When you hold your precious iPhone in your hands what is one of the first things you see, besides the screen silly, your iPhone’s home button! Believe it or not, Apple has made this button very helpful and it does more than close out your apps.
I will detail briefly the power of your iPhone Home Button, this is a total must have for any iPhone or iPod Touch power-users or the power-users in the making.
#1 - Go directly to the Home Screen.
You are a total app fanatic, you have 180 apps (the maximum number of apps you can have on an iPhone 4 on the home row and 176 on the other 11 pages, btw) and you want to just get to something on the first page. Don’t you dare swipe your finger across the page 11 times…no no no…simply tap your home button once and you are there.
#2 – Quickly get access to your tunes.
When your phone is locked there is absolutely no reason you should unlock the phone just to access your music on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Simply press the home button twice when you phone is locked and press play. It’s that easy folks.
#3 – Need to make a quick call.
That’s right, your iPhone home button handles this too. Simply double tap your iPhone’s home button from the first page/home screen and your iPhone will automatically pull up your
#4 – Send out the search dogs.
Ok, maybe not the search dogs, but with one touch of your iPhone or iPod Touch home button (with 3.0 software) from your home screen/first page you can instantly be sent to the search screen and begin your search.
#5 – Two words. Voice Control
Do you have an iPhone 3GS…well hold down your home button for a few seconds and your iPhone voice controls will ignite.
Boooo….no fair I don’t have a 3GS, ok here is another!
BONUS: Don’t like some of these functions for your home button, you can change them you know!
Yes the power of the iPhone and iPod once again. To change your home button settings:
- From your home screen, tap on “Settings”
- Tap on “General”
- Scroll down and tap on “Home” and change your settings.
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