Thing 2

I watched parts of "iOS 8: iPhone and iPad Essential Training with Garrick Chow." How can one person know so much?!

I've always known that my phone has secrets and capabilities that I have never tapped into, so here's a few things I learned: (I'm sure it's just the tip of an enormous iceberg.)
1) The orientation lock is only available in the control center.  I can't decide if I want my orientation locked or not, but now I know where to do it.
2)  I turned off access to the control center from the lock screen because Garrick says if your phone is stolen they (the thief) can put it in airplane mode and then it can't be traced.
3)  In Maps app, a single tap with 2 fingers will zoom out.
4) With the keyless keyboard, if your finger is still on the keyboard and the wrong letter pops us you can slide to the correct letter.
5) Hold down the 1.2.3 button and slide finger to add parenthesis (or whatever character) and when you pick up your finger you will be returned to the keyboard
6) Two spaces after sentence will automatically insert a period.
7) Double click shift key for caps lock.
8) Undo by shaking phone. 
9) For special characters (i.e. cafe with accent mark), hold down E and choices will appear.
10) To automatically send calls to VM when phone is locked/asleep, double click sleep/wake button.  There is no choice to ignore call when it rings and phone is locked/asleep.

That's all for now....Thanks Garrick.