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Awesome Things You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do

Last updated on June 30, 2014 By Ahmed Hamdy 1 Comment

Your iPhone is a powerful smartphone, and it isn’t short on some creative features you probably didn’t hear about some of them.

These features are extremely beneficial to you: It saves you time and effort. Let’s take a look at them.

1- Make a Passcode with letters instead of numbers

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1. Go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock.
2. Turn off the setting that says “Simple Passcode.”
3. A screen will appear prompting you to change your passcode, along with a full QWERTY keyboard. The next time you unlock your phone, the keyboard will appear instead of just the number pad.

 2- Have Siri Read your Email Out loud 
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Tell Siri, “Read my email,” and she’ll oblige. You’ll hear the sender’s name, the date/time of the message, and the subject line.

You can also instruct her to “read my latest email” or ask, “Do I have email from [person]?”

3- See timestamps on your text 

For a while, the fact that I couldn’t see when my iMessages were sent drove me crazy. Turns out there’s a stupidly easy way to view timestamps of your messages in iOS 7: touch and drag message bubbles to the left.

4- See Which planes are flying above you 
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Ask Siri, “What flights are above me?” or just say, “Planes overhead,” and she’ll pull up a chart featuring each plane’s flight number, its altitude, and its angle. (It took my Siri about 30 seconds to pull up this data, so be patient!)

5- Shake your iPhone to Delete Text 
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Did you change your mind about that text you just tapped in? Shake your phone, and an “Undo Typing” box will come up. If you change your mind after you’ve hit Undo, shake your phone again for a handy “Redo Typing” box.

6- Easily See a more detailed view of your calendar 
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Turn your phone horizontally when in your calendar app to see a more detailed view of your appointments.

7- To turn your caps lock, double tap the shift key on your keyboard 

This is so simple to do, yet totally changed my ability to CONVEY HOW EXCITED OR MAD I WAS to my friends without having to hit the shift arrow every time.

NB: If this isn’t working for you, go to Settings>General>Keyboard and make sure Caps Lock is enabled.

8- Use your phone as a level to hang pictures 
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Swipe left in the Compass app to access a level. Pretty cool.

9- Turn off all in app purchases with one button 
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This is especially useful if you have kids, or have zero self-control when it comes to buying tons of applications features. Go to Settings > General > Restrictions, Enable Restrictions, and scroll down to disable In-App Purchases.

10- Take A LOT of photos at once

 

Hold down the shutter button in your camera and you’ll automatically activate burst mode. Your phone will capture a ton of photos in rapid succession and save them to your camera: a great way to guarantee you’ll get a profile pic to your liking.

 12- You can take a photo with the volume button 

Instead of using the touch circle to snap your selfie, hit the “up” volume button. It lets you hold the phone — and camera — more steadily.

Also, you can press the center of the headphone button when in the camera app to snap a pic. Also great for selfies!

13- Add Custom Vibrations 

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In your Contacts app, you can enable different vibration patterns for different contacts. This is particularly handy if you keep your phone in your pocket, so you can distinguish hands-free between a pesky email from your boss and a fun text.

14- Put your iPhone in an Airplane mode and it will charge twice as fast 

This feature is great  when you need to charge your phone quickly.

 

Filed Under: Apple, iPhone News

About Ahmed Hamdy

Tech enthusiast with a main focus on Apple products and regular blogger on tech news and culture. Originally from Egypt now based in NY, USA.

Comments

  1. James Hakim says

    June 22, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    Been an iPhone user for many users and didn’t know at all about number 4 and 5 😛

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