iPhone 3.0 Software Adds Small But Useful Feature
While rearranging some apps on my home screens, I noticed a subtle but useful addition to 3.0. If you wanted to move an application to a home screen that was more than one screen away, you would slide it to the side, wait for the page to move, pull it back, slide it to the side, wait for that page to move, and so on until you reached the page you wanted. It was tedious! Well, no more, as Apple has finally made this a tad easier.
With the new 3.0 update, if you slide the app to the side of the screen and hold it there, the screens will flip by one after the other without you having to slide back and forth! This may not be the Home Screen Reorganization Tool that we ‘d want, but at least it ‘s something.
Have you found any interesting fixes or features in 3.0 that weren ‘t (widely?) announced? Let us know!
The change to the media scrubber is welcome. Just slide your finger downward to half or quarter speed and precisely go back or forward to a specific location in any audio or video track.
I found it easier to go back to the main app page (2nd page) by pressing the home button from any other page. It will easily jump you back. And if you press it while on the main page, it takes you to spotlight. Yet another press takes you back.
I tend to use that method a lot as well.
Ummm I've been doing this "app sliding" thing since I got my 2G iPhone! I don't think it's a new feature in 3.0
The sliding has been there for some time, but it has definitely become much smoother and easier to work with in 3.0.
The difference is that when it slides to the next screen, if you hold your finger still, it will continue to slide to the next screen until you let go or pull back. Previously, it would stop on the next screen and wait there, forcing you to pull it back and push it to the next screen.
In Google Maps while getting directions from one place to the next, you now have the distance you're traveling on the same "step" page as the instruction on what to do once you're done with the step..
This is a great.. because otherwise I used to keep going back a step to figure out what the distance was again to the next step.