16 practical tips hidden deep in iPhone, 5-year-old users only know 3 of them

Every time iOS welcomes a major system update, there will be a large number of introductions and experiences about the new features on the Internet. However, many people often just use these new features for fun, and rarely use them. However, few people know about the truly useful small features. This is mainly because Apple does not promote these small features after each system update, and it is more up to Apple fans to discover them on their own, which has caused many Apple fans to miss out on many practical tips.

I still remember that last year, there was a topic called "iPhone Hidden Skills Contest" that sparked heated discussions. Apple fans selflessly shared some of their favorite practical tips. Unexpectedly, it received 180 million views in a short period of time and was on the hot search list. The author also dug up a lot of "treasure" tips from it, so I worked hard and spent 2 hours looking through posts about iPhone hidden skills on the Internet. Today, I will share with you some of the interesting and practical functions of the iPhone 12 mobile phone that I personally think are still incomplete. I hope you can help supplement it!

1. Make your iMessage more cool

After inputting the content in iMessage, long pressing the send button will make your message more interesting and cool. In the bubble option, you can make the text invisible, shrink, or shocking; in the screen option, you can make the message full of the text, and add special effects such as fireworks, spotlights, balloons, and hearts. Although Chinese people don't use iMessage very much, it is still quite romantic to use it occasionally to express love.

2. Input can be faster

If you press and hold the space bar, the keyboard will become a touchpad. We can control the cursor position by moving our fingers, and can control the left and right of a character more quickly and accurately. In the future, there is no need to click to delete a character. If you press and hold to slide within the 26 keyboards, you will directly input when you stop at a letter during the sliding process. This allows you to quickly enter text information without clicking on the letters.

3. Adjust the brightness of the flashlight and turn it off quickly

Press the flashlight hard to adjust the light intensity. If you want to turn off the flashlight when the screen is locked, you don’t need to click the flashlight icon again. Just swipe the screen from the right to the left (there is no need to swipe all the way to the left, otherwise the camera will be called out).

4. One-handed mode

In most cases, we operate our mobile phones with one hand. For people with small hands, inputting messages is not very convenient. At this time, you can long press the small globe in the input method, click the keyboard on the right to switch to one-handed mode, and then you can use the small keyboard to type easily with one hand. If you are left-handed, just choose the keyboard on the left.

5. Quickly drag the current page

When we browse a long article, there is a very simple way to quickly find a certain paragraph. That is to press and hold the drag bar on the side of the phone and slide it up and down. In this way, you can quickly drag the current interface and quickly find the corresponding paragraph, which is much faster than sliding slowly (I guess many people regard the side bar as a progress bar).

6. Lock the app

There are many secrets in the mobile phone album. In order to prevent others from secretly opening and viewing, the album can be encrypted. First, we need to set the screen time password in the iPhone. The specific operation is to set the screen time password, then click on the APP limit, add limit, select photos and add, and set the daily browsing time. When you browse the album for more than the set browsing time, it will be automatically "locked". If you want to remove the limit, just click on the delete limit.

This will successfully prevent others from peeking at your phone's photo albums. Of course, this method is not limited to photo albums, you can also add "time limits" to other apps.

7. Prevent you from accessing other apps

When you lend your phone to someone else to play games and you are afraid that he will look through other contents in your phone, you can enable guided access. Guided access means that the user can only use the current app and cannot exit or open other apps. The operation is also very simple. Open Settings - Accessibility - Enable Guided Access - Set Guided Access Password - Enable Accessibility Shortcut (Press the Power Button three times).

After the settings are completed, enter an APP, press the power button three times, and click Start to enter guided access. At this time, you cannot exit the APP, and you cannot even pull down the notification bar, control panel, or shut down the phone. If you want to deactivate guided access, you need to press the power button three times again and enter the password.

8. Long screenshots in Safari

It is said that iPhone cannot take long screenshots, but in fact it is possible in Apple's built-in Safari browser. After taking the screenshot, click on the screenshot content, click "Full Page" at the top, and then zoom out the page. This way, all the content on the web page can be captured and saved. You can also take a screenshot of part of the web page by sliding the drag bar on the right.

9. Quickly search for keywords on web pages

There are too many words on the web page, and it is troublesome to find a keyword or a sentence in a short time. At this time, you can use the keyword search function of the Safari browser. Just enter the keyword you want to find in the search bar, and then click the keyword under "This page" to quickly jump to the corresponding content paragraph.

10. A super convenient amplifier for finding small things

Many people will turn on the flashlight function of their phones when looking for something in a dark environment, but what if the object falls in a dark corner or crack? Then you can try the magnifier function of iPhone. It can be turned on in Settings-Accessibility-Magnifier. When using it, you need to press the power button three times in a row. In addition to further magnifying the image captured by the lens, you can also turn on the flashlight, adjust the contrast, adjust the brightness, and take pictures. It is really convenient to find things. Of course, this function is not limited to finding things. People with poor eyesight can also use the magnifier to clearly see the details of something.

11. Scan documents

The iPhone has a memo, which is like our sticky notes. It can help us record some trivial things in life. However, the memo is not just your notes. It can also help you scan documents! Click the "+" button on the screen, select "Scan Document" to enter the scanning interface, put the document you want to scan into the viewfinder, focus and click the shooting button. After the selection is completed, a preview of the document will appear. Click "Finish" and the scanned document will appear in the memo.

However, the scanned documents displayed in the iPhone memo appear as documents similar to pictures. There is no way to copy and paste text, nor can the text content be transferred to Word, etc. This is a bit backward compared to Android.

12. Two methods to delete text messages in batches

Many of my friends who use iPhone often delete text messages one by one, which is a waste of time. When deleting text messages in batches, you can pull down with two fingers to directly select multiple text messages and delete them. Another way is to change the message retention time to 30 days in the settings, and the text messages will be automatically deleted after 30 days.

13. Take photos while recording video

When using the video recording function, there is a small white circle next to the start and stop buttons. When you see the scene you like during recording, press the small white circle next to the record button to complete the shooting. This function is clearly in front of us, but many people have never used it.

14. Quickly delete the input text

When you have entered a long paragraph of text and are not satisfied with it, you can shake your phone to undo the words you just entered. After undoing, shake the phone again to restore it. Many people don't know this unpopular trick.

15. Screen recording can record external sounds

Since the screen recording function was added to the iPhone, it has been loved by many people (Settings-General-Control Center-Screen Recording), but many people don’t know how to record the sound at the same time. In fact, it is very simple. After turning on the screen recording, press and hold to bring up the option of whether to turn on the microphone. Click to turn on the microphone to record the external sound. This function is very suitable for game anchors who are commenting while playing games.

16. BGM recognition

In the new iOS 14.2, iPhone has added a music recognition function (Settings-General-Control Center-Music Recognition). When you encounter a nice BGM while watching a short video, you can pull down the status bar to turn on the music recognition function to listen to the song and identify the song. However, not all music can be successfully recognized, and some music cannot be recognized.

Summarize

Steve Jobs's idea of ​​making smartphones is that the simpler the better. If a lot of learning costs are required, then there is something wrong with the product design direction. The iPhone system just perfectly implements this point. Many useful functions can be started with one click. The richness exceeds that of many Android phones, and can provide a lot of help in operation, life, and entertainment. However, Apple has hardly mentioned these tips, nor has it promoted them. I only discovered them after reading many posts and communicating with colleagues. I once suspected that I was using a fake iPhone. I still hope that Apple can do more publicity on system functions or post some posts on usage tips in the future, so that Apple fans can better use the iPhone in their hands.