How to Keep Your Toddler from Deleting Your iPhone apps
I wanted to share a few new iPod / iPhone tips I discovered today (well, they’re new to me, anyway). The first has to do with preventing app icons from being deleted from your screen. I have a toddler who loves to play with my iPod Touch. The trouble is, she loves to rearrange and delete my app icons.
To prevent someone from deleting your app icons, go inside the System Preferences > General > Restrictions pane and turn off the “Deleting Apps” option.
Another handy tip I learned today: pressing the Home and Power buttons simultaneously will capture a screenshot of your iPod / iPhone display. Your photos will be placed inside the “Photo” app for you to pick up.
Got a quick iPod / iPhone tip to share? Post it in the comments below!
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Adam
December 10, 2010 at 5:27 amVery useful. I love all these little shortcuts. Here’s a few I found.
You’re walking down the street listening to music on your iPhone or iPod touch. You suddenly run into an old friend and need to pause the music. You don’t have an in line headphone remote as the headphones that come with it are a bit weak.
So you press the top button, swipe the screen to unlock, get out if another app you were in before, press the iPod button, wait for it to load and press pause. Pain isn’t it? Well actually all you need to do is this. Double press the home button. From whatever app you’re in or even if the screen is locked if you double tap the home button iPod controls will appear if music is playing. this works on my 3G though I don’t know about other models.
Also this post is getting a bit wordy. Say I ham fistedly deleted the whole thing by accident. What do I do? Type it out again? Just shake the iPhone to undo.
Final iPhone trick I learned is if you get a call at an inopportune moment then to silence it and stop it vibrating just press the top button twice. It can be done quickly and descreetly.
Kevin S
December 10, 2010 at 2:41 pmI always find it amazing how many people don’t know these little secrets.
My boss would always let his phone just ring, and it annoyed the crap out of me, until one day I decided to ask him to silence the call — he didn’t know you could!
As for the double-tap for iPod controls: this works on newer devices too, except with iOS 4+, it brings up the multitasking bar. Simply swipe the bar to the left to view iPod controls, screen rotation lock and a shortcut to the currently playing music app (iPod or otherwise).