Some more iOS 5 secrets

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | October 17, 2011, 4:09am PDT

Summary: Same drill as before - not secrets, but you still might want to check out these neat iOS 5 tricks!

My previous ‘Five iOS 5 secrets‘ post was such a big hit and I received such overwhelming positive feedback from it that I’ve decided to give you some more iOS 5 secrets.

Note: All of these tips apply to iPhone and iPad, and some will even work on the iPod touch.

#1 Private browsing in Safari

Buying someone a ‘secret birthday present‘ that you don’t want anyone to find out about? This might be a situation where private browsing could come in handy!

To activate private browsing go:

Settings > Safari

Enable Private Browsing.

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jywhy888 7th Mar

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One more iOS 5 tip I've read about. Most users know that by double clicking on the home button, the multi-tasking bar is revealed.

Now in iOS 5, a multi-touch gesture can reveal the multi-tasking bar as well.

By swiping with four or five fingers "up or down", the multi-tasking bar car be revealed or hidden.

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Only works from iPad as far as I can tell

toddybottom 17th Oct

You can also do a 4 or 5 finger swipe left or right to switch between "running" applications without even needing to reveal the multi-tasking bar.

You can do a 4 or 5 finger pinch to get back to application icon grid from within an application (basically the same as hitting hardware home button).

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non-biased 21st Oct

@toddybottom Actually, I believe it is limited to the iPad 2 as I could not get it to work on my wife's original iPad.

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Very important to turn off sending of diagnostic data

toddybottom 17th Oct

There is absolutely no need for Apple to spy on me.

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And yet I bet you're salivating at the same opportunity

ego.sum.stig@... 17th Oct

When Microsoft wants your data, for "diagnostics."

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What does Microsoft have to do with this?

toddybottom 17th Oct

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msalzberg 17th Oct

@toddybottom

Just keep your tin foil hat on; you'll be fine.

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You send your data to all companies that ask for it?

toddybottom 17th Oct

@msalzberg
I wouldn't. But it is your choice of course.

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Street view

Batchmancg 17th Oct

Um, this isn't a secret, been around since at least iOS 3.0. Thanks for crawling out from under your rock.

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jmiller1978 17th Oct

@Batchmancg

Maybe you should've read where he says that it isn't iOS 5 specific.

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Another tip...

msalzberg 17th Oct

when using the camera, a swipe to the right will take you to the camera roll. Swipe back to the left to get back to the camera.

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rytwtwe 17th Oct

http://ygn.me/z2 .......
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Re: Crysis Warhead on Consoles?

rytwtwe 17th Oct

http://ygn.me/z2 .........

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rytwtwe 17th Oct

http://ygn.me/z2 ..........0.0.

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Typo on bonus tip

howardgr 17th Oct

>"drop a pin at you location"
You wrote "you" when you meant "your."

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Now, that's just sad

itsme@... 17th Oct

All I did was check out Settings and General after installation and the "secrets' were There - Oh My.

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jebswebs 18th Oct

The Google map Street View has been around for some time. Even works on my iPod Touch (2gen) running iOS 4.2.1. Someone needs to do a story about iOS on iPads ver iPhone ver iPod. I am finding differences, e.g., the Weather app is not on iPad

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