Secret Tips for your iPhone 4 (Voice Control)

Other iPhones: iPod touch (3rd generation), iPhone 4, iPod touch (4th generation), iPhone 3GS

If you haven’t read, “How to maximize your iPhone Battery Life” go read it after this article. Why? Because some iPhone 4 owners may be complaining about slow performance and a weak battery, and instead of calling customer service just do a couple of the suggestions in that article!

Now, here’s a secret tip… well its not so secret but most iPhone 4 users have no clue this is a feature. It’s the Voice Control Feature.

What’s Voice Control? Well, that’s when you use your ‘voice’ to control something and get a result from your iPhone 4. Unfortunately, its limited to the iPhone 4 and not to magically produce a beer from the refridgerator.

Take a look at your iPhone 4 and hold the Home Button down for about 2 seconds and this will pop up and an audio prompt will be heard (two beep tones):

This is the Voice Control app for your iPhone 4. And before I get into a few details about the app, those who are driving and need to dial a phone number with your fingers, well, you better stop and use this from now on.

It’s as simple as saying, after you activate the app and hear the two audio tones, “Call Donna” or “Call… (nickname or name from your contacts” and it will give you an option of numbers of that person or persons if there are multiple matches. It will also give you multiple matches if that person has different numbers like, “Home, iPhone, or Work?” So if you know specifically who and how you want to call someone just say, “Call Donna iPhone”.

If you want to just dial a number you know, just say, “Dial 818-555-1212″. Your iPhone 4 will repeat the number then call the number.

You never have to look at your iPhone again if you don’t want to!

It’s simple, easy, and safe – for those drivers out there who spend all their time talking on the phone!

That, to me, is one of the best feature of the Voice Control app – the other, is naming a playlist while you are on the treadmill or taking a jog. No need to look at the screen or take it out of your arm band to change songs.

“Play Playlist – ‘Run Music’”

“Play Album – Achtung Baby” – or how the iPhone interprets it, “Atch-Tounge Baby”. LOL

If you want the song to pause, “Pause”

If you want to skip a song, “Next Song”

If you want to repeat a song, “Previous Song”

You can even ask what song is playing, “What song is this” or the time, “What Time is it?”

There you go! Voice Control features on your iPhone 4 and you didn’t even know it!

For a list of tips read this: “iPhone Voice Control Cheat Sheet”

Other tips: “Tips for using Voice Control”

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