How To Change App Preferences On An IPhone

Tired of your iPod touch or iPhone ‘flipping’ the screen if you tilt it too much, Sick of ‘Location’ requests, Do you want to change how long slides display in a slideshow, All those things and more can be changed in the Preferences. Unfortunately I don’t yet have an iPad — they aren’t due in New Zealand until July 2010. I imagine the following applies equally well to the iPad, but can’t verify that. For a while there I was finding auto-rotate simultaneously wonderful and extremely annoying. The problem was being able to control it. You’ll have noticed that in many, or even most, apps flipping the iPhone from vertical to horizontal also flips the screen. That means you can easily read wider web pages, for example, or watch movies. That’s great when you mean to flip the screen, but I’d often be lying in bed trying to read tweets or a book, and the screen would flip if I shifted my hand slightly.

The answer lay in the settings. Settings on iPhone and iPod touch. The first place to check for settings for any of the apps on your iPod is under general Settings. You may have moved the Settings icon to any page on your device, but on mine it’s on the first page. Tap Settings and then scroll down. Below General in the list of settings are preferences for specific apps. For example, tap Safari and you can select a search engine, whether to allow warnings for potentially fraudulent sites, how to handle cookies and so on. You can also clear the History, Cookies and Cache from here. You might do that if Safari on your iPod has become unusually slow. Or you may look into the settings for Photos. In here you can set the duration of each slide in a slideshow, what kind of transition to use and how to handle shuffle and repeat. Listed below the settings for built-in apps are preferences for some apps you’ve chosen to install.