Apple promised over 200 new features on iOS 5 and they've made good on their claim. Here's a guide to a few cool features hidden within Apple's new OS version for both iPhone and iPad 2.
You can not only assign different ringtones to contacts, now you can assign a vibration too. You can access this feature by first turning it on in General > Accessibility > and then change the vibration tone in Sounds, you can also create a new Vibration here and then assign it to your contacts. You can also add an LED flash as alerts.
For all you micromanagement freaks. Hidden within General > Usage in the Settings menu is an entire detailed usage report not only of bandwith, but also space used per app. You can also delete apps here.
Do you message and mail a lot? Well here's something extremely handy. In General Keyboard you can define your own shortcuts. I defined one for "in a meeting". You can define virtually as many as you want. So you can create your very own shorthand.
You can create your own multitouch gesture shortcuts to launch most used programs. Hidden in the Accessibility menu again, this neat system can help you tweak your iPhone usability to perfection. For example, you can do a 'C' for calendar launch, or an 'M' for mail, or two finger pull down for tasks.
While this may not be so hidden, we just made a handy image guide to the new iOS 5 gesture set on the iPad 2. It's easy and makes the iPad 2 much more intuitive. Works for the original iPad as well.
Apple is now taking iPhone-o-graphy very seriously. You can now click pictures by pressing the volume + key. Not only that, on a handsfree, you can also press the + key to take a picture. You can also do that if you have a Bluetooth headset. How'd you like them Apples?
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