Dogs. How To Search Through Notes With Siri. Whether you’re new to iOS, or just want to pick up some useful tips and tricks, we’re here to help. This is iOS Advice. In my opinion, Notes is one of the most convenient built-in apps on an iOS device. Using Siri’s Notes integration can also be very handy. This feature allows you to take notes using your voice, but did you know that Siri can also search through them? If you’re a heavy Notes user, you may find this tip very useful. I have hundreds of Notes on my iOS device and Siri makes it painless to search through them and find exactly what I need.
If you’d like to learn how to use Siri to search through the Notes app, watch the video or follow the steps below: Step 1: If you’re looking for notes from a specific day or month, you can say things like, “Find notes from July 2012” or “Find notes from October 26, 2012.” Step 2: You can also search through your notes for a specific word. Searching through notes with Siri is a great way to find what you’re looking for.
Apple iOS 5: 10 Cool Tricks and Things You Need to Know [VIDEO] The latest iPhone comes with an 8-megapixel LED-flash rear-facing camera with 1080p high-definition video recording; an integrated A5 dual-core processor (previously only found in the iPad 2); iOS 5; iCloud (a cloud-based storage, streaming and notification service); and Siri, an enhanced voice assistant to support the user.
However, there are a few tricks you will need to know if you want to have a rich user experience with the promising new smartphone. Let's have a look. Apple's iOS 5 has introduced an improved Notification Center, so now you don't have to pause or stop any activity on the smartphone if you want to check the display to see if you have received any new messages.
Now, you only need to run your finger down from the top of the screen to reach the Notification Center. You can even customize the Notification Center by doing this: Tap Settings > Notifications -- and then arrange the notifications any way you want. Who doesn't like gaming? Check out the video. Using iOS 5 and iCloud (2): Photo Sharing. Why I'm Not Ditching AT&T for the iPhone 4S. I'm an iPhone 3GS owner. And today, with a little luck and a little competence from UPS, I'm going to become one of the predicted 18 million people to upgrade the the iPhone 4S. Having skipped the iPhone 4 last year, I'm excited to finally have a brand-new phone. One thing that won't be changing for me, however is my network: AT&T. Yep, despite making a promise myself to switch when I upgraded, I'm doubling down on Ma Bell. When the iPhone made its first debut in 2007, I broke my contract with Sprint just to get it.
When that exclusivity expired this year, I began planning my switch. It's the Internet, Stupid For starters, the network. On top of that, AT&T still has the only iPhone that lets you use the network and make calls at the same time. Calls Are Beyond Secondary AT&T's troubles in the area of using cell phones as, you know, phones, are well documented, but on one occasion the lousy network quality got personal for me. Quite simply, the phone call is obsolete. How to use the iOS 5 Reminders app. It's happened to the best of us--we go to the grocery store with a mental list, sure that we could never forget one of the only six items on it.
Then we get back home, look in the bag, and realize we forgot the chocolate chips for the cookies we've been craving. With the release of iOS 5 getting closer by the day, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users will soon be able to take advantage of the new Reminders application that is included in Apple's latest mobile OS. Here we take a look at the app and show you how to use some of its features.
When you first launch the Reminders app you will be presented with your default list. Here you can quickly add another item to your list, or swipe left or right to view another list. If you would prefer to view your reminders by date, you can tap on the Date button on the top to view all of your lists organized by date. To enter a task or item you need a reminder for, simply tap on the plus sign. Up close with iOS 5: Mail's changes | Mobile. Many iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users have mixed feelings about iOS’s Mail app.
On the whole, it’s one of the best mobile email clients, making it easy to read and reply to email. But it’s also missing many of the features you’ve come to expect from email clients on the desktop. We obviously shouldn’t expect the same level of functionality from a mobile app as we do from a Mac app, but the fact that we use iOS Mail so much makes it an easy target for criticism. The good news is that iOS’s Mail keeps getting better. In iOS 4, the Mail app received a number of updates that significantly improved its utility. More formatting and quoting options Prior to iOS 5, messages you created in Mail were limited to plain text. If you prefer to never increase the quote level of existing text when you reply to or forward an email message, you’ll appreciate the new Increase Quote Level setting, which you can disable in the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen of the Settings app.
Search More. Sort iOS Notifications by Time of Arrival. iPhone 4S: My First Night - Mobility - Smartphones. I upgraded my iPhone 4 to an iPhone 4S on Friday. Here's my report on the phone--and my least painful iPhone upgrade experience to date. In 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, I lined up, like thousands of others, in the wee hours of the morning to purchase an Apple iPhone. Each year's story is somewhat similar: Get up early, go to Apple store, wait in line for hours, buy phone, go home. In 2007, the iPhone went on sale at 6PM local time. I was home with the new device by 7:30. In 2008, the iPhone went on sale at 8AM local time. . [ What can Apple's new OS do for you? In 2009, the process was much improved. In 2010, Apple allowed people to preorder their iPhones for in-store pickup.
Eventually, Apple employees came out and segregated the line into two queues: those who had preordered, and those who hadn't. This year, I decided to do it a little differently. I've worked from home for five years. I asked him if he'd been delivering a lot of the tiny little packages, which he handed to me. 1 of 2. The iOS Academy: How To Update iOS Over The Air. Hello, iOS users and welcome to today’s edition of iOS Academy. Earlier today Apple pushed out the iOS update to version 5.0.1 and we thought what better time to show you how to get your update untethered and over the air. The iOS OTA updates use what are called bit-differential or “delta” files that only contain what’s new with this version. These types of files allow us to download the update faster and more efficiently. Also, note that these won’t erase your music, apps or other data, so the whole process should be particularly seamless.
