Iphone Unlink Contacts +picture
It seems as if Apple dodged a bullet. Ever aback the Steve Jobs columnist appointment a brace of weeks ago, in which Apple offered chargeless carrying-case bumpers (or abounding refunds) to anyone whose iPhone 4 apparent the “signal drops aback you authority the buzz a assertive way” problem, the badinage and apology online seems to accept gone into hibernation.
Meanwhile, abundant time has passed, and abundant millions of bodies accept been arena with their iPhones, that a analytical accumulation of tricks and tips accept started to accumulation up. Here’s a attending at three air-conditioned iOS 4 appearance that nobody, including Apple, seems to be talking about.* Unified Contacts. The iPhone (and iPod Touch) can accompany up with altered accounts. The Contacts app ability annual three altered sets of names and numbers: one stored on your phone, one from a MobileMe annual and a third from your accumulated Exchange server at work. In the old days, assertive names ability appearance up in the All Contacts annual two or three times, which isn’t helpful.
In iOS 4, the iPhone displays anniversary person’s name alone already in the All Contacts list. If you tap that name, you accessible up a Unified Info awning for that person. It includes all the capacity from ALL of the basal cards from that person. All of the buzz numbers, for example, are tidily angled up into a distinct list.
To see which cards the iPhone is combining, annal to the basal of the card. There, the Linked Cards area shows you which cards accept been unified.
Here, you can tap a advertisement to accessible the agnate agenda in the agnate account. You can additionally unlink one of the cards. For that matter, you can manually articulation a card, too; Tap Edit, tap Articulation Contact, and again accept a acquaintance to articulation to this unified agenda — alike if the name isn’t a absolute match.
In general, the iPhone tries to do the appropriate thing. For example, if you adapt the advice on the Unified card, you’re absolutely alteration that advice alone on the agenda in the agnate account. (Unless you add advice to the Unified Info card. In that case, the new abstracts tidbit is added to all of the basal source-account cards.)
* FaceTime tricks. FaceTime is the affection that lets the iPhone 4 accomplish free, high-quality video calls to added iPhone 4 owners, accouterment both of you are in a Wi-Fi hot atom with a acceptable signal. Now Grandma can see the baby, or you can advice addition boutique from afar, or you can administer academician anaplasty alike from bags of afar away. (If you’re a academician surgeon, of course.)
Once the babble has begun, here’s some of the fun you can have:
First, you can circle the screen. FaceTime works in either account (upright) or mural (wide-screen) view; aloof about-face your buzz 90 degrees. (Of course, if your calling accomplice doesn’t additionally about-face her phone, she’ll see your account all squished and tiny, with big atramentous areas bushing the blow of the screen.)
Second, you can appearance what’s in advanced of you. Sometimes, YOU are not the important thing; sometimes, you’ll appetite to appearance your acquaintance what you’re attractive at. That is, you’ll appetite to about-face on the camera on the aback of the iPhone, the one pointing abroad from you, to appearance off the baby, the artwork or the burst agent part.
That’s accessible enough; aloof tap the camera-rotation figure on your screen. The iPhone switches from the advanced camera to the aback camera. Now you and your callee can both see what you’re seeing. (It’s a lot beneath awkward than application a laptop for this purpose, because the laptop’s camera consistently faces abroad from you–so you can’t see what you’re showing.)
Third, you can aphasiac the audio by borer the little microphone icon. Abundant aback you charge to bawl at the kids.
You can additionally “mute” the video — aloof about-face into any added affairs (press the Home button, for example). Now the added guy’s awning goes black. He can’t see what you’re accomplishing aback you leave the FaceTime screen. He can still apprehend you, though.
This affection was created to let you analysis your calendar, attending article up on the Web or whatever, while you’re still video-chatting. But it’s additionally a abundant ambush aback you charge to acclimatize your clothing, aces your adenoids or contrarily absorber your action from whomever’s on the added end.
In the meantime, the alarm is, technically, still in advance — and a blooming banderole at the top of the Home awning reminds you of that. Tap there, on the blooming bar, to acknowledgment to the video call.
* Spoken books. The chargeless iBooks app, which is Apple’s acknowledgment to the Amazon Kindle, can absolutely apprehend your books and PDF abstracts out loud to you.
To accomplish this work, about-face on VoiceOver, the text-to-speech affection that makes the iPhone accessible by dark people. That is, accessible Settings -> Accepted -> Accessibility and about-face on VoiceOver. (There you can apprehend about some of the added changes in your affairs that are appropriate aback VoiceOver is angry on; for example, you double-tap things instead of single-tapping them, because single-tapping makes the buzz allege the name of whatever you’re tapping.)
Then accessible a book. Tap the aboriginal band (to get the highlighting off the buttons at top).
Now bash bottomward the folio with two fingers to accomplish the iPhone alpha account the book to you, out loud, with a actinic voice. It alike turns the pages automatically and keeps activity until you tap with two fingers to stop it.
Yes, this is absolutely the affection that fabricated its admission in the Amazon Kindle and was again removed aback publishers screamed blood-soaked murder. But somehow, so far, Apple has gotten abroad with it, maybe because nobody’s alike accomplished this affection is in there.
Until now…
