Intro I made a video a few months ago where I shared
fixes for 10 of the most frustrating iPhone problems, and a LOT of you watched it.
So with that in mind, I thought I’d share fixes for 10 more extremely irritating iphone
issues.
Stick with me until the end of this video, if you’ve ever had something happen on your
iPhone that’s driven you nuts, because you never know, I might be about to show you a
way to fix it.
OK, let’s get into it.
Words automatically change to the wrong word Let’s be real, how many times have you tried
to type out that popular 4 letter swear word that starts with the letter ‘f’, only
to have your iPhone swap it out for a type of bird?
My point is, there are times when you’ll go to type something, and your phone will
assume you mean something else, and automatically swap that word out for you.
Problem is, you don’t want to disable autocorrect in it’s entirety, because when you’re
typing, it’s actually pretty useful.
It would just be great if your iPhone could learn that, for you personally, you want certain
words spelling a certain way.
Luckily for us, we can enable this.
Go to Settings, then General, then Keyboard and then Text Replacement.
Tap the plus in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
In ‘phrase’, type the word exactly as you want it to be spelled on your iPhone.
A handy tip here is, if you’re inputting a person’s name for example, you would type
it out with the capital letter at the start.
Then in shortcut, type the word out, you don’t have to include the capital letter here, just
type it however you’d type it when you’re working on your phone.
Tap Save when you’re done, and the replacement has been created, and will work each time
you type that particular word out.
You can now go ahead and do this for all your favourite cuss words, like I know you’re
going to.
Side Button Ends Call Whenever I make a video about typing on the
iPhone, I always get a load of comments from people who complain that they have big hands
or fat fingers or a combination of the two, and find themselves forever pressing things
by mistake.
Well if that sounds like you, I bet you’ve struggled with this next problem in the past.
Your iPhone, by default, is configured so that if you’re on a call, and you tap the
side button, that will end the call.
For many people this is a good feature, but for many others, it’s a pain, so here’s
how you’d fix it.
Go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Touch.
Scroll down, until you see Prevent Lock to End Call.
Toggle this on.
Now, when you’re on a call, if you accidentally tap the side button, it will not end your
call.
Apple Pay Double Tap too fast Apple pay, if you’ve not used it, is amazing.
You browse around on a site, find what you want to buy, and then rather than having to
input card or shipping info, you just tap on the Apple Pay logo, and let your phone
handle all that info for you.
Or if you’re at a physical location, you use your phone to pay at the card machine,
without having to take your actual wallet out of your pocket.
To use Apple Pay, if you have an iPhone like this one, you double tap the Home button,
but if you’ve got an iPhone with Face ID, you double tap the side button, and that double
tap motion on the side of the phone can be really awkward, especially if you’re holding
the phone with one hand.
There’s a setting that you can change, that gives you a bit more time between the presses,
and makes this easier.
If you go to Settings, then Accessibility, and then Side Button, you can change the speed
from the default, to either slow or slowest, depending on what works for you and your situation.
Play around with it until you get it how you like it.
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FaceTime Settings There’s a couple of settings in FaceTime
which can be really irritating if you don’t know about them.
The first is one that’s been around for a long time now, which I honestly had no idea
about until recently, and that’s that there’s a setting, automatically toggled on by default,
that uses Augmented Reality in your iPhone to slightly alter your eyes while you’re
on a FaceTime call, to make it look to the person at the other end of the call as if
you’re looking into their eyes.
Keep in mind, the camera on your iPhone is at the top of the phone, so the adjustment
is only minor, it’s just bringing your eye level down a bit, but it’s still ultimately
software that’s altering your image, and you may not like that.
Go to Settings, then FaceTime, scroll down, and toggle off Eye Contact.
Also, another setting that I think you should be aware of is the one above, FaceTime Live
Photos.
Essentially, if both you and the person at the other end of the call have this one enabled,
you get this little white button show on screen while you’re on a call.
Tap that, and the screen of the other person will flash, because you capture a live photo
of them, that’s then stored on your phone.
Now when this feature first launched, my wife and I would try and use this to capture photos
of each other looking as bad as we could because, ya know, bants, but now that the novelty has
worn off, I actually think it’s a pretty awful invasion of privacy if someone does
this to you.
With that in mind, all you have to do to make it so that this won’t happen to you, is
disable this feature.
iPhone won’t charge over 80% If you’ve ever picked up your iPhone in
the middle of the night expecting it to be fully charged, and noticed that the charge
has stopped at 80%, you might be wondering what’s happened.
Your iPhone isn’t broken, this is actually a feature called Optimised Battery Charging.
Essentially, what happens is your iPhone is configured to learn from the way in which
you charge your device, and when it knows that you’re most likely putting your iPhone
down for a long charge, overnight for example, it will charge the phone in a more controlled
manner.
To begin with, your phone will fast charge, but then hold at 80%, and when it gets close
to the time that you’re likely to wake up for the day and want to use your phone, the
phone will finish off the remaining charge at a much slower rate.
It does this for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, it’s more likely that when you pick up your phone, your phone will be fully
charged when this setting is enabled, rather than your phone reaching 100% charge, the
charge being disabled, and then your phone losing some charge in the meantime.
More importantly, it reduces wear on the battery, helping to increase it’s chemical health.
My recommendation to you is actually, to leave this feature enabled, but if you want to disable
it, you do have that option.
Head to Settings, then Battery, then Battery Health and Charging.
If you want to make use of the feature, ensure that Optimised Battery Charging is enabled,
turn it off if you don’t want it on.
My reason for saying you should leave it switched on is because, I honestly think it works.
