What's up guys, my name's Brandon.
And today I'm going to be showing you 18 more iPhone tricks that you might not
know existed. And if you guys are new here,
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So let's not waste any time at all.
Let's go ahead and get straight into these tricks.
And the first one has to do with Safari. So if you guys are anything like me,
you like opening up links in new tabs. So for example,
if I'm on safari and I just search for something,
and I see there are multiple new news articles on it right here,
and I want to open up a couple of them, but I want to do it in a new tab.
If you do that, of course, you haptic press and it opens in a new tab,
but it takes you to that website.
Then you have to go into your windows and then back to this and then find a new
one and then haptic press open in new tab again.
And I don't like how it just goes to that website that I just opened, you know,
in a new tab right away.
I wish it would just stay on here and I can open those in the background. Well,
you actually can.
So if we go into our settings here and then go down to safari and then
down to open links, change this to in background.
And now when you do that, if you go in haptic press right here,
open in background, and you could see it stays on this page.
And that that's how this opens up in the background.
While we remain on the page, we were just on.
So this is something that is extremely useful for me inside of safari.
And I figured you guys would find use in that as well.
And to expand on this feature,
there's actually a quicker gesture in iOS to open up a link and a new tab.
So instead of having to haptic press and then pressing on open and background or
open new tab,
you can actually just simply tap with two fingers on that link to open it in a
new tab. It's really that step. I don't know how,
I didn't know this for the longest time.
So if you'd just to press just two fingers, press on this link right there,
it doesn't do anything,
but you could see that it actually opens it up in a new tab right here.
You don't even have to zoom in. Sometimes you will have to zoom in,
but most of the time you don't. So you can see there's a link right here.
I can just simply tap with two fingers at the same time and it opens it up in a
new tab. So it didn't do it right there. So there we go.
And it could see it opens it up in a new tab, right there,
just with a simple two finger gesture tap.
And if we go into that tab that we've just opened and we'd go back,
you can see that safari automatically closes out of that tab because it takes us
back to where we just were. So it works anywhere like on safari. For example,
if I just opened this in the background,
and then I go to the tab that just opened right here, then I go back.
You can see that safari automatically closes that tab. That way we don't have,
you know, the same site pulled up and two different tabs.
Did you know that you can use Siri to turn off your alarm or snooze your alarm
in the morning? Yes. This is actually something I just recently did.
I was just feeling lazy.
I didn't feel like opening my eyes or getting up to turn my alarm off.
And I didn't realize until I said it,
that you could actually ask Siri to turn your alarm off for you.
All you have to do is say, Hey, Siri, turn off alarm or Hey, Siri snooze.
And it will do it. Hands-free. Now,
if you sleep like me with your phone facing downwards,
then you will need to turn on a feature in here inside of settings.
If we go into our accessibility right here, and then down to Siri,
you will see that always listen for, Hey Siri.
You guys want to make sure that that is turned on and you can see it says,
listen for, Hey Siri, when your iPhone is facing down or covered.
So that's something to keep in mind that you want to have enabled.
But I did just recently realized he could ask Siri to turn off your alarm at
four, you, without having to touch it. And also to add onto this trick,
you can also ask Siri to calculate a tip for you.
So I would always do this and the calculator app or what they shortcut,
but you could actually ask Siri to do it for you. So watch this.
How much is a 20% tip on a $68 bill?
And it can see series shows you exactly the tip amount and the total with the
tip on top. And it shows the percentage right there.
So that is a much easier way to do it than having to go through a shortcut or to
type it in and a calculator or anything like that. So,
two simple little tricks there they can use with Siri. And speaking of Siri,
did you know that there were two new Siri voices added in a recent update and
you could actually change those and they sound much more humanlike and less
robotic than they have in the past.
So if you go into your settings and Siri and search, and then to Siri,
voice voices,
two and three are new and they sound a lot more modern and just, you know,
more human-like. So here's.
Hi, I'm Siri, choose the voice you'd like me.
To use. And here's voice three. Hi.
Siri, choose the voice you'd like me to use.
So your phone will have to download these,
but I would recommend turning those on if you'd like the sound of those.
I personally liked these much better than the default in a voice one and four
that we've had in the past. You could also change the variety up here as well.
If you want a different accent on your Siri speaker,
the next trick is going to be a way to check your batteries cycles.
So if you're familiar,
a battery cycle is basically how many times your battery has been charged,
like from zero to a hundred and as,
basically as a good indication as to when you need to change your battery.
So this is something that when you're buying a used phone,
you will want to know how many cycles and I've been put on that battery and for
your own battery as well.
You might want to know how many cycles have been put on your battery to know
when you should get a new battery installed, especially for older devices,
but this is actually done via a shortcut.
So I will have the link to the shortcut called view battery cycle down and the
description below. But to do this,
you just need to go into your settings and then let's go back here and down to
privacy and then all the way down to analytics and improvements and then
analytics data.
