It doesn’t matter if you are already the owner of the iPhone smartphone or are you just thinking about buying it, it is always pleasant to know the hidden capabilities of the technical friend who help, suggest, simplify life, and sometimes amuse. The following is a list of secret functions that you may not know about.
1. Create a complex password
By default, your iPhone asks to enter numbers when you create a password for unlocking a smartphone. But you can change this parameter. Go to the settings menu-> Basic -> Password protection and disable “Simple password.”Will be proposed to change your password, and a full keyboard will appear on the screen, and not just its digital part. This keyboard will pop up every time you need to unlock the phone.
2. Fast charging
Switching to the “plane” mode disables the functions of wireless and cell access, allowing the phone to charge twice as fast, because nothing in the phone consumes energy at the moment.
3. Assistant Siri (Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) will read your letters aloud
Suffice it to say the magic words: “Read my email”, and Siri will read all your messages out loud. If you want, you can only tell her to read the latest messages (“Read My Latest Email”) or only from a certain contact (“Do I have email from Mark?”).
4. Find out what aircraft fly over your head
Siri and here it will help you. It is enough to ask in English: “Flights are ABOVE Me?”Or“ Planes Overhead ”, how the plate with a listing of the flight number of each flying aircraft, its height above sea level and the angle of the sea, will open. Just the same spy information.
5. Teach siri to pronounce words correctly
The most pleasant part of this procedure is that it makes you feel smarter than siri. When Siri pronounces the words incorrectly, it is enough to say: “That’s not you product” and it begins to offer alternatives, it is enough to choose the right option.
6. Installation of a timer for playing music
If you like to fall asleep to the music, then this function will have to taste. In iOS, it is possible to include sleep mode while playing music. In the “Clock” application, you need to select the Timer tab, and then specify the required period of time, then scroll down and select “Stop playback”. At the indicated time, the timer will stop playing music.
7. Temporary switching of layouts
Sometimes you need to enter a mixed text consisting of alternating letters and numbers. No need to constantly switch from the letter layout to digital.To enter one digit, just hold the “123” button with one finger, and click on the desired digit. This technique works with punctuation marks and other symbols located on the digital keyboard.
8. Photography with a volume button
It is sometimes difficult to photograph by touching the “capture” button, especially if gloves are on the hands. It’s okay, you can use the buttons of increasing or decreasing volume.
9. Serial shooting
If you hold the shutter button, then the smartphone will begin to make a series of fast shots. This function is especially useful if you have to photograph a moving object. Later it will be possible to choose the best pictures and delete failed.
10. View the exact time of sending the message
To find out, go to any correspondence in messages, for example, SMS or IMESSAGE, and run a finger from right to left. The exact time will appear on the side when this or that message was received or sent.
eleven. Use your iPhone as a building level
You need to hang a picture? In the “Compass” program, run a finger to the left and an interface of a simple and convenient building level will open.
12. Your iPhone will pronounce the selected text
First you need to enable the Speak Selection function. To do this, go to the Settings menu -> General -> Availability -> Pronounce, turn it on. Now the “Speak” button will appear when you choose the text. Bonus: You can also choose various accents (you would prefer the Australian iPhone?), and even control the speed with which the selected text is pronounced.
13. Start a new offer by pressing the gap twice
Whenever you print and you need to start a new proposal, it is enough to press the gap twice and the point will be automatically added.
14. A more detailed calendar
When using the calendar in a vertical position, it is not visible which events are indicated. Turn your smartphone in a horizontal position and you can see all the planned things in more detail.
15. Blocking autofocus and exposition during shooting
When you are trying to photograph the object, your iPhone automatically sets up the exposition, which is sometimes completely not appropriate. But you can fix the focus and exposure yourself, pressing and holding your finger on the screen until a yellow square appears and blinks twice. Further, in the lower part of the screen will appear the inscription “AE/AF LOCK”, which makes it possible to take a picture on your conditions of exposition and focus.
16. .ru, .com and letters ё and b on the keyboard
When you enter a Web address, just hold the key “.”At the bottom of the keyboard and a menu containing a list of domains will appear (.ru, .Org, .com, .Net). Also, many at the first acquaintances with Apple technique are puzzled where such letters as e and k. They did not hide at all, just it is worth squeezing the buttons E or b, respectively.
