Things You Didn T Know Your Iphone Could Do +picture
Even admitting we use our iPhones all day, every day, there are still a scattering of appearance that are almost unknown.
Some of these appearance are active in the Settings menu, while others are hidden in apparent sight.
Plus, there are a few things Siri can do for you that you may not apperceive about.
(Note: Best of these appearance are accessible in iOS 8 and higher, while some are accessible in iOS 9 and higher.)
You can acknowledge to texts anon from your lock awning by affairs bottomward on the notification drawer and annexation over to the larboard on the argument notification. You'll see a "Reply" option, and borer it will let you blazon a acknowledgment afterwards accepting to alleviate your iPhone.
If you're in an app, you can bash bottomward from the top and admission the notification drawer to acknowledgment a argument the aforementioned way you would on the lock screen.
Want to apperceive why your iPhone array is clarification faster than usual? Arch over to Settings > Battery. This will acquaint you which apps are application the best array power.
There's an accessible way to appearance every photo and video you've beatific someone. Aloof accessible the messaging cilia in the "Messages" app and columnist the "Details" button in the high adapted corner.
You can accelerate audio snippets and video letters that expire afterwards two minutes. If you arch to Settings>Messages and annal to the bottom, you'll apprehension a area for audio and video messages. You can accept to let them expire afterwards two account or never.
If you don't feel like answer area you are, you can artlessly accelerate your area to accession being via argument message. Aloof tap the "Details" button in the high adapted bend of your bulletin cilia and baddest "Send My Location."
If you appetite your accompany or a ancestors affiliate to be able to clue you as you move, you can complete the aforementioned accomplish mentioned in the antecedent accelerate and accept the "Share My Location" instead of "Send My Location." You can accept to allotment your area for one hour, until the end of the day, or indefinitely.
You can aphasiac text-message notifications for alone contacts and conversations. Aloof arch over to your messaging cilia and about-face the "Do Not Disturb."
Group texts can be able for extensive abounding bodies at once, but additionally annoying. If you appetite to leave a accumulation conversation, artlessly tap the "Details" button in the upper-right bend of the accumulation babble and baddest "Leave Conversation."
If you frequently babble with the aforementioned accumulation or are talking with assorted bodies about a accurate topic, allotment a accumulation babble can be helpful. To do this, arch over to "Details" in the bulletin cilia and ample in the "Group Name" field with an adapted title.
If you're in the average of an email, you don't charge to debris it to acknowledgment to your inbox and browse added messages. As you're basal an email, artlessly tap the top of the bulletin area it says either "New Message" or the accountable and annoyance it bottomward to the basal of the screen. This will advance the bulletin to the basal so you can attending at added emails. Back you appetite to return, artlessly tap the email to accumulate alteration it.
You can advanced argument letters to added contacts the aforementioned way you would an email. Aloof bifold tap the bulletin you appetite to forward, columnist the "More" advantage that appears abutting to the text, and that specific sentence, word, or byword will arise archetype and pasted into a new message. Ample in the "To" acreage at the top to advanced that bulletin to accession else.
You don't consistently accept to authority bottomward the home button to barrage Siri. If you accept the new iPhone 6S, aloof say the byword "Hey Siri" to barrage Apple's basal assistant. (Any phones earlier than the iPhone 6S must be acquainted in to a ability aperture for this affection to work.) Aloof arch over to Settings>General>Siri and about-face on Accredit "Hey Siri" first.
You can accredit Siri to apprehend accessories on websites, books, argument messages, and added acknowledgment to one of the iPhone's lesser-known accessibility features. Arch over to Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech. Again about-face on Speak Awning and Speak Selection. Now, back you bash bottomward from the top of the awning with two fingers, Siri will behest the agreeable of whatever is on the screen.
You can additionally advise Siri how to accent names. First, barrage Siri and ask her to say the name in catechism — i.e. if it's your name, ask, "What's my name?"
When she answers, acquaint her that she's not pronouncing it correctly. Make abiding you use her accentuation so that she knows which chat you're talking about. Siri should again ask you how to accurately accent the name. Already you do, she will present three agency to accent the name. Accept the absolute one, and Siri will bethink it.
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This is accession affection active in the Accessibility section. Navigate to Settings > General > Accessibility and again annal bottomward to the Interaction subhead and tap "Switch Control." Tap "Switches" and "Add New Switch." Baddest "Camera" and accept "Left Arch Movement" or "Right Arch Movement."
Then aces an activity beneath the "System" menu, which about tells you what assignment your arch movement will trigger. I chose Siri, so anniversary time I angle my arch to the larboard it automatically launches Siri.
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Your iPhone advance anniversary abode you've been, and there's a way to acquisition it by digging into your phone's settings. Columnist the Settings figure and arch to Privacy > Area Services > System Services. Then, annal to the basal and baddest "Frequent Locations" and attending at the History section.
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If you're active low on abstract and aloof charge basal functionality from your iPhone, try switching it to Low Ability Mode to save power. Low Ability Mode, which is additionally a new accession with iOS 9, tells your iPhone to cut bottomward on assertive appearance to amplify its array life. This agency it’ll stop auspicious apps in the background, blame email, and added tiny things in adjustment to accumulate your array going. Just arch to Settings > Battery and toggle on Low Ability Mode.
If you're application the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus with one hand, you can bifold tap the home button to accelerate agreeable bottomward against the basal of the screen. Apple calls this "Reachability Mode." Bethink to tap the home button, don't columnist it or abroad it'll barrage the app switcher.
If you set up a Medical ID in the Health app that comes with iOS 8, you can admission medical advice afterwards accepting to alleviate your iPhone. Tap the "Emergency" button that appears with the keypad for entering your passcode and you'll see the Medical ID button on the lower-left corner.
There's a able ambush that shows the absolute arresting backbone on your iPhone rather than aloof the dots or confined you usually see in the upper-left bend of the screen. Business Insider's Steven Tweedie explained it to us.
First, you'll charge to admission a hidden app on your buzz alleged Acreage Test Mode. To do this, you'll charge to accessible up your Buzz app and punch the afterward number, *3001#12345#* — including the asterisks and hashtag — and tap "Call."
This opens up Acreage Test Mode, which is mostly abounding with airheaded of cell-signal abracadabra that you don't charge to anguish about. What you're absorbed in is the tiny cardinal in the upper-left bend of your iPhone, which should accept replaced those cell-signal dots. While that cardinal can alter anywhere from -40 to -130, it will consistently be negative, and the afterpiece that cardinal is to zero, the bigger your corpuscle signal. The best arresting you can get would be -40, and no arresting at all would be -130.
You can now ask Siri to appearance you photos from a assertive time aeon or location. For instance, if you capital to appearance photos taken two years ago on vacation, you could say article like, "Show me photos from 2013 taken in Jamaica." It saves a lot of time back you no best accept to annal through your accomplished photo library to acquisition earlier images. This alone works if your iPhone is adapted to iOS 9.
If you aloof accustomed a argument or email but can't booty the time to apprehend it adapted now, you can ask Siri to admonish you after on. Back you accept the notification, aloof ask Siri to admonish you to apprehend it later. This works with Messages, Mail, Notes, and Safari as continued as your iPhone is active iOS 9.
If you accept to music at the aforementioned time every morning, your iPhone will automatically apperceive that it should barrage the music app as anon as you bung your headphones in. This is accession affection that’s new with iOS 9.
Ever been analytical which apps you use the most, and absorb the best time in every day? Aloof arch over to Settings > Battery and annal bottomward to the app breakdown to see for yourself.
