7 Useful iPhone Tips You Might Not Know

[708692]

Just recently found this -

Redial : simply press the green phone call button with no phone number entered to redial the last number called.

 

[danpass]

Siri will ID songs?

sumbitch lol

 

[Gsmaniac]

Siri song history needs to be in a more logical place. I can never find it when I want it.

 

[eyeseeyou]

That lock app work around is some good info

 

[gaspitsjesse]

Move multiple apps! Didn't know that, but that's awesome!

Seriously just blew my mind! That makes organizing apps WAY easier than dragging one at a time in to a folder.

 

[sammich]

That's not a hamburger icon (three horizontal parallel lines), it's a bulleted list icon.

 

[Gsmaniac]

Using app time restrictions now has messed with my safari. I can’t seem to add it to the allow list so I have to type in my code every time I open a new page. Annoying.

 

[7thson]

I appreciate these videos/articles. I think I knew most of these tricks but don’t use them often enough to remember they are there. The screen time hack is new to me. Kudos!

 

[Starship67]

Moving multi-able apps seems so clunky.

Works on iPad too.

 

[nate13]

The move multiple apps trick was totally new to me! What a game changer when organizing apps!

 

[cale508]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but on an iPhone X, Xs or Xs Max, if you are on an app, you can swipe on the home bar to the right and you can scroll thru opened apps like that. No need to swipe up to go back to an opened app. I’m not sure if I’m explaining correctly.

 

[iRutherford]

I use the Screen Time trick because I have nosy co-workers.

 

[smoking monkey]

I like the move multiple apps as well, as that was one I didn't know.

The biggest feature surprise to me wasn't in this article. It's holding the space bar down to move the cursor in a text field. I find that WAY much easier to make sure I'm put my cursor at the correct location. I don't know when that functionality was added, but I think it came with iOS12.

Press and hold on keyboard (possibly spacebar only) to get the selection cursor in text. Move your thumb around to place it where you want.

It was something that was added in iOS 12 probably mainly for non-3D Touch iPhones, but works on all devices.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button

For 3D touch phones this function (3D touch anywhere on the Keyboard) has been around for a couple of years. For the XR you can only haptic touch the space bar and this is obviously from IOS 12. I'm not sure about phones prior to the 6S series.

 

[C DM]

For 3D touch phones this function (3D touch anywhere on the Keyboard) has been around for a couple of years. For the XR you can only haptic touch the space bar and this is obviously from IOS 12. I'm not sure about phones prior to the 6S series.

You can also use similar long press on the space bar even on 3D Touch phones as of iOS 12 (in addition to the 3D Touch method).

 

[Jett0516]

This is for the iPhone X series, if you have many screens and need to get back to the home screen quickly, just swipe up.

 

[mrr]

Moving jiggling apps on the iPhone is like herding cats.

 

[B4U]

Safari tab would not work if used in private mode...

 

[341328]

Dan made a good video. Well done. Hahaha.

 

[JosephAW]

Move multiple apps! Didn't know that, but that's awesome!

Must be an iOS 12 feature. Doesn't work in iOS 10. But I like the 3D Touch folder.

 

[Oblivious.Robot]

Thank you! As someone who loves to listen some soothing tunes right before bedtime, this will come in handy.

 

[unclemax]

Shortcut to Settings via Siri and a list of previously identified songs are so cool and something I genuinely didn't know! I used to take screenshots to remember identified songs - no longer.

 

[needfx]

Great tip list!

The fact that you can have an empty home screen page is an interesting but useless tidbit

 

[G3Blue]

Wow I’ve wanted the timer for music when going to sleep for so long I had no idea. Ridiculous that there are so many settings most people have no idea about.

 

[shhy]

Try dragging an app away from its original position, and then while you're still holding it, tap others.

@jclo, the wording is a little ambiguous in the article; perhaps it could be clarified.

I also can’t get it to work!

 

[ginkobiloba]

I like the move multiple apps as well, as that was one I didn't know.

The biggest feature surprise to me wasn't in this article. It's holding the space bar down to move the cursor in a text field. I find that WAY much easier to make sure I'm put my cursor at the correct location. I don't know when that functionality was added, but I think it came with iOS12.

Wow, I did know about two fingers to move the cursor on iPad but I thought that wasn't possible on the iPhone. Thanks for that.