Apple’s iOS is a far cry from the beginnings of iPhoneOS, and all the best iPhones are built on the operating system’s original promises. And the platform grows every year, adding new features with every update. With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of useful features you might have missed. Some are accessibility options, some need to be enabled, and some are just waiting to be used. However, all of these will make your iPhone experience better. Let’s take a look below!
1. Use the cursor to select text
If you’ve ever added a wrong word through autocorrect, but didn’t find it until you wrote dozens more words, this tip is for you. Of course, you can put your finger on the text to jump to it, but this sometimes causes whole words or sentences to be highlighted. For finer control, we recommend the following:
1. Place your finger or thumb on the bottom of the screen, below the keyboard.
2. This will grey out the keyboard and turn it into a trackpad until you lift your finger or thumb.
2. Create text snippets
Text snippets are popular among macOS power users, but you can achieve the same results with an iPhone. Even better, it doesn’t require any third-party software.
Text snippets are ideal shortcuts for copying certain phrases that you pre-registered. With text replacement, you can create a block of text to post as you type a phrase.
1. Open Settings, then go to General, then Keyboard.
2. Select text replacements and you will be able to create new replacements, along with the words needed to trigger them.
You can also set emoji to appear as you type, which feels pleasantly nostalgic you won’t get from the emoji picker.
3. Enable Scientific Calculator
The iPad may not have a calculator, but the iPhone does. The problem is that aside from adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, it can feel a bit limiting — at least until you find a new perspective. Turning your iPhone aside with the calculator app open will enable the scientific calculator. This adds parentheses, square roots, cos/sin/tan options, the very handy pi command, and more.
4. Enable extra “buttons”
Although intended as an accessibility feature, the iPhone‘s “back click” button is handy for power users looking for extra input for their device.
1. Go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Touch.
2. Select Back Tap and you will see a lot of options.
You can use it in many ways. There are also double-tap and triple-tap options, which means you can set a variety of functions for it.
5. Use the camera’s “Burst Mode”
Your iPhone’s camera is powerful enough, but you may be missing a trick: burst mode. Burst mode, which means your iPhone can capture a series of action shots.
It’s also easy to access. Just swipe the shutter button to the left in the Camera app. You can also go into Settings, then Camera, and toggle Burst shooting with volume up to allow your volume rocker to trigger burst mode—just press and hold it while capturing an image.
6. Scan documents with your camera
Your iPhone camera can double as a very respectable document scanner, and while Live Text means you can extract text from images, it’s entirely possible to digitize entire documents. However, because it’s hidden in the Notes application, you may not have discovered how to do it.
1. Open Notes, then tap the camera icon, then Scan Document.
2. Highlight your document and it should automatically save. You can also scan manually using the shutter button.
3. After saving the scan, you can also sign it or just share it via any email or messaging app.
7. Use your camera flash as a notification
As an accessibility feature, you can trigger your iPhone’s camera flash to turn off when you receive a notification, giving you a more intuitive way to know that someone is calling or texting.
1. Go to Settings, then Accessibility.
2. In the Audio/Video section, there is an option “LED Flash for Alerts”.
You can also trigger it to only work when your phone is silent, which is ideal if you don’t want your phone to vibrate on a table.
8. Use Shazam to identify any song in Control Center
While Shazam has an app, you can also add it to your iPhone‘s Control Center for easy access.
Open Settings, then go to Control Center and click the plus button next to Music Recognition to add it.
Now, whenever you hear a good song playing, you can pull down from the control center and tap the Shazam icon to find out what’s playing.
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