And we want to go down until we see log aggregated.
So you want to go down to the L's and find the last log aggregated.
So you can see the date is right there as well.
You want to go to the last one because that's going to be the most accurate,
the most up to date. And you want to tap on that right here,
and you want to tap on the search up or the share button in the top, right?
And you want to go down to view battery cycle. And when you tap on that,
you can see, it shows up in a popup exactly how many battery cycles, you know,
the count of the battery cycles on your phone.
So this iPhone 12 only has 28 cycles on its battery.
So I probably will not need a battery change anytime soon,
but this is awesome because this comes straight from your iPhone.
It doesn't rely on a third party source.
So it's going to be just as accurate as if you took it to an apple store.
So this is a really cool shortcut to have on your phone and to check,
especially if you have an older device.
Another cool little trick is the ability to search for record labels inside of
music. So you can see here, the record label, idiot rising.
You can actually search for select music labels,
and you can find similar music to artists who like, so for example,
if I listened to this album and I was like, wow, I really like this sound.
I want to see, you know,
other songs by maybe artists that are related to that sound or have a similar
sound to that. You can see at the bottom of some albums,
there's this little label right there that says record label.
And it shows you could tap on that to see their profile right here,
which shows all of the top releases and the latest releases about this specific
record label. We can even read about them down here.
So this doesn't work for every single record label,
but I have found that it works for quite a few,
and that's a great way to discover new music.
That's similar to the artists that you're already listening to and that,
you know, you already like, and speaking of music,
did you know that there is a way to make your music louder on both your speaker
and via your air pods? So for example,
if we go into our music section right here in settings,
and then go down to EEQ the late night you cue, if you turn that on,
that will make the sound on your speakers louder.
So I noticed that it increases the max volume on your iPhone.
So be careful just don't blow your speakers,
but that is a way that specific EKU as a way to make your music louder. Now,
if you want your music louder for your AirPods,
for your AirPods max or any headphones for that matter,
if we go into our accessibility settings,
so let's go up here to accessibility and then let's go to this right here,
audio slash visual, and then two headphone accommodations, turn that on.
And then you want to go to vocal range right here and turn that to moderate or
strong. Even on slight, you will hear a difference,
but moderate or strong will really improve the quality or increase the volume
rather of the music going into your headphones.
So that is a way to make music louder.
Just sounds overall louder on both the speaker,
the external speakers of your iPhone.
And also when you have headphones in and you can see,
you can also change this to just media or phone and media. So like phone,
it's going to be, you know, obviously like phone calls and things like that.
If you don't want that to be louder,
you can turn that off and just keep it on media or, you know,
change it to whatever you want. And going back into the music application.
There's one last thing I wanted to show you in here that I've realized not a lot
of people really know about or just don't use a lot.
So if you're in an album or a playlist,
there's a quick and easy way to add a song to the queue. So for example,
a lot of people just go to this and then play next like that.
Or they tap these three dots and then go to play next to add to the queue.
But there's a much easier way. And that involves swipe gestures.
So if I swipe to the right all the way like that,
you can see it does a play next action. You can also swipe over not all the way.
And you could add this to a play last.
So you could see the orange one right there. It's going to play last on the cue.
And then also be swipe over to the left all the way you can see it will either
download it or remove it from your library. So for example,
that one wasn't downloaded. So I downloaded it.
And now if I swipe all the way to the right,
it will delete it and you can see it's gone now.
So swipe gestures inside the music application,
just make everything faster and more fluid.
We also have a few tricks inside of the photos application. So for example,
I have this crazy Rezvani truck here. I took a photo of, and if I swipe up,
you can see, we have this section for add a caption.
And if I go ahead and type in two here, Rez, Vani,
you can see like that and tap on done. Now later down the road,
if I wanted to find this photo, I could just simply search for it.
So if I go out of here and then go to search, and if I search for Rez, Vani,
you could see that that photo is the only one that comes up because obviously
your phone's not gonna recognize anything with that type of name,
but you could see it right there.
So that's really useful for finding photos later down the road.
Now going back into the album section right here, you could see,
I have my albums right here.
And what if I didn't want like this image or this big face right here showing as
the key photo for the album.
And I didn't want to move photos around in there or anything like that. Well,
you could actually do that. So for example,
if I go into this album right here and they could see this was actually the key
photo for the album, because it was the very first one,
but if I wanted it to be this picture right here in the middle,
I could just go and haptic press on that. And it could see,
we have an option down here for make key photo.
And now when you do that and go back,
you can see that is now the key photo that shows up and it no longer just
reverts to the first photo in that album. Now going into the camera,
there's also a little trick here that, you know, isn't really a trick,
but it's just something that a lot of people I've noticed have just forgotten
exists. So a lot of people who put filters on their photos,
take the photo first and then go into the photo and add the filters on top of it
only to realize that it doesn't look as good, what they filter. Well,
there's actually a way to add the filters in before you take a photo.
