoom in, <100 means zoom out. Don't forget the % percent sign!
3) In safari, go to Preferences > Advanced. Under style sheet, select Other... and point to the file you created.
4) You may need to restart safari for the change to take effect.
[In the above, both the emphasis and code formatting (for non-code-related text) were added to the original quote by Am1rr3zA].
A: In the latest version of Safari (11), go to:
Safari -> Preferences -> Websites -> Page Zoom
There you can set the default page zoom for all sites or a specific site.
This seems to be a native feature of Safari now (the Page Zoom setting under the Advanced tab in preferences is gone.)
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Q: How can I make Safari cmd+number shortcut switch tabs instead of opening the bookmark associated with that number? I'm used to switching tabs with cmd+x where x is a number and takes me to tab x in firefox and pretty much every other browser I've ever used.
I like safari's speed and would like to try it a bit, but the cmd+x shortcut is burned in my brain and every time I use safari I end up screwing up.
I'd like to know if its possible to change this behavior, because this simple thing is a stopper for me.
A: In most native OS X applications, the key presses Cmd-Shift-[ and Cmd-Shift-] will cycle left and right through tabs, respectively. Safari understands these.
If you use something like BetterTouchTool, then you can assign gestures (such as a three-finger swipe left or right) to these key presses, and get tab cycling across most of OS X.
A: *
*To go to the previous tab, press ⌘ Command ⇧ Shift ← Left
*To go to the next tab, press ⌘ Command ⇧ Shift → Right
Traveller’s note : These keyboards equivalents may be reversed in a right-to-left environment.
A: To go to the next tab ⎇ Control+Tab or
⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+] or ⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+→ Right
To go to the previous tab ⎇ Control+⇧ Shift+Tab or ⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+[ or ⇧ Shift+⌘ Command+← Left
A: In case you are coming from Chrome and want to use
cmd+[0-9] for switching tabs (instead of cycling through your preset top sites) take a look at:
github.com/rs/SafariTabSwitching
Safari Tab Switching is a Safari SIMBL plugin which allow switching between tabs using Cmd+1-9.
Update:
Safari Version 9.0.2 (El Capitan) has native support for this:
A: Safari 9.0, released today for 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite, along side with the 10.11 El Capitan release, has introduced this natively.
There are two options. If checked, ⌘-1 through ⌘-9 will switch to tab 1 through 9, respectfully. This will change the original behavior of mapping to the favorites bar bookmark 1 through 9. Those will be changed to Command-Option-1 through Command-Option-9.
If unchecked, while it does not say it, the behavior is reversed. Command-Number will still be the favorites bar bookmark, while Command-Option-Number will be the tab. This flipping of behavior matches the Command-Click and Command-Option click behavior for opening a link.
It's undocumented.
A: Easy!
Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab
A: What about setting bookmarks 0-9 to be bookmarklets that change window tabs?
A: Check SafariTabSwitching.
A: In El Capitan, OSX 10.11, this has been included as a new feature of Safari Version 9.0 (11601.1.50).
Go to Preferences > Tabs > Use ⌘-1 through ⌘-9 to switch tabs
A: I personally like the keyboard shortcut used in Chrome and Opera: Option+Cmd+(left/right arrow keys). This can be assigned in System Preferences-->Keyboard-->Shortcuts-->App Shortcuts. Press the plus button and add a pair for Safari with the command names "Show [Previous/Next] Tab" and then type the key sequences you want to use. Pretty handy. Good luck!
A: control-tab
the simplest way
A: Yes ctrl + (0-9) by using this shortcut you can navigate across multiple tabs in windows
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Q: iTunes Store: "Your payment method was declined." Last night I attempted to purchase an app from the App Store on my iPhone 4. The previous day I had purchased an app with no issues, and this time was told that my payment method was invalid. When I clicked 'Continue' to fix my information, everything was correct so I re-inputted my credit card security code and tapped done. No, fail, declined.
I called my bank as I am currently vacationing in Ireland, and if my debit card (the card my iTunes account uses) starts getting declined I will have issues. No, no problems, they had a note in my account that I was traveling, and there are no holds or flags on my spending. She also noted that the iTunes store had requested a verification of $0.99 but had not charged the card for the amount.
I returned to the iTunes store on my iPhone and attempted again to input my credit card information. Still declined. I entered a second credit card. Declined. I opened up iTunes on my laptop (OS X 10.6, iTunes 10) and checked my account information there. No prompt about it being incorrect when I log in, unlike on the iPhone which tells me – even for free apps – that my payment method was declined as soon as I input my password.
I attempted to purchase the app from the store on my computer and sync it to the iPhone. As soon as I click on purchase, I am asked to authenticate. As soon as I authenticate, I am asked to fix my credit card information. As soon as I fix my credit card information, I am returned to the screen I was at previously where I elected to purchase this app (in this case, that screen is the home page of the App Store).
Two different cards, no issues with the bank, no way to get it working in iTunes proper on the desktop or through various attempts in the App Store in the iPhone. Any ideas? Any suggestions?
A: I actually had this issue before too. I am not sure what caused it, but after waiting a couple of days, it worked again. Here are people discussing it on the Apple Support Forums, but there doesn't appear to be a resolution. I think mine may have been a transient service issue or something. It never happened again after this.
A: The "official" way to fix, per Apple, it is to email Apple's iTunes support (iTunesStoreSupport@apple.com), inform them of the problem, and then wait for them to fix it for you on their end. The good news about this solution is that my email was answered very quickly, the support person knew what the issue was and how to fix it, and within a couple days of telling them about the problem they had fixed it and I am up and working again.
After they told me it was fixed, it did take almost exactly 24 hours to take effect, and in the email they told me "wait about 24 hours and try purchasing an app again."
At the time I was having this problem (while traveling abroad) I was in no mood to "wait it out" as other answers have suggested, but since it was handled so capably and promptly by iTunes Support, I wouldn't suggest that as a course of action. It is a known issue for them.
A: THIS WORKED FOR ME
I spoke with my credit card company, they mentioned the name had to match EXACTLY as on your card, INCLUDING BEING IN CAPS. Because there is no place for middle name, add it after first name in the app store credit card info, for example First Name: JOHN C Last Name: SMITH. Once I did this, it worked.
Good Luck!
A: I keep getting this problem with Itunes and this is the way I solved it without contacting Apple.
1. Make sure you have funds on your dedicated card
2. Check details with the bank and inform them of any details that cannot be entered correctly into itunes ie Title Itunes lists Ms, Mrs and Mr but not Miss.
3. Take off all payment information on Itunes sign out of your account and close Itunes and leave it for about an hour and then re-enter the details.
This works for me but I cannot guarnetee if it will work for anyone else.
A: i solved it by logging out of Store in my iPad. Then re-login. At that point, it prompted me to check the payment details. I did the necessary and its gone.
Fire up iTunes in your computer logout, then login again. It should be resolved.
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Q: OS X Terminal equivalent of Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right In Windows and Linux I could always hit ctrl+← or ctrl+→ to skip a word to the left or right in the terminal. In text editors it seems that ⌥+←/→ works, but no dice in the terminal. I've searched Google and found nothing except a Wikipedia page that claims ⌥+B/F does the job, but all it does is print ∫ and ƒ characters to my terminal (or ı and Ï if I hold ⇧). Any ideas?
A: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal maps ⌥-←/→ to esc+B/F by default, so this is now built-in for bash and other programs that use these emacs-compatible keybindings.
A: if you know how to use vi you can also turn on vi line editing mode using set -o vi in your .bash_profile or at any time on the command line. Then you can switch between vi command and insert modes. So you could hit escape, then use the vi commands for navigating the line:
0 = move to beginning of line
$ = move to end of line
w = move forward one word
b = move backward one word
Once you get to the correct position, you can use the other vi commands to enter insert or append modes, or remove characters one by one, etc.
A: Open terminal, go to preferences, keyboard. On the list you'll find “ctrl cursor right” and “ctrl cursor left”.
Change their assigned actions to “\033f” and “\033b” respectively, and you'll be able to use ctrl+→ and ctrl+← to move, without losing your alt key.
A: This was driving me crazy too, however I didn't want a Terminal-specific fix as I don't use Terminal, and being able to SSH into my OSX box had to use the correct keybindings too.
Also, personally, I didn't care about the ⌥ key as discussed earlier; I wanted to maintain the ctrl+←/→ combination that I'm used to on Linux.
To solve this problem, I added the following to my ~/.profile:
bind '"\e[5C": forward-word'
bind '"\e[5D": backward-word'
bind '"\e[1;5C": forward-word'
bind '"\e[1;5D": backward-word'
Note the first two apply to bash in Terminal; the last two apply to bash in iTerm2 and incoming ssh connections. Don't ask me why the keyboard emulation is different ;)
For the record, I was able to find what the keycodes actually were thanks to a hint from this stackoverflow answer: You can run cat > /dev/null to monitor the exact keycodes sent during a key combination.
(Note that for me, when I run cat > /dev/null and press ctrl+← it produces ^[[1;5D. Your exact keycode may differ, but the first ^[ is represented as \e, as shown in my example code.)
BTW, if you want to see all active bash keybindings, run bind -p.
A: It seems that esc+B and esc+F are mapped by default to go to the beginning and end of words. Although, for my system you can't hold down esc but have to re-press it for each word.
A: You can use the ⌥ key, but you have to select the option to use it as the "meta" key:
Once you do that, ⌥+F and ⌥+B will work as you expect.
A: Latest version of OS maps this to Spaces. Even if you have Spaces turned off, the hotkeys can still get short-circuited in this hidden location:
Terminal.app cursor keys: disable System Preferences -> Shortcuts -> Mission Control -> Move left a space
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Q: Do location-aware apps work on the iPod touch? A lot of iPhone apps use GPS positioning to provide services. However, the iPod touch does not have GPS capabilities, although it does have WiFi-based location services, if I'm not mistaken. Do location-aware apps work on the iPod touch? If so, how well? I'm not interested in the iPhone right now, but since I live in a city, it would be cool to have a device that would allow me to call up maps and such when I'm walking around.
A: Yes. The "location services" work the same way on all iOS devices, while the specifics of how that data is obtained are hidden from the application.
This Apple support article might be helpful to you:
*
*iPhone and iPod touch: Understanding Location Services
A: Yes, most definitely. I was actually quite astonished by the accuracy too. I have a fourth generation iPod Touch (and this story was back with the iOS 4 operating system). It actually made me sort of paranoid at first, until I looked into the technology behind it.
I was walking through a parking lot and staring at the Maps app on my iPod when I realized that every couple of seconds the pointer would move. The device was literally tracking my position as I walked through the parking lot, literally with the precision of a parking space. WOW.
Here is the real kicker, though. The device does not have GPS nor was there an internet WiFi connection! How does that work, right?!?! My WiFi was turned on, but it was not connected to anything. I had heard of GPS and I had heard of looking up the IP-address (that the Internet Service Providers assign), but I had not heard of anything that would explain this.
Apparently, the device actually triangulates (like cell tower triangulation on cell phones), but with WiFi hotspots. You dont have to be connected to the internet nor to the networks in question to use WiFi triangulation. Your device has a database of local WiFi hotspots that it looked up the last time it connected to the internet.
Now, I dont know where this database comes from. If it looked up ALL local WiFi spots based on your location. Or if it looked up only WiFi connections that it has detected in the past (but didnt know locations for at the time). Or what. But somehow the device builds a database of WiFi connections that it recognizes later and recalls location information for. The device is capable of detecting and recognizing many, many more WiFi signals than it displays in your WiFi connections window, the latter being only the ones that are strong and coherent enough to make useable connections to.
Later, your device can use the signal strength, direction, distance, so forth, relative to one or more WiFi hotspots, to compute your location. And guess what? It even works with password protected WiFi that you cant access.
If you connect to the internet via a public WiFi, it will update the database tables with more, newer information based on your new location and other networks it has detected on your way there. Each WiFi connection has a special numeric code associated with it (Im not sure if this is the IP address, or MAC address, or what) that the device looks up online and pulls geographic coordinates for.
I can walk through neighborhoods in my area that I have never been to before, and without connecting to any internet there, the device will still pinpoint my location. But only if both WiFi is turned on and Location Services is turned on. I would only turn the former off to preserve battery life and the latter to protect anonymity.
This method of triangulation is more accurate than, and your device prefers it over, the more commonly recognized IP-address lookup. Once you establish an internet connection, your device can use your IP address to determine your location within a certain radius. The precision is no better than the radius of the WiFi signal, coupled with the precision of determining the location of the hardwired network hardware.
The only location service your device prefers over WiFi triangulation is the GPS chip, which is only available on certain models of certain devices.
What your device prefers less than IP-address lookup is cell tower based location services: Cell Tower Triangulation, which the device doesnt have to have a cellular connection to. In fact, you dont even necessarily have to have a subscription to cellular service. The device uses the distance, direction, signal strength, etc, to one or more cell towers that it detects, to determine your location relative to them. Again, this method only works with models and devices that have cellular capabilities.