The first thing you want to do is launch the Settings app, tap General, tap Software Update, and if an update is available this is where you will find all the info about it. Next a page displaying the Terms and Conditions will show up which you’ll want to agree to. You will now see a progress bar and a time visual identifier for how much longer the update download will take. There you have it! (Images credit: TiPB) iCal: Moving & Sharing Events with the Greatest of Ease | TMO Quick Tip.
I find the typical method for editing iCal events to be a bit of a headache. OK, so it’s a minor complaint, but still. In this tip, I’m going to tell you all about some easier things you can do to move your events around, and I’ll talk about how to share them easily so that we can all get on with our lives. I mean, I like iCal and all, but I don’t want to spend a lot of time working in it. So open iCal in either week or month view. (You can hit Command-1, Command-2, and Command-3 to toggle between day, week, and month views respectively.)
Then find an event you’d like to move to a different day. Rather than editing the event itself, just pick it up and drag it to the new date. This is me dragging an event. If you like keyboard shortcuts better, you can choose instead to click on an event to select it, and then invoke the same shortcuts you’re accustomed to using to move stuff around (Command-X for Cut, Command-C for Copy, and Command-V for Paste). Here’s my favorite thing, though. Up close with iOS 5: Calendar changes | Mobile. Though it didn’t score iOS 5’s flashiest updates, the stock Calendar app certainly gets a few noteworthy upgrades of its own in the latest edition of Apple’s mobile OS. Many of the improvements introduced by Apple seem focused on improving the calendaring app’s interface. New additions Perhaps no new Calendar feature will be more welcome than the overdue ability to swipe between days. To move from day to day in the old version of Calendar, iOS device users had to rely on the tiny left and right navigation arrows.
With iOS 5, simply swiping across the screen in either direction takes you to a brand-new day. Similarly welcome is a new landscape mode on the iPhone. Rotate your iPhone to the wider mode from nearly any screen in the Calendar app, and you’ll see an endless scrolling horizontal calendar view. Add Calendar events in iOS 5 Speaking of creating events, iOS 5 ushers in a host of improvements to that process.
[Lex Friedman is a staff writer for Macworld.] Up close with iOS 5: New gestures | Mobile. New multitouch gestures have been in the frame for iOS since early this year, when they first showed up in the iOS 4.3 beta. That feature may have disappeared from the final version of that release, but four- and five-finger gesture didn’t drop off Apple’s to-do list entirely. Instead, they’re making their debut with iOS 5. —at least for iPad 2 owners What’s the same? Gestures in iOS 5 should come as less of a shock to the system as the ones Apple introduced to Mac OS X Lion this summer.
Tapping is still the most common move for navigating the device. More fingers, more tasks With iOS 5, your iPad 2 will gain several new multitouch gestures for working with apps and the multitasking bar. If you’re tired of pressing the Home button repeatedly to pull up the multitasking bar, you may like these three new gestures, all of which require four to five fingers to execute. As you swipe, the app you’re in will follow your fingers and move off the screen in the direction you are swiping.
5 Hidden Gems in iOS 5. This week we've given iOS 5 the in-depth treatment and highlighted 10 of our favorite features — and we're still not done exploring everything the new iOS 5 has to offer. We've tracked down five features in iOS 5 that while small on the surface, pack a serious punch. We're calling these "hidden gems" because they take a little bit of effort to find. The fact that we're still finding new things in iOS 5 underscores how big of an upgrade Apple has really delivered. What is your favorite hidden gem in iOS 5? Let us know.
iOS 5: The Top 10 New Features. First Look: iOS 5 Reminders | Productivity. It’s understandable if you’ve barely given more than the briefest of attention to Apple’s newly-announced Reminders app for iOS 5. After all, it was just one of the ten tantalizing iOS 5 features Apple vice president Scott Forstall unveiled during the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, and a new to-do list app seems decidedly less sexy than, say, the new notifications system.
But from what we’ve seen, even in beta form, Reminders looks like a pretty solid task-management app. Although it won’t satisfy Getting Things Done devotees, and it offsets a variety of cleverly-implemented features with some head-scratching omissions, Reminders should be an impressive entry from Apple into the iOS to-do list space.
The Reminders interface looks like a sheet of white loose-leaf paper. If you tap on the next available white space—or the plus icon (+) at the upper right, you can start creating a new reminder immediately. That reveals the reminder details screen. iOS 5 features: Reminders. Of all of the new bits and pieces of iOS 5, one of the apps I'm using the most is Reminders. It's a simple yet effective app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that is used to set up self-reminders and task lists that are synced through iCloud. Let's take a look at this latest feature of iOS and Mac OS. The icon for Reminders describes at a glance exactly what it does -- it looks like a list of tasks, each with a check mark indicating completion.
Reminders works on the concept of lists, and you can create any number of them. The app automatically adds a list called "completed" that contains any task that you have finished but have not deleted. To add a list, there's an edit button on the Lists page. Creating tasks is also easy: you just type in the name on the Lists page. The latter only lets you pick addresses from your contact list. You can choose to repeat the reminder at a set duration, either every day, week, two weeks, month, or year. How well does the syncing over iCloud work?