Declutter your Wallet with iPhone's PassBook feature

We have too many cards to carry with us these days apart from the debit/credit cards. Some of those cards are Loyalty cards, Reward cards, Airline Cards, Gift Cards, Store Cards, Coupons, Tickets etc. iPhone's new built-in app named PassBook (A Virtual wallet) can help you to declutter your wallet and store all your cards digitally in a single place. In order to use the PassBook effectually, you need to add your cards to the PassBook. Let me show you how to add the Starbucks Card to your PassBook.

• Tap on the PassBook App.

• To add Starbucks Card to PassBook, you first need to download the Starbucks app. Hence tap on the "Apps for PassBook", which will direct you to the App Store and show all the apps that are compatible with PassBook.

• Install the Starbucks App. Open the Starbucks app and sign in to your Starbucks account. You can enter the numbers on the back of your original starbucks card into the app and the added card will be shown.

• Tap on the Manage button, and tap on Add Card to PassBook.

•  Go to PassBook and you can see the Starbucks card added to PassBook.

If you have added your favorite store locations in your starbucks account, once you enter the store, the iPhone uses its location services to know where you are and display you the right card (now starbucks card) on your lock screen before you even think about the card. You can show the barcode to them and get your coffee.. Usually the Pass displayed will contain a barcode for scanning, some additional information like balance, expiration date etc based on the type of the card.

Note: The process of adding cards to the PassBook is different from one company to the other. But once the respective app is downloaded it's easy to add the card by following the onscreen instructions.

How to place max apps on Home Screen - iPhone 4S

On iPhone 4S, We can place more than 2000 apps on the Home screen. We just need to know how to add more home screens and how to create folders.

We can add up to 11 home screens and each home screen can have 16 folders with 12 apps each (total of 2112 apps). The inbuilt Newsstand app itself acts as folder which occupies the space of 12 apps. Hence 2101 apps can be placed on the entire 11 home screen. You can create 4 more folders with 12 apps each on the Dock (total of 48 apps). The overall number of apps you can place on the Home screen is 2149.

To do any change on the home screen, touch and hold any app. All the apps will start jiggling. Now,

How to add more Home screens?

Drag the app you want to move to the right hand corner of the screen to reach the next home screen. You can release it to place the app on second home screen or drag it still to right hand corner to reach the third home screen and so on.

How to create a folder on home screen?

When the apps are jiggling, drag any app and release it on top of the other app. A folder will be created with those two apps in it. You can name the folder or leave it with default name.

How to add apps to an existing folder?

When the apps are jiggling, drag the app and release it on top of the existing folder. Now the app is added to the folder.

How to add folders with apps to the Dock?

Create the folders with apps to move to Dock on Home screen. When the folders are jiggling, drag the folder and release it on the Dock. Now the folder is added on the Dock.

Note: In order to free the icons from jiggling, press the Home button.

Digital Newspapers and Magazines on Apple's Newsstand

Newsstand App is specifically designed in ios5 to hold the entire subscriptions of user's digital newspapers and Magazines. It is a preinstalled app in ios5 and need not be downloaded.

How to use the Newsstand app?

• Launch Newsstand App from Home screen. 
• Tap the store icon on right corner of the Newsstand. This store contains only the apps to subscribe and manage digital publications (Publication Apps).

Newsstand Store

• Browse through the list of Publication Apps and Download the Apps of your choice. The downloaded publication Apps got arranged in the Newsstand. 

Newsstand Shelf Screen

• Now you can launch the specific Publication App from the newsstand where you can find the on screen options for free trial subscription and single issue purchase/Subscription for a period (with price mentioned). The In-App Purchases will be charged from the credit card associated with the Apple ID.

On screen options

Newsstand shelf screen is used to manage all your subscriptions. The digital publication is a way better than printed publication as we have the advantage of tapping on the photo to view more of them and seeing videos related to the news.

Portrait Rotation Screen Lock in iPhone 4S

How to lock your iPhone screen Portrait Orientation?

• Double press the HOME button and launch the App Switcher Bar.
• Swipe left in the App Switcher Bar to find the Portrait Rotation Screen Lock.

Portrait Orientation Lock

•  Tap the above button to lock the screen in Portrait Orientation and repeat the same to enable auto-rotation mode.

 Note: We use portrait as well as landscape orientation on an equal basis. We wish to have a Landscape Orientation Lock in the Apple's future release.

How to perform multitasking in iPhone 4S

Multitasking is a new excellent feature included in iPhone 4S. Check below how to do that.

Open any App and double press the Home button.

Home Button

A bar appears in the bottom of the screen called App Switcher Bar which consists of all the App icons. Swipe right to see more app icons and tap any to open the particular app.

 

App Switcher Bar

Again to switch to a different app launch the App Switcher Bar by double pressing the home button and repeat the process.

Note: The last App used is shown as the first app in the App Switcher bar.

My Idea: Each time we need to double press the home button to launch the App Switcher Bar. I feel it would be better if once the App Switcher Bar is selected, it needs to appear for the entire course of App switching process.