17. Quick access to e -mail drafts
Few people know about this function. The next time you use the postal application, holding the icon in the lower right corner of the screen, you will quickly move to the list of draft electronic letters (projects).
18. Setting up individual vibration
This will allow you to change the vibration template for warning and notifications. You need to go to the settings menu -> Sounds -> Calling Melody -> Vibration -> Create new vibrations. You can configure the vibration template for individual contacts. You will feel who calls or writes, despite the phone screen.
19. Creation of user combinations of keys
Let’s say there is a certain word or phrase that you often use.You can create a shortcut for him. Go to the section
Settings> General> Keyboard> Fast access> Add a new shortcut. Enter a word or phrase (maybe a link or e-mail) that you want to use for this. Every time you introduce this label, a whole word or phrase will magically appear.
20. Shake to cancel
Made an error when entering or editing text? Do not worry! Just shake your phone a little, and he will ask you if you want to cancel the action. Hooray!
21. Upon receipt of alert, the smartphone will blink a flash
Instead of the iPhone calls or vibrates when you get a call or message, you can configure the inclusion of an LED flash. To do this, go to the Settings section -> General -> Availability, then scroll down and turn on the warning “LED flash for warning”.
22. Text selection
Double slippers allows you to highlight this word whole. This opportunity is borrowed from computers, where a double click serves for this purpose. Four taps in a row are already highlighting the entire paragraph, which can be useful when it is necessary to send a fragment of the text.
23. Calculator for engineering calculations
If the iPhone is placed horizontally when working with the calculator, then it will be possible to work with advanced calculator functions, that is, a calculator for engineering calculations will appear on the screen.
24. Photo with the help of headphones
When shooting the plot, it is quite difficult to take a smooth picture with the front camera of the smartphone, and even so that the hand does not fit into the frame. In such a situation, Apple’s headset will help perfectly. There are buttons that can be used to shoot self -portraits at the Apple headphone cable. Press the volume button in the camera mode or the middle button (“Start/Pause”) in the video recording mode.
25. Quickly rewind pages to the very top
In any iOS application, in order to instantly get into the very top of the page, you need to click on the top panel-zagolovka (where information about the operator, time and battery charge).
If you know still interesting little things that the iPhone can write in the comments.
It doesn’t matter if you are already the owner of the iPhone smartphone or are you just thinking about buying it, it is always pleasant to know the hidden capabilities of the technical friend who help, suggest, simplify life, and sometimes amuse. The following is a list of secret functions that you may not know about.
1. Create a complex password
By default, your iPhone asks to enter numbers when you create a password for unlocking a smartphone. But you can change this parameter. Go to the settings menu-> Basic -> Password protection and disable “Simple password.”Will be proposed to change your password, and a full keyboard will appear on the screen, and not just its digital part. This keyboard will pop up every time you need to unlock the phone.
2. Fast charging
Switching to the “plane” mode disables the functions of wireless and cell access, allowing the phone to charge twice as fast, because nothing in the phone consumes energy at the moment.
3. Assistant Siri (Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) will read your letters aloud
Suffice it to say the magic words: “Read my email”, and Siri will read all your messages out loud. If you want, you can only tell her to read the latest messages (“Read My Latest Email”) or only from a certain contact (“Do I have email from Mark?”).
4. Find out what aircraft fly over your head
Siri and here it will help you. It is enough to ask in English: “Flights are ABOVE Me?”Or“ Planes Overhead ”, how the plate with a listing of the flight number of each flying aircraft, its height above sea level and the angle of the sea, will open. Just the same spy information.
5. Teach siri to pronounce words correctly
The most pleasant part of this procedure is that it makes you feel smarter than siri. When Siri pronounces the words incorrectly, it is enough to say: “That’s not you product” and it begins to offer alternatives, it is enough to choose the right option.
6. Installation of a timer for playing music
If you like to fall asleep to the music, then this function will have to taste. In iOS, it is possible to include sleep mode while playing music. In the “Clock” application, you need to select the Timer tab, and then specify the required period of time, then scroll down and select “Stop playback”. At the indicated time, the timer will stop playing music.
7. Temporary switching of layouts
Sometimes you need to enter a mixed text consisting of alternating letters and numbers. No need to constantly switch from the letter layout to digital.To enter one digit, just hold the “123” button with one finger, and click on the desired digit. This technique works with punctuation marks and other symbols located on the digital keyboard.
