Messages Tips

Daily tip: How to reset Your iPhone keyboard dictionary

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Dec 10, 2010 a 1:36 pm

Frustrated that your iPhone auto-correct dictionary has "learned" an incorrect word and curious how to reset it? Worried you might have a damnyouautocorrect moment when SMS'ing that important contact? Apple doesn't give you very many options when it comes to editing dictionary entries but if your iPhone has learned to incessantly auto-correct something that isn't right, there's an easy way to fix it. We'll show you how after the break.

Beginner Tip: How to Share a Contact (VCF) on Your iPhone

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Nov 19, 2010 a 12:43 pm

Want to find out how to easily share someone's contact information on your iPhone? Simply go into your address book on your iPhone, tap on the contact you'd like to share and you'll see an option at the bottom to share the contact. When you tap that, you'll be presented with an option to either MMS or e-mail the person's information. Choose your option and the respective app will launch by itself. Read on for a few more screenshots and a little bit more explanation.

Beginner tip: How to make text messages more private

By Georgia, Monday, Nov 15, 2010 a 2:19 pm

Wondering how to protect your privacy and stop iPhone SMS popups from revealing the contents of your text message? It's not set that way by default, which is pretty annoying, but it can be changed. We'll show you how, after the break!

Special thanks to Freiteez from the forums for this tip!

Daily Tip: Keyboard shortcuts for punctuation and more

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Nov 9, 2010 a 4:31 pm

Interested in how to speed up your typing by quickly inserting punctuation with your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad keyboard? Annoyed at having to press multiple buttons, at having to tap the '123' option and then selecting the punctuation, then needing to press the 'ABC" option again to continue typing? Well this is the tip for you and we'll show you how after the break!