Here are 6 tips for better use your iphone’s features:

1. Your iPhone can be used as a storage device

That’s right, besides just using it to store your songs, you can actually use your iPhone as a driver. Now, you can do this straight out of the box but there is software available that allows you to do this. The software runs for about $10 and your computer. The application is called iPhone drive. It is a small utility from a company called Ecamm Network. What the software does is displays the free storage area of an iPhone. The software is simple to use basically it is drag and drop. It is important to note that music files and photo files are not supported with this application. But it is great for the use of mass data storage.

2. Rebooting your iPhone

Have you had the experience yet where your iPhone freezes? basically, your iPhone is not responding to anything. Even when you try pushing the Home button your phone does nothing. What do you do? the first tip in this situation is to hold the on off button for 60 seconds. Your iPhone will try to quit the last application and free up the system. If that doesn’t work, trying pressing and holding both Home and On/Off; after about 10 seconds the Apple logo will appear. You should be good to go from here.

3. Free up space by eliminating previously viewed videos

It doesn’t really matter whether you have an 8 GB or a 16 GB iPhone the bottom line is it takes about 1 GB of storage to hold one movie. Now, that is a lot of space for just one piece of media. One of the neat things you can do with your iPhone is delete videos after you’ve finished watching them. All you have to do is tap a button and the last movie you just watched it will disappear off of your iPhone. It is as simple as that.

After you finish watching a movie, the iPhone will ask if you want to free up space by deleting it.

4. Create a home page in Safari

On your computer or laptop, it is easy to set your homepage with your Safari browser. All you have to do is go to the settings. You go to the General tab in preferences and type in the URL that you want and that’s it. Problem is you can’t do that with your iPhone. There is, however, a work around. If you place the URL that you want to be your home page in your bookmarks list then move it to the top of your list you can simulate your home page. Now, this is technically not a homepage preference, it does take an extra tap, but it still helps to streamline and make things more efficient.

5. Use the Favorites and Recents list for more than just phone calls

Now, the favorites setting is a collection of your most frequently called phone numbers, while the recent list is a collection of people who just called or whose calls you have missed. Now, there is more to those two features. Assuming that the phone numbers in the list came from a mobile phone, you can actually use the feature to text message. Just tap the forward arrow button next to the contact name or phone number and then tap the text message button at the bottom of the contact listing.

6. Save e-mail messages as drafts

If you want to save a message you’re working on so you can come back to it later, tap Cancel. When you Cancel the iPhone will not automatically deleted. It will ask you if you want to save, send, or cancel. Tap Save and the message is placed in your Drafts folder. If your account doesn’t currently have a Drafts folder, Mail will create one. Sometimes there is a delay in getting your drafts folder to show up. Just give your iPhone a few extra seconds and the folder will pop up.

Put these 6 tips to use and start taking advantage of all of the different features that you got when you bought your iPhone.