The iPhone User Guide

Reading PDF’s on the iPhone 4 screen is an absolute dream, the high resolution screen makes it easy on the eyes and now thanks to iBooks, you can get PDF’s on your iPhone easily and quickly.

1. Email the PDF file to yourself
2. Hold your finger down on the PDF in your email
3. Click ‘open in iBooks’

Voila! The PDF is now saved to your iBooks for pleasurable reading whenever you choose.

The iPhone’s Spotlight Search functionality is a great improvement from early incarnations, but you can make it even more relevant to you just by tweaking the settings. In the “Settings” menu, go to “General,” then select “Spotlight Search.” You are then presented with a list of categories. By touching the three bars icon next to each category, you can change the order of how the phone presents search results.

Another one of the iPhone’s Accessibility options for the visually impaired, the “VoiceOver” feature is a gesture-based screen reader. Using slightly different controls (double tap to select and three fingers to scroll), VoiceOver essentially reads aloud what is on the phone’s screen. Aside from the obvious uses for the visually-impaired, this also means that iBooks can become audio books. To activate it, go to “Settings,” then “General,” then “Accessibility” and toggle VoiceOver to “On,” at which point you get options to tweak the settings (the speed of reading) and try out the new controls. Once activated, if you head over to your iBooks app, VoiceOver will read your selected texts to you. It might not be something you want to employ that often, but tired eyes might appreciate having a book read to them at certain times.

A great feature for anyone who reads in bed, you can now lock the screen on your iPhone to stay in the portrait orientation and avoid that annoying switch between portrait and landscape you can get in certain situations.

To activate the lock, tap the home button twice, then scroll to the screen on the left, at which point you’ll see a square gray icon with a circular arrow on the far right. Tap this to lock the screen (you’ll see a locked icon in the top right of the display now) and unlock by tapping again.

Many users don’t like having the ‘swipe right to activate spotlight’ from the home springboard. Jailbroken iPhones now have the ability to turn this feature off.

Disabling Spotlight on iPhone

• Open Cydia and hit on Manage
• Now tap on Source and now add Source “http://www.sinfuliphonerepo.com”
• Now go in Search Tab and look for “Nospot” and install it
• After respring you will not be able to see Spotlight search page

Auto3G extends your battery life by automatically turning off the 3G radio (leaving on the 2G radio) when you lock your iPhone and automatically turning on the 3G radio when you unlock your iPhone.

This way you always have the speed of 3G when you need it without the battery loss. As explained by Apple, this results in up to 100% greater battery life: “7 hours of talk time on 3G, 14 hours of talk time on 2G.” (apple.com/batteries/iphone.html) Auto3G can be purchased from the Cydia Store for $5.99