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I've got 13 cool hidden features and settings
for iPhone and iOS in general that hopefully you never heard of before they're
pretty hidden not always well-documented But you should still find them
interesting and hopefully you'll learn something new that will be helpful so
without further delay Let's just get started now.
1. Rest finger to open
This will allow you to simply rest your
finger on the home button or those touch sensor to unlock the phone instead of
having To press the home button a second time To unlock it with the fingerprint
sensor so to do this all you have to do is go to the settings then general
Accessibility home button and then enable rest finger to open so now instead of
having to press the home button or turn the power on To enable touch ID and
then pressing it again to unlock now Once you press the home button you simply
kind of hold your finger there And then it will unlock the phone completely.
2. Screen Record
This one is new in iOS 11 and it is the
ability to screen record right from the phone natively? You don't have to use
any third-party apps so to do this It's accessible through the control center
once you enable it, so you go to the settings then control center Customize
control and now you'll see the option to put the screen recording option in
that control center And then all you do is bring up that control center tap the
button It'll give you a little countdown and then that's how you do it, and
then to stop it You simply swipe up again to bring up the control center and
stop it like that next up.
3. Custom vibrations per contact
This one is really useful if you want to know
immediately whose calling you just based on the vibration so to do this you go
to the contacts list? And then you go to the person in question and then hit
edit then go to ringtone vibration and then hit create new vibration And then
you can actually literally hold down and make your own custom vibration based
on how you're tapping And then it will do that whenever that person calls you
and also here's another setting for contacts.
4. Contact effect
when you go to Contact then edit you'll see
one called emergency bypass This will allow you to let that person get through
even if you have do not disturb on Normally if you have do not disturb enabled
that call will not go through but if you have this enabled Then it will so this
obviously could be really useful if you're expecting a very important call Then
you could set that number to come through even if it's in the middle of the
night or something if you're on call That would be great all right.
5. Camera effect on text Document
This one I don't really think is documented
anywhere, and what it is when you go into the camera app Normally say you
wanted to take a picture of a document or something it might be hard to get it
lined up perfectly straight down Well in the new iOS 11 when you're aiming the
phone down it will actually show you a little crosshair indicator a white one
and a yellow one and When you line those two up it means that your phone is
completely flat So this is a great way if you're taking a picture of a text
document And you don't want it to be distorted Then this will allow you to know
that you're looking straight down and you can get it undistorted so really cool
And you might not know about.
6. Duplicate Image
This one has to do with photos again And this
one is good if you tend to edit photos a lot So this will actually allow you to
duplicate photos if you didn't know how to do this before When you open up a
photo in the app you click the box with the up arrow? Like the options button
and then kind of scroll over and you'll see an option to duplicate image So a
good reason for using this is normally when you edit a photo like you crop. It
doesn't create a copy of the original it just changes that photo But maybe you
want to create a cropped version and keep the original what you could do is
create a duplicate and then Just edit the duplicate and then you have both.
7. 3rd Touch the Keyboard
This one is going to definitely come in handy
If you didn't know about it already and that is when you're using the keyboard
and you have a lot of Text and you want to put the crosshair somewhere specific
You can actually 3d touch the keyboard and then move around your finger And it
will allow you to move the crosshair in that area of text so sometimes You know
it's really difficult to tap in a bunch of text and get it exactly where you
want Then you have to hold it down and scroll around but this way if you simply
3d touch the keyboard on any care It's a lot easier to move that crosshair
around release it And then you're exactly where you want to be speaking of
keyboards this one Also is great for having to do with text and that is how you
can create text replacement? Shortcuts so a lot of times you may want to.
I
don't know type out a phrase that you use really often But it's kind of long
well This way you can go into the dictionary and add your own shortcut so to do
that you go to the settings then general Keyboards text replacement and here it
will allow you to add the key word shortcut and then what it will replace that
with or at least the option so for example if you want to do an emoji like a
Funny face or maybe you want to do bullet points you could do that and then
every time you type in that phrase It'll give you the option to select that in
the text correction And then it'll replace it with that so you'll have to go
and copy and paste it every time.
8. Calculator feature
This one You're definitely going to be happy
to know about and it has to do with the calculator so say you're in the
calculator and you type in a bunch of numbers, and you make a mistake in a
calculation and Normally or think I'll have to clear it and restart the whole
thing But no, you don't actually have to you can actually undo a digit by
simply swiping left And it will delete the last thing you did so next time
you're doing a calculation you screw it up You don't have to worry about doing
it all over.
