Just a small tip here, and one that may already be obvious to some, but helpful to others hopefully. This is a quick way to get rid of a persistent ‘Spinning wheel of wait’ in the top status bar (shown in the screencap above) that you sometimes get when a particular iPhone application can’t quite catch up with what you’re trying to do with it.
For example, this morning I was emailing a number of iPhone photos to myself, but after mailing the one shown above the spinning wheel in the top status bar just kept spinning, and the Photos app was not yet offering me the choice to email the next photo – even though I’d already heard the ‘swoosh’ sound that confirmed the previous one had been sent. Closing Photos and re-opening made no difference – the wheel continued to spin, and the email option continued to be greyed out.
The solution? A simple one. I just force-quit the Photos application, and when I re-opened it, it had got with the program and was ready to email another pic.
To force-quit an app, you just hold down the Home button for 8-10 seconds until you are dropped back down to the Home screen.
The force-quit method is useful in a number of situations where an individual program seems to have got its knickers in a twist – and should help clear the spinning wheel that doesn’t want to stop spinning in most cases …
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