Three iPhone Shortcuts You Didn’t Know About



For many people, the iPhone is like a "shortcut" that you can take with you in your pocket.  The little gadget can help you choose restaurants, get to the right destinations, and play any song in your collection at the tap of your finger.  But if you're a true technology enthusiast, "fast" is never fast enough.  That's why you'll want to find out a few shortcuts you can use on your iPhone - at the very least, they can impress your friends!  Here are some quick tips to using your iPhone even faster.


Tap your headphones to listen to music.

Clicking or tapping on your iPhone is so last year.  That's because you can actually tap a button your headphones in order to start or pause a song, as USA Today points out.  Want to skip to the next song?  Just double-tap the button on your headphones.  Go ahead: we know you're already inspecting those iPhone headphones to find the button!


Periods are for suckers.

When you're writing a note to yourself on an iPhone and you have trouble with punctuation, the "double tap" theory again plays itself out:  this time you can double-tap the space bar on your iPhone keyboard in order to place a period and begin a new sentence.  It might not save you fifteen minutes a day, but once you get used to it, you'll be an iPhone typing master.  Find more tips like this at iSmashPhone.


When you're done reading this article, scroll back up to the top quickly.

Scrolling can be a pain when you're using a smart phone in order to browse the web, so when you're done reading an informative, helpful article like this one, you can instead simply tap the status bar in your internet browser - if you're using Safari, you shouldn't have much trouble.


If you've been using your iPhone and still can't quite get the hang of scrolling, typing, or sorting through your playlist, you are now fully equipped with the shortcuts that will make you look like a technology champion.  But there are plenty of shortcuts out there, whether you're looking for an App that will solve your problems or something built right into the functionality of the iPhone.  Find enough shortcuts and you'll be blazing through your daily to-do list in no time.  Just make sure to put a period at the end of your sentences.