The more technologies at play, and if you have a direct internet connection with which to look up data, the more accurate your location can become. Nothing is more accurate than GPS, but there is still something called Assisted GPS (A-GPS) which uses the internet to help determine time (and location) to help get better fixes on GPS satellites. This not only improves accuracy, but it makes the whole process faster.
Unfortunately, there doesnt seem to be a way to prevent websites and apps on the iOS from collecting your location information without forfeiting the usefulness of location services. I would prefer passive location services which determine my location without sending it over the internet when it can. Apple promises anonymity, but also warns you that they have no liability for third-party apps violating your privacy.
If you live in a city, I highly recommend getting a smart touch device like the iPod or iPad. Ive heard that the new iPad 5 will have GPS. I have had an iPod Touch for a couple of years now and its wonderful. Its a small computer/calculator in my pocket that provides me with maps, bus schedules, and internet. In the city, there are WiFi signals open to the public EVERYWHERE. I would rather spend $400 on a Touch (and $90/year on Skype's internet-based telephone service [useable on the iPod with a free Skype app]) than get a free iPhone with a two-year $100/month contract. Ridiculous. The only difference is the GPS, and you can get a separate GPS device at amazon.com for $40 if you really need two-inch precision that badly.
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Q: Am I missing something by using outdated data cable and wall charger? My wife has iPhone 3G and I recently bought iPhone 4 for myself. Since we can easily manage charging for both of our phones from just one wall charger, I actually never unpackaged mine and data cable is still packed as well.
But few days ago I noticed that my phone refusing to sync with even older data cable (from 3rd gen iPod nano) although iPhone 3G does sync with it.
So that got me thinking, do I missing something by not using updated accessories? Faster charging time or data sync maybe? Any thoughts?
A: I have a total of 5 charging cables (and my partner has another 4) ranging from the 3G days until now. I still use my original 3G cable (the one where you had to press buttons on the side to release it) to plug my iPhone 4 into my iMac, and nothing has gone wrong so far :)
A: I'm using the same cables across all my Apple devices (I have so many around, and can't really tell them apart any more). One bit of caution regarding the wall plug, though: there was one model that shipped with either the original iPhone or the 3G which was recalled because it was prone to overheating.
If you haven't run into a problem with yours by now, it's probably not an issue. Just wanted to offer the heads-up.
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Q: What is the procedure for replacing the battery on an iPhone? What is the procedure for replacing the battery on an iPhone?
A: iFixit has excellent text and video guides for replacing the battery on all models of the iPhone. Here's their iPhone 4 battery replacement guide.
A: If you want to keep your warranty alive at all, take it to your local Apple store or authorised repair centre and ask for the service. Any other action may void your warranty.
A: It depends on which one you have. I have replaced LCDs and glass screens on the 3G before. Following tutorials at Repairs Universe is really helpful. They have videos and detailed instructions. Here's a tutorial. I haven't looked at it, but it popped up by Googling "replace iPhone battery."
Hope this helps!
Thomas
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Q: What do I need to do to sell my iPhone 3GS? I've upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4 (and my wife's as well). The new phones came with their own US/AT&T microSIM cards and have been activated. So we still have our old phones with the old SIM cards in them. I've deleted the data off of the old phones, and I would like to sell them.
What do I need to do to sell the old phones? Do I remove the SIM from the phone and expect the buyer to put their own SIM in there? How do they go about getting a legit SIM from AT&T to put in the phone? Or do they use the SIM that is in there? How can I be assured the old phones cannot be linked to my current account in any way?
A: One easy option, if you can use the store credit, is to sell them to Radio Shack for $200 [1].
If you prefer cold hard cash, or think you can do better than $200, there's a market for them on eBay, and it's easy to search for the going rate. The phones will be easier to sell for more if you can jailbreak and/or unlock them in advance. (How to do that is best left for another question.)
As for how a conscientious buyer activates your old phone through the proper channels, it's my understanding that once you've upgraded your line, your old phone can simply be brought into any AT&T store and associated with a new account. I.e., you can & should sell the phone without a SIM.
Once it's been wiped and no longer has your SIM, the phone is no longer linked to you.
[1] http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20008186-233.html
A: Gazelle.com specializes in buying and reselling or recycling old gadgets. They pledge to completely remove any user data.
A: Technically, once you get a new SIM, the old one is deactivated and no longer associated with your account, so you don't have to bother taking it out. I still would, just to be safe though.
I'm actually looking to buy a 3GS for development. I have a 3G and a 4, but would like that as well. So if you're looking to sell, you can reply to this post lol :-).
A: Nextworth seems to be a neat site for selling old electronics.
http://www.nextworth.com/search/1/q/iphone/?live=1
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Q: Is there any way to suppress the "incompatible accessory" warning on the iPhone? Every time I connect my iPhone to the dock in my vehicle, the following warning message is displayed:
After dismissing the warning dialog, everything appears to works fine. Is there any way to suppress this dialog from being displayed every time I connect my iPhone to the dock?
(Enabling Airplane Mode does seem to do the trick, but that's not a realistic solution as I don't want to lose voice/data functionality when docking the iPhone.)
A: Gotta be jailbroken AFAIK. There's a package called Popup Blocker that suppresses alerts. This is probably the best option.
I recommend Spirit for jailbreaking 3.1.2 or 3.1.3. It's super easy and works well for everyday (non-hacker) use.
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Q: Is there an iPhone podcatcher?
Possible Duplicate:
What apps are available for subscribing to podcasts directly on the iPhone
I was glad to see that you can download podcasts directly from the iTunes app on the iPhone, rather than having to keep the iTunes app open to play them, but there's a 20 MB cap on downloads.
I'm looking for a way to subscribe to and automatically download new podcasts over 3G. Is there an app that can do this?
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Q: Is there any way to speed up my iPhone 3G since upgrading to iOS4 I have recently upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4 and there is some noticeable performance issues will some of the basic tasks (text messaging, loading application, etc.)
I have restarted my iPhone and that only resolves the performance issues temporarily.
Is there any way to speed up my iPhone 3G with iOS4 installed?
Update
I have upgraded to iOS version 4.0.1 yesterday and a lot of the performance issues seem to be resolved. I still see some issues with trying to run apps while listening to music/podcasts.
A: According to this post on Gizmodo you can edit the preferences for the Spotlight search feature for a speed boost:
Go to Settings->General->Home->Search Results (Settings->General->Spotlight Search on later iOS levels), and shut off everything you don't need (I disabled Music, Podcasts, Video and Audiobooks; leaving Contacts, apps, Notes, Mail and Calendar checked). Made my phone a lot quicker, more like it was with v2 (I'm still running v3.1.2, jailbroken).
Before, there was a good 2-4 second lag when exiting or loading an app. Now it's back to it's old speediness
A: Reset the phone to factory defaults and reconfigure it. It's a lot of work but the performance is almost as good as iPhone OS 3.1.
I've just tried this yesterday and I'm very happy with the results. If you use GMail and/or Exchange accounts (or others) to manage e-mails, contacts and calendars you'll only have to reconfigure your apps.
A: Apparently doing a hard reset a couple of times in a row can improve the performance:
Speed Up iPhone 3G + iOS4 with a Hard Reset?
(via Lifehacker)
A: I'm wondering if some of the apps are holding onto memory when you close them, at least the ones that are utilizing the new multi-tasking functionality, and slowing it down? Try removing all of those from the multi-task tray thingy and see if that helps.
A: If you jailbreak, you can disable some unnecessary launch daemons...not a trivial task though. An interesting read, if nothing else lol.
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Q: How can I make iPhone clock alarms obey vibrate-only mode? In the Clock app, if I use a timer or alarm that goes off while my iPhone is on vibrate mode, the alarm sound still goes off. Is there a way to make it obey the vibrate mode? Or a way to tell it whether or not to ignore it?
A: Calendar alarms obey the mute switch. Clock alarms do not.
Personally, I consider this a feature and not a bug--but I can understand why you'd at least want the option.
However, short of jailbreaking, there is currently no way to change this behavior in the Apple-provided applications.
A: Create a silent ringtone (e.g. a short piece of silence in Garage Band or the ringtone creator of your choice) and set that as the sound for the alarm.
A: You might want to try using a different alarm clock app such as Awaken or Alarm Clock Pro.
These apps WILL obey the iPhones vibrate setting (I think). Even if they don't, they will still let you customize the ringtone of your alarms to make them quieter...
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Q: How can I import contacts into iPhone from Palm Centro? I'm planning on purchasing an iPhone 4, and I want to know the most direct method of copying my contacts from my Palm Centro to my iPhone. Extra points for solutions that work on Linux.
A: Have a look into SyncML, it was the only way i managed to get my contacts out of my decade old Nokia.
I'm not sure what the iPhone uses as a contact manager on Linux (Would MobileMe be a good workaround?), but once you've got them out, it's a lot easier to import them into something else.
Google Sync is also worth a look and would avoid your desktop altogether.
A: I used the palm conduit to send everything that was in palm desktop (windows - not Linux) to Outlook. Then I synced the iPhone with Outlook. Notes disappeared but most of the other data fields were OK
A: Take a look at Funambol. I've used it to sync my contacts from my old Sony Ericsson into my iPhone... Never tried with a Palm Centro though, but it'll probably work.
You need first to install the app in your old phone, sync with the server, install the app in the iPhone and sync back.
It's also a great way to backup your contacts.
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Q: How can I disable multitasking in iOS4? I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS4 and although I love most of the new feaures, multitasking keeps me checking for open apps.
Is there a way to disable multitasking support in iOS4 or a "kill all apps" app/switch?
A: One way to control multitasking on iOS4 is to jailbreak your device, install Backgrounder, and install Remove Recents.
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*Using Backgrounder you can prevent apps from multitasking until you allow them.
*Using Remove Recents will clear out all the "recently used" apps so that only the apps that are actually multitasking are shown.
Completely disabling multitasking is also possible. Here's how to disable Multitasking, Homescreen Wallpaper, or both on a 3GS. A jailbroken device is required.
Edit the file N88AP.plist in the directory /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app on your iPhone. Look for the following key-value pairs and set them to false as shown. Reboot when complete.
<key>homescreen-wallpaper</key>
<false/>
<key>multitasking</key>
<false/>
I figured this out by reading this article about enabling Homescreen Wallpaper on a 3G, although I did the opposite.
http://pixelatedgeek.com/2010/06/ios4-jailbreak-and-multitasking-now-available-for-iphone-3g/
Note:
You will need a way to edit plist files. Either use a special plist editor, or use a tool to convert to XML. To do the conversion on your phone, install Ericia Utilities (from Cydia) and issue the following commands to convert the file to XML and back.
plutil -convert xml1 N88AP.plist
plutil -convert binary1 N88AP.plist
A: I believe it's an option when you jailbreak using redsn0w. It's an option. Here's a tutorial.
A: You may be worrying more than you need to be. Apps can only use multitasking for certain functions:
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*Playing audio
*Tracking your location
*VOIP
*Local notifications and alerts
*Complete a lengthy operation
In all cases, rather than the app remaining running, the system keeps it suspended and awakens it at appropriate times, such as when it needs to fetch more audio. If the app uses too much CPU while it's in the background, it gets terminated. If the foreground app needs more memory, then the background apps will get terminated as necessary.
The apps in the multitasking menu aren't necessarily consuming any resources or battery life, it's more like a "most recently used" list. Apps will still be listed there whether or not they are actually running. You can help prove this to yourself by turning the phone off and on; the recent list will still be populated even though obviously all the apps are terminated.
A: There is no close all option as far as I'm aware, but you can close them one by one:
"Double-tap the home button to bring up the multitasking bar, which pops up from the bottom of the home screen. Then, you simply scroll through the icons, find the one you wish to close, press and hold the icon, and then click the red circle with a dash--Apple's visual representation of a delete symbol." - Via PCWorld.com
A: There is a close all button if you install sbsettings, it's called Remove Background. It's a button which closes all the apps and clears the "Recently Used" dock.
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Q: How do I create new albums within my iPhone 3GS camera roll? I'm looking for a way to create new albums within the Photos app on my iPhone 3GS, preferably without having to connect the device to iTunes. Is this possible?
A: No, it's not possible to create new photo albums in the Photos app on the iPhone. (Not on my iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.0.1 at least. And it's not possible on my iPad either.) See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1413776 and http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ios-apps/200714-creating-photo-albums-ipad.html.
This Apple Support FAQ describes how to sync photos: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1389.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple adds this feature soon. I expect they're working toward making the iPad work completely independently (without syncing), and the iOS (and app) features they add will likely also be added to the iPhone.
A: iOS 5 and later supports creating new albums. However, the albums do not work like folders in a file system, but rather like tags or groups, because when a photo is added to an album it still physically exists in the camera roll and is linked to from the new album.