9. Timer
Here's a feature with the timer you might not
have known about you can actually Set the alarm of the timer to not play
something but stop playing Something so what you do is when you go into the
timer you're setting an alarm It'll say when timer ends and you're the bottom
you can actually set it to say stop playing so say it's at night or you're
taking a nap and you're playing music when you're going to bed, but you don't
want it playing all night You can simply set a timer for an hour or so and then
set to stop playing at that time And then it will stop the music once that
timer ends instead of actually playing music so that is a nice little feature.
10. Camera focus
Another good camera feature now normally when
you use the camera You can kind of soar to select the exposure and the focus by
tapping But after a little while you know it switches back to autofocus and
sometimes you don't want that well here You can actually lock the autofocus and
exposure by simply holding down your finger on the picture And then we'll show
a ear lock which means Autofocus or an exposure lock so it will not change It
so then you can just figure out what you want to do based on the composure of
the image and not worry about it changing anything.
11. Switching App
This is one you might have just figured out
by yourself But you might have noticed when using certain apps especially if
you go from one app to another Via a link or something at the top left of the
phone It'll show an Arrow with the name of the last app you used And this will
actually allow you when you tap it to basically go back so if you Didn't mean
to click a link or something that took you from rent it to Twitter Then you can
tap that and it'll take you back Without having to double tap and go into the
app switcher menu or anything like that This is also good for people who
usually use Android and they're used to having that back button this basically
does the same thing although it's not always available.
12. Home button
This is one I kept accidentally using without
realizing it and it's called reach ability So if you have an iPhone 7 or later
with the haptic home button then what you can do is actually double tap the
home button just by tapping it not actually pressing in and It will then move
the window or whatever you're looking at down Which makes it easier to reach if
you're using one hand so if there's something you want to tap at the top of the
screen You can't reach it without fumbling around you Simply double tap lightly
on the home button and it'll bring it down and then you can Simply press the
home button again to put it back up and then now it's a lot easier to reach for
some of you this Is probably really obvious? but I'm sure there's at least some
of you like me who are relatively newer to iPhone at least in a while and
Didn't know why the heck it kept dropping down and now you can figure it out.
13. Triple Click Shortcuts
This is actually kind of like multiple
features in one and it's the ability to set triple click shortcuts And they're
from the accessibility menu so again to get to these you go to Settings General
accessibility And then look for where it says accessibility shortcut near the
bottom now There are a bunch of different options you can set and you can
actually set multi Full of these and then when he triple click It will pop up a
little thing to select which one you want to use But one especially that I like
for example is color filters And when you enable this you can actually
customize it back in the display accommodations menu in the accessibility menu
and one example use of this is You may know the night shift feature which dims
the screen it kind of shifts it more orange at night But maybe if you really
don't like the blue light keeping you up at night you want it to be even
stronger effect So you can use this color filters option to make it look even
more red when you go into that setting for display? accommodations And then you
can change the tint using a custom filter and make it more red and then
increase the intensity.
So then every time you triple click it It'll
make the screen look very orange or very red which will basically make a super
strong Nighttime effect, which I personally like because I wish the night shift
feature was even stronger But this is kind of like that second best bet and
then also in that accessibility shortcut option You can do ones like white
point shift which kind of dims the screen But it's a little bit more than that
and you can also invert the colors. You can do all sorts of stuff again You'll
have to look those up specifically you could probably do a whole video about
those all right now finally This one is kind of a feature.
That was hidden in plain sight you may have
never noticed it although I believe it was introduced in iOS 10 or so and it's
called the Bedtime mode in the timer app so when you go to the timer app right
smack in the middle it allows you to enable this mode called bedtime mode And
then this will allow you to basically set a wake-up time and a sleep time And
then it will help you keep track when you go to bed When you wake up and it
will remind you a certain amount of time before you go to bed to go to sleep
and it Will just help you keep on a better more consistent sleep schedule And
then help you track when you're not doing so well and you could also select
which days you want to do it like based on the weekend or during the week and
of course if You want you can customize what ringtone you want it to wake up to
and everything like that?
So I think that covers it 13 cool hidden
features you might not have known about in your iPhone or other iOS device, and
if I missed any completely that are really awesome Of course you can let us
know down in the comments be sure to check down there Some other people might
know some that I didn't even mention if you want to continue. You can just
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