Chapter 18
Ten Helpful Hints, Tips, and Shortcuts
IN THIS CHAPTER
Typing faster with the slide
Sharing web pages and links
Creating free ringtones with GarageBand
Dumping apps from the multitasking screen
Capturing a screen grab
After spending a lot of quality time with our iPhones, it’s only natural that we’ve discovered more than a few helpful hints, tips, and shortcuts. Here are some of our faves.
Do the Slide for Accuracy and Punctuation
Our first tip can help you type faster in two ways: by helping you type more accurately and by enabling you to type punctuation and numerals faster than ever before.
While reading this book, you find out how to tap, double-tap, double-tap with two fingers, and press with 3D Touch (6s and later models). Now we want to introduce you to a new gesture we like to call the slide.
To do the slide, you start by performing the first half of a tap. That is, you touch your finger to the keyboard screen but don’t lift your finger up. Now, without lifting ...
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