10 Tricks For Your New iPhone 5

#1 Speed up your phone by selecting what Spotlight indexes.

Spotlight is a useful tool for finding stuff on your phone, but if you've set it to search your entire phone for every single item present then it can take some time.

Have it only search items you care about by starting at Settings, then select General, and finally choose Spotlight search.

You can select what your phone indexes and speed up the interface.

#2 Change your phone's name, directly on your device

You couldn't do this in previous versions, but iOS 5 introduced the ability to change your phone's name directly on the device. Before you had to do this through iTunes.

Changing your phone's name can give it personality. (SAI editor Jay Yarow calls his "Tumor Toy." We dare you to do better.)

You have to dig a little to get to this one. Start by going to Settings. Next head to General, and then About.

At the top of the page you'll see your iPhone's name—tap it and you can change it to whatever you like.

#3 View websites in full screen...

This ones easy...while browsing a web site in Safari, turn your iPhone to the side (landscape) and tap the full-screen icon (arrows coming together in the bottom right) and you can view a website without distraction.

#4 Create a custom vibration

Creating a custom vibration can let you know who is calling or texting you without having to look at the phone.

You can make a vibration as long or short as you like.

To do this one, head to Settings, then tap "Sounds" at the bottom of the page. You'll be able to select custom vibration or record your own.

#5 Enable Private Browsing for Safari

Make sure that your browsing stays private by turning this option on.

Start in settings, next head to Safari, and in the middle of the page switch Private Browsing on.

#6 Use the Emoji keyboard to give your email or texts some flair.

To enable Emoji first head to the settings app. Tap general, scroll down and tap keyboard, from there you'll see another option a bit down the page, and you'll see "Keyboards," tap that.

From there you'll want to select, "Add new keyboard," once inside that menu you'll scroll down until you see "Emoji".

Select Emoji. Leave out of settings by pressing the home button and head to a text, note, or new email message.

Start typing and you'll see a globe icon in the bottom left corner tap that once to toggle between the alpha-numeric keyboard and the Emoji keyboard.

#7 Take advantage of iOS 6's 'Do Not Disturb' feature.

Right inside the settings menu is one of Apple's latest iPhone features, "Do Not Disturb." You can switch this on at night or when you do not want to be bothered by your phone.

Right below Do Not Disturb is an option for Notifications.

The Notifications menu will allow you to tweak Do Not Disturb allowing it to turn off at a certain time or who you can receive calls from.

Optional settings for Do Not Disturb:

• Scheduled: Automatically enable Do Not Disturb between the hours you specify.
• Allow Calls From: Allow calls from everyone, no one, your favorites, or specific contact groups.
• Repeated Calls: If someone calls you twice within three minutes, the call will not be silenced.

#8 Take a screenshot of your screen

Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button, then press the Home button. Your screen flashes and the picture appears in your Camera Roll.

#9 Use Siri discreetly...
In case you don't want to yell out your question to Siri and have her broadcast it back to you try this trick:

Head to settings, next general, then Siri.

The last option in the list will be "Raise to Speak." Switch that on and the next time you raise your phone to your ear Siri will activate.

#10 Use Siri to set location-based reminders
This tip comes straight from Apple:

You probably know Siri can be used to set a reminder, like saying "Siri, remind me to call mom at 4pm today." But did you know you can set location-based reminders on your iPhone 4S? Say "Remind me to call mom when I leave here" or "Remind me to call mom when I get home" and you'll be notified accordingly.