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Iphone 5 is the latest phone technology with pretty basic features. Phones are great at doing basic things like making phone calls, sending text messages, and checking emails. But did you know that they can do so much more to automate our lives and make tasks easier, The iphone industry is filled with various offers and incentives. If you got a new iPhone for the holidays, here are some essential tips and tricks to get you started. By the way, most of these tricks will also work on your new iPad too!

1. If you have an iPhone 5, know how to turn LTE off to save battery. This tip will save some battery life when you're in a pinch. Start by going to settings, next head to general, and finally tap cellular. The second option is a toggle for "Enable LTE." When you need to save some battery and can spare internet speed, switch this option off. To lock your screen orientation, double tap the home button and swipe to the right. You'll see a gray circle opposite the rewind button. Tap that one time and a lock will appear.

Now when you turn your phone sideways the orientation will stay put. Setting an alpha numeric password can add an extra layer of protection to your phone. To enable, first head to Settings. Next, tap general, navigate to the middle of the page, and select passcode lock. Turn "Simple Passcode" off and you will be prompted to enter your alpha numeric password.

Head to your camera roll and select a photo. In the bottom left hand corner you'll see an arrow icon. Tap that and a menu will come up. Choose "Twitter" in the middle row and a menu will come up with the photo attached in the top right corner. Type your tweet, tap Send, and you're done. This tip is handy if you ever fall asleep listening to music.

After you've selected a song in the Music app, head to the the clock app. Select the timer option in the bottom right hand corner and set a specific time. At the very bottom of the list is an option for "Stop Playing." Select this and when the timer is up it will stop the iPod from playing. This is a handy feature if you have a lot of Apple devices.

You can make it so that apps and music automatically download on all your devices. Head to settings and navigate to the middle of the page. After that select the "Store" option. Once inside under "Automatic Downloads" switch on the options for Music, Apps, or both. If you're tired of the note app's marker font, you can quickly change it.

Start by going to Settings, then navigate to Notes. In this menu you can easily switch between three fonts. 8. While in Apple's Mail app you can just pull down from the top to check for new messages. If you want to get back to a draft quickly, touch and hold the Compose button to switch to your last saved draft. 10. Add PDFs from Safari to your iBooks or other apps.

11. Speed up your phone by selecting what Spotlight indexes. Spotlight is a useful tool for finding stuff on your phone, but if you've set it to search your entire phone for every single item present then it can take some time. Have it only search items you care about by starting at Settings, then select General, and finally choose Spotlight search.

You can select what your phone indexes and speed up the interface. You couldn't do this in previous versions, but iOS 5 introduced the ability to change your phone's name directly on the device. Before you had to do this through iTunes. Changing your phone's name can give it personality. You have to dig a little to get to this one. Start by going to Settings. Next head to General, and then About.