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Want to know if your best friend is calling without ever looking at the phone? Buried in the contact settings, a fun option lets you create custom vibration patterns for your contacts. To do it, go to Contacts, choose a contact, and tap Edit in the upper-right corner....

1. If you're listening to music, toggle pause or play by tapping the center button once. 2. To fast-forward a song, tap the center button twice and long-press on the second tap. 3. To rewind a song, tap three times and long-press on the third tap. 4. To skip a song,...

Unlike Android, the iPhone doesn't have a dedicated "back" button. But, a little-known gesture makes that completely acceptable. In Messages, Mail, and even Safari, simply swipe right from the edge of the screen to go to the previous window. The gesture even works in...

In some apps like Mail, you can use rich formatting to make text bold, italics, or underlined. But if you don't know it exists, you might miss it. Just highlight the text you want to edit, and tap the arrow in the copy/paste pop-up. Then, choose "B I U" to access the...

Leave your lime-green bubble level in the drawer. iOS's built-in leveling tool uses the phone's gyroscope to help you find out if an object is perfectly horizontal (or vertical). To access it, launch the compass, then swipe right to reveal the level.