TIPS AND TRICKS - for those of us who don't know!

[WitchOneSalem]

Instead of typing an email, tap the microphone icon on the keyboard and start talking. Tap done, and your words will appear as text. Use dictation to write messages, take notes, update your Facebook status, tweet, and more.

I do not see a microphone key on my keyboard.

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[KevinJS]

I do not see a microphone key on my keyboard.

Sent from my IPAD 1st generation. WIFI only. 64GB

That only appears on the iPad 3.

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[WitchOneSalem]

That only appears on the iPad 3.

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That is not fair. Probably would be just like Siri. Ask Siri a question nd what is printed on the screen s something different.

I do see the microphone key on my IPhone 4s.

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[KevinJS]

That is not fair. Probably would be just like Siri. Ask Siri a question nd what is printed on the screen s something different.

I do see the microphone key on my IPhone 4s.

Sent from my IPAD 1st generation. WIFI only. 64GB

You're doing better than me. iPad 2 and iPhone 4. No microphone. No Siri.

 

[WitchOneSalem]

You're doing better than me. iPad 2 and iPhone 4. No microphone. No Siri.

I would think that 4 should have the microphone as is 4s. You are not missing anything by not having SIRI.

Here is an example.

I just asked SIRI on my iPhone 4s which was upgraded to v6 the question... "Where am I?"

What SIRI thought I said was "Where ME" I asked question very slowly.

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[Parsifal25]

The microphone icon only appears if your locale language setting supports the dictation feature.
I'm a Dane and normally uses Danish as my language setting, which is not supported for dictation. In that case I don't see any microphone icon. But when I switch to US English I have the icon and can use dictation.

 

[Deleted member 247820]

Hi Mickey.

That hold and slide the "123" button is a winner!

 

[twerppoet]

Just ran across this one. iOS 6 only, I believe.

Tap and hold the new email icon in Mail for a list of all emails saved in all of your accounts' Drafts folders.

Handy if you have more than one account and often save emails to complete or send later.

 

[therealriley]

Not sure if I've already mentioned this one, or if its been mentioned before but if you use multiple mail accounts but have one set as your default account it's easy to swap and change which email address you use to send mail.
For example
[email protected]
[email protected]

Let's say email 1 is the default email but you want to send it from email2. Go to new email as normal, and touch the email1 address and a cc/bc box will appear above, you can now select the email address again and a box will show up showing you all of your email accounts for you to choose from.

 

[WitchOneSalem]

Just ran across this one. iOS 6 only, I believe.

Tap and hold the new email icon in Mail for a list of all emails saved in all of your accounts' Drafts folders.

Handy if you have more than one account and often save emails to complete or send later.

I wish there was an option to delete all the emails at once with a SELECT ALL button.

Sent from my IPAD 1st generation. WIFI only. 64GB

 

[Berghaus]

I've had my iPad for a year now and never knew those tips to make typing numbers and punctuation easier

Trying them for a bit will delay me jailbreaking as I saw that as the way to get quicker numbers typing by getting a numbers row on the on-screen keyboard.

Thanks

Cant get this one to work. Is it because I'm on ios6 and something has changed

Thanks

John

 

[twerppoet]

Cant get this one to work. Is it because I'm on ios6 and something has changed

Thanks

John

If it's the tip I think you are talking about, then it works fine in iOS 6. Touch the number (123) key, and without lifting your finger slide it up to the number bar and the key you want. Works good if all you want is one number.

 

[BMWrider]

I wish there was an option to delete all the emails at once with a SELECT ALL button.

Sent from my IPAD 1st generation. WIFI only. 64GB

I switched to IbisMail which does have this option.
Edit - Select All - Delete

 

[WitchOneSalem]

I switched to IbisMail which does have this option.
Edit - Select All - Delete

Thank you for the advice I will check into this.

Sent from my IPAD 1st generation. WIFI only. 64GB

 

[superhoops]

Ibismail is pretty good, one other plus point is you can set a startup password for security. Downside, and the reason I stopped using it is that the push notifications dont work on the ipad.