Dad's iPhone Tip of the Week #3

Save images from email or website.

Email attachments.
Photos that come as email attachments can be save to the camera roll by touching and holding the image. The options appear to "Save Image" or "Copy." Touching "Save Image" will place the photo in the camera roll as if you had taken the photo with the camera. It can then be downloaded to your computer at the next sync.

Photos on websites.
Photos on pages viewed in Safari can also be saved. Follow the same procedure as email attachments by touching and holding the photo for a second. The options then appear as "Open", "Open in New Page", "Save Image", "Copy."

For example, let's say you are browsing this site and see a cute photo of Jonli and want to save it so you can have it on your computer.


Touch the photo and the full size photo is shown. This is a feature of this blog but many times you will not have to do this step. If an image on a website is small you will be saving the size of the image you see. (Caution: The image could be very small) Once you see the photo you want to save, simply touch and hold the photo for a few seconds...


...until the options appear at the bottom. Select "Save Image" to save it to your camera roll.



Open the Photos App, touch "Album" at the bottom to see the Camera Roll album. Notice in the capture below that the photo of Jonli appears as if I had taken the photo with my camera.

Dad's iPhone Tip of the Week #2

Phone Call Controls
-Call [number]. i.e. Call 555-1234

-Call [Name], Name as entered into the address book. i.e. Call Susan
It will prompt if multiple entries are found. You can specify by saying more at once or wait for the prompts. On my phone if I say “Call Susan” it will prompt for Susan Jones, Susan Bosen or Susan Preston. I say “Jones,” but there are multiple numbers for her, “Home” or “Mobile”
So could say all at once: Call Susan Jones Mobile

Music Controls
-Play artist [artist name]. i.e. Play artist Coldplay
-Play playlist [playlist name]. i.e. Play playlist workout
-Play album [album name]. i.e. Play album Parachutes
-Play more songs like
-What’s playing
-What song is this?
-Who sings this song?

Misc
-What time is it?

Bonus Tip: Double click/tap the Home button to access the iPod Controls (pause, next, back, volume)

Dad's iPhone Tip of the Week #1

Sometimes you want to record what is on the screen of your iPhone. For bragging rights, for posterity's sake, for fun or for one of those you won't believe this moment moments.
1. Find the Wake/Sleep button at the top.
2. Find the Home button on the front.
3. Click both buttons at the same time

The image will be saved to the camera roll as if you had take a picture with the camera.
Until next week. Enjoy.