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Q: What car stereos work well with iPhone Bluetooth A2DP Streaming Audio The iPhone 3G supports Bluetooth stereo (A2DP) but lacks any volume control. As a result, my JVC stereo with the KS-BTA200 Bluetooth adapter clipped stereo audio so horribly that I ended up removing the adapter and foregoing the Bluetooth hands free capabilities. Now, I just use my AUX jack for music and a separate Bluetooth speaker phone (as long as it doesn't do A2DP).
Has anyone been able to get acceptable (not clipped) Bluetooth Stereo Audio from their iPhone to any car stereo? What models work well?
A: I bought my wife a Sony Xplod (sorry, forgot the model number) and that works really well with our phones. I would assume that all Sonys work equally as well (if not better).
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Q: Can I restore an iPhone from iPod Touch Backup? If I buy an iPhone, can I restore it (along with app data) from an iPod Touch backup?
A: Seems feasible. The last post on this site says someone got it to work. Do an actual backup (not just sync) though.
A: As I recall, when you first sync your iphone, you will be prompted to do so, so yes!
I'd recommend you to do a sync on your ipod before syncing the iphone.
A: This does not work, just tried with new iPhone 5 and the settings were that of the iPod i.e. no app for messages, calls or any other iPhone standards :s
A: Yes. This is possible using iCloud. As long as you have your iPod backed up to iCloud, then, it will appear under the list of iCloud backup(s) available to restore from.
When you start your iPhone, and are prompted with the option of where to restore from, choose iCloud. The backup of your iPod touch will appear. Select that to restore.
A: You should be able to restore the iPhone from your iPod Touch's backup. Backup the iPod touch, then restore from that backup in iTunes. You should be able to select the backup from the list that pops up. Although the iPhone will be restored from the iPod Touch's backup, iTunes should recognize it as a separate device.
A: When I got my first iPhone three years ago (iPhone 4), this worked partially. Obviously, it worked fine. But every now and then the iPhone was not able to receive phone calls any more. The caller did not recognize it because he got the dialing tone, not the busy tone.
I could only solve that problem by resetting the iPhone and not restoring the old iPod backup.
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Q: What Are The Best iPhone apps to keep a toddler amused in an 'emergency'? Preferably free - kids shows / films from iTunes are an obvious one.
A: Bubble Wrap
A: Bubbles. Works great on iPad also. It's important for toddler software to be ad free, since they will click on links.
A: There is a free limited version of Sound Touch but personally I think the full version is well worth the few bucks it costs.
A: My daughter went through an obsession with Monkey Preschool Lunchbox. I can vouch that it's highly educational, too. She became much better at counting (after about 2 weeks, she no longer needed to count out groups of 10, she could just look at a collection and say "there are 8 bananas.").
A: Not free, but the various Dr. Seuss apps are great, as they will read the book out loud at the child's pace. I also always have "Animal Sounds" at the ready.
For free, my daughter spends more time browsing photos of herself, family, and friends (in that order) than doing anything else. Go figure.
Oh, we get a lot of mileage out of (pirated) episodes of Dora the Explorer.
A: Scoops (and other Nimblebit games) has cute graphics and simple controls. And it's free!
A: Monkey Kick Off keeps my daughter amused for hours on end - so much so that she gets cranky when the phone rings and I have to take it off her!
A: Not free, but check out mouthoff. Great for kids I'd imagine.
http://iphone.ustwo.co.uk/iphone/apps/showusyourmouthoff/
A: You mentioned that videos/shows would be a priority. Take a look at the app called WEET WOO. It does something very simple: It presents an interface for you and your kid to choose from a big selection of kids' videos and shows that are actually stored on YouTube, including some fun educations series, etc. They are categorized (Animals, Humor, etc) so you can find what you want. But, naturally, the main deal is that you know that anything you stumble on is going to be fun and educational for the kid... not some lame music video or whatever.
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Q: Can iPhone battery apps actually prolong battery life? I've seen a few apps that claim they do some kind of conditioning/deep charge/other jargon to extend the life of an iPhone battery. Is this just hokum or do I really need one of these apps to maximize the life of my battery?
A: Of course a jail free app could prolong battery life, by tweaking into the system, just like Apple could (and like some android apps already do, since android has almost no management restrictions for developers). Couple things that could be done, for instance: killing apps that are known to consume batter life, or maybe turning off the screen when needed in an intelligent way.
But, as you may picture now, it's so much work that I doubt any good app will come along and I don't really know of any that do. Also, from a developer point of view, it'd be way too much time spent researching, testing and doing this for too little result, because this is already one of Apple's primary worries.
Here are few better things to do for prolonging battery life, from Apple's own list:
*
*Turn off push notifications / Fetch new data less frequently / Turn off push mail
*Turn off Wi-Fi / Turn off Bluetooth
*Use Airplane Mode in low- or no-coverage areas
*Adjust brightness
*Turn off EQ
*Use iPhone Regularly (go through at least one charge cycle per month)
As for Apple Store apps, no way in hell. The app itself won't improve battery at all. At least not "automagically". It could work only as an insturctive reminder, at most.
A: Yes - if it's the thing that gets you to change your behavior. Whether you call it snake oil, a placebo or social engineering, changing your perception or spurring you to action is powerful and can shape your world.
No - without you doing something different, using more energy to "monitor" the battery obviously leaves less energy for the rest of the things you normally have running.
A: From what I understand, iPhone apps don't have the power to regulate the power consumption of other apps and iOS system processes. These apps sound like snake oil to me.
A: Apple themselves recommend a deep cycle every month:
Be sure to go through at least one
charge cycle per month (charging the
battery to 100% and then completely
running it down).
If the app reminds you to do this every 30 days, then yes, it will improve your battery life. Unfortunately, I've seen some apps that tell you to go down to 20% and then open the app while it is charging. That isn't letting it "completely run down", and so, it would do nothing for your phone.
Besides reminding you of doing a deep cycle every 30 days, I don't see how any app could improve your battery life. If anything, it would ruin your battery life by staying running in the background.
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Q: iPhone push notifications? I'm fairly new to the iPhone, so apologies if this is an obvious question.
Are the default programs on the bottom bar (Phone, Mail, Safari + iPod) the only applications that can show 'new' event counts? Is it to do with them being on the bottom bar?
A: No, the "default" apps on the bottom row aren't the only apps that can receive push notifications or display number badges.
There isn't necessarily a relationship between push notifications and number badges. Apps can have number badges without push notifications (Mint comes to mind) and can have push notifications without number badges (MLB At Bat, for example).
A: Any app that has push notifications implemented can have the number badge on the icon. Messages is another Apple app with push notifications. Some 3rd party apps also have push notifications.
A: Not exactly, the counts come from the app programming itself. Some have the count integrated, some don't.
A: You can actually change which apps are on the Dock (bottom bar) to whatever you like. And various apps have the new event count. For instance, I use The AT&T MyWireless app, and when my bill is due, I get a push notification there as well. Also when your apps have updates, you'll get one from the App Store icon. Any application that supports notifications will get a badge.
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Q: Can I use my iPhone 2G with Bell Canada? Long ago, I purchased an iPhone 2G in the US before Rogers came to Canada to provide iPhone service. Before I got my 3GS, I had unlocked it and was using it with my Rogers SIM with no problem.
Recently my wife took an interest in the handset and we took it to the Bell Store to have them try to get the device working with her account.
The sales person at the kiosk tried a "Demo SIM", and when they did that the device read "Invalid SIM".
Is there any reason to believe that we can get an older iPhone 2G working with Bell Canada? Maybe the salesperson just have some older SIM card perhaps that doesn't work with the 2G? Or is this a known limitation?
A: It is not compatible.
Bell's new network (shared with Telus) is a 3G HSPA overlay (on top of their existing CDMA network) which the iPhone 2G does not support.
A: You have to jailbreak, then unlock. Here's a tutorial.
Hope this helps!
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Q: iPhone: play podcasts via voice command? Is there a way to get the iPhone 3gs to play a Podcast via voice command?
I've tried all sorts of things and it doesn't seem to work. I believe the official answer is no, but I was wondering if there was a Cydia or other app that can achieve the same result?
A: The official answer is No.
As of iOS 4, there is a simple workaround, however. You can just add a podcast to a playlist and speak "Play playlist PlaylistName".
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Q: Silence calls from everyone but a defined set of numbers? If I'm on-call, I only want to be woken by important calls or text messages. How can I set up an iPhone to ring during certain hours only for calls or texts from a certain set of numbers?
If it can't be done using vanilla iPhone apps, is there a 3rd party app that could do it?
A: You could make a silent ringtone your default, and then assign other custom ringtones to each of that certain set of numbers.
See Apple's Purchasing and creating ringtones FAQ for a start.
A: 2016
This has changed significantly recently - posting this with iOS 10, but I think was available from 9, maybe 8
Settings > Do Not Disturb
You can set a defined daily schedule
This can also be toggled from the lockscreen, on an ad-hoc basis
Settings > Do Not Disturb > Allow Calls From >
You can choose by many criteria, Everyone, No-One, Favourites... or any specific group from Contacts
A: If you jailbreak, of course there's an app for that, several in fact. Search for "blacklist".
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Q: My iPod Touch / iPhone is frozen! My iDevice is frozen on one screen and won't let me do anything. What can I do to fix it?
A: Hold the Home Button and Power/Sleep buttons together until it hard resets.
A: You can force-quit the currently-open app by holding down the power/sleep button until the "slide to power off" screen comes up. Then you hold down the home button until the app is closed.
This may not work if the entire device is completely frozen.
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Q: How do I restart my iPhone and why should I? Often people talk about restarting an iPhone in the same way you restart a computer.
How do you do this, what buttons do you press?
Also how/why is this different to just turning off the iPhone using top button and then turning it back on?
A: You can restart the iPhone by holding the power button and home button for about 5 seconds (until you see the apple logo pop onto the screen). You may have to do this if the phone freezes, or otherwise becomes unresponsive.
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/phone/#section_2
A: Holding down the power and home button for about 5 seconds will perform a hard reset. Restarting your iDevice frees up used RAM. Low RAM is the main reason apps crash, which is why it's suggested to restart your iDevice every once in a while.
A: Pressing the top ("Lock") button locks the phone and turns off the display. That is useful for saving power and for security.
Turning the phone off can be accomplished by holding down the Lock button until the red arrow button displays saying "slide to power off". Turning off the phone in this manner will allow any running processes / services to shut down gracefully. This is akin to shutting down your Mac. Shutting down your iOS device every few days will free up leaked memory and may help it to work better or faster. I shut my phone off nearly every night, then plug it into the wall charger which turns it back on automatically.
Holding down the power and home buttons until the device restarts itself is called a "hard reset" and is akin to pressing and holding the power button on a Mac. Restarting in this manner does not give running processes a chance to shut down gracefully and may in fact result in lost data. This technique should be a last resort, not a daily practice because of its potential ill effects.
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Q: Is it worth upgrading my jailbroken 3G to iOS4? I have a jailbroken (not unlocked) iPhone 3G running the 3.1.2 firmware. What are the pros and cons of upgrading this to iOS4?
Being jailbroken, I already have multitasking and home-screen wallpapers. What does the new iOS give me that I don't already have access to?
A: I've done it and it's not worth the trouble. I'm considering rolling back to 3.1.2.
The beneficial changes are minimal (and most can be provided by a jailbreak app), and the performance decrease is very noticeable. I've found that crashes are much more frequent as well.
My advice: Don't do it.
A: In my personal experience, iOS 4 was only marginally slower than iPhone OS 3, so it really comes down to features.
First, iOS 4 does not allow you to put home screen wallpapers on an iPhone 3G. I don't have experience with multitasking on a jailbroken device, but again iOS does not provide this functionality on the iPhone 3G. However, given the memory and processor of the iPhone 3G, you really wouldn't want to multitask on the device.
In terms of features that iOS 4 does offer the iPhone 3G, here are some top ones:
*
*Mail - unified inbox, multiple Exchange accounts, message threading
*Folders - a very useful way to store similar apps to save space
*iBooks - eBook and PDF reader (useful, though this app was somewhat slow on my 3G)
It's also worth noting that there are already apps that require iOS 4 and the number's only going to grow. Not having iOS 4 will reduce the number of apps that will run on your device.
Since I never really got a lot of utility from jailbreaking, it made the decision to upgrade pretty easy for me. However, if having a wallpaper or running apps from Cydia is important to you, you're not really missing out on a whole lot, at least for now.
A: Most of what I've heard is that it's not worth running on the 3G as it's very sluggish.
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Q: Can I prevent my (jailbroken) iPhone from retrieving mail between certain hours? I have a jailbroken iPhone which is set up to retrieve mail every 30 minutes.
Is there a way I can prevent this from happening at 3am when I'm trying to sleep?
A: It does not look like there is that level of configuration granularity on iOS for the iPhone out of the box (non-jailbroken).
One of the common jailbroken apps; 'SBSettings' also don't seem to have a specific setting option for scheduling push times...
