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How to delete/uninstall iPhone & iPad apps – iPhone 101 series

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Delete?

Delete?

It’s possible to remove applications once you no longer need it from either your iPhone or iPad. This is very simple to do, and necessary if you are a iPhone app download junkie. It is also particularly useful if you don’t use folders. Removing them is very easy, thank’s to Apple’s way of thinking!

  • Hold your finger over the application you wish to remove until it starts to ‘giggle’ you will see a small ‘X’ to the left of the icon tap it you will then see this message: “Deleting this application will also delete it’s data”
  • Select ‘delete’ to remove the application from your device. It really is that simple, remember if you remove an application from your iPhone or iPad you are also deleting the associated data, as per the above alert. It’s always a good idea to sync apps you have bought first with iTunes, but of course you can always re-download them for free once you have bought them!
  • Note: If your are in the process of downloading a large application such as a graphics intensive game, which you no longer want, and it  is not finished downloading, you can use the same above process to cancel the download/install!

iPhone 101 is a series of blog posts by iPadiPhoneBlog.com that makes no assumptions. If you are new to smart phones, iPhones or mobile phones, you will find this guide straight forward to use.

    How to edit app notifications – iPhone 101 series

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    iPhone notifications menu

    iPhone notifications menu

    You might ask a particular application  not to alert you, only to change your mind at some point! How do you reactivate those notifications again? It’s actually very simple, you don’t need to open the app itself, as notifications has it’s own management area in the settings app.

    Here are a few simple steps to amend the notifications on your iPhone. For this example we have selected Angry Birds as the app we would like to change the notification settings, of course this can used for any app you wish. Continue reading →

    How to end a multitasking app – iPhone 101 series

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    Multitasking was introduced with iOS4 for the iPhone and is extremely useful. It means you can listen to your favourite audio app, while sending an e-mail, sending a tweet, or checking up on your facebook contacts, all while reading an ebook.

    And if you do all of the above at once you will notice those apps continue to run when you switch out of them. Fast app switching support along with multitasking means the iPhone can now be considered a possibility for business who may previously have dismissed the device.

    What happens when you are finished using the app, and no longer wish to use it or have it running in the background? How you close the app? Why would you want to in the first place? You may want to stop a radio app from playing for example!

    It’s not very obvious how to remove an app from the multitasking pane for a new iPhone owner, but it is easy enough to do.

    Multi Tasking

    Multi Tasking

    • Double tap the home button, so the list of recently open apps is displayed.
    • Select the app you wish the close and hold your finger over it until it starts to “giggle”.
    • A red minus icon  will appear, pressing this icon will close down the application so it is no longer running in the background.

    iPhone 101 is a series of blog posts by iPadiPhoneBlog.com that makes no assumptions. If you are new to smart phones, iPhones or mobile phones, you will find this guide straight forward to use.

    How to turn on caps lock on iPhone – iPhone 101 series

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    How do you enable the caps lock on the iPhone?  It’s an obvious enough  question, but it’s not clear how to do this. Lucky for you iPhone 101 series is here to help.

    Enable Caps Lock

    Enable Caps Lock

    • Open the settings application.
    • From this menu scroll to Keyboard.
    • Switch the “Enable Caps Lock” option to on.
    • Close the settings application.
    • Open the program you wish to type in, for this example we are using the mail app.
    • Compose email in the normal way.
    • To enable the caps lock, double tap the shift button (as pictured) it will turn blue to indicate that caps lock has been enabled. You can tap again to disable.

    iPhone 101 is a series of blog posts by iPadiPhoneBlog.com that makes no assumptions. If you are new to smart phones, iPhones or mobile phones, you will find this guide straight forward to use.

    How to clear Safari iPhone history – iPhone 101 series

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    Safari History

    Safari History

    There could be many reasons why would would want to clear Safari history on your iPhone. And like all our iPhone 101 series posts, this is easy to do.

    • Open the settings app.
    • Select Safari from the menu.
    • Scroll to the bottom of that page.
    • From there you will see the options to “clear history” “clear cookies” and “clear cache“.

    Remember once you clear these settings there is no way of looking back on your history records, which is the whole point of clearing Safari history.

    iPhone 101 is a series of blog posts by iPadiPhoneBlog.com that makes no assumptions. If you are new to smart phones, iPhones or mobile phones, you will find this guide straight forward to use.

    How to disable data roaming – iPhone 101 series

    Turn off data roaming

    Turn off data roaming

    Data roaming prices can be astronomical! When you are on holidays or taking a business trip, you will want to be fully aware of data roaming prices and check out what plans, if any, are available.

    For example I was data roaming in England recently as a customer of O2 Ireland who had a charge of 4.96 per MB and you will be charged for what you use up to 4MB and then up to 50MB is free, believe it or not this is actually not a bad offer, but you could be looking at 20 Euro per day and up, depending on use.

    You may want to disable data roaming on your iPhone. Disabling data roaming will prevent your iPhone from establishing a data connection when you are out of the country. This is very simple to do.  You can set this at any time – even before you leave for your trip, and it is usually enabled by default, but be sure to double check this.

    Oh! You are probably wondering about wifi, disabling data roaming has no effect on wifi you can use this as normal.

    How to do it

    1. Open the settings app.
    2. Select General and then Network.

      Network

      Network

    3. Under the network option, set data roaming to off. You can see under this option the explanation “turn data roaming off when abroad to avoid substantial when using email, mms, web browsing and other data services”

      4. Data roaming

      Data roaming

    Remember if you need to use data services urgently you can enable it, but if you do remember that iPhones often use data services in the background, so even if you are not browsing the internet you could still be charged, for example, your iPhone may be checking for email updates, so don’t forgot to disable data roaming once you are finished.

    iPhone 101 is a series of blog posts by iPadiPhoneBlog.com that makes no assumptions. If you are new to smart phones, iPhones or mobile phones, you will find this guide straight forward to use. You can find additional posts on our iPhone 101 series here.

    How to email multiple photos – iPhone 101 series

    iPhone 101 is a series of blog posts by iPadiPhoneBlog.com that makes no assumptions. If you are new to smart phones, iPhones or mobile phones, you will find this guide straight forward to use. You can find additional posts on our iPhone 101 series here.

    It is very simple to email photos using your iPhone, aside from copy and paste you can also select from the photos application to mail them, here is a step by step guide on how to do this as part of our iPhone 101 series.

    Step 1

    Select your Album

    Select your Album

    Open the Photos application, and select the appropriate  album.

    Step 2

    Select share

    Select share

    Press the icon on the left bottom bar – which will open the share – copy and delete buttons.

    Step 3

    Three images have been selected=

    Three images have been selected for email

    You can now select up to five photos by pressing on the thumbnails associated with the image you like, if you select more than five you will be able to copy or delete but not share. Once you select an image, a red tick mark will appear on the thumbnail to indicate you have selected it.

    Finally

    Email image

    Email image

    Now that you are happy with the images you have selected click on “Share” and then email.

    You are now ready to email the image

    You are now ready to email the image

    Like magic, a new message window will open with the images preloaded in the email, it is then just a case of typing in the email address and subject of the email!