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iPhone can do a lot of different magic tricks that you have not been made aware of. You can literally make life way easier for you and perhaps others with such tricks. Here are 21 of them.
21. Shake!
If you are typing a text on your iPhone and make errors, just shake the device to undo it. You can do that for any activity you perform on the phone, just shake it to undo or correct it!
20. Airplane Mode Batter Recharge
Changing your phone status to airplane mode allows the battery to give off less energy. In this way, you can charge your iPhone twice faster with the airplane mode on.
19. Get your Emails read aloud, Take Siri’s guidance
Just by saying the magic word “read my email”, you can ask Siri to read your emails aloud for you. You can command her as your wish on which emails to read and which to ignore.
18. Flights above Me!
Upon commanding “flights overhead” or “Which flights are over me” you will be given a detailed description of the crafts flying over you. It can certainly be a fun pass time for you.
17. Teach Siri Your Accent
You can basically teach or command Siri to pronounce certain words at a certain way. This can help you to be on top of Siri, making sure she is working according to your desires for further convenience.
16. Timer helps you turn off music automatically
This is perfect if you like dozing off with music. Just tell the timer to how long the music will play until it shuts down automatically without having to get up and stop.
15. Control Scrolling
At most cases, the problem with smartphones exists with the fact that scrolling to find an exact spot can be difficult. For example, if you are watching a movie and want to move the scroll to find a particular time in the movie, the IPhone scrolling adjustment option can help you with what you want.
Just adjusting the scrolling speed to high, medium or low can be of great benefit. In the process, you can control the scrubbing speed to your specification, be it half speed, quarter speed or eighth speed. The narrower you go, the easier it gets to find that particular point of the movie.
14. Take Picture with Volume Button
It can be sometimes hard to take a picture with the capture button. Certainly, the quality of the pictures may be hampered if you can’t take the picture conveniently. To ease up things for you, you can use the volume button of your iPhone to take a picture.
13. Multiple Photo Bursts!
You can take a burst of multiple pictures all at once simply by holding the capture button for a while. A series of rapid shots at quick succession can help you to capture a moving object efficiently. You can also scan through all the bursts and select the best looking one.
12. Text Message Timestamps
You can find out how many time you waste on a daily basis on text messages. Drag the text bubble to the left and you will see a timestamp of every text message you make and receive.
11. iPhone can be used as a Level
You can use the compass app of IPhone to hang a picture. Just swipe left and your device becomes a perfect level.
10. Make Your iPhone Speak
Enable the speaking option from your IPhone and have fun with it. To do that, go to Setting > General > Accessibility > Speak Selection and turn it on. After that, a speak button will appear whenever you select a text. In this way, if you want the phone to speak out the text, just simply press the speak button and there you have it. You can also choose different accent and play with it, try freaking people out on the street, it is fun!
9. Double Tapping the spacebar can help to start a new sentence
Whenever typing long texts and need to create new sentences. A little double tap on the spacebar would do the job quickly for you. It will automatically add a period and a space for you.
8. Detailed Calendar
When you are using the calendar app, just turn your phone sideways to get a detailed description of the date and your plans.
7. Exposure and Autofocus upgraded for taking Pictures
Many of us have felt annoyed because of the inability to hold on to the exposure and focus during taking picture with IPhone. However, you can actually work the IPhone camera like a DSLR by locking the autofocus to give you more clarity. You can do that by just pressing or holding your figure on the screen where a yellow square blink would appear to help you in the process. Upon pressing that twice, you will be assured that your have locked in your focus and ready to take the picture.
6. A single tap to add web suffixes
Internet exploring is far easier and faster now with features enabling you to just tap to add web suffixes. While typing a web address, just hold on to the screen where a menu will appear with the web suffixed (.com, .net, .org).
5. Accessing Emails Drafts Quicker
Very few people know about this one. When you are using the Mail app next time, hold down the compose icon in the lower right corner of your screen and it will jump into the list of drafts right away.
4. Customize Vibration
If you want to change the vibration pattern of calls and notifications, you can do it easily here. Go to Settings > Ringtone > Create New Vibration. Moreover, you can also customize vibration pattern for different people in your contact list, so that you know who is calling or messaging without looking at the phone.
3. Keyboard Shortcuts
You can create custom keyboard shortcuts easily here. For example, if there is a certain word or phrase you use a lot; you can create shortcuts for it. Go to Settings > General >Keyboard > Shortcut > Add New Shortcut. Such words or phrases would start appearing magically upon doing that.
2. Passcodes with Letters
You can now create passcodes with letters instead of numbers. So you don’t have to make number combination to unlock your phone, you can use letters too. Go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock and turn off “Simple Passcode”. In this way, you will be prompted to change your passcode where a keyboard with letters would appear. This keyboard would appear every time you want to unlock your phone.
1. Emit Light Flashes for Alerts
You can change the settings to LED flash lights appearing whenever you get a phone call or text message. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility, scroll down and turn on “LED Flash for Alerts”.
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