, Sunday,
May 11, 2014 a 9:39 am
By default your iPhone uses two quick vibration pulses for a text message
and a continuous steady pulse vibration for incoming calls. All other
Notification Center
alerts receive a single vibration. But what if you want something different
so you can easily tell what kind of notification you’re receiving without
even looking at your iPhone? As it happens, you can do just that by creating
and assigning your own vibration patterns. Here’s how:
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How to delete custom vibrations on iPhone
How to create and assign custom vibration patterns on the iPhone
1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Now tap on Sounds.
3. Under the Sounds and Vibration Patterns section, choose the type of
alert you’d like to create a custom vibration pattern for and tap on it. In
this example, I’ll use Ringtone.
4. Now scroll all the way to the top and tap on Vibration.
5. Towards the bottom, tap on Create New Vibration.
6. Now tap the center of the screen in the sequence you want the vibration
to be. Hold your finger down for a continuous vibration. Lifting it up
creates a pause.
7. Once you’re done, tap on Stop.
8. Play back the pattern to make sure you are happy with it. If you are,
tap on Save.
9. Now go back to the previous screen and assign it as your vibration
pattern for that alert type.
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You can repeat the above process for all the alert types you’d like to
change the vibration pattern for. Keep in mind you can create custom
vibrations inside the vibration option section of any alert. Anything you’ve
created will then show up under the Custom Vibrations section for all alert
types so you can reuse them if you’d like.
*How to disable vibration alerts on a per-app basis
1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Now tap on Sounds.
3. Under the Sounds and Vibration Patterns section, choose the type of
alert you’d like to disable vibrations for and tap on it.
4. Scroll all the way to the top and tab on Vibration.
5. This time scroll all the way to the bottom and tap on None.
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That’s it. The alert will still play a sound when not in silent mode, it
just won’t create a vibration.
*How to delete custom vibrations on iPhone
1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Now tap on Sounds.
3. Under the Sounds and Vibration Patterns section, select any alert type.
It doesn’t matter what you choose if you’re just deleting. For this example,
I’ll choose Ringtone.
4. Scroll all the way to the top and tap on Vibration.
5. Tap on Edit in the upper right hand corner.
6. Delete the custom vibrations you don’t want anymore and then tap Done in
the upper right hand corner.
5 Maintenance Tips for iPhone & iPad: The Simple and Essential iOS Cleanup
Guide
Note from Dan: The start of each tip is marked with an asterisk.
Spring is well under way, which means it’s high time to do some essential
maintenance for your iOS hardware. Yes, we know that cleaning isn’t the
most fun thing in the world, but these are all simple tasks, and really
it’s the type of regular maintenance that every iPhone, iPad, and iPod
touch user should develop into regular habits. but just in case you haven’t
gotten there yet, we’re here to help.
So get out that iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and follow along to keep things
running smoothly. Let’s get going!
*1: Delete Apps You’re Not Using. & Shouldn’t Be Using
All of us have some apps laying around we don’t use. Maybe it’s a time
wasting game, maybe it’s some app your friend told you about that you never
got around to trying, maybe it’s all the junk you downloaded in your first
two weeks of iPhone ownership and the App Store felt like a candy store, or
maybe that brokerage app to watch your 401k – how many times have you traded
securities on your iPhone? 0? That’s what I thought. Delete all the unused
apps! They’re taking up space and doing you no favors.
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Don’t worry, you can always download them again later if you’re having Clash
of Clans withdrawals.
*2: Throw Less Used Apps & Junk into a Folder
Though iOS ships as a generally spartan experience (particularly compared to
some of the alternatives out there who junk out their smartphones with
carrier crud) each of our iPhones and iPads comes with apps we undoubtedly
don’t use, yet can’t uninstall. Sure, you can hide them through
restrictions, but a better approach is to just toss them into a folder and
put it on a secondary or third Home Screen and forget they exist. My “Less
Used” folder is all Apple stuff and looks like this:
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exist
And I basically never visit this folder, ever. Putting the unused stuff here
helps to clean up the Home Screen though, so it’s better than nothing.
*3: Back Up
Getting into the habit of regularly backing up your iDevices is essential,
but few people do it as often as they should. Backing up is essential for so
many reasons, from easy recovery in case of a software update gone bad, a
lost iPhone, an upgrade, whatever it is or whatever motivates you, just back
up! What are you waiting for?
You can backup
iOS devices to iCloud or iTunes, or both.
Read more regarding backing up your Iphone here “How to backup your IPHone:
http://osxdaily.com/2010/06/22/how-to-backup-your-iphone/
iCloud is super easy but it’s easily overloaded if you have more than one
iPhone or iPad on the same Apple ID. iTunes basically allows for unlimited
backups because it goes to your computer hard drive instead, which means
even if you don’t have a huge hard drive, you can
copy those
backup files to another location like an external drive to save some disk
space and access them later.
Read exactly how to do this here:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/05/07/make-copy-of-ios-backup-files/
You see where I’m going with this. there is no excuse not to make regular
backups.
And here’s to hoping that Apple becomes a bit more generous with iCloud
storage so that it becomes a more reliable backup solution for everyone,
fingers crossed!
*4: Update iOS
Updating to the latest version of iOS is important because each release
includes bug fixes, security updates, and often new features too. Don’t be
left behind on an old version of iOS when there’s new versions available.
Updating the system software on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is
super easy
through Over-The-Air (OTA) update and only takes a few minutes:
The directions on how to do this are found at this link.
How to Use Over-the-Air (OTA) Software Update on iOS
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1. Back up the device first, but you already did this, right?
2. Open Settings and go to “General”
3. Choose “Software Update” and if there’s an update available, select
“Download and Install”
This Easy, and it’s generally completed in a few minutes.
I’m always surprised how few regular people regularly update iOS. Sure, us
geeks are updating the moment a new version arrives, but the average person
doesn’t notice and probably doesn’t care either, often lingering around
several releases behind the latest version of iOS available, missing out on
important fixes and handy features. Update!
*5: Update Apps
Speaking of updating software. your apps also need to get updated. Do this
after you’ve cleaned out and deleted the junk apps you no longer use so you
don’t waste your bandwidth or time.
1. Open the “App Store” app and go to “Updates”
2. Choose “Update All” to update every app that has a new version available
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If you’re bad at remembering to update your iOS apps, you can rely on
Automatic Update to do it for you. Super easy, and it’s entirely automated
and goes on behind the scenes, insuring your apps are always at their latest
version. I like this feature a lot, particularly for novice and/or lazy
users, but just remember that it can waste battery, so many users
turn it
off to keep their devices lasting longer without being charged up.]]>
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