- 11 iPhone features you never knew existed.
Let's start right in the settings app.
Scroll down and tap on photos.
Here you gotta switch hidden album.
- What the heck does that do?
- Well, it creates a hidden album on your iPhone.
So now if I go to the photos app, and scroll down,
underneath utilities you will see hidden.
Great feature if you have a nosy roommate, for example.
- Or a toddler who's the next Bill Gates.
- Yes. (audience laughing)
So if you wanna add a photo to the hidden albums,
go to library, auto select a photo.
Tap the share button, lower left hand corner of the screen.
Scroll down, and tap hide, hide photo.
And now if we go back to our hidden album, there it is.
- Okay, but seriously, David, like it's a hidden album.
- Yep.
- So... - How do we hide it?
- [David] Yeah, how do we hide the hidden album?
- [David] Let's go back to settings.
Turn off that switch next to hidden album.
You've added your photo.
Now the hidden album is gone.
- It's hidden.
Have you ever lost track of your car in a large venue,
like a sporting arena?
One time it was at the old Giants stadium with my dad
and we had no idea where we left the car.
I mean, we had a general idea,
but what we had to do was we had to
wait for everybody else to leave.
If only there was an easier way to find the car.
- Well, what you should've done
is you should've commanded Siri,
save my parking spot.
- Commanded her.
No questions this time. - No questions.
- Do it!
- Yeah, that's all getting picked up on the...
- Well, I'll be quiet.
Go ahead.
- Save my parking spot.
There you go.
Now our parked car is pinned.
We know exactly where it is.
We can get directions right back to it.
- Right.
Like most people, I like to read the comments of an article
sometimes before I read the article itself.
Do I wanna take the two seconds to scroll
all the way back up to the top?
Nope. - Nope.
What you can do is just tap anywhere
at the top of the screen.
It'll take you right back up to the top.
- Zoom, like Superman.
- Do you remember the Shazam app?
- Sure do.
- It was purchased by Apple in 2018
and built right into the iPhone.
So if we play a song.
- [David] Okay.
- And we ask Siri, what song is this?
And there we go, five seconds there.
And now if you wanna add this song
to your Apple Music library,
just tap on that song at the top of the screen.
It'll take you right to that song in the album.
It's great. - How easy is that?
No more Googling the lyrics.
But here's what I want.
I want a version where I can hum the tune of a song
into the phone and then it tells me what song that is.
So obviously it's more complicated,
but really I'm waiting for that.
'Cause a lot of the times I don't even know the lyrics.
- Yeah.
Or maybe it has no lyrics.
- Maybe it doesn't.
Exactly, classical musician discrimination.
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- Next, let's talk about a new iOS 15 feature,
background sounds.
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Tap back to the main page of settings,
scroll up, and tap accessibility.
And scroll down and tap audio visual.
Then tap background sounds.
Turn on that switch at the top of the screen.
And now you've got that nice ocean noise.
Very relaxing.
We have a full video on background sound, specifically.
Get more into the nitty gritty.
We'll link to that in the description section below.
And a card above.
- It's a riveting video.
(crickets chirping)
No, but actually it is good.
Seriously.
- Next, we've got a few messages app tricks for you.
Let's go to the messages app.
The first thing, if you wanna quickly
share your location with someone, just type I'm at,
and then it'll say current location.
Just tap on current location, it'll fill in for you.
- Interesting.
Really hammering home the importance of grammar.
- Yes. - To our kids.
- Next up.
It's very difficult to move the cursor on your iPhone.
You gotta really poke in the right spot.
- Right, it's impossible sometimes.
- Well, what you can do, press and hold the space bar.
And now, nice and easy.
Look at that.
- Scrolling back and forth.
And it works in longer documents too,
like in note. - Yes.
- Makes it really easy to make those corrections
instead of just holding, or tapping, or poking.
- Next, you can send messages with some flare
by pressing and holding that send button.
And then here you have your iMessage effects.
So what do you wanna do, you wanna slam it at them?
Boom.
What if you wanna add a little screen spotlight?
All these cool things.
And then just tap that send button again.
- [Both] I'm at balloons.
- It's a party.
- But you're not invited. - You're not invited.
- Yep.
- And when you type in something like happy birthday,
or happy new year's, some of these'll happen automatically.
And sometimes they get messages,
like why are there fireworks blowing up
in my phone right now?
It's like, oh, well it's, you know, January 1st.
- Right.
And they're not real.
Don't freak out.
I gotta level with you, David.
I don't think that there could ever be
any more awesome tips.
- Well, there are quite a few.
- Okay.
- Let's open at the measure app on our iPhones.
And at the bottom you can do a level.
Lay your phone flat and look at that,
we've got a really flat table here.
- We sure do, that's lucky.
Wow.
- Zero degrees, that's perfect.
- That's perfect.
- Now would I use this if I'm a professional carpenter?
Probably not.
- Right, but.
In a pinch.
- In a pinch it works.
And when I'm hanging my shelves,
I don't need 'em to be perfect, just.
- No.
That's why he has lots of broken pictures in his apartment,
yeah, or house, excuse me.
- Next, let's open up the calculator app.
Now, pretty basic calculator.
But when we put it in landscape mode, boom!
- Now it can do all the things that I don't understand.
- Yeah. - Yeah, that's great.
If you wanna flashback to maybe math class in high school,
maybe give yourself a little anxiety, landscape mode.
Come back to portrait and you're back in elementary school.
It's kind of like a time machine.
- Next let's talk about scanning and signing documents.
- I love this idea.
People are always printing out documents.
They're scanning.
You just don't need to do that.
Sometimes you do though, have a printed document,
and then you need to scan it, and sign it.
You don't need to use your printer.
- Yeah, well you can use the notes app.
So if you open the notes app and create a new note.
I'm gonna get in my sample document here.
This is not real document.
You steal this information
you're not gonna get very far, I promise.
Tap on that camera, bottom of the screen.
And then tap scan documents.
And it should usually happen automatically for you.
This is a white table, white document.
But it did pretty well there.
- It did all white.
Once you've scanned all your documents tap save,
lower right-hand corner of the screen.
- Now you got a couple of them.
- That's all right. - That's all right.
- So if you wanna add a signature,
for example, to your document, just tap on that document.
Tap on the share button,
upper right hand corner of the screen.
Tap on markup.
Then tap the plus button and tap signature.
I've got a few signatures saved here.
If you don't have any signatures,
just tap add or remove signature.
Tap that plus button and sign your name.
- That's beautiful. - That's beautiful, yeah.
Then resize it to the size that you like.
That's a little big.
- Pretty decent.
Yep, so how do we get rid of that second page though,
If we want to?
- Well, let's tap done here.
So let's go to that second page, swipe right to left.
Tap on that trash can, tap delete scan.
That one is gone.
- All right, so now it's good to go.
If I wanted to email it to somebody, what would I do?
- Well, just tap that share button,
upper left-hand corner of the screen.
Tap the mail app.
Choose the person that you want.
- What? - Send it.
- See you later, Epson scanner.
No need for you anymore.
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