One option might be, if you don't want to be disturbed at all is to switch to "Airplane Mode" before you go to sleep. But note this will prevent receiving calls and text messages also.
Or simply turn off "fetch data" (or set it to "manually") before you go to sleep.
Steps:
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data > Push = Off | Fetch = "Manually"
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Q: What's the best way to sell my iPhone 3G in the UK? The same as this question ( http://gadgets.stackexchange.com/questions/9/what-do-i-need-to-do-to-sell-my-iphone-3gs ) except with the UK in mind.
I have a 16GB iPhone 3G and have recently upgraded (we don't need to argue if it's an upgrade :p) to the iPhone 4. What's the recommended way to sell it in the UK? It has one small crack on the back near the vibration switch so it probably doesn't count as near new (depending on your definition of near).
A: The lowest hassle way is probably via one of these "phone recycling" sites. eg:
*
*Mazuma Mobile (offering £172 or £189.20 in Argos
vouchers currently)
*Envirophone (offering £160 currently)
*FoneBank (offering £161 currently)
It might not be the best deal on offer, but it's easy. I sold an old (though much cheaper) handset via Mazuma recently with no problems.
A: I sold mine on eBay and it was quite a hassle. Before I managed the final sale the iPhone was won twice by bogus bidders.
And not only do you have to pay eBay fees (listing + 10% of final sale price) but you'll probably have to pay paypal fees as well. After these fees I made about £190. Caveat venditor.
If you can get similar from one of the recyclers then I'd recommend. I've used both Mazuma and Envirofone before with no issues.
A: AV Forums has a well established buying and selling forum. You'll get a far better price than a recycling site would offer.
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Q: What are some undocumented iPhone features? With included documentation as sparse as Apple's, there are plenty of them...
A: You can play videos even when the phone is locked.
Sometimes I listen to video podcasts, where all I am interested in is the audio. When doing this, if you lock the phone the podcast stops playing.
However, you can start the podcast playing again even with the phone locked. Just double press the home key to bring up the iPod controls and then press play.
originally submitted by andynormancx on Super User.
A: Everyone knows about pinch to zoom in/out on Google Maps. Many people know that they can double-tap to zoom in.
Did you know that you can do two-finger-tap to zoom out? So useful when driving with iPhone mounted on dash.
A: Since the 3GS, you can use the headphones remote button to stop/start video recording
A: When using the keyboard, if you tap the 123 button, and slide your finger (without lifting it) to any number or punctuation symbol, when you lift your finger the keyboard will return to the alphabetic keyboard automatically. One less tap!
A: In 3.0, you can hold down the hyphen key on the keyboard to get an em dash character. Similarly hold down the period to get an ellipsis. You can also hold down keys such as "a" or "e" to get accented versions of those letters.
originally submitted by John Topley on Super User.
A: Really, really hidden features that will only appear if you chant the correct spells:
Dial :
**3001#12345#* *
to bring up the spirit of iPhone's Field Test mode (this is different from the DFU mode familair to jailbreakers), which will give you information about towers and signal strength, 3G/EDGE network and much more info which no mortal would ever need.
*#06#
will display your IMEI. No need to tap Call.
And some spells that only works in AT&T land:
*777# and tap Call. Account balance for prepaid iPhone.
*225# and tap Call. Bill Balance. (Postpaid only)
*646# and tap Call. Check minutes. (Postpaid only)
And a few more enchantments related to call forwarding :
*#21# and tap Call. Setting interrogation for call forwards.
Discover the settings for your call forwarding. You'll see whether you have voice, data, fax, sms, sync, async, packet access, and pad access call forwarding enabled or disabled.
And lots and lots of other spells for all occassions, phew...
*#30# and tap Call.
Calling line presentation check.
This displays whether you have enabled or disabled the presentation of the calling line, presumably the number of the party placing the call.
*#76# and tap Call.
Check whether the connected line presentation is enabled or not.
State whether the connected line presentation is enabled or disabled. Presumably similar to the calling line presentation.
*#43# and tap Call.
Determine if call waiting is enabled.
Displays call waiting status for voice, data, fax, sms, sync data, async data, packet access and pad access. Each item is either enabled or disabled.
*#61# and tap Call.
Check the number for unanswered calls.
Show the number for voice call forwarding when a call is unanswered. Also show the options for data, fax, sms, sync, async, packet access and pad access.
*#62# and tap Call.
Check the number for call forwarding if no service is available.
Just like the previous, except for no-service rather than no-answer situations.
*#67# and tap Call.
Check the number for call forwarding when the iPhone is busy.
And again, but for when the iPhone is busy.
*#33# and tap Call.
Check for call control bars.
Check all the usual suspects (voice, data, fax, sms, etc) to see whether barring is enabled or disabled for outgoing.
originally submitted by GeneQ on Super User.
A: Clicking the home button and power button will capture your screen and put it on your Photo Albums
A: Double clicking the home button in iOS4 shows a custom task bar with your recently used and still running multi-tasked apps. Click and hold to close them one by one.
Also shows the iPod controls as before.
A: In 3.0, you can adjust the scrubbing speed through a song by touching the scrubbing slider, then moving your finger down on the screen. Different distances from the scrubbing bar mean different (slower) scrubbing speeds.
While it's not exactly private browsing, you can clear your Safari history, cookies, and cache from the Settings application in the Safari menu.
The Home button (when pressed in the Springboard) by default will send you to the first screen of applications. However, if you press Home, wait for the first page of apps to be displayed, then press Home again, the Search screen will be presented. Subsequent presses will toggle back and forth between the first apps page and the Search page. (Note that you have to delay slightly between presses, otherwise the two-press shortcut will kick in and launch some other app (iPod by default)).
originally submitted by Tim on Super User.
A: In 3.0, when editing some text, shake the phone to get the option undo your edits. To redo your edits, just shake the phone again.
originally submitted by andynormancx on Super User.
A: I've just discovered that if you scroll to the top of the list of Contacts in the Phone app, your own phone number is listed above the search field.
originally submitted by John Topley on Super User.
A: Scenario: You are trying to take a picture of yourself (and perhaps a friend), so you have the phone turned around, and you cant seem to hit the "shutter" button to take a picture.
Tip: Hold your finger on the "shutter" button, turn the phone around, and when you are ready to take a picture remove your finger. The picture will be taken when you remove your finger. This is much easier than the "old" approach.
A: Special characters on the keyboard.
*
*Hold down E, Y, U, I, O, A, S, L, Z, C, or N to bring up accented letters
*Hold down $ in the number/symbol keyboard to display other currency symbols
*Hold down “ or ‘ in the number/symbol keyboard to access alternative quote characters
*Hold down ? or ! in the number/symbol keyboard to bring up the ¿ or ¡ symbol
*Hold down the .com key when entering Web addresses to bring up options for .net, .edu and .org. (You can also do this trick when entering email addresses in Mail by tapping and holding the . (period) key.)
(from http://mac.elated.com/2009/01/05/15-secret-iphone-tips-and-tricks/ )
originally submitted by Herb Caudill on Super User.
A: Tapping the status bar will almost always bring you to the top of the scroll view.
A: In the Mail application you can select the portion of text that you want to quote. Hit the Reply button and the selection will appear at the end of the email, instead of the whole original message.
originally submitted by John Topley on Super User.
A: In the maps app you don't have to pinch to zoom in and out. Double tapping zooms in and tapping with two fingers zooms out.
This makes it much easier when you are using the phone with one hand.
originally submitted by andynormancx on Super User.
A: When the iPhone is locked you can still access the iPod back/play/pause/next track buttons by pressing the Home button twice - only discovered that the other day and completely by accident...!
originally submitted by Mike McClelland on Super User.
A: You can double tap the shift to keep caps lock on.
Tap just below the seek/scrub bar to hide/show it.
originally submitted by e11world on Super User.
A: You can listen to any audio that is being streamed through Quicktime in Safari (.mp3, .m3u, .pls etc files) in the background.
Start the stream via a link in Safari.app, and then hit the home button and the audio will continue to play.
This was very notable pre-iOS4, not sure if it worked pre iOS3 though.
A: In Maps, you can switch to street view by dropping a pin, tapping it, and then tapping the little orange guy.
A: VoiceControl has some undocumented features:
*
*If you have multiple phone numbers for people, you can say which phone number to call, 'call John Smith home', 'call Davey Jones mobile'.
*If you have assigned nicknames, you can use them too 'call wife', 'call dad'
A: While using the iPod/music app:
*
*single clicking the headphones remote
button will pause the music.
*double clicking the headphones remote
button will skip to the next song.
*triple clicking the headphones remote
button will go back to the previous
song.
A: If the iPhone is locked, and you double press the Home button to bring up the iPod controls while playing a song, shaking the iPhone skips to the next song.
A: To quickly access your draft email messages, press and hold the new email button on the toolbar. A new dialog appears showing "New Message" and an option plus all of your draft emails.
A: Go to Settings->General->Keyboard, and turn on Enable Caps Lock. When typing the shift key will still behave as before, but now you will have the option to double-tap it to turn on Caps-Lock (shift key will turn blue). Useful for acronyms, and shouting.
originally submitted by jwaddell on Super User.
A: Since the screen is multitouch, you can hold the Shift key while typing other keys to type them in uppercase (just like a real keyboard).
A: Double tapping the space key ends a sentence by filling in a period.
originally submitted by Sathya on Super User.
A: If you hold your finger down on a link in Safari then you can open the linked page in a new "tab".
originally submitted by John Topley on Super User.
A: Starting from iOS4, while listening to music in iPod app the screen turns on for a second to show what song is currently playing. It won't happen if the iPhone is in your pocket.
A: You can have more than the 11 screen limit for apps. If you add them, they won't be displayed, but will still be installed on the phone.
You can still get to them by using a spotlight search for the app name and launch them, even though they're not visible.
originally submitted by Mark Struzinski on Super User.
A: You can remove individual text messages from a conversation by clicking the Edit button in the top right-hand corner of the Messages app.
originally submitted by John Topley on Super User.
A: You can use two fingers to scroll through iframes and divs on web pages in Mobile Safari. One finger only scrolls the main page.
A: Though this may seem obvious, little number of people know it: To switch a button's state, you just have to tap, not swipe.
A: With iOS 5 it's finally possible to hide the keyboard in the Messages app. Just type into the message part and pull down the keyboard.
A: You can add a keyboard full of emoticons, by adding the 'emoji' keyboard.
A: Safari: You can request to get the desktop for the website which automatically loads the mobile version. Simple tap and hold the reload button shown in the right corner of the address bar and an alert is shown with option to Request Desktop Site.
A: Safari: hit the status bar (where the time, battery etc is displayed) to scroll to the top of the page.
A: If you've come around a good picture in your safari browser and sadly there's no option to save the image, you can do it via, screenshot feature in iPhone. Just hold the power button on top of iPhone and while holding it, just press Home button once. You'll get the screenshot of your iPhone screen which you can edit later easily with Photoshop Express.
http://mobile.photoshop.com/iphone/
Hope it helps. :)
A: If you slide your finger from right to left in a Podcast the "Delete" button appears.
originally submitted by Eduardo Molteni on Super User.
A: You can tap the status bar at the top of the screen to jump to the top of a web page or message.
originally submitted by Herb Caudill on Super User.
A: Double-click home button: In settings, you can choose whether double-clicking the home button takes you to iPod controls, or to phone favorites. (If the iPod is already playing, it always takes you to iPod controls).
originally submitted by Herb Caudill on Super User.
A: I learnt this just last month and I can't believe I haven't known this before.
If you're going outside of your timezone and the phone is connected to the local GSM provider, it will change the clock of your phone automatically!
A: Individual notifications can be actioned by sliding the app icon on the lock screen. It might be documented somewhere, but I'm surprised how few people know about this. Screenshot is of iPad, but it works the same on iPhone.
A: You can take screenshots by pressing the Home + Lock (Sleep) buttons. The screenshots are added to your camera roll. After pressing the key combination, the screen flashes white for a second to notify you that it has taken a screenshot.
originally submitted by Blaenk on Super User.
A: Keyboard tip: When you want to enter symbols, you normally tap the [.?123] key, tap your symbol or number, and then (in most cases) you have to tap the [ABC] to go back to letters.
If you only want to type one number or symbol, though, you can tap and hold the [.?123] key, drag to the number or symbol you want, then let go. You'll get the symbol and you'll immediately snap back to letter mode.
originally submitted by Herb Caudill on Super User.
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Q: Can I create a new contact from an unknown MMS number? I am looking for a way of creating a new contact using an unknown number that sent me an MMS. The new number is not detailed in the message itself. Is this possible? Currently I'm having to write the number down on paper so an alternative would be useful.
I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS4 installed.
A: You can add contacts from text messages by scrolling to the top of the conversation and tapping "Add to Contacts."
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Q: What is the best way to discover good iPhone apps? So I can browse the App store myself, and read ratings and reviews, but with the 100,000+ iPhone apps out there, are there better ways to do this?
