Top 20 Tricks That You Didn’t Know Your iPhone About Do

Even if you use your iPhone every day, you may not realize everything you can do with it (such as playing the best free iPhone games). For example, did you know that you can turn the apple on your iPhone into a button? Well, that. You can make a long list of things with your iPhone that you don’t know about or forget you could do. Your iPhone has a few tricks up its sleeve that probably you don’t know about that. We wanted to share some tips so you can get the most out of your smartphone. Some are very useful, and some are fun and hopefully help you save a little time. Not only are you going to take advantage of them with the iPhone 13. It is enough that you have updated to the latest version of the iOS operating system.

Tricks That Your iPhone Do

1. Silence Unknown Calls

Say goodbye to all those annoying calls in iPhone with one of this tricks:

• Open the Settings app
• Choose Phone
• Choose Silence unknown calls

2. Receive Texts And Calls On Your Other Apple Devices

One of the biggest advantages of iOS over Android is that the iPhone seamlessly pairs with other Apple devices, including the MacBook, iPad, and Apple Watch. If you want to answer a call or a text message from your laptop, here is one of the tricks in iPhone with to do:

• Tap Settings
• Tap Phone (or Messages)
• Then tap Allow Calls on other devices (or text message forwarding)
• Switch which devices you would like to receive and send phone calls or messages on

3. Prevent Audio Messages From Expiring

For some reason, audio messages sent through iMessage fade after two minutes. Here is how you can prevent your phone from automatically deleting them:

• Tap Settings
• Tap Messages
• scroll down
• Under “Audio Messages,” tap Expire.
• touch never

4. Make Your Mobile Self-Destruct!

Hidden within your phone’s settings is the option to wipe all mobile data after ten failed password attempts. Although this possibility of data loss may seem frightening, it is highly unlikely that a partner or a child would accidentally delete all of their data. The reason is that after the 5th failed password attempt, iOS requires a 1-minute timeout before you can try to enter a password again. After the sixth attempt, it will obtain a timeout of 5 minutes after the seventh, 15 minutes, etc.

It means that it would take more than 3 hours to enter ten wrong passwords. The one person spending that much time has bad intentions probably, which means you’ll want your data erased. Here is how we can turn this setting on.

• Tap on Settings
• Scroll down to Touch ID & Password
• Enter your access code
• Toggle the Wipe data set to the on position

5. Switch Wi-Fi Networks Faster

If you’re tired of opening the Settings app to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, you should know that there’s a faster way to do it:

• Open Control Center by swiping down diagonally from the top right corner of your iPhone screen.
• Touch and hold your finger in the center of the Wi-Fi widget
• Touch and hold your finger on the Wi-Fi bars icon to see the list of available networks

One of this tricks in iPhone can also work for pairing Bluetooth devices.

6. Take A Slowfie

Do you want to take your selfies to another level? Then you can use one this tricks in your iPhone. The front-facing cameras on the latest iPhones ( iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max, plus the entire iPhone 11 series) can shoot in slow motion.

• open camera app
• Play SLO-MO
• To use the front camera, click the camera switch icon 
• Hit the record button

7. Turn The Volume Up And Down Faster

If you don’t want to press the volume control button on the side of your iPhone, you can now adjust the volume using the touch screen.

• Press the volume buttons on the side of your phone as you normally would
• Instead of continuing to press the physical button, drag your finger over the volume indicator on the touch screen

8. Muting Those Dreaded Reply-To-All Email Threads

If you are enclosed a horrible reply-to-everyone thread that’s blowing up your phone, don’t worry, you can escape! It is what you can have to do: 

• Open the mail app on your iPhone
•  In your inbox, swipe from right to left across the message
•  choose more
•  mark mute
•  If you want to rejoin the conversation, repeat the first three steps, but check “Unmute.”

9. Use Siri To Play A Radio Station

You can long ask Siri to play your favorite radio stations. It is what you have to ask your assistant:

• Activate Siri by pressing and holding the power button or with the command of “Hey Siri.” 
• Say, Siri, play radio station name to listen.
• Enjoy

10. Remove Size Limitations On App Downloads

Apple has protection in place to prevent you from exceeding your mobile carrier’s data limits when downloading an app. Previously, it could only download large files over Wi-Fi. Here is how to get rid of the download limit.