I charge my phone overnight, every night, despite so many people telling me that I shouldn’t.
I use it throughout the day, charge it every now and then when I need it.
This is a 6 month old iPhone 14 Pro with 100% battery health, my 18 month old iPhone 13
Pro still has 92% battery health, not as good of course but still good in my opinion.
It’s up to you of course, but that’s what you need to know.
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Accurately move your cursor around the screen A tip that I’ve mentioned loads here on
the channel is using your space bar as a trackpad, to make it easier to move your cursor around
a passage of text.
If you’ve not seen this tip in action, you just press and hold on the space bar, and
then move your finger or thumb around the screen, which in turn moves your cursor around.
But some people still find this a bit fiddly, as you’re having to move your finger around
on the screen separately from the cursor itself.
Thankfully, there’s another option for you.
If you just tap and hold where you want the cursor to land on the screen, you can then
move your finger around, and the cursor will move with your finger.
It’s just as accurate, and of course because you’re doing this where you want the cursor
to land, it’s easier to control.
Also, just let me take this opportunity to remind you of the different ways in which
you can select text on your iPhone.
Tap once to drop your cursor on the screen, somewhere in the text.
Double tap on a word to select that word.
Triple tap, to select a specific passage of text.
Notification frustrations There’s a couple of frustrations related
to notifications that I hear iPhone owners talking about all the time.
The first is that updates to iOS in the past might have changed the way that your notifications
appear on-screen.
Apple seem to be constantly tweaking the way that notifications display, so it’s a good
idea to check how your’s are showing, and change them if you need to.
Go to Settings, then Notifications.
Up here at the top, where it says Display As, you can choose between a Count, where
it displays the total number of notifications at the bottom of the screen, a stack where
a stack is shown at the bottom of the screen, and tapping on it will expand it out, or a
list, where you can see all of the notifications.
The other frustration is when you’ve got your iPhone by your bed at night, and a silent
alert comes through, but it activates your phone screen, lighting up the room in the
process.
There’s two ways you can deal with this.
The way I’d recommend you deal with it is to make use of your iPhone’s sleep mode.
If you open the Health app, and set up Sleep, you can set a schedule for when your iPhone
should go into a sleep mode each night.
For example, mine comes on at 10:30pm, and is then on until 7:00am, and during that time,
my iPhone is essentially in a Do Not Disturb mode.
Alternatively, you could go to Focus Modes and choose Do Not Disturb, you’d just have
to remember to do this manually.
The final option is to mute Lock Screen notifications for specific apps, if you know that you’ve
got a specific offender that always wakes you up.
So, if I go into Settings, then Notifications, and then tap on a specific app, here where
it says Alerts, I can disable Lock Screen.
Notifications for this app will still show, but crucially, not when the phone is locked,
and so won’t light up the display at night.
Stop photos from being featured Your iPhone has a function called Featured
Photos, and it’s actually really nice.
Depending on how you’ve got your phone setup, your phone may pull photos together into collections
that you can view in the Photos app, or even show these collections to you on your phone’s
Home Screen.
But obviously, in life, there are going to be specific photos that we may not want to
be displayed on our Home Screens, or photos of people or occasions that we perhaps don’t
want to have to delete, but don’t want our iPhones to feature and regularly remind us
of.
Here’s how you’d handle that.
Here’s a photo, and if I tap on the ellipsis in the upper right of the screen, you can
see that down at the bottom, I’ve got the option to remove this specific photo from
featured photos, or remove whoever is in the photo, featuring that person less.
Siri Frustrations If you use Siri on your iPhone, there’s
a good chance that you use the trigger phrase, which I’ll write on screen now, to access
it.
Sometimes though, if you’re maybe using an iPad, Mac or HomePod that are also listening
out for this phrase, it can all get a bit confusing as to which device should respond
to you.
Your devices are pretty smart, and will generally get it right, but there’s a way that you
can stop your phone from listening out for that key phrase, without having to totally
disable it.
If you go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Siri, you can toggle off Always Listen
for, that Siri phrase that I won’t say.
With this toggled off, all you have to do is place your phone face down, and it won’t
listen out for the phrase while it’s faced down.
Also, another couple of frustrations with Siri, is that it doesn’t wait long enough
for you to say your request, which you would fix by using this Siri Pause Time section
at the top of this menu, and that it either speaks responses back too much or too little,
and again you’d use the Spoken Responses section down here to amend that.
iPhone photos are blurry Blurry photos are going to happen from time
to time, but if they’re happening all the time for you, there’s something not quite
right about your phone, and you’ll need to take some steps to figure out and fix the
problem.
Firstly, let’s check some possible settings that could be causing the problem.
Open Settings, then Camera, and scroll to the bottom of this page.
Try toggling on or off Prioritise Faster Shooting, Lens Correction and particularly Macro Control
if you have a phone that this is compatible with.
See if any of these help the issue.
If none of these fix the problem, chances are, it’s a hardware issue that you’re
facing.
Restart your device, and check that any phone case that you’re using isn’t causing the
problem.
But honestly, the number one hardware issue that cause most people to have blurry photos,
is that their camera lenses are dirty and need a clean.
Think about it, your fingers probably touch the lenses quite often, so that means that
grease from your fingers, maybe skin cream or any other substance is getting wiped on
the lenses quite frequently, and unless you’re cleaning the lenses on a regular basis, that
can really build up.
Use a microfibre cloth, and whilst you don’t need to use special cleaning substances, I
would recommend Whoosh if you’re going to use one, it’s apparently the same stuff
that they use in Apple stores, and it’s very good.
End So there you go, 10 frustrating iPhone issues
and how to fix them.
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