Word of mouth? App review sites? Cool app-of-the-day? Any worthwhile "App-finder" apps?
Its hard to tell the difference between objective app-review/rating sites and the millions of other ad-filled spamsites out there.
So how do you find out about worthwhile apps?
(Edited to make community wiki)
A: "app.itize.us is a painstakingly curated presentation of the best produced and designed iPhone and iPad applications available for download via the App Store."
App Shopper is a wonderfully designed app cataloging/tracking site - check their TOP apps section.
A: Free App A Day also provides some interesting apps. As the name says, every day brings a game or app that's free that day only.
A: Try Appsaurus.
It is a recommendation system based on your feedback. As you browse through enough apps and give a yes/no/maybe, it will get better at predicting what kind of apps you are looking for. Works reasonably well for me after only a few weeks.
A: For games, I visit TouchArcade in the weekends, when most of the deals and promotional price drops happen. I visit occasionally mid-week as well, and when I see a game that looks interesting, I add it to my appshopper wish list to be notified when a price-drop happens (not all of them happen during weekends, and they are usually very short).
If I later don't like (or don't play) the game, it's way better to deal with it when you haven't paid the normal full price. On the other hand, there are games I can't wait to try and I impulse-buy them as well. So I'm not a cheapskate after all (I think)
A: This Apple SE question can also help you find good stuff. Or at least it shows exactly which apps this community likes the most — any spam or ads would quickly be downvoted.
(Right now it is of limited use, but if more people added their votes and missing favourites, it could become pretty great. Like the OS X app question.)
A: App Store's Genius functionality has been the best in terms of personalized recommendations for me:
http://macapper.com/2009/09/10/impressions-app-store-genius/
A: The Revision3 show AppJudgment does video reviews of apps. They do a download/don't download rating and make a list of pros and cons for the apps they review.
A: I also suggest you get a few friends in Game Center, you can see what they are playing (I’ve found a few good things that way).
A: I've found looking at featured users on http://homescreen.me is a constante source of app purchasing inspiration.
A: App Ratings, Recommendations, and Every Apple/iOS Site are good research materials when you know what you're looking for, but there is one main way that you can go about discovering a good iOS app:
By having a use case that needs to be fulfilled by one.
A: Watch out for a new apps sharing platform coming out soon: Frenzapp
Frenzapp focuses on a streamlined and simplified UI to help user quickly find and share relevant iPhone apps with their Facebook friends
It should be out on the App Store later this month (http://www.frenzapp.com) but you can already watch the preview video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0VBKqlcqg
A: Follow top "iPhone people" on Twitter, subscribe to good Apple blogs like Daring Fireball, TUAW, and MG Siegler on TechCrunch, and check the App Store featured section in iTunes on a weekly basis.
If an app is really good, you are bound to hear about it eventually.
A: I know its not a website, but I find most of my apps from my friends, as well as iPhone developers. I follow a few on Twitter, and they share some great apps at times.
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Q: What is that circle that replaces the WIFI icon on my iPhone 2G sometimes? It's probably the phone's way of showing me there is no WIFI connection. Is that it? Probably not since that would probably be a "no icon" thing.
Anyway, couldn't find it in the user's manual so here you go... question asked.
Thx
A: The circle indicates that you're on the cellular GPRS data network. The fact that it's visible also means that you don't have a wifi connection:
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Q: What does the square button in FastEver do? It seems to insert a square. Considering that it only has 3 buttons it seems like it should do something more?
A: The square is an unchecked checkbox, useful for making to do lists.
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Q: Speed up iPhone SMS app I found that after some weeks of usage, my SMS app on a iPhone 3G (iOS 3.0.1, JB) seems to take a few more seconds to start than usual.
On all other cellphones I had, you had to delete old messages because of memory constrains and to make the app work better. Does this apply to the iPhone as well?
If so, how can I delete all messages of all contacts that are more than 1 month old, or something?
As the SMS database is SQLite based, I could script it. I even found this link regarding this but has been hesitating to use it.
How do you do it?
A: Not for the faint of heart, but I've done some research into iPhone daemons, and deleting/ disabling certain ones can have an impact on speed. Here's a lesson from BigBoss about the subject. Here's a list of daemons and what they do (I found this really helpful).
Hope this helps!
A: I cannot remember where I read this, but turning off Spotlight search indexing for messages should speed it up. Go into Settings: General: Spotlight Search, and uncheck Messages.
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Q: BBM-like iPhone app? I keep hearing all this hoopla about BBM (Blackberry Messenger) and I want in on the fun. Is there anything similar to BBM out there for the iPhone? I heard WhatsApp was something like it, but just wondering if there were any others.
A: WhatsApp and PingChat are the major games in town. I've also heard a bit about Cnectd
Nothing has really sold me yet, as I'm looking for proper delivery and read notification a la BBM.
Now if someone could figure out how to cross the impossible chasm to somehow connect into the BBM network, it would be a game changer.
A: Kik Messenger is relatively new and has the best feature from BBM (IMO);
Sent, Delivery, Read and typing status for messages
Unfortunately it was pulled from Blackberry's App World and actually blocked from pushing data on the Blackberry due to the fact that the founder was once an intern on the RIM BBM team. RIM is actually in the process of suing Kik - which just goes to show you that they are onto something.
Even without proper support on Blackberry, it's highly recommended for iPhone, and there is an Android version as well.
A: iMessage (Free)
iMessage, Apple's own messaging platform, can send and receive messages on iOS (5 or later on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch), macOS and watchOS, as long as they are connected to either a Wi-Fi or cellular network (3G). Starting with iOS 10, Messages includes support for third party apps.
A: LiveProfile recently launched and is clearly GUNNING for BBM. Even closer in look, feek and functionality than Kik.
Even the fonts are similar:
They say their Blackberry App will be out soon, but I'd be surprised if RIM doesn't give them a hard time. iPhone and Android versions are currently available.
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Q: Any way to recover data from a semi-bricked iPhone? My iPhone turns on, shows the white apple logo, and then after a few minutes shuts off. It is not a battery issue, it happens even when it's plugged in.
Is there any way I can get the data off the phone without resorting to a hard-drive recovery company?
Maybe some kind of program that can access the hard drive through the USB port? Or maybe I can open up the phone and somehow get the data off the hard drive?
I know that I can restore the phone through iTunes and have it working again. The problem is that I didn't back up the data so I have 400 or so notes saved only on the phone. If I restore it, they will be gone forever.
Just in case you are wondering, I haven't jailbroken or even attempted to jailbreak the phone. This problem just happened randomly while I was using the phone. It was frozen one day, I tried a hard reset, and ever since then I can never get it to work. I read that some people got the same issue via a remote wipe, however, I'm not subscribed to mobile me, so there is no way that could have happened.
A: If there is an Apple store in proximity, book an appointment with their tech. If PhoneView does not recognize the phone, I believe this may be your best chance to get the data out.
A: Here's a late answer for those following in your footsteps (like me).
Huzzah! Editing my previously negative answer to report success! SSH in and get YOUR data off YOUR phone, thanks to a great tool that's so new it doesn't have a cool name yet: shh_rd. The author's blog post has a video walk-through.
If ssh_rd wasn't available, then Apple might be your best bet if your bricked iPhone is under warranty. If you have a 3GS or newer then a forensics specialist is probably necessary. Details below ...
There are very few tools that can access iOS device data directly - and these are usually available only to law enforcement and forensics agencies. (Though there is some interesting work being done on Linux with a library called libimobiledevice.)
One is iOS Forensic Research maintained by Jonathan Zdziarski who wrote the (now dated) book on the subject of "iPhone Forensics". Another is the Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit. There are also hardware assisted solutions like Cellebrite UFED.
Assuming you don't have access to these kinds of tools, the last resort is to restore the iPhone using iTunes, then jailbreak it and dump the filesystem. The 3GS and newer models use hardware to encrypt their filesystems so recovery is probably not feasible.
Filesystem dumps from phones prior to the 3GS can be scanned for files using software like PhotoRec.
A: Have you looked into a program like PhoneView to see if it can access data on the phone?
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Q: Will initiating recovery mode on an iPhone permanently disable it until it is recovered? I'm trying to solve an issue I'm having, and I thought that placing the phone in recovery mode temporarily might resolve the problem. I'm afraid to try this though, since the phone contains valuable information, it would be dangerous for me to complete the process and actually recover the phone.
So I want to put it in recovery mode, but not go through with it all the way.
Would a phone normally still be usable after initiating but not going through recovery mode? Or must you complete the recovery process in order to use the phone again?
A: I had an extra iPhone (that didn't have important information) which I just tried it on. Simply initiating the recovery process (by pressing and hold home button while plugging it into the computer) will not cause anything irreversible to happen on the phone. You still have to click a few buttons on iTunes to start the process.
To go out of recovery mode, simply eject the iPhone through iTunes, disconnect the cable, and restart the phone. It will be in the exact same state it was previously.
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Q: How can I export my iPhone notes to text files, preserving the modification date? I have hundreds of notes on my iPhone. I want to export these to a different program that can import text files. I'm trying to preserve the modification date (e.g. by storing it in the file's modification date, or by including the date in the file somewhere). If there's any way to preserve the creation date (if it's even stored), that's desired too.
Is there any way to do this? I have both a Mac and PC.
A: In OS X, they're automatically synced to Mail.app. There is a section on the left side of the screen that says "Notes." If you like, I can post screenshots later (not at my MacBook right now).
Here's a way to sync them with a Google account. This is pretty cool, and probably the best way to sync between multiple computers/ devices. Check it out. If you don't have a Google account, might be worth it now lol.
Hope this helps!
A: iTunes can setup notes sync with MS Outlook or OS X Mail(OS X >10.5.8). This can be setup under the info tab for your device in iTunes, and sync will take place when the device is plugged into the computer by the USB cable.
Once in Outlook, you can save notes as text files. The notes have creation and modifcation date attached. Saving as text will strip some of that information.
A: These days in macOS Catalina, you can use this AppleScript that I cobbled together from a couple of sources as a reliable way to save both a pretty good rich text export of the notes along with hard-coded timestamps of both the original note creation and the last time it was edited.
This will produce an RTF for each note in your home folder, as long as it's contained in a Notes folder called "Batchgroup". Rename that a folder you want to test or batch process at a time, or remove everything after repeat with aNote in notes in that line to simply do all your notes at once.
set i to 1
tell application "Notes"
set output to ""
repeat with aNote in notes in folder "Batchgroup" #take out the 'in folder' bit to export all notes in all folders at once
set noteText to "<!-- ### Start Note ### -->
"
set noteText to (noteText & body of aNote as string) & "
"
set noteText to noteText & ("<p><p>Creation Date: " & creation date of aNote as string) & "</p>
"
set noteText to noteText & ("<p>Modification Date: " & modification date of aNote as string) & "</p>
"
do shell script "printf %s " & quoted form of noteText & " | textutil -inputencoding UTF-8 -format html -convert rtf -stdin -output ~/" & i & ".rtf"
set i to i + 1
end repeat
end tell
# https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/94756/163629 - "It doesn't keep images, and it doesn't work with notes that are longer than getconf ARG_MAX. -inputencoding UTF-8 is required for preserving U+100 and characters above it."
There are ways to modify to make file names more useful.
I note it fails to save hyperlinks so it's not perfect.
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Q: Windows live hotmail on iPhone Setting up mail on my iPhone, I didn't see an option for MS Live Mail/Hotmail. I understand (due my mastery of search engines) that there are a few options. What's the best?
A: The priority for accessing any email service would be:
*
*Exchange: Push email, folders, syncs read/unread status, contact sync, calendar sync
*IMAP: Folders, syncs read/unread status
*POP3: Bare bones email reading, usually only useful for a single client unless you "keep a copy on the server"
It seems that some people have had success using Exchange; IMAP seems to require either a premium account or 3rd party software; and POP3 is possible for free accounts.
Keep an eye on Apple's page as they will probably update it as new solutions are added by Microsoft.
A: From what I understand, Microsoft doesn't allow Hotmail IMAP access. The workaround is IzyMail. I haven't tried it, but it seems like it works as an intermediary between the iPhone and Hotmail servers in order to get a "simulated" IMAP experience lol.
Senseful's post has a good information. I use Exchange for my work email, calendars and contacts, and I love it. Gmail works really well with IMAP, and I really do not like POP3 from past experiences.
A: Came back to add an update:
In iOS 5 or later, you can add Microsoft Hotmail natively on the "add account" setup screen.
(In May, 2012, I started getting errors in my iPhone Exchange account setup, so I had to delete the account and re-connect via the iOS Hotmail account setup).
See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1694 for setup instructions.
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Q: Playing music from the iPhone wirelessly to a stereo that doesn't support Bluetooth I'm looking for a way to stream music from my iPhone to a stereo which doesn't support Bluetooth, but does support connecting a standard audio cable to it. For example, I can take a standard audio cable and connect my iPhone directly to this stereo. However, I'm looking for a solution that will free me of wires on the iPhone side.
