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Apple Shares New 'iPhone Can Do What?' Features Page [Updated]

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Apple recently added a new features page to its website, which offers an in-depth look at the capabilities of Apple's modern iPhones.

The site is organized into tiles, each featuring an explanation of a feature along with a short video, a photo, and a link to one of Apple's support documents.

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Topics covered include water resistance, privacy, AirDrop, Group FaceTime, photos search, Memoji, Do Not Disturb, Find My iPhone, Apple Pay, iMessage photo effects, and more.

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Apple includes both major features like Face ID, along with smaller hints and tips like holding the space bar to move the cursor to quickly fix a typo or double tapping the space bar while typing for a period.

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It's a useful site for anyone who isn't super familiar with the feature set on the iPhone, and it's also useful for more advanced users because it also has lesser known options that some people might not know about.

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Apple has a whole range of support documents on every topic you might think of, but doesn't often link to them on its main site, which makes the features page unique. Apple is highlighting the new features page on its main Apple.com homepage.

Update: Apple has shared several of the videos featured on its "iPhone Can Do What?" on YouTube. Each video is about 15 seconds in length and highlights a specific iPhone feature.











Article Link: Apple Shares New 'iPhone Can Do What?' Features Page [Updated]
 
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Shake to undo stopped working for me a while ago. I just figured it was removed in a software update. Now I know that there's something wrong here.
 
Press and hold the space bar instead of 3d touch, in fact, there's no mention of 3d touch at all while the Xr is the only iphone that doesn't have 3d touch. 3d touch is confirmed gone from the next iPhones boys :(
 
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Irrelevant, gimmicky or plain wrong.

I use iPhone 8 so meh-moji my __ (take it away, Phil)

Time and again I've tried searching for photos using location AND date and it never shows results (even though up until iOS 11 it was possible). Not to mention that the information density on the Photos app is nonsensically sparse.

Facetime 31 friends.. sure, and eavesdrop on them too!

Shake to undo doesn't work.

If that's all the iPhone can do, they just showed a lot of people the way to Android.
 
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Apple: While at it,
1- Could you tell us how to add titles to photos on an iPhone?
2- How to make HomeKit play my music by scene activation/automation (no I do not want shortcuts and Siri to do it)?
 
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macduke said:
Apple is seriously—in 2019—advertising shake to undo as one of the top iPhone features? It's one of the least intuitive features and an example of bad UX design.
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It's not like they've worked on a ton of exciting iOS features in the last few years, other than iMessage effects, stickers and ani-me-mojis.

Also, waterproofing? It's not worthy advertising something every manufacturer already has.

In order to advertise something you kinda have to make it happen first. I wish they took the ecosystem angle. Airdrop, universal pasting, Watch seamlessness, these are truly impressive features with the added upsell potential
 
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iPhone text selection is awful. So many times I'm trying to grab a snippet and it skips to the top and selects one character, or gets stuck only letting me select one line, or it snaps to the whole paragraph and won't let me select text inside of it. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, and other times it doesn't let you grab punctuation or it takes several attempts. The keyboard touchpad for text selection was a nice addition, but they really need to overhaul however the text selection engine works because it sucks. It was fine many years ago but it's 2019 and it should be better by now.

I would also say that finding any photo is quite the stretch. It works for me maybe half the time and I have to do a lot of skimming and swiping around before I find what I'm looking for.
 
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mcbumbersnazzle said:
Press and hold the space bar instead of 3d touch, in fact, there's no mention of 3d touch at all while the Xr is the only iphone that doesn't have 3d touch. 3d touch is confirmed gone from the next iPhones boys :(
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That was my thought exactly. :oops:
 
I could have died yesterday without knowing you can delete typo with shake... and I thought I knew everything about iPhone.


Toxic people, can you just move along and omit this thread? Please?

No?

*sigh*, OK... :(
 
macduke said:
Apple is seriously—in 2019—advertising shake to undo as one of the top iPhone features? It's one of the least intuitive features and an example of bad UX design. Every time I have to do it in bed it wakes up my wife.
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“I was trying to undo something on my phone”.

Man that’s a great excuse. Wish I thought of that earlier.
 
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I wish they'd implement undo/redo buttons somewhere in the keyboard. I find shake to undo pretty annoying to use. And very slow if you need to undo several times.
 
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