So you’ve done some crazy stuff to your iPhone. You’ve removed the default applications from your iPhone , you’ve changed the wallpaper, jailbroken it, whatever. Well here is how you restore your iPhone or iPod Touch to the original settings.

Luckily the guys at Apple were smart enough to realize that users make mistakes (go figure), so they made the  Restore function for your iPhone or iPod Touch a standard procedure. Fair warning: BEFORE YOU RESTORE YOUR iPhone PLEASE PERFORM A BACKUP. Restoring your device will delete all the data from your iPhone or iPod touch, including songs, videos, contacts, photos, calendar information, and any other data. ALL iPhone or iPod touch settings are restored to their factory condition.

So let’s begin restoring your iPhone or iPod Touch:

1. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes installed and running before attempting to update.
2. Connect your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer.
3. Select your iPhone or iPod touch when it appears in iTunes under Devices.
4. Select the “Summary” tab.
5. Select the “Restore” option.
6. When prompted to back up your iPhone or iPod touch’s settings before restoring, select the Back Up option.
7. Select the Restore option when iTunes prompts you.
8. Once the restore process has completed the iPhone or iPod touch restarts and displays the Apple logo while starting up:
9. NOTE FOR iPhone ONLY: After a restore, the iPhone displays the “Connect to iTunes” screen. Keep your iPhone connected until the “Connect to iTunes” screen goes away or you see “iPhone is Activated.” If iTunes does not have an Internet connection, this step can’t be complete.
10. Once your iPod touch or iPhone is restored , add the backed up data onto your iPhone or iPod Touch by selecting the correct backup file from the drop down.
11. Select the backup you want for your iPhone or iPod touch and select the Continue button in order to complete your device’s restoration.

Don’t want to restore from backup? Then select “Set up as new…”  If you want to preserve previous backups that iTunes has made, be sure to back up the appropriate directory before choosing to set up as new.

Yea! Now you have just like new iPhone or iPod Touch.

Some other iPhone posts you may enjoy:

• October 21, 2009 -- How-To: Turn AutoFill On in Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch
• October 19, 2009 -- How-To: Change Default Search Engine on iPhone and iPod Touch
• November 16, 2009 -- Quick Tip: Send Calls to Voicemail using your iPhone Power Button
• October 9, 2009 -- Tip: 5 Reasons to Love your iPhone Home Button
• October 6, 2009 -- How To: 5 Ways to Save Battery Life on your iPhone

When you see your battery life dwindling away, wouldn’t you like to know exactly how much battery life you have left, besides that dreaded “20% Battery Life” warning? Well if you have an iPhone 3GS this quick tip is for you…

For the iPhone 3GS, you can now display a percentage meter right next to the traditional battery life indicator. To enable the battery life percentage meter:

1. From your iPhone home screen, tap on “Settings“.
2. Next tap on “General“.
3. Now tap on “Usage” and flip the “Battery Percentage” switch on.

Now you’ll see the percentage of available battery right next to the battery icon! If you ever want to turn it off or find that this trick is not for your, simply flip it off. Now that was a little too simple.

Some other iPhone posts you may enjoy:

• July 5, 2010 -- How-To: Change Your iPhone 3G or 3GS Voicemail Password
• May 18, 2010 -- Quick-Tip: Quicker Caplocking on the iPhone and iPod
• October 9, 2009 -- Tip: 5 Reasons to Love your iPhone Home Button
• October 6, 2009 -- How To: 5 Ways to Save Battery Life on your iPhone
• April 7, 2010 -- Quick-Tip: How to Change your iPhone Email Signature

We all use our iPhones and iPod Touch to help us move along the day a bit quicker, but isn’t it always great to get that extra boost of productivity out of your phone once in a while. Well, that is exactly what you are going to get when you learn how to turn on the iPhone or iPod Touch Safari AutoFill settings . When the Safari auto fill settings are set to on, Safari will automatically fill out web forms using your contact info and previous names and passwords for you. How great, right?!

To turn on your Safari AutoFill settings…

1. From your home screen, tap “Settings“.
2. Now scroll down and tap “Safari“
3. Tap on “AutoFill“.
4. Now set your iPhone or iPod Touch AutoFill settings to either use your “Contact Info” and/or “Names and Passwords“.
5. When you use the contact information settings, all you have to do is select a contact saved in your contact list . So it would be best to save your own contact information in your iPhone.
6. Now all you have to do is visit one of your favorite websites in Safari (like TheiPhoneWebsite.com and see how well it works.

That’s it guys. Again, not that hard to do. So go save some time and enjoy your AutoFill.

Some other iPhone posts you may enjoy:

• November 6, 2009 -- How-To: Restore your iPhone or iPod Touch to Original Default Settings
• October 19, 2009 -- How-To: Change Default Search Engine on iPhone and iPod Touch
• November 16, 2009 -- Quick Tip: Send Calls to Voicemail using your iPhone Power Button
• October 9, 2009 -- Tip: 5 Reasons to Love your iPhone Home Button
• October 6, 2009 -- How To: 5 Ways to Save Battery Life on your iPhone

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:

1. From your home screen, tap on “Settings”
2. Tap on “General”
3. Scroll down and tap on “Home” and change your settings.

Some other iPhone posts you may enjoy:

• May 18, 2010 -- Quick-Tip: Quicker Caplocking on the iPhone and iPod
• February 2, 2010 -- App Mention: Fake-A-Call
• November 3, 2009 -- iPhone Headphone: For More than Just Music
• October 30, 2009 -- Quick-Tip: Show Detailed Battery Life on iPhone 3GS
• October 6, 2009 -- How To: 5 Ways to Save Battery Life on your iPhone

Isn’t it always the case that when you have to make that important phone call , send that amazing photo, or have an emergency Cram session that your battery life is low. Well in this iPhone How-To, we are going to show you a few ways to save that oh so crucial battery life.

Follow along, you will love us for it.

1. Minimize your use of third-party apps.

That’s right. Those awesome iPhone apps that you download do drain your battery. The good news is as long as you minimize your use of third-party apps you should be fine. Also remember, all iPhone apps aren’t equal. There are just some apps , particularly games or apps that utilize vibration or GPS within the app, that can run your battery down.

2. Only pull one email account.

Instead of retrieving your email from multiple accounts, try pulling only one or two email accounts. It just takes more battery power to do it. Try setting up your multiple email accounts and feeding it into one account, this way you are only pulling one account on your phone.

3. Turn down your screen.

It’s that simple, turn it down. Simply go to your iPhone Settings –> Brightness , and lower the brightness of your screen. It’s that easy.

4. Turn off GPS.

On your iPhone, go to Settings–> General –> and use the slider to turn off “Location Services” aka GPS.

5.  Turn off your iPhone WiFi.

Again, on your iPhone, go to Settings–> Wi-Fi–> and use the slider to turn off “Wi-Fi”.

That’s it, start saving your battery power.

Some other iPhone posts you may enjoy:

• October 30, 2009 -- Quick-Tip: Show Detailed Battery Life on iPhone 3GS
• October 9, 2009 -- Tip: 5 Reasons to Love your iPhone Home Button
• July 26, 2010 -- App Mention: Task Manager for iPhone – Dejumble
• July 15, 2010 -- Reviving Dismal iPhone App Sales
• May 18, 2010 -- Quick-Tip: Quicker Caplocking on the iPhone and iPod