So you’ve played around with your new 3.0 Firmware on your iPhone or iPod Touch and think you have found every feature there is…you might be right, that’s what we think too. These are some of the features that we found and did not see floating around the web too much so we’d thought we’ll share it. There is also video showing these features below…enjoy.
Swipe album art
Swipe right at album art section in the now playing screen to go back to your playlist.
Shake to shuffle at lockscreen
“shake to shuffle” also works when you double click the home button at the lock screen.
Access extra characters by holding keys
The keyboard contains extra characters for many keys. These extra characters can be accessed by pressing and holding a key.
Notes: asks to confirm delete in note but not outside
In the notes app, when you want to delete a note while in the note itself a confirmation will pop up asking if you want to delete or cancel, but if your in the general notes app and swipe to delete a note you will not get a confirmation so be careful.
Landscape contacts
For those of you who didn’t know, the contacts app is also in landscape allowing you to create contacts in landscape mode and paste numbers. When you paste a number, the data detectors automatically detect the number as a phone number.
Unlimited photo email
You can send as many pictures as you like in one email, as long as your willing to wait while it copies and pastes.
Subject field doesn’t move in email
When reading an email and zooming in, scrolling left and right is independent of the subject field which is does not move.
Time limit the use iPhone thru stopwatch
You can use the Timer in the clock app to set the amount of time the iPhone or iPod Touch can be used before it locks itself. Simply choose “Sleep iPod” under “When Timer Ends” and choose the time. When the time is reached, the device will go into lock. This is ideal for parents on limiting a child’s use of an iPhone or iPod Touch, or if you want to let your friends play around with your device, but only for one minute you set it to 1 minute and turn on the lock passcode.
Recording works in background
Just so you know, if your recording something using the voice memos app, you can exit the app while recording and it will still continue to record, in case you gotta send a text or email when you’re recording a lecture or a meeting.
Check number of apps
Not so big, but sometimes useful, find it in Setting>General>About.
Here is the video of the features in action:



February 11th, 2010 at 3:40 PM
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