If there was some kind of Bluetooth device which has a standard audio cable as its output and as its input it uses a Bluetooth profile that the iPhone supports for wireless audio listening, I guess that would work.
Is this even possible?
A: The Sony Ericsson MBR-100 is a bluetooth adapter that should work.
A: I've been very pleased with my Belkin wall powered bluetooth receiver. It works well even with microwave oven and lots of other bluetooth in a house with chicken wire / plaster walls. (i.e. a disaster for 2.4 GHz radio)
A: I ended up getting the Sony DRC-BT30. It works really well and does exactly what I need it to do.
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Q: How do I erase an iPhone? I had an iPhone on loan from a friend to try it out and now I need to give it back. How do I make sure that everything is erased from it? SMS, Calendar, Phone Logs, contacts?
A: You can achieve this with a restore in iTunes. It will restore the iPhone to it's factory state, after which you can optionally restore from a backup. Here is a summary and guide from Apple on the subject.
A: To erase everything and restore the iPhone to the factory state, go into Settings, then General, then Reset. Press "Erase All Content and Settings". If you have a passcode, you will be prompted to enter it. Select "Erase iPhone" and the wipe will begin. Be sure to have your iPhone connected to a power source as the erase takes a long time. When it's complete, the iPhone will have no SMS, calendar, phone logs, contacts, etc.
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Q: Where can I find free WMA Conversion Software? I have a huge collection of WMA files (from my Zune days). And of course, my iPhones can't do anything with them. Does anyone know of TRULY free (preferably open-source) WMA conversion software? Is that even legal? If it exists, someone please let me know where to find it. I've been searching, and only came up with AVS Audio Converter...which is "free..." They give you a free trial, but each encode has a voice logo over your file. I could just use Audacity to edit that out, but who wants to go through that?
Anyway, please let me know if free WMA conversion software exists anywhere on this world wide internetz.
A: If these are unprotected files (non-DRM), you should be able to drop them directly into iTunes on a Mac and convert them to MP3 or AAC. I've never owned or used a Windows PC so I don't know if the same thing will work on Windows iTunes, but you could give it a try.
On a Mac, you can also install Flip4Mac, which enables you to load WMA files in QuickTime and convert them to MP3 or AAC. If you have a bunch of files, you could set up an Autmomator action to automatically do this on a folder full of files.
A: If you are running Windows the free version of Media Monkey will do this:
Record CDs and convert MP3s, M4A, OGG, FLAC and WMA files etc. into other formats.
It comes with a time limited mp3 encoder, but you can replace that yourself. However, this probably isn't an issue if you're converting for the iPhone.
A: ffmpeg can do all that. As far as I can tell, it's a commandline-only program, but that has the plus side that you can run it in batch mode easily.
A: If you are using iTunes for Windows, it is easy.
Launch iTunes, and then click File > Add File to Library to open WMA files that you want to import. Then a window will pop up as clearly shown in the picture below. Just click Convert to convert WMA to iTunes M4A format. Once the conversion is done, you can play WMA files in iTunes or import WMA to iPhone, iPad and iPod.
But if you are using iTunes for Mac, it is a little complicate. You'd better to convert WMA to iPhone supported formats. Maybe this step by step guide will help you.
If your WMA files are DRM-protected, you have to remove the DRM first.
A: The Windows version of iTunes already does conversion of non-protected wma files, so you could just use iTunes to re-encode your eligible files.
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Q: Can I have my iPhone navigate through my car's stereo? Is there an iPhone navigation/GPS app that will announce the turn-by-turn directions through a car's stereo via bluetooth?
I already have my iPhone synced with my car via bluetooth for calls, so I'm wondering if any of the navigation apps can also take advantage of the connection?
I'd rather not have to buy a separate iPhone car kit or a FM transmitter.
A: Can your car accept the iPhone's music audio as an input to the stereo? On my care (Acura TL), the bluetooth profile lets me play iPod music through the stereo when the phone is paired. As a result of that, ALL of the phone's audio plays back through the stereo... including text alerts and any apps that play back voice sounds (navigation, etc).
It's probably too simple an answer, but it's worth checking to see if you can pair up using the audio profile for music -- in which case you'd get the phone's other audio as well.
A: I think Navigon works over A2DP with music; its on sale at the moment too. It used to - I changed cars and my new one has built in nav but no A2DP so can't test it anymore
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Q: Is there a way to block images from untrusted senders on the iPhone? I got a spam message on the iPhone and I accidentally opened it. It loaded an image and now I guess the spammer knows this is a valid address since they are sending more spam.
I'd like to prevent this problem in the future with my other email accounts. I know that I can disable Load Remote Images in the settings. The problem is that I believe this will not allow any images to load, even those from people in my address book.
Is there any way to get functionality similar to Gmail where it will only load the images from safe senders? Or is it an all or nothing deal?
Also, what's the significance of the word "Remote" in the setting name? Are there images that will load which aren't remote?
A: Doubtful without a custom email app of some kind.
Certainly the default iPhone mail app won't selectively (or conditionally on click) block images by default.
Have you tried the official GMail iPhone webapp?
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-gmail-for-iphone.html
http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/
Not a native app, but... there's surprisingly almost zero native iPhone apps that do Gmail.
A: "Remote" messages are on a server somewhere on the internet. When disabled, you can still see attached images and some HTML generated images. Images are often linked, rather than sent to avoid bloating email inboxes (especially in large advertisements).
Turning off remote images will block web bugs. Frequently these are 1x1 pixel dots with a unique address which will alert the sender that the recipient at a specific address viewed the image.
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Q: How can I upload HD video from iPhone 4 directly to web? How can I upload HD video from iPhone 4 directly to web?
A: Pixelpipe
From https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/3486/is-there-a-way-to-upload-higher-resolution-videos-to-youtube-or-any-video-sharin
This free app allows iPhone 4 users to
directly upload their 720P videos to
YouTube, as well as Flickr, Facebook,
MobileMe, Viddler, Posterous and a
whole slew of other video sharing
sites. The app evens works via email
and FTP. The only caveat is that the
videos cannot be over 200 MB in size.
Regarding with how to use it, check out this post:
http://islandinthenet.com/2010/07/06/pixelpipe-upload-720p-hd-video-from-iphone-4-to-youtube/
I recommend that post, it gives some great information on the app and how it is used.
For example:
A “pipe” is the
connector between the PixelPipe app
and one or more destination sites
where you want your content to be
uploaded. For example, I set up pipes
for flickr, picasa, and Dropbox and
many others.
I setup some of my pipes as default
routes. This means that any media I
select to upload will automatically go
to these default pipes.
For each pipe
I created, PixelPipe created a routing
tag. The routing tag explicitly tells
PixelPipe where to upload the content
overriding any default routes. If you
want your content routed to different
photo sets you can create a routing
pipe and tag for each one.
Also, given this:
since other developers are sure to create a similar product now that they know it is possible to upload 720p videos.
If you don't like the PixelPipe app, it shouldn't be too long before another solution pops up :)
According to this page, an app called SmugMug is also 720p uploading enabled, however I couldn't find much in reference to that on their site.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/01/want-to-upload-720p-from-iphone-4-try-pixelpipe/
A: The Flickr app will allow you to do this.
A: There are many apps that do this. I like the following for ease of use and design. I'll rank them in the order of the quality of the final video (and coincidentally overall usability)
*
*iMovie - very slick, great editing, many upload options like YouTube, Vimeo and others
*Posterous - very powerful blogging tool for free.
*Vimeo - free but not [yet] as slick as iMovie
One last mention is a live streaming app called Ustream Live Broadcaster - I don't really use it but it's unlike the rest in that it's more of a broadcast tool than for pushing something you captured to the web once the video is complete.
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Q: Where can I get a case that is also a battery for the iPhone 4? I have seen ones for previous versions of the iPhone - is there one for the new iPhone though?
A: Not yet, but I found a couple that are soon to be released:
*
*iPhone 4 Fuel Max
*EXOGEAR iPhone Battery Case
A: I've been very pleased with my mophie "juice pack" for my first-generation iPhone and the "juice pack air" for my 3GS. I recommend waiting for mophie to ship a battery case for the iPhone 4. You probably won't have to wait very long—I'm sure they're eager to tap the already large and fast-growing market of iPhone 4 owners.
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Q: How do I jailbreak my iPhone 4? I'm looking to go rogue. Where do I jailbreak my iPhone 4.
A: Open up Safari on your iPhone 4 and go to jailbreakme.com.
Sit tight for couple minutes and your iPhone is jailbroken. You'll see that Cydia app is installed.
It uses PDF security flaw on mobile Safari. It will be patched soon, so jailbreak now while it's available. It's by far the easiest way to jailbreak your iPhone.
It jailbreaks iOS 4.0.1 which is the latest at the moment.
Edit (8/11/2010): Apple has just releases iOS 4.0.2 to fix the PDF exploit that jailbreakme.com uses. Jailbreakme.com should still work for iOS 4.0.1 and below.
Edit (8/13/2010): PDF Patch is available for download in Cydia. Search for "PDF Patch." You can jailbreak 4.0.1 and then just patch PDF bug instead of upgrading to 4.0.2 and wait for jailbreak to be available.
A: EDIT: Disregard this, it's no longer true. There are jailbreaks - http://jailbreak.me works before 4.0.2, and (apparently) redsn0w works with 4.0.2 on 2G and 3G.
AFAIK, there is no released jailbreak for the iphone4 just yet. The iPhone Dev Team is working on it though; they have a jailbreak but haven't released it yet.
I'm sure they will release it when they think it's ready.
A: You can always check out http://jailbrea.kr
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Q: Does the mail app in iPhones still use POP for Gmail? Or is it updated to use IMAP? Does the mail app in iPhones still use POP for Gmail? Or is it updated to use IMAP?
A: If you pick the Gmail option when setting up your account, it will use IMAP. However, if you set it up as descibed here, it uses ActiveSync. Doing it this way gives you push notification as well as contact and calendar sync.
A: The "Gmail" option for iPhone mail configuration has always used IMAP. I would, however, recommend configuring it as an Exchange account, especially now that iOS officially supports multiple Exchange accounts (previously the domain of jailbreakers only). Doing so will push emails, contacts, and calendars directly to the phone, though you won't be able to sync Notes like you can when using the "Gmail" option.
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Q: Are there any car holsters for the iPhone 4 like the one that came with my first Android phone? I'm looking for a holder like the one that I got with my first Android phone. It must hold the phone in landscape.
A: I'm not familiar with the Android dock you refer to (was it for the G1?), but the dock I personally use is a Belkin TuneBase:
(source: belkin.com)
As you can see, it can hold an iPhone landscape (though it will also pivot into the vertical position), powers/charges the phone, connects to your stereo either through a 3.5" headphone cable or an FM transmitter, and has a button that acts like the in-wire headphone button on the Apple iPhone headphones so I can play/pause music, go forward and back, and answer calls without needing to touch the device.
My only complaints are that the dock connector is only used for charging the device (I have to plug in my headphone jack manually) and that the audio quality on the other end of a speakerphone call isn't that great.
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Q: Is it possible to use an iPhone device for storage? I know that through iTunes you can store images, audio etc. on your iPhone. But is it possible to access the iPhone and store any kind of files for later retrieval, much like a memory stick?
A: There's an app called Phone Disk that seems to do exactly what you need. The one downside is that it needs to be installed on the host computer to work.
A: Sure, take a look at the iOS app Air Sharing. It makes a storage area accessible over Wi-Fi via WebDAV. It also allows you to view the contents of some file types on the device itself (for as far as there are built-in viewers).
Alternatively, you can jailbreak and store files directly in the iPhone's memory. Use SCP over WiFi, or connect the USB and use iPhoneBrowser.
A: A simple technique is to leverage File sharing feature available for iOS apps.
Instructions for the same can be found in the Apple Support article, About File Sharing on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Q: Is there a backquote on the iPhone keyboard? Is there a backquote (backtick `) on the iPhone keyboard, and if so, where is it?
When I'm writing a post on a site in the SE family (especially SO), I want to use the backquote for inline code blocks. Under the single quote key, I've found two curly/angled quotes, but those (’ and ‘) don't seem to do the trick...
A: The backtick/backquote was added to the iOS keyboard in 4.1. You need to switch to the numbers keypad and then press & hold apostrophe to access it. Once the variations show up - slide your finger without removing it from the screen. Remove your finger when it's over the correct ` key.
A: It seems like you have to resort to a hack to use the character:
*
*Go to an email address field (e.g. open up Mail and compose a new message).
*Go to the symbols keyboard (3rd one).
*Type the ` character located on the top left.
*Copy and paste the character wherever you want.
A: go into settings > general > keyboards > text replacement and add it with a phrase into your phone copying the backtick symbol to your clipboard and pasting in the shortcut.
ie: i put for phrase: "' (quotation symbol apostrophe)
and shortcut: ```(3 backticks)
because in the english language thats not a thing that would really be typed in conjunction.
