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List of Hidden iPhone 3.0 Features, Launch Unlimited Apps with Spotlight

MacRumors forum user bndoarn has organized a massive list of hidden 3.0 features. The list is over 96 individual features so far. Some are more significant than others, of course. Here are a few interesting highlights:

- There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight. You can also use this to hide any apple application (i.e. weather and stocks), if you get to 11 pages.
- In the Settings -> General -> Home Button you can now set the double click to the new search feature or the camera
- Notes now has data detectors. Links are clickable, phone numbers are callable, email address are emailable, and address are locatable (using Maps)
- When a phone call interrupts you, after the phone call you are taken back to the app you were in before you were interrupted
- You can now have 11 home screen pages instead of nine
- Now there is a different way to force quit apps. now you have to hold the sleep/wake button until the red slider appears, then you press and hold down the home button to quit the app

The first on the list is perhaps most notable, allowing you to use Spotlight as an application launcher to avoid swiping through pages and pages of apps and also installing more than the allotted number.

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35 months ago
Very nice -- I love subtle improvements; they don't always need to be announced.
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35 months ago
How do you hide the apple apps with out filling 11 pages of apps?
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35 months ago

How do you hide the apple apps with out filling 11 pages of apps?


I would like to know this also. Since the 3GS will fill up more than one page just with the Apple apps, it'd be good to know just so I can organize things a bit better.
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35 months ago
Don't think I'll ever buy enough apps to fill 11 home screens!

Looks like a solid update so far, will get it for my touch later.
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35 months ago
that new force quit thing could cause some confusion.. and hence loads of new forum posts :rolleyes:
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35 months ago
"There is no limit to the number of apps that can be installed (beside storage space). Once you reach the home screen limit, Apps installed after that are installed without an icon but can be accessed in Spotlight."

Who wants to try this? Does this slow down the OS?
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35 months ago
Im sure someone has posted it, but I didnt see it anywhere on here. The SMS icon is updated as well as the phone and ipod ones, they have have a diagonal line pattern.
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35 months ago
also if your on the first home page and hit the home button it brings up spotlight so you don't have to swipe also instead of setting it up for the double tap 
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35 months ago
Really impressed with 3.0 so far. The search and launch facility alone was worth the wait.
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35 months ago
Spotlight as an application launcher is an excellent idea. Kudos on the 'hidden' features.
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