15 actually useful tips and tricks every iPhone owner should know about

If you lot liked iDB’s tutorial roofing some of the most pop tips in addition to tricks for Apple Watch, endure sure to cheque out our collection of to a greater extent than than a dozen genuinely useful tips for your iPhone.

If you lot just got a build spanking novel iPhone XS, iPhone XR, iPhone X, iPhone 8 or older, practice yourself a favor in addition to memorize these handy tips in addition to tricks that volition relieve you lot fourth dimension piece making you lot to a greater extent than productive. These tips operate on older iPhone models, too, every bit long every bit your device is running Apple’s latest iOS 12 software or concluding year’s iOS xi update.

Video walkthrough: xv useful iPhone tips

I advise you lot commencement familiarize yourself alongside these handy tips past times watching Harris’s hands-on video walkthrough which I’ve embedded correct below. After that, you lot tin read each tip’s description farther below inwards companionship to larn just how it works.

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For those asking, Harris has published the wallpaper from the video on Twitter.

Detailed overview

The video covers the next iPhone tips in addition to tricks:

1. Move multiple apps at once

If you lot e'er uncovering yourself wanting to organize apps on your Home screen, you lot certainly realized that moving a bunch of icons around 1 past times 1 gets old fast. New inwards iOS 11, you lot tin motility multiple icons at once: first, locomote inwards iOS’s jiggle trend past times tapping in addition to asset on an icon. Next, motility the icon just e'er thus slightly thus that the “x” inwards its top-left corner vanishes. You tin immediately tap other app icons to add together them to your alternative earlier moving the package to a novel position.

Android’s had this useful characteristic for years thus it’s dainty that Apple’s included it inwards iOS.

2. Make the covert significantly dimmer

If you lot uncovering that the iPhone screen’s lowest possible brightness is nonetheless also brilliant for your eyes inwards a nighttime environment, you lot tin dim the covert below its normal threshold. Go to Settings → Accessibility → Zoom → Zoom Filter → Low Light. Now alongside a uncomplicated triple-press of the Side/Power button, you lot tin speedily switch betwixt normal in addition to dimmed appearance.

For quick triple-press access, don’t forget to include the Low Light filter inwards the accessibility shortcut bill of fare under Settings → Accessibility → Accessibly Shortcut.

3. Memoji/Animoji reactions inwards Messages

Since iOS 10, you’ve been able to tap in addition to concur a chat bubble inwards Messages to send a Tapback reaction. Now alongside iOS 12, you lot tin spice upwardly the conversation past times using your ain Memoji or Animoji every bit a reaction. Simply select an Animoji or Memoji inwards Messages, build a desired facial aspect in addition to thus drag the grapheme in addition to drib it on a message bubble.

This is similar to how you lot tin tap in addition to concur a sticker inwards Messages to peel it Because you’re allowed to strike a pose earlier dropping your Animoji/Memoji on a bubble, you lot tin perfectly personalize these reactions to the context of your conversation.

4. Swipe-to-delete inwards Calculator

If you lot purpose Apple’s Calculator app, you lot know how frustrating it tin endure when you lot accidentally hitting that 1 incorrect cardinal in addition to it throws off your whole calculation. To delete the concluding type digit, but swipe from correct to left over the results section. You tin practice this multiple times inwards a row to form of undo your concluding steps.

5. Custom text alerts

You tin create custom text tones in addition to band alters for people inwards your Contacts thus that you lot tin say who’s ringing or texting you lot without fifty-fifty looking at the phone.

Setting custom racket allows you lot to know who’s texting or calling based off the racket you lot take away heed or feel, similar when you’re at the movies, which is genuinely cool in addition to saves time.

6. Turn your iPhone into a loupe

If your eyesight isn’t every bit it used to endure but you lot demand to read small-scale type similar a prescriptions or production spec, purpose Magnifier. No, it’s non the same every bit zoom inwards the Camera app: Magnifier applies diverse optimizations thus you lot tin receive got a genuinely closer expect at things that tin sometimes endure also small-scale to see.

You receive got a slider bar for adjusting the zoom in addition to buttons to toggle the LED flash, lock the focus in addition to access the filters (use them to ameliorate visibility or heighten details). You tin also suit the exposure in addition to saturation separately, addition invert the colors inwards the image.

To enable or disable this feature, acquire to General → Accessibility → Magnifier.

7. Location sharing via QuickType keyboard

In iOS 10 or later, a unmarried tap on the QuickType keyboard inwards Messages lets you lot ship your electrical flow place to a soul you’re chatting with. It all “just works”: if Siri determines that the recipient is bespeak where you lot are in addition to you lot start typing “I’m at”, it volition lay a handy Current Location clit inwards a higher identify the keyboard. Just tap it to ship your exact place at that time.

