If you want to reduce the time you spend doing anything on your iPhone, there are often hidden features in iOS that can help you get there.
Here are some iPhone tips and features that can help you save time and increase productivity:
1- Create useful actions to do by pressing the back of your iPhone:
The iPhone (back tap) feature allows you to set specific actions to be performed by tapping twice or three times on the back of the iPhone.
You can use this feature to quickly launch specific apps that you use often on your phone, or to quickly perform a variety of system tasks. For example: take a screenshot, lock the phone, turn on silent mode, change the volume, etc. The feature also works great with Shortcuts App Autorun, which allows you to enable accessibility features like AssistiveTouch, VoiceOver, Zoom, etc.
To enable this feature on your iPhone, you can follow the steps below:
- Go to Settings (Settings) of your iPhone.
- Click on the Accessibility option.
- Click (touch) an option.
- Scroll down to the (Back Tap) option and tap on it.
- You will see two options (Double Click) Double Back or (Triple Click) Triple Back, choose the option that suits you best when pressing on the back of the phone to perform certain tasks.
- After clicking on an option, you will see a list of tasks that you can customize. Select the action to be performed from the list.
2- Quick access to specific features of the application:
One time-saving trick that you can use in frequently used apps on your iPhone is to press and hold the app icon, which will show you all the shortcuts you can launch depending on the app.
For example, long-pressing the Twitter app icon will give you a shortcut to compose a new tweet, the Gmail app will give you a shortcut to compose a new email, and long-pressing will give you a WhatsApp shortcut to start a new conversation with your last contact on the app.
3- Pin important conversations to the top of your message list:
If you text someone frequently, you can make sure you have quick access to that particular text conversation by pinning that conversation to the top of your messaging apps list.
If you want to pin only one chat group at a time, you can follow these steps:
- Go to the Messages app on your iPhone.
- Click Edit option at the top left.
- Click Options (Edit pinned conversations) and a yellow pin icon will appear next to each conversation. Click it for each conversation you want to pin to the top of the list. Up to nine conversations can be pinned.
4- Quick copy and paste to edit photos and videos:
When using the Photos app's editing tools in iOS 16, you can now copy and paste your edits to any other photo you want to make the same adjustments to, including saturation, contrast, and brightness.
If you edit a photo or video, you can add the same edits to any other photo or video in your Camera Roll. To do that, you can follow the steps below:
- Go to the Photos app on your iPhone, then open any photo you edited recently.
- Click on the circle with three dots in the upper right corner of the screen and then click on the “Copy Edit” option. This option only appears when you're editing a photo in the Photos app, not in a third-party photo editor.
- Navigate to the image where you want to copy these changes, click the three-dot menu, and then click the Paste Changes option.
5- Open the application with a voice command:
Voice Control is an accessibility feature that lets you navigate your iPhone hands-free. If you turn this feature on, you can ask Siri to open certain apps, go to the home screen, and more.
how to activate the voice command function; You can do the following steps:
- Go to Settings (Settings) of your iPhone.
- Click on the Accessibility option.
- Click on the Voice command option.
- Click on the Configure Voice Control option.
- Click the Next option and a screen will appear with many useful voice commands that you can use. Click on the Finish option.
- With Voice Control turned on, you can switch between apps while using your iPhone by saying the following commands: open Control Center, go to the home screen, open (then say the name of the app), take a screenshot, or turn up the volume.