8. Photography with a volume button
It is sometimes difficult to photograph by touching the “capture” button, especially if gloves are on the hands. It’s okay, you can use the buttons of increasing or decreasing volume.
9. Serial shooting
If you hold the shutter button, then the smartphone will begin to make a series of fast shots. This function is especially useful if you have to photograph a moving object. Later it will be possible to choose the best pictures and delete failed.
10. View the exact time of sending the message
To find out, go to any correspondence in messages, for example, SMS or IMESSAGE, and run a finger from right to left. The exact time will appear on the side when this or that message was received or sent.
eleven. Use your iPhone as a building level
You need to hang a picture? In the “Compass” program, run a finger to the left and an interface of a simple and convenient building level will open.
12. Your iPhone will pronounce the selected text
First you need to enable the Speak Selection function. To do this, go to the Settings menu -> General -> Availability -> Pronounce, turn it on. Now the “Speak” button will appear when you choose the text. Bonus: You can also choose various accents (you would prefer the Australian iPhone?), and even control the speed with which the selected text is pronounced.
13. Start a new offer by pressing the gap twice
Whenever you print and you need to start a new proposal, it is enough to press the gap twice and the point will be automatically added.
14. A more detailed calendar
When using the calendar in a vertical position, it is not visible which events are indicated. Turn your smartphone in a horizontal position and you can see all the planned things in more detail.
15. Blocking autofocus and exposition during shooting
When you are trying to photograph the object, your iPhone automatically sets up the exposition, which is sometimes completely not appropriate. But you can fix the focus and exposure yourself, pressing and holding your finger on the screen until a yellow square appears and blinks twice. Further, in the lower part of the screen will appear the inscription “AE/AF LOCK”, which makes it possible to take a picture on your conditions of exposition and focus.
16. .ru, .com and letters ё and b on the keyboard
When you enter a Web address, just hold the key “.”At the bottom of the keyboard and a menu containing a list of domains will appear (.ru, .Org, .com, .Net). Also, many at the first acquaintances with Apple technique are puzzled where such letters as e and k. They did not hide at all, just it is worth squeezing the buttons E or b, respectively.
17. Quick access to e -mail drafts
Few people know about this function. The next time you use the postal application, holding the icon in the lower right corner of the screen, you will quickly move to the list of draft electronic letters (projects).
18. Setting up individual vibration
This will allow you to change the vibration template for warning and notifications. You need to go to the settings menu -> Sounds -> Calling Melody -> Vibration -> Create new vibrations. You can configure the vibration template for individual contacts. You will feel who calls or writes, despite the phone screen.
19. Creation of user combinations of keys
Let’s say there is a certain word or phrase that you often use.You can create a shortcut for him. Go to the section
Settings> General> Keyboard> Fast access> Add a new shortcut. Enter a word or phrase (maybe a link or e-mail) that you want to use for this. Every time you introduce this label, a whole word or phrase will magically appear.
20. Shake to cancel
Made an error when entering or editing text? Do not worry! Just shake your phone a little, and he will ask you if you want to cancel the action. Hooray!
21. Upon receipt of alert, the smartphone will blink a flash
Instead of the iPhone calls or vibrates when you get a call or message, you can configure the inclusion of an LED flash. To do this, go to the Settings section -> General -> Availability, then scroll down and turn on the warning “LED flash for warning”.
22. Text selection
Double slippers allows you to highlight this word whole. This opportunity is borrowed from computers, where a double click serves for this purpose. Four taps in a row are already highlighting the entire paragraph, which can be useful when it is necessary to send a fragment of the text.
23. Calculator for engineering calculations
If the iPhone is placed horizontally when working with the calculator, then it will be possible to work with advanced calculator functions, that is, a calculator for engineering calculations will appear on the screen.
24. Photo with the help of headphones
When shooting the plot, it is quite difficult to take a smooth picture with the front camera of the smartphone, and even so that the hand does not fit into the frame. In such a situation, Apple’s headset will help perfectly. There are buttons that can be used to shoot self -portraits at the Apple headphone cable. Press the volume button in the camera mode or the middle button (“Start/Pause”) in the video recording mode.
25. Quickly rewind pages to the very top
In any iOS application, in order to instantly get into the very top of the page, you need to click on the top panel-zagolovka (where information about the operator, time and battery charge).
If you know still interesting little things that the iPhone can write in the comments.