Actually, Siri goes beyond place queries. If a soul is bespeak for your or someone else’s telephone issue or electronic mail address (naturally, they must endure inwards your Contacts), Siri volition lay the correct information inwards a higher identify the QuickType keyboard for you lot to ship alongside a tap.

8. Quiet notification delivery

New inwards iOS 12, Instant Tuning lets you lot handle notification delivery. Simply press the notification on the Lock covert or slide over in addition to tap Manage. This volition display a novel bill of fare on the Lock covert alongside relevant options, the most prominent beingness Deliver Quietly.

The adjacent fourth dimension you lot acquire nudged past times a notification you lot don’t wishing to see, press it in addition to select the alternative Deliver Quietly. From immediately on, all notifications from that app volition endure delivered silently (without making a audio or vibrating your device) to your Notification Center without putting upwardly a banner or popping upwardly on the Lock screen.

9. Notification settings shortcut

Press a notification banner, thus tap the Settings clit at the bottom to speedily boundary to the corresponding notification covert for that app inwards Settings, saving yourself quite a few taps inwards the process.

10. Lyric search

If you lot know that lyric but don’t know that song, you lot tin type inwards the lyric into the search plain inwards the Music app or iTunes in addition to it volition clit upwardly that vocal if it recognizes it.

11. Search shortcuts

You don’t demand to acquire to the Contacts app inwards companionship to type inwards a person’s call inwards the search filed in addition to uncovering their card nor practice you lot receive got to burn downwardly upwardly Safari just to Google something. That’s because iOS’s Search characteristic (formerly known every bit Spotlight) tin uncovering sure types of queries in addition to offering to automatically run a relevant search inwards the correct app.

Copy a link from Messages in addition to you lot volition run across a shortcut at the bottom of the Search interface offering to opened upwardly the link inwards Safari. Other shortcuts similar Search Web, Search App Store in addition to Search Maps appear depending on the context of your query.

12. Siri: flashlight, passwords & more

Aside from touchstone vocalisation commands, Apple’s personal assistant alongside each iteration tin suit or access the ever-growing issue of features inwards iOS. In iOS 12, for example, Siri tin plow the flashlight on or off on your behalf, which is useful when wearing gloves.

Also novel inwards iOS 12, Siri tin demo your passwords. “Hey Siri, demo me my passwords” takes you lot to the Passwords & Accounts department of the Settings app, thus authenticates you lot to expose your saved passwords. More specific queries are supported, too, similar “Hey Siri, demo me my Facebook password”. With iOS 12, the powerfulness to autofill passwords also works on Apple TV in addition to even with third-party managers similar 1Password in addition to LastPass.

13. Multi-keyword search inwards Photos

Photos app takes payoff of information processor vision to automatically recognizes objects, people in addition to scenes on your photographs, allowing you lot to easily surface things such every bit all the beach images or entirely the shots alongside your Dad inwards them. But did you lot know that Photos lets you lot endure genuinely specific past times chaining multiple keywords together?

Begin past times typing inwards your commencement search term—for example, the discussion “beach.”

Now select the term from the drop-down suggestions you lot run across inwards Photos. Next, type inwards a minute word, similar “sunglasses,” in addition to select it from the suggestions, too. You should immediately run across both keywords inwards the search box in addition to whatever relevant results below it.

14. DND at Bedtime

If you lot abhor waking upwardly to a deluge of missed notifications, purpose Do Not Disturb at Bedtime.

This handy novel characteristic inwards iOS 12 does a few things on your behalf to minimize distractions that may disrupt your sleep. Not entirely does it quiet all calls in addition to texts but also dims the Lock covert in addition to routes all the alerts to Notification Center until DND ends.

When using the Bedtime characteristic alongside scheduled Do Not Disturb mode, you lot volition wake upwardly to a conditions forecast on your Lock screen, which is totally cool. Once you lot unlock the phone, the conditions widget won’t endure seen 1 time to a greater extent than until the device enters some other Do Not Disturb cycle.

15. Measure almost everything

A novel app inwards iOS 12, Measure takes payoff of information processor vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, facial recognition in addition to augmented reality to allow you lot stair out almost whatever object past times pointing your iOS device’s photographic tv set camera at it.

It’s non perfect but should suffice for ball-park measurements.

And now, cheque out some cool Apple Watch tips or all the new features inwards iOS 12.

Your ain tips?

Hopefully, you’ve learned a twain of novel things close your iPhone that you lot didn’t know before. And fifty-fifty if you lot knew close all of the tips mentioned above, resurfacing them 1 time to a greater extent than mightiness prompt you lot to memorize a handy characteristic or 2 that you lot mightiness receive got forgotten about.

How practice you lot similar Harris’s tips, which one’s your favorite in addition to why?

Let us know inwards the commenting department downwardly below. Be sure to comment on whatever novel ones you lot receive got learned. If you lot receive got whatever useful tips for us, portion them alongside the iDB community inwards comments.

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