iPhone tips for iOS 17: you should adjust these features immediately

You probably installed iOS 17 this week or are about to do so. In this week’s iPhone tips you can read which settings are best to adjust immediately.

iPhone tips for iOS 17: you should disable these features

There are quite a few features that you can disable immediately after installing iOS 17. It may happen that some functions are already disabled by default. But then it is always a good idea to check them out. For these iPhone tips we have selected 4 functions that you should check out.

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1. Enable or disable NameDrop

We’ll start these iPhone tips with the NameDrop feature. NameDrop lets you quickly share contact information with another iPhone by tapping both iPhones together. If you want that, the feature must be enabled. If you don’t want that, check whether the function is disabled. This is how you do it:

Do you find the function useful, but do you use two iPhones (for example, business and private)? Then it is advisable to disable the function. If you don’t do that, they will start NameDroping every time they are near each other…

2. Set Haptic Touch to Fast

In iOS 17, you’ll be able to see previews, actions, and contextual menus faster. By default the option is set to ‘Standard’ and previously you only had the option to make it ‘Slow’. You can adjust this as follows:

• Open the Settings app;
• Tap ‘Accessibility’ then ‘Touch’;
• Tap ‘Haptic Touch’;
• Set the TOUCH DURATION to ‘Fast’.

You can test the touch duration with the image below. We suspect that most people will prefer the ‘Fast’ option.

3. Make Siri talk faster

With number 3 of these iPhone tips you can give Siri a kick in the ass! Are you annoyed that Siri is taking so long to respond? Thanks to this new iOS 17 option, you can simply increase Siri’s speaking speed. It works like this:

• Open the Settings app;
• Tap Accessibility, then tap Siri;
• Adjust the setting under ‘SPEAKING RATE’ as desired.

By default the setting is 100 percent, but you can now increase it to a maximum of 200 percent. If you have difficulty following Siri, you can also choose to slow down the speaking speed.

4. Lock Private Mode in Safari

With the arrival of iOS 17 you can enter private mode Safari lock with Face ID. When you use private mode for the first time after the update to iOS 17, you will immediately be asked whether you want to enable this new feature. But it’s also useful to know where you can manually enable and disable the option:

• Open the Settings app;
• Scroll down a bit and tap Safari;
• Scroll almost all the way to the bottom;
• Enable or disable the ‘Require Face ID to unlock private mode’ option.

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