10 iPhone tips and tricks worth knowing!

Let Siri assign nicknames to contacts. Fire up your Siri and tell her ‘Peter Math is my father’ and Siri will respond, ‘Okay, do you want me to remember that Peter Math is your father?” Confirm and you will be able to ‘Call dad’ and connect to his number. Repeat this step to store more relations in a go.

iPhones don’t always understand which way is up. You may be lying down or leaning back and the phone screen shifts from portrait to landscape and back. Stop this by double clicking iPhone home button. You’ll get a list of recently opened apps. You will see a gray icon with a circular arrow at the far left button. Just touch the icon and a message will appear, ‘Portrait Orientation Locked’. Now just enjoy!

Go to your camera roll and then select a photo. At the bottom left hand corner, you will get an arrow icon. Just tap on it and a menu will appear. Select ‘Twitter’ in the middle row and you will get a menu with a photo attached at the top right corner. Now just type your tweet, send and you are done.

iMessage is not only free within US, it is also free across continents. International data plans are expensive and of course, sending texts can dig a big hole in your pocket. But if you are a iOS 5 user, iMessage can help avoid unnecessary charges. So, stop those SMS and move to iMessage.

This is a very useful iPhone tip, especially if you have multiple Apple devices. Go to settings and navigate to the middle of the page. Now select the ‘Store’ option. Once inside, under ‘Automatic Downloads’ switch on the options for music, apps or even both.

Maps have made our lives so easy. Once you have searched for an address of a specific location or even your current place, you can add a purple pin by just tapping the screen. This gives you the option of getting directions to a particular pin or from a pin. You can also share your location via email, text or Tweet. If you want to drop a pin anywhere, just click the bottom right corner and hit ‘Drop Pin’ or ‘Replace Pin’.

What happens if you lose your favorite iPhone? No, you don’t lose it all. You need to set up iCloud and then go into the iCloud settings and enable Find My iPhone. Now just download the Find My iPhone app. Once you sign in, you can easily track your phone on a map. You can remotely force the phone play a sound, lock down the phone and even display an alert message or wipe out its memory completely.

If you are a parent, then you definitely need parental controls in iPhone. Disallow explicit language by simply going to General Settings, then Restrictions and selecting from a number of options that state what a iPhone user can and cannot access. Just tap Enable Restrictions and get it a passcode. You can now limit your child’s access in iPhone.

To enable Emoji, go to the settings app. Tap general and then keyboard. Go to ‘Keyboards’ and select ‘Add new keyboard’, and scroll to reach ‘Emoji’. Select Emoji and then create your message. Start typing and you’ll see a globe icon at the bottom left corner. You can toggle between alphanumeric keyboard and Emoji keyboard.

If you are looking for stuff on your phone, then Spotlight is an useful tool for it. Let Spotlight search only for items that you want. For this, just go to Settings and then select General and then finally select Spotlight search. You can select what your iPhone indexes and even speed up the interface.