Your iPhone can be a powerful tool for streamlining your life with all of its useful apps and features, provided you know how to use them. Keep reading this article in order to make your phone a device that can save you a headache rather than giving you one.

Take great pictures by using your headphone cord! The volume buttons can be used to take pictures now, so you can hold the cord in your other hand to keep your shots steady and clear. This method can even be used if you are resting your phone on a stand.

A great benefit of having an iPhone is that you do not need to purchase a GPS system. The iPhone contains an accurate GPS system. Since the iPhone’s GPS system already knows current location, simply put in your desired destination, and you will receive concise directions, just as you would with a regular GPS system.

Your iphone can do almost anything you want it to. The phrase “there’s an app for that” is partly tongue in cheek and partly real. Check out the app store for lots of great ideas and things that you can start using your phone to do, keep track of or remind you of.

Turn off push notifications to control your data usage as well as preserve your battery life. Push notifications allow your phone to constantly be in touch with email servers and the internet in order to be notified immediately when something happens. De activating this will mean that you have to check your email, websites or other applications for new messages and alerts, but it will be dramatic in how it affects the functionality and performance of your phone.

If your friends own iPhones, you have probably seen their amazement when they discovered the device’s capabilities. To get to know what you can do with an iPhone, just use the tips and tricks laid out in this article.