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Q: Is it possible to connect my iPhone 3G via Bluetooth to both OS on my MacBook? I'm trying to connect my iPhone 3G to my MacBook via Bluetooth to use the iPhone Tethering.
When I connect the iPhone to the OS X everything works fine. Since I often also use Windows 7 on the Boot Camp partition I'd like to connect from Windows 7 to the iPhone as well.
This works, but in this case I always have to remove and reconnect it when booting back to OS X and vice versa.
Is it possible to setup the Bluetooth connection and have it working in both operating systems on the same MacBook?
A: The bluetooth connection is maintained by the OS (Windows or Mac OS X) so as soon as you restart, the connection is lost and you have to re-establish it.
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Q: How can I find out which apps I have already downloaded on my iPhone? When you attempt to download an app that costs money, you will not be charged if you already bought the app. After you press buy and enter your iTunes password, it will say "You have already purchased this item. To download it again for free, select OK."
The problem is that I deleted hundreds of apps from my phone, some of which were paid for. Later on I might find an app I like but notice that it costs money. It might be an app I had already paid for, or an app which I got when it was free.
How can I know if I tap the buy button if I will be charged for the app or not?
In other words, how can I know if I owned a previous version of an app before?
A: To see a listing of all the apps you have purchased or downloaded, do this :
*
*Go to Store > View My Account
*Login
*Click on "Purchase History"
You should now see all the apps you have downloaded before.
Stolen from caliban's answer here.
A: Update: The easiest way to do this is to open up the App Store on the iPad, and search for the app. If you see it say "INSTALL," rather than showing a price, it means that you have purchased the app before, and can download it again for free.
One way to do this is to archive all your iTunes receipt notifications in your email account. This way you can search your email account for the application's name and see if it exists in any of your receipts.
The downside to this is that if the application's name changed it won't find it since your receipt will contain the application's old name. You could try searching for the seller's name, but that might change as well.
Another way to do this is to look at your iTunes purchase history. While this will have the application's current name (unlike in email archiving), there is no easy way to search through it.
Another difference between the two methods is that the Purchase History will contain app updates you downloaded, while the receipt emails will not.
Update: It seems that as of May, I no longer get receipts for free items via email.
A: Apps that you delete on your iPhone are still in your iTunes. You should see there wich Apps you already payed for.
A: Yeah, there are apps that I remember what they did and want to try it again but forget the name, so instead of trying to search for category, it's easier sometimes to go through the iTunes Account download history.
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Q: Is there an iPhone app for outlining that has a decent web/desktop companion? I am looking for an outliner app for iPhone, with either a desktop or web counterpart.
A: Evernote should work for you, there are web/desktop (PC/Mac) and iPad apps, as well as the iPhone app.
A: There is an app call Outliner for iPad and iPhone, which has an web companion. It works for now, but I am waiting for OminiOutliner to come out in 2011 (for iPad, not for iPhone), which should be a much better solution.
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Q: Is it possible to queue songs on the iPhone? I would like to queue up songs on my iPhone like I can on my desktop music player. Is this possible with iTunes, or is there an alternative music app that will let me do this?
A: You can create an on the go playlist directly on the iPhone that acts like a queue. Alternatively you could create a playlist in iTunes then import that to the iPhone by dragging the list to the phone icon. Any missing tracks would be imported.
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Q: Transferring an old iPhone after I upgrade? I'm about to upgrade from the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 4, and I'm not sure what will happen to my old device once my phone number is transferred.
Specifically, I want to give the old device to my girlfriend, who is on a AT&T non-smartphone. What will I have to do to move her to the iPhone 3G? Will she need to sign up for an iPhone specific data plan if I put the sim card in there? WIll it work like any old phone if I just put the simcard in there?
In short, I'm not sure what will happen, and what I need to do.
A: I just did this myself - I upgraded to an iPhone 4 and gave my sister my iPhone 3G. I put her AT&T SIM inside and she was instantly able to send & receive calls and texts. Since she doesn't want to pay for data (yet), she used the new iOS 4 network setting to turn off cellular data. I have heard that AT&T scans their network and automatically adds data plans to 'smartphones', but so far this hasn't been the case.
If she does want to use data, have her call up AT&T and let them know about the phone switch on the plan and they can sign her up for the iPhone data plan - it's $15/month for 200MB and $25/month for 2GB. You may be able to do this yourself online - I haven't tried - but contacting AT&T is quick and relatively painless and is guaranteed to work.
One other thing - if her SIM is ancient (pre-3G), then you may need to get a new one that supports 3G from an AT&T retailer or call AT&T and they can ship you a new one. They may charge a nominal fee (~$10) for this service.
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Q: How can I recalibrate the touchscreen on my iPhone? When I tap on the bottom of my iPhone's screen it actually acts as if I tapped in another section higher up. It may be a calibration problem. How can I recalibrate the touchscreen?
A: The iPhone's capacitive touch screen doesn't have the concept of calibration.
To fix the problem you're experiencing, I suggest trying each of the following options:
*
*Hard reset of the phone by holding the Home and Sleep buttons for 10 seconds.
*"Reset All Settings" from Settings → General → Reset.
*"Erase All Content and Settings" from Settings → General → Reset.
*If your phone is still under warranty or covered by AppleCare, bring it to Apple and they will repair or replace it for you.
*If not covered, then there are guides for replacing the front panel (first-gen iPhone), which contains the digitizer.
A: If you have a protective case where the edge of the case is raised above the glass face of the phone, it may be ever-so-slightly pushing your touch points more towards the middle of the phone. This alters where the phone is expecting you to touch, and can cause the issues you are describing.
A: I just recently had this problem. After some panic, and consideration of replacing my digitizer, I calmed down and looked at my phone carefully.
Keep in mind that an iphone works on capacitance, with the glass plate being an insulating layer just on top of the sensing array.
On inspecting my phone, I discovered that the bottom right corner of the glass face(to the right of the home button holding the phone in portrait orientation)had become flush with the top of the chrome strip which runs so elegantly around my 3g. It's not supposed to be flush. The glass top on a 3g/gs should be slightly higher.
I powered down and removed my sim card, removed the screws at the bottom and re positioned the face properly.
Good news? I returned to proper working order. Bad news? it doesn't last. Most likely I will have to replace the digitizer.
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Q: Is it better to use ePub or mobi files in iBooks? I've purchased some books that make epub and mobi versions available for download. What are the main differences and which is better supported in iBooks?
A: The latest version of iBooks supports the PDF format. The support is excellent. You can drag ePub or PDF files to your iTunes library.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-news/2010/04/using-itunes-to-add-epub-files-to-ibooks.html
A: There are differences that are covered in great detail in this article:
Worse-is-better in e-book formats
I do not think that an end user should care about this until the seller offers the books in all formats, in your case in EPUB as that is the format supported by iBooks
A: ePub is the newer standard and is supported by the Apple iBooks app, but Apple only supports it's own FairPlay DRM wrapper used to encrypt the ePub files to protect the books from being copied or read on unauthorised devices.
Most other (non-Apple) eBook stores sell ePub books encrypted with Adobe's Adept DRM wrapper, which you can't read with the iBooks app (although certain other eBook apps do support the Adobe DRM system)
Mobi is for other reader systems (I believe the Kindle uses this format) and is not supported by the iBooks app. I expect there are other iPhone apps that support mobi files.
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Q: Can you sync computer with iPhone? When having one computer, it works great syncing your iphone with it, to get your stuff on the iPhone. However, having two computers, one at work and one at home, I wonder if it's possible to have a relationship like this:
Computer 1 > iPhone > Computer 2
instead of the two computers battling against each other and removing files etc they don't have? It would be great if you could do this automatically, so I don't have to manually transfer files etc.
A: I found an article on Lifehacker about this issue: How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers.
Plug your iPhone into a variety of
computers, yours or other people's,
and you'll find that your phone and
iTunes want to wipe everything clean
and start over, every single time.
Andrew Grant at the Shiny Things blog
shows how to edit your iTunes Music
Library XML file to sync your phone
(or iPod touch) with different
systems. That means you can, say,
auto-grab just your music from your
Mac at home, but grab Contacts and
Calendars from your work PC. The guide
requires very little hacking, and
Grant provides links to simple text
and hex editors to get the job done.
A: If you use Macs, MobileMe makes this pretty easy (although it is not cheap). I have my iPhone, iPad, and three Macs synched this way.
MobileMe sorta works with Windows too, but I don't have enough experience to recommend it.
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Q: What file type/extension is used to store data for iPhone apps? I'm thinking about recovering the data on my bricked iPhone, but the hard drive recovery company would probably need to know what file types I want to recover. Most applications store their data in SQLite databases. When I sync to my computer, it saves this in a .mddata file. I'm guessing this file type is only used for the backup process.
What file type/extension is used to store the data on the iPhone?
I realize that apps can probably store it in whatever format they want. I want to know what's the default (or most likely) format for those that store their data in SQLite files.
A: I'm not sure if you want to know about storage on the iPhone itself, or storage by iTunes in the backups, so I'll take a stab at both. :)
See here for a more in-depth analysis, but the basic gist is that the .mddata files are typically SQLite databases (occasionally encrypted), while the corresponding .mdinfo files are the metadata associated with them. (Older versions of iTunes used .mdbackup files.)
Here's a more practical description of retrieving data from an existing iPhone/iPod backup, and another one which does so with the more recent format. Also, there's this presentation that dives into the format a bit. Here's a blog entry about deciphering the obfuscated filenames, and finally, here's a StackOverflow discussion about decrypting the encrypted .mddata files (which didn't end in a resolution of any kind).
On the iPhone itself, many applications store their data in a SQLite database directly because of the simplicity of doing so. Also, the Core Data ORM uses it under the hood, although that's really just an implementation detail.
But, as you've noted, there's no requirement to use SQLite; applications can store data in something as simple as a plain text file or XML document, or as complicated as a database of their own making.
A: If an application uses Core Data with SQLite, the file extension will be .sqlite.
As @esm pointed out, some apps also use .sql and .sqlite3.
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Q: Tethering app code for iOS Many of you know there was a Flashlight app with a hidden feature that enabled tethering, that snuck into the App Store this week. It was removed very quickly, about 10 minutes before I found out so I wasn't able to snag it up. I have a developer account so I was thinking if I could get the code to a tethering app I could install it on my phone myself.
Are there any open source tethering apps out there?
A: Found the answer myself.
http://wiki.github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/
w00t!
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Q: What are the pros and cons of IMAP/CalDAV vs. Exchange for GMail and Google Calendar for iOS 4? I am trying to decide if it is better to use the IMAP/CalDav option for accessing my GMail/Google Calendar on my iPhone vs. Using the exchange connection. Anybody got pros and cons of the different options?
What I know so far is this:
*
*I have to use exchange for syncing contacts, so I will have exchange setup for that no matter what.
*The IMAP/CalDav option doesn't have push
*The Exchange option seems to be buggier than IMAP/CalDav
Any other thoughts?
A: Exchange (Google Sync) for GMail lacks some features that you are probably used to--search and cloud drafts. The "known limitations" are listed here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139635.
My experience with CalDAV in iCal are that multiple calendars on a single account are a bit squirrely to work with—you won't be able to get each calendar listed by itself under the primary google account heading. The calendars end up in a set of subfolders, depending on how you end up configuring it. That said, I don't know how the same thing would look on the iPhone.
What I do and recommend would be to continue using IMAP for GMail access--there's nothing wrong with it and you don't gain anything by moving to exchange. I do use Google Sync for contacts and calendars since it's the closest I can get to the functionality of MobileMe for free, and I'm very happy with it. For desktop access (aside from the webapp) I like BusyMac (post hyperlink limit reached; Google it) Software's products: one is an iCal superset clone and another is a sync utility that makes your Google Calendars show up in iCal just like MobileMe would.
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Q: Is there an aftermarket USB->DockConnector cable that works with an iPhone 4 + bumper case? I'm looking for a third-party (i.e., cheaper) alternative to the Apple Dock Connector to USB Cable that is compatible with an iPhone 4 w/ bumper case. I've tried a few third-party cables and none of them are able to connect properly with the bumper case installed on the phone.
Also, I'd prefer it if the dock connector end of the cable doesn't have the press-to-disconnect buttons.
A: Maybe this'll work: http://cablejive.com/istubz
EDIT:
Whoops, maybe not. The 1st party cables are a precision molded plastic that is thinner than the 3rd-party clones as detailed in this video @ 3:40 -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XpmLvY2XNPg
A: I just spent 10 minutes in the garage with my Dremel tool, taking off a couple of MM off the plastic around the top of the after-market plugs. Now they fit fine into the iPhone 4 Bumbper case. Problem solved.
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Q: iPhone 4 and Cisco WRT320N connection issues I've recently acquired an iPhone 4 (iOS 4.0.1) and hooked it up to my Cisco WRT320N wireless router.
For whatever reason, my iPhone drops of the network constantly. Sometimes before I can even load a single page in Safari. When it does work, its quite slow.
