iPhone tips: 10 things that you didn’t know your iPhone can

Your iPhone can be more than you think. In these iPhone tips we emphasize that with 10 things that you didn’t know your iPhone can do it.

iPhone tips: 10 unknown things that your iPhone can

The chance that you don’t know all ten things in these iPhone tips is perhaps not that great. But we are pretty sure that you don’t know them all yet. They are all handy anyway, so take advantage of it!

1. Use background noises

It has been proven that sounds such as dark noise can help you concentrate when you suffer from disturbing sounds in your environment. And there are noises that help you to calm down. You can let your iPhone help with this. Try it out, it works as follows:

• Open the Settings app and tap ‘Accessibility’;
• Tap ‘audio and visual’ and then on ‘background noises’;
• Switch on the ‘background noises’ option;
• Choose behind ‘sound’ the desired background noise.

If you have found a sound that works well for you, then it is a good idea to put the function under the activation button. You do this by tapping the ‘Accessibility’ menu at the bottom of ‘activation button’ and checking the ‘background noises’ option. From now on you can easily turn the background on and off by pressing the side button of your iPhone three times in a row.

2. Let Siri read aloud

If you don’t feel like reading an entire website in Safari, you can have the Siri done for you. You can just ask, but it is also possible to tap the icon on the left next to the address bar and then choose ‘Listen to page’.

3. Protect your private mode in Safari

You can set that Safari Verificastie requires when you have no longer used the 15 minutes. That is useful if you regularly use your iPhone by others and still want to keep some privacy. You set up like this:

• Open the app settings and scroll down;
• Tap ‘Apps’, scroll to the ‘S’ and tap ‘Safari’;
• Call in the option ‘Face ID requires to unlock private mode’.

4. Remove the background from photos

Press a photo that is stored in the files app for a long time, then tap ‘Fast tasks’ and choose ‘Delete background’. The photo is then stored as a copy without background. If you want to know more about this, read the article Hidden Function on iPhone: Delete background from a photo.

5. Translate text with the camera

Open the camera and aim the lens of your iPhone on a block of text. An icon with three lines appears in an outlined square in the lower right corner. Tap the icon and the text is recorded with the option to copy, select everything, look up, translate or share.

6. Secure personal apps

You can protect specific apps with Face ID, which is useful for example if you have a child who uses your phone regularly and you do not want them to play games or accidentally send e-mails. Just press an app for a long time and tap ‘Require Face ID’ to switch on the function.

7. Use guided access

Following the previous tip you can also choose to use guided access. That function ensures that your phone is limited to one app. The one who uses your iPhone cannot therefore close the open app and open another. You set guided access as follows:

• Open the Settings app and tap ‘Accessibility’;
• Scroll down and tap ‘guided access’;
• Turn on the switch behind ‘guided access’.

8. Photographing and filming faster

Sometimes you have to be quick to capture the perfect moment. Then it is useful if you know these two tricks. The first is to sweep the shutter button to the left instead of tapping it. You then take a lot of photos in one go, a function that is known as Burst mode. The second trick is that you open the camera and immediately hold down the shutter button. As long as you keep the button pressed, you record a video. So without having to go to video mode first and then start filming.

9. Limit screen time for apps

Do you waste too much time scrolling on social media? You can use your iPhone to keep yourself a little more control, namely by engaging a setting that limits your access certain apps. You do it like this:

• Open the Settings app and tap ‘Screen time’;
• Tap ‘Applimites’ and then on ‘Add limit’;
• Choose an entire app category, or select individual apps;
• Tap at the top right of ‘next’;
• Choose the desired times and days and tap ‘Add’.

10. Share your WiFi password with a QR code

The easiest way to share a WiFi password on an iPhone is by going to settings, tapping ‘WiFi’ and selecting the network. Then click on ‘Share password’ in the pop-up window. But this only works if the other person has an iPhone. If he has an Android phone, or if there are more people who need the password, a QR code works better. You make it like this:

• Open the app passwords;
• Tap ‘WiFi’ and then on the network in question;
• Tap ‘Toon QR code for network’.

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