I got a great approach last night from one of our site readers – Evan – via the site Contact page (so glad to see lots of you using this lately). Evan was a little surprised we haven’t mentioned the new Undo feature in iPhone OS 3.0 very much, and is also curious about possibly as yet unknown ways it can be used.
The lack of many mentions for Undo – at least on my part – is purely down to the fact that I keep forgetting about it – doh! It’s a very cool feature, but I just have not remembered it’s there consistently – though I’m pretty sure I will now thanks to Evan’s contact.
For those who aren’t yet aware of it, the new Undo ability in OS 3.0 is usable with most text field input on the iPhone – and you can simply shake the iPhone in order to bring up the dialog shown in the screencap at the top of this post and undo your typing if desired.
Evan is wondering whether there are other things – apart from text input – that the Undo feature can be applied to. I have not stumbled upon any yet, but that’s coming from a guy who had been forgetting the feature was there at all far too often.
So I figured I’d ask you – as I expect most of you have probably been using and enjoying this feature more consistently than I have.
Have you all found any cool, new uses for Undo yet? Seen it popup somewhere you didn’t expect?
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Cutting and pasting are undoable. Unfortunately, you can only undo the last action, and then it turns into a redo. So, if you pasted "Cut Copy and Paste Rocks" 10 times and wanted to undo, you'd only be able to take out or put back the last paste.
Yup, multi levels of undo would be even better – wonder if that is one of those where Apple has just not figured out how to do it elegantly / well enough yet.
Yeah but still… pretty nice
Undo in 2009 – amazing stuff!
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