This behavior is independent of distance from the router, and the iPhone is showing full bars for the network when its connected.
The router is configured as follows:
*
*Wireless Band: 2.4 GHz
*Network Mode: Wireless-G only
*Channel: Auto
*Security Mode: WPA Personal
*Firmware Version: v1.0.03 (which seems to be the lastest)
There's no MAC filtering or the like going on. A laptop was recently used to connect to this configuration - without issue - so I'm fairly certain this is an iPhone-specific problem.
So, any ideas on how to fix this?
A: Try resetting your network settings. That usually works for me when I have any connectivity issues (WiFi/ 3G/ ....tethering (hee hee))
Hope this helps!
A: In the end reverting to WEP solved the issue.
Not pleased security-wise, but at least it works now.
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Q: How does the iPhone handle connection priority? Suppose I'm in the range of a wifi network and I check my email on my iPhone.
Will it try to use the wifi network first and only if that fails attempt to connect to 3G? Or will it always use 3G (with the charges that carries) regardless of other mediums?
Is it automatic? Do I have to manually disable 3G connection if I want it to use wifi?
A: The iPhone will always try to connect to the wifi if it is in range. If it already knows how to connect it will do so automatically. If it does not know it will notify you that there are wifi networks available.
But to come back to the situation you described:
If it is already connected to the wifi it will use that for all data even if it is also connected to a 3G network.
A: Wifi is always preferred over radio (3G/EDGE/GPRS) so if you want to force cellular data, you have to turn off wifi or un-join whatever networks are in range and/or disable auto-join. There is no failover, so if you get connected to a wifi that has no route to the Internet, the phone won't figure that out and use the cell data. You have to manually get off that wifi before the data will flow over the cellular network..
I often turn off WiFi when I know 3G is faster than certain busy times at coffee shops or when my home ISP is overloaded.
When traveling I've heard anecdotes that even with a wifi connection, some data was billable over cell connection as a roaming charge but can't say if that is still true or was a bug or was user error. Use the switch to disable data roaming if you want to be totally sure only wifi is used.
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Q: Can you solve these intermittent audio problems with Ford Sync and iPhone? Most of the time my iPhone 3GS works well with the Ford SYNC system (based on Microsoft Auto/Windows CE) in my Mercury Milan Hybrid. I connect the iPhone to the car's USB input (inside the center console) and select "USB" on the "Media" screen. It will start automatically playing whatever was most recently playing on the iPhone (which is usually a podcast for me).
The iPhone also plays well through Bluetooth (using the A2DP profile, I presume). I prefer USB though because the steering wheel controls for next/previous track (and fast-forward & rewind) don't work over Bluetooth (probably because iOS doesn't support AVRCP), and the volume is significantly lower over Bluetooth than when using USB.
It feels like increasingly often I can't get audio to play over USB. I will sometimes see a message saying something like "Autoplay not supported", and it won't play if I select a track (or podcast) on the Ford Sync screen. Disconnecting and reconnecting the iPhone doesn't help, and I usually continue to have the problem even after turning off the car and opening the door to turn off Ford Sync. (Though usually it works again the next time I drive the car.)
When this happens Bluetooth still works, though the USB problem occurs sometimes when the Bluetooth connection drops. I can manually reconnect the iPhone over Bluetooth, and then the USB doesn't work.
I believe I noticed these intermittent problems before I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to iOS 4.0. But they may be more frequent since then.
Has anyone else run into these problems? Have you learned anything I haven't?
Update: The last time this happened I turned off audio (by pressing the volume dial). USB worked when I turned it back on. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this works whenever USB stops working.
Update #2: Nope, turning off the audio and back off doesn't work. If when I switch to USB I don't see the track name, then in a few seconds the audio will stop. And I've never successfully got it to work again, without turning off the car and waiting several hours. (I don't know if it always displays "Autoplay not supported when this happens.)
I don't know whether this is related, but occasionally when playing audio over Bluetooth, the Bluetooth symbol will disappear from the screen and the audio will stop. When I got to the phone settings, the phone I've paired with Sync isn't displayed. If I wait a minute or two, the paired phone will be displayed and I can reconnect.
I guess I should look and see if there's an update to Sync available.
Update #3: I've noticed that sometimes when playing audio over USB the Bluetooth symbol will disappear from the my car's Sync screen (as described above). The audio immediately stops, and won't start again until I reconnect to my iPhone over Bluetooth. (This is somewhat annoying, since Bluetooth shouldn't have anything to do with USB.)
I like the Ford Sync system, but it appears my worries about Microsoft's tendencies towards inferior quality and lack of attention to detail were not entirely unfounded.
Update #4: I've discovered (accompanied with a face-palm) that I can crank the volume on my iPhone to max to come close to the same volume over the car speakers that I get over USB. And I don't know if it was the iOS 4.2 upgrade (with AVRCP support—which works well except for fast-forward and rewind), but the problem I describe in update #3 has been rare lately. So I use Bluetooth most of the time and don't subject myself to the USB problems described above. Bluetooth has the additional advantage of starting automatically from where I left off when I start my car.
A: I don't have an answer, but I have the identical problem with an iPhone 3G. The sync system will recognize USB for about a month and then start failing until it flat out won't recognize anything device that is inserted into the USB port. I've had the guys at the dealership look at it 3 times and each time they get it to start working again by upgrading the sync software or it just happens to start working.
Have you found a solution beyond using Bluetooth? I can't even charge my phone anymore through the port.
A: [Ford Sync Gen1, V3.1 (the latest for my 2010 Ford Contour).
iPhone 4, iOS 5.0]
Playing music via BlueTooth: "volume", "next track" and "previous track" steering wheel controls work, but does not show track info on the dashboard.
Playing music via USB: does show track info on the dashboard, and (new with iOS5) "volume", "next track" and "previous track" steering wheel controls work.
*problem. To get USB sound I start the music on the iPhone, then plug in the USB cable, then (by voice) switch to USB. Switching directly from Bluetooth to USB seems to be working, but there is no sound. If I unplug USB, plug USB, switch (by voice) to USB, then I do get sound. At least I don't have to wait several hours like you!
A: The problem is a faulty Apple design. They automatically route audio to the last connected destination. What you are describing is the Bluetooth connecting after the USB connection and even though in the vehicle you have USB selected the phone is routing audio to Bluetooth. If you disconnect the bluetooth or turn it off on the phone then the USB will always work.
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Q: Can I "Forget this Network" when the wifi network is not in range? I have an iPod Touch that I upgraded to iOS 4 (but this an issue that also existed in iOS 3.1). When I travel, and I join a WiFi networks (e.g. hotel, etc), I don't always remember to forget the network before I leave.
iPod touch: Wi-Fi Information and Settings tells you to "Forget this Network" if you can choose it from the list of Wi-Fi Networks. However, when the network is not in range, you cannot select it to forget it.
Is there either a way I am not seeing in iOS to do this, or a third party application I can download? Does the fact I have extra WiFi networks in the list affect the performance of my device when it is trying to join known networks?
Update: I now have doubts a third party app exsits based on that Apple Drops Wi-Fi Sniffers from iPhone App Store reports "sniffers were dropped because they use a private framework, hooks in the operating system that are not documented nor allowed for third-party developers to use."
A: As user83905 pointed out, syncing your iPod and Mac with iCloud Keychain will enable you to manage both devices' remembered networks from either one. This means you can simply delete it from your Mac and the change will sync to your iPod.
If you do not have a Mac available to sync with, however, you can still forget unwanted networks by going to Settings > General > Reset and tapping Reset Network Settings. You'll need to add the networks you use again, but it will clear everything out so you can start fresh.
A: IF you have a Mac:
Sync your iOS device and Mac with the same iCloud Apple keychain. The wifi information will sync via iCloud to the Mac's keychain. You can then edit the keychain on the Mac, and delete the unwanted networks.
A: You shouldn't worry too much as it only stores the settings (minimal storage impact), should you find a Wifi network with the same SSID, it may show up and ask you for the wap/wep passkey.
A: Seems like no way to do this at the moment. Workaround:
The only solution seems to be to rename a spare access point to the SSID of the network you want to forget, connect to it with the iPhone, and choose the option to forget the network. This kludge seems like a lot of work and something that an average user probably doesn’t know how or want to do
via http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/08/forget-this-network-pretty-please/
A: I have this problem when I'm on a tram. I once joined a network that was from a D-Link router, and the config hadn't been changed so that the network name was still the default - "D-LINK". Now,whenever I'm using my iPhone on public transport and we pass a similarly configured D-Link modem (there are several on my route) a pop up appears asking me for a password. It's actually kind of annoying - it interrupts me about twice per trip, every day.
I need to be faster getting into settings before we travel out of range of the networks.
A: You can reset your network settings and it will forget all networks
A: You can now open Keychain access on the Mac, and search for the wifi by name. It will give 2 results: One on the iCloud, and one from the System keychain. The Mac side can delete the iCloud only key, which leaves the system key copy on the Mac. The deletion will propagate to the iPhone in 10 minutes.
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Q: Why my iPhone switches from wi-fi to 3g each time screen blocks and does it take any data during? (or how to check it) I am using iPhone 3gs 16gb with OS 4.0.1 and each time screen blocks it is switching from wi-fi to 3g. It comes back automatically to wi-fi each time I unblock the screen.
Can I prevent it somehow? I want it to stay connected to wi-fi all the time.
How can I check how much datas it is downloading during?
A: That is a feature to preserve battery life. If your iPhone is jailbroken, you can install Insomnia from Cydia to keep WiFi active while the screen locks.
If you want to check your data usage, you can go to Settings >> General >> Usage. There, you can check under "Cellular Network Data" for how much data you have used. You can reset that, then lock your screen for some time, come back and check what has changed.
Hope this helps!
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Q: Can I get my iPhone to see the "Other Calendars" from Google Apps for domains Calendars? Our office is using Google Apps. I have it set up to sync calendars against Google, but none of my Other Calendars appear when I click the calendars button on the iPhone. Is this possible?
I've tried the sync instructions, but navigating to google.com/sync from safari on the iPhone assumes you will log in with a Google account, not a Google apps account.
A: I found the answer
"By default only your primary calendar will be synced to your device. You can sync additional calendars by visiting the following page from any web browser:
*
*https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect
(Google Apps users can go to https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/your_domain/iphoneselect, replacing 'your_domain' with your actual domain name.)"
A: So it's 2017, and the answer to your question has changed a bit, but it seems easier at least!
*
*Make sure you're signed into your Google account in whatever browser you use, of course, and then go to https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect. You should see a list of all of your calendars, including shared/other calendars, so simply check the calendars you would like to see on Apple's Calendars app.
*Make sure your Google account has been added/registered on your iPhone/iPad/Mac, and that you have given the Google account access to Calendars.
*Go to the Calendars app, and you should see the calendars you checked in Step 1 in the list of calendars. Make sure they are checked in order to see them on your main calendar.
Please let me know if anything needs clarification! Hope this helps.
A: Apparently this is possible:
Okay, the Google instructions aren't what I would call stellar for this particular setup procedure but they are correct. It's as simple as going to m.google.com, then logging in if necessary, choosing iPhone, and finally choosing the Calendars you want to Sync with your iPhone. It worked for me for 2 Calendars. Hope this helps!
*
*Complete Google's instructions
*Open Safari on your iPhone
*Navigate to m.google.com
*Select 'Sync'
*Select your device
*Check the boxes next to the Calendars you want to sync (It will only let you choose 5 total, including the "US Holidays" one)
*Click 'Save.'
via: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=3a0f6b239b1eadc5&hl=en
A: There are some pitfalls to getting your iPhone to sync up with the calendars you'd like, but it is possible.
Navigate Safari to m.google.com/sync?hl=en. If Google complains, that your device is not supported, it's most likely because of your language settings. In that case, locate the link to change your language on the bottom of the page, and change it to English (US). The link I've provided should do that automatically, but in case it doesn't, well, you know what to do.
Now you should see a list of mobile devices associated with your Google account. Pick the one whose settings you want to change.
You'll see a list with all your calendars. At the top of the page, you'll see how many calendars you'll be able to sync your phone with. Pick the calendars you'd like to sync, tap Save, and you're done.
A: Full Google Calendar integration is possible. Once your Google calendar is sync-ed up using the iPhone settings, open Safari and go to m.google.com . Choose 'Sync' and Select your device. Then check the boxes next to the Calendars you want to sync.
For extra utility use this Facebook calender export application to unify all your calendars in one place (just be sure to set the time zone correctly when you create the FBcal for Google Calendar).
A: Slightly different approach, which avoids using the Google software: I subscribe to all my Google Calendars within iCal on my Mac, via Calendar -> Subscribe, which then syncs to my iPhone.
A: If the issue is for your iphone go here:
http://carlsednaoui.com/post/55604535740/google-calendar-adding-other-calendars-to-your-iphone
It isn't necessary to do it on your mobile device.
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