Are you suffering from poor battery life on your iOS device? Does your iPad no longer last 10 hours? Consider using these tips and tricks to increase your battery life. You can also enable battery percentage as seen here. Click through for the full list of tips, tricks, and hacks focused around getting the most juice possible from that iPhone. Editor’s note: This guide was put together by the always-excellent Tkf1 of our forums. Be sure to give him a thank-you shout out!
You may have already discovered that Apple has included new Emoji icons in iOS 6, but perhaps you have not yet deciphered all of the specific Emoji that have been added. After all, Apple has added dozens of new Emoji icons for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Fortunately, iFans forum member 42395_skyline has highlighted the entire collection of new Emoji icons that Apple has added in iOS 6 beta for use across text messages, folder names, Game Center and more.
In the screenshots you are about to see, the old Emoji are shaded out, while the new ones remain bright. Check out the complete gallery of new Emoji icons in iOS 6 by following this link. Share your thoughts in the comments.
Boarding passes, gift cards, theater tickets, and all that can be a lot to carry around with you when roaming through the city. Apple thought so too, so they added a new app to the iPhone in iOS 6 called Passbook. Instead of having to carry around your wallet with all of the aforementioned items, why not store them all in one place, which is, in this case, on your phone? It’s perfect unification, placing all your important passes and gift cards in one digital place where they can still be scanned like physical ones. You always have your iPhone with you, so why not use it? Keep reading for a bit more insight. (more…)
This is a guest post by iFans forum member tw23, as part of the Inside iOS series on iFans.
iOS is one of the most secure mobile operating systems. You could even argue that it is more secure than Mac OS X itself, because of code signing.
This article will provide you with the basics of iOS security, some places you can find vulnerabilities in the kernel — thanks to the iOS Hackers Handbook — and some minor disadvantages of jailbreaking that you probably didn’t know about.
When an iOS device boots up, this is the process:
BootROM -> security check -> LLB (NOR) -> security check -> iBoot (NOR) -> security check -> Kernel (NAND) -> security check -> iOS Software (NAND)
When an iOS device is in DFU mode, this is the process:
BootROM -> security check -> iBSS (NOR) -> security check -> iBEC (NOR) -> Kernel (or Ramdisk)
When an iOS device is in Recovery Mode, this is the process:
BootROM -> security check -> LLB (NOR) -> security check -> iBoot (NOR) -> Kernel (or Ramdisk)
As you can see, there are a lot of security checks to make sure that the file being loaded is not corrupted. Each file being loaded — iBSS or LLB, for example — is signed with Apple’s secret key, and the security checks make sure that it is Apple’s files that are being loaded. (more…)
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Jailbreaking has been taken for granted for the longest time. However, there is one thing that jailbreakers have never gotten around, the codesign. The idea of a signature is nothing new. In the most simplest of terms, it’s simply an identity that you add to a program to give information on who made it, and to ensure nothing has been tampered with after things are final. However, it goes so much deeper than that. (more…)
Notifications can either be very useful, or get on your nerves. The new notification system Apple has integrated with iOS 5 has been quite impressive, allowing more customization on how and where your notifications show up.
Perhaps alert badges annoy you? Are email alerts clogging up your lock screen and Notification Center? You can now easily change notification options to your liking.
Just go into Settings and and find Notifications. From here, you can customize how each app functions with Notification center, your lockscreen, and how a notification will appear; customize them to your preference.
This is just one of many ways to make iOS more tuned to you. Keep an eye out for future Inside iOS features, as we dive into both basic and advanced tips, tricks, and helpful information for iOS.
This is a guest post by iFans forum member Zach (Appman).
Every Thursday, Inside iOS provides tips, explanations, and other valuable information about using iOS for both beginners and advanced users. Feel free to visit our Inside iOS hub for previous tips.
Keyboard shortcuts are a rather simple, yet incredibly useful feature that can be enabled in iOS 5 for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Keyboard shortcuts allow for you to type short abbreviations that expand into predefined, lengthier phrashes that you set. For instance, you could set “bbl” to expand as “be back later,” or you could have “omwh” translate into “on my way home…” (more…)
Every Thursday, Inside iOS provides tips, explanations, and other valuable information about using iOS for both beginners and advanced users. Feel free to visit our Inside iOS hub for previous tips.
The battery indicator in the top-right corner of the iPhone and iPod touch is useful, but it’s hard to determine exactly how much battery percentage you have remaining. Thankfully, there is a way to find out that exact percentage on iOS. For iPhone users, the process is tremendously easy. The first step is to navigate to Settings and tap on General. Then, you’ll want to tap Usage and turn on Battery Percentage. Voila, you’ve got a much more accurate way to determine how long your device will last before it needs to be recharged… (more…)
Every Thursday, Inside iOS provides tips, explanations, and other valuable information about using iOS for both beginners and advanced users. Feel free to visit our Inside iOS hub for previous tips.
One of the several great features that Apple included in iOS 5 was the ability to download and install iOS software updates directly over-the-air. What that means is that you can update your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to the latest iOS version directly from your device without the assistance of iTunes.
Better yet, new iOS versions install as delta updates, meaning that only the code that is changed in the software is installed; the benefits of this method are shorter download times and smaller file sizes for iOS updates. To update your device over-the-air, you will need to begin by navigating to Settings.
Next, you will want to tap General followed by Software Update. Then, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad will automatically check if your device is running the latest version of iOS.
If your device is running an older software version, the latest update available will be displayed and you’ll want to tap the Download and Install button. After agreeing to Apple’s fine print terms, the update should download and begin the install process. It’s that easy.
Every Thursday, Inside iOS provides tips, explanations, and other valuable information about using iOS for both beginners and advanced users. Feel free to visit our Inside iOS hub for previous tips.
Personally, I have always found typing on the iPad or iPad 2 to be a rather inconvenient and tedious task. Thankfully, Apple introduced a split keyboard for iPad as a new feature of iOS 5.
To use this keyboard, you’ll simply want to place your fingers in the center of the traditional iPad keyboard and drag to the left and right… (more…)