• Go to settings
• Tap iTunes & App Store
• Tap App Downloads
• Disable limit

11. Type Faster By Swiping

Slider-style keyboards have always been popular on devices for a long time. A few months ago, Apple allowed users to install third-party keyboards like Gboard to add functionality. Now you don’t even have to go to the App Store to install one. Since iOS 13, all iPhones contain it built-in. To write, drag and hold your finger over each letter of the word you’re trying to spell. It may take you some time to get used to it if you haven’t used it before, but you’ll see how tremendously useful it is.

12. Enable Night Mode

One of the most standard features in the iOS 13 update was night mode. Suppose you’re not familiar with this option yet. In that case, the setting essentially inverts the colors on your screen, so all interfaces with a white background turn black. It allows your eyes to rest more easily at night. Also, it looks cool. Here is how can you activate it:

• If you prefer Siri, you can say, “Hey Siri, turn on night mode.”
• If you prefer not to use Siri, you can open Control Center by swiping down diagonally from the top right corner of your iPhone screen.
• Press and hold the brightness indicator (represented as the sun).
• Activate Night Shift.

13. Change Your Profile Picture

If you want to have a profile picture for when your friends add your info to their contacts, here’s how to do it:

• Open the Messages app
• Click on the button on the screen’s right side 
• Select Edit name and photo
• Tap the profile icon to change your picture
• You can take a photo with the camera, upload a photo from your image library, or even use an Animoji or Memoji.

14. Automatically Close Browser Tabs

As scary as this tip may sound, it’s quite useful and helps keep your web browser running more efficiently. This tricks in iPhone only works for the default internet browser Safari.

• Open your settings app
• Tap Safari
• Tap Close tabs
• You can be setting it to close your tabs every day, every week, every month, or just leave it in manual mode

15. Extends Battery Life

In iOS 13, Apple added a new option to its battery health feature called “Optimized Battery Charging, ” designed to extend the overall battery life. Apple says the feature slows down battery aging by reducing your iPhone’s time fully charged. The tool uses machine learning to understand your daily charging routine, so it can wait to finish charging more than 80% until you need to use your phone. That way, if you charge your phone overnight, it won’t have a 100% charge for several hours, degrading your battery.

• Tap Settings
• scroll down
• Choose Battery
• Choose Battery Health
• Flip the switch to the on position

16. Start A Group FaceTime Call

You’ve probably FaceTimed a million times with your family and friends, but have you FaceTimed multiple of them simultaneously? Typically, you end up not using it because you don’t ask (because you’re embarrassed). It is how you can do it:

• Open the FaceTime app on your iPhone
• Tap the plus(+) button in your screen’s top right corner 
• Then enter the name or number of any person you want to call first
• Enter up to 30 additional contacts
• Tap Video or Audio to make your FaceTime call

17. Access The Calculator Faster

If you need to do calculations on the go but don’t want to open the calculator app, there’s a faster way you didn’t know about:

• Swipe right on the home screen, lock screen, or while viewing your notifications
• Write the operation
• Your iPhone will calculate it for you

18. Make Your iPhone Flash When You Get A Notification

Suppose you prefer to have a visual signal over an auditory one. In that case, you should know that the LED light on your iPhone can let you know when you receive a notification. Here’s how you can activate it:

• Open your settings app
• Tap “General”
• Tap “Accessibility”
• Scroll down a bit
• Press “Turn on LED flash for alerts.”

19. Take Better Leveled And Framed Photos

A hidden level of the camera in the iPhone’s settings will come in handy when you’re taking photos from above your stuff. To activate the feature, go to:

• Settings
• scroll down
• Tap “Camera”
• enable the grid

When you rest your phone on a surface to take a photo, two crosshairs will appear, one white and one yellow. When they align, your photo is level.

20. Enable Eye Contact On FaceTime Calls

While you’re in a video call with your iPhone, come on, admit it. There are times when you don’t know where to look: the front camera of the iPhone 12 is in one place, the images on the screen are in another place… iOS14 already proposed a solution that has gone practically unnoticed, but it is very useful. You can go to Settings, select FaceTime, and enable the Eye Contact option. This feature allows your iPhone to take advantage of machine learning. It can detect where your eyes are and, mind you, make it look like you’re looking directly at the camera! When Zoom and Microsoft Teams do the same, you’ll see how your pandemic work meetings change too.