So just swipe up right here. You will see,
we have the filters all the way over here on the right. If you tap on that,
you can see the filter live in the camera view, like in the view right here,
before we take the photo,
you can see how it would look with one of the filters put on it.
So just a really small thing that a lot of people seem to forget is there before
you take the photo. And also if you wanted to keep that filter on at all times,
so you can go into your camera settings right here and then go to preserve
settings and then go to creative controls and make sure that is turned on.
And now I can close out of the camera application and go back in and you can see
that the filter remains on because I have this turned on right here.
They preserve settings support, creative controls.
The next two tricks are inside of the maps application. So the first one,
of course, you guys probably knew that if you double tap it zooms in,
and if you double tap with two fingers that zooms out like that.
But did you know that if you double tap and hold,
you could zoom in just like this on the maps application.
So this is kind of a little hidden gesture here because you could zoom in a lot
more than you could, but just, you know,
of course he couldn't do it like that with two fingers as well.
But if you only have access to one finger,
just take your thumb and zoom in like that. And it's very, very handy.
Now also inside of the maps application,
did you know that you can send your ETA to somebody automatically when you put
in the GPS to go to that location? So yes,
you have to have it set as a favorite. So you can see here,
I have this favorite right here. If we go to see, all right here,
you can see that we have a little eye next to the favorite.
And if we tap on that,
you could see if we go down there is share ETA right here.
So if you add a person, it says automatically notify another person.
Every time you navigate to this favorite,
your location route in ETA will be viewable until you arrive.
So normally you would have to do that manually to have to press a button.
But if you have it set as a favorite and you have this option set here inside of
the settings for this favorite, it will do it automatically.
Every time you're on the way to that person's house or to work,
whatever the case may be. So pretty nifty little trick there inside of maps.
Now, going back into safari, we have even more tricks to share here.
So if you hold down on the open new tab button right here,
you can see this allows you to close all tabs at one time, if you want it to.
And then also if it go to the tabs right here, then tap and hold on the plus,
you can see it pulls up recently closed tabs. So this will show all the tabs.
They just recently closed. Also in safari,
you can take a screenshot of the entire webpage. So once you take a screenshot,
you can see you have the option for full page and you can see it takes a
screenshot of the entire page right there. Now,
if you don't want to send the whole page, I just want to send some of it.
You can tap on the crop button right there,
and you can crop this to save just a certain section of that webpage,
but maybe just something bigger than if you just took a regular screenshot and
then tap on done. And then of course you can save it.
You can mark it up if you want to. And it will say as a PDF file.
Now another little trick with texts that I use a lot in emails and a notes,
especially, but you could do this anywhere where you use texts.
There are actually some gestures where you can copy paste and undo and redo very
easily. So for example, if I wanted to copy this right here,
I could take my three fingers and pinch inward and you can see up top.
It shows copy. If I pinch outward with those three fingers, it says paste.
So also if we go ahead and let's just delete some of this and do three finger
taps. So just a double tap with three fingers, you can see it says, undo.
If I three finger tap again,
it brings up this and I could press on this little arrow right here to redo what
I just did. And also another way to undo and redo is by shaking your device,
just like that. It says, undo typing. You can tap on undo.
It'd be shaking again. You can see it will redo it. And then speaking of texts,
there's also a really easy way to enter your email address with a specific
string of letters or words or just one word. So for example,
if we go into our settings and then go to general and then to keyboard,
and then to text replacement, you can see,
we can add in text replacement right here. So for example,
if I wanted to have a shortcut, just to say like my email,
if I just want to type an email to type in my full email address,
instead of typing in the full thing. Like, for example,
if I had this email@gmail.com, that was the Fraser, I guess,
F mail.com in this example, but you can see the shortcut is email.
So now if we save that now just type in email. So for example,
if I go into this right here, that's type in email,
you can see that it pulls up that text replacement right there,
but just tap on space. It puts that in automatically. So if you have like,
you know, I wouldn't recommend this for a password, but for example,
if you have like an email that you use a lot,
that you are tired of copying and pasting,
or you're just tired of entering in all the time,
you can set up text replacements to have those in there.
So that is a really useful feature here in iOS as well.
And then the final trick I wanted to show you guys is a way to have different
languages set up for different applications.
So if you are bilingual and you speak multiple languages,
you can have different languages appear in different applications.
Like for example, if we go down to our settings and go to,
let's just say that we want, I don't know,
let's just say we want Facebook to be in Spanish,
but everything else to be in English, we can do that.
So you could see in Facebook settings, it shows preferred language.
And if you tap on that,
you could change it to whatever language you have added in here. So like,
for example, if I set it to a spaniel,
that means that when I went into Facebook and only Facebook,
the language would change. So this is very useful.
If you are bilingual and you speak multiple languages, but anyways guys there,
you have it. Those are 18 more iPhone tricks that you did not know existed.
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