Mobile Phones

This tutorial will guide you through the steps to create “keyboard shortcuts” – shortcuts that allow you to type just a few characters instead of an entire word or phrase – on your iPhone or iPad. …

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If you’re a little bit embarrassed that you couldn’t figure out how to do this – don’t be. It’s not as intuitive as most things on the iPhone/iPad. Here goes:

1. Launch the Camera App on your iPhone/iPad. While you’re holding the iPhone/iPad with one hand, place two fingers from your other hand on the screen, and ‘slide’ them outwards (as illustrated in the screenshot below). Note: works best/is most comfortable when using your thumb and index finger.



2. As you move your fingers outwards, the screen (and camera) will start to zoom. At this point, the “zoom slider” will also appear on the screen. You can use it to fine tune/adjust your zooming.



3. Yeah, that easy…

This tutorial will explain how to get your iPhone (or iPad) to “forget” a network that it has previously connected to, so that it stops connecting to it automatically in the future.

1. Tap the Settings button on your iPhone/iPad.



2. Select the Wi-Fi setting.



3. Make sure your Wi-Fi is turned ON. Scroll down to the Network that you want to stop your iPhone/iPad from automatically connecting to, and tap the small ‘blue arrow’ next to it.



4. Tap the large Forget this Network button.



5. Tap the Forget button to confirm.



6. Going forward, your iPhone or iPad will not automatically connect to the network. You’ll need to manually reconnect to it if you wish to use it again.

This very brief tutorial will show you how to disable the ‘clicking’ noise you hear each time you tap a key on your iPhone or iPads touch-screen keypad without having to turn down the volume. …

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This short tutorial will take you through the steps to enlarge the font size on your iPhone or iPad (and iPod Touch) to make the text easier to read. …

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If you’re at all like me when it comes to looking up names, your first thought is the persons first name. By default, the iPhone (and iPad, and iPod Touch) Contacts App sorts your contacts by last name. Here’s how to switch that so they’re sorted by first name. …

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This very brief tutorial will show you how to remove the ‘scrolling Stocks widget’ in your iPhone and/or iPad’s “pull down” Notification Center. …

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This brief guide will show you how to change the wallpaper and/or “lock screen” of your iPhone, iPad (including the iPad Mini) and iPod Touch. …

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If you don’t want to hear the annoying beeps and sounds that Skype for the iPhone/iPad makes, just follow these few steps to turn them off. …

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