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Do You Know What Double Tapping Your iPhone Screen Does?
By: Chris Simpson.
The first thing you will probably have done when you got your Apple iPhone would be to have spent a few days playing about with all the various features and applications so that you get a good idea how everything works. Did you know, however, that as well as all the obvious functions that you see displayed on the touch screen there are also a few hidden ones? Not a lot of people take the time to learn these because the iPhone is so easy to use that they don't think there is anything else to learn about using it.
It can, however, change your experience of the iPhone once you start to learn about the extra hidden features that you weren't aware of before. It might seem like a waste of time learning these features but once you pick them up you'll find them so handy that you'll be glad you spent a little extra time teaching them to yourself.
When using your iPhone you will have noticed that on most occasions you simply single tap an item to use it. In some places, however, a double tap causes the phone to do something other than a single tap does. The first place that you will find a use for the double tap is when you are watching videos on your iPhone.
When you watch a movie on your iPhone the default view is to show it in letterbox format with blank areas at the top and bottom of the picture. This is so that you get a widescreen view of the movie. The letterbox format, however, is not to everybody's taste so you may want to switch it off.
If you want to get rid of the letterbox view and instead watch the movie in full screen mode then just double tap the screen and the view will change. You do need to be aware though that some movies are designed to be viewed in widescreen and if the movie has subtitles then some of these could get cut off.
If you want to undo the full screen mode, all you have to do is simply double tap the screen and it will be restored to letterbox formatting. This is one of the greatest features on the iPhone; however, it is also one of the lesser talked about. The iPhone is so amazing because it gives you choices on how you want to be entertained. Unlike other devices that use a standardized method to showing you videos, you are given a choice on how you want to view your movies. This is a great feature.
You will also find that double tapping works in other programs on your iPhone too. If you are using Photos, Google Maps or Safari then a double tap will zoom into whatever you tapped on. The zoom is twice the size of the original so if for example you are viewing an online newspaper then this could give you a much better view of the article you are interested in. You will also find a few other places that double tap does something for you so why not grab your iPhone right now and see what a double tap can do for you?
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