iOS 9 Hidden Features: Settings Search, Selfie Folder, Home Sharing for Music, Go Back to App, and More

[C DM]

What happened to the limit for Notices from a single app. I've got so many from Twitter now, that I can't even see the rest. Going back to Group by App may be the best thing. And move the Twitter notices to the last group.

Seems like that's gone now.

 

[tomekosiowy]

Smart (auto-) album in Photos: "Selfie" should be an option (enabled/disabled). It works as a result of photos filtration with faces in fact. Not needed for everyone.

 

[msterling]

Seems like that's gone now.

Not good. My so far only complaint

 

[japanime]

Stop promoting your paid website in the comments.

You might want to edit out the URL in your reply to the spammer, since that's just helping him spam us even more

 

[e1me5]

Problem is, since they didn't include the proactive Siri for the 4s, they forgot to add a shortcut for the recent & favorite contacts.. But either than that, my phone is still usable and it will survive until I buy 6s next month.

 

[bpeeps]

You might want to edit out the URL in your reply to the spammer, since that's just helping him spam us even more

Good looking out.

 

[Nimrad]

Really irritating that the "Back to app"-text blocks my wifi and cell signal indicator..

 

[allanfries]

Just curious. What are the non-crap stock apps for you?

For me the crap currently are "stocks, tips, Find my friends, apple watch." Stoked that Newsstand is finally gone!! Runners up "Reminders, Wallet" but these 2, I might use down the road. Just found a way on YouTube to hide the 4 apps, that works on my iPad mini as well. All other apps I am fine with as I use them.

 

[K2R]

Is it just me or does the double click on the home screen shortcut to access the Wallet application not work? I'm located in Canada, does that have anything to do with it? Also I don't seem to be getting any of the new options in the notes app...

Anyone else?

 

[crono87]

It also helps by showing the battery levels of attached Bluetooth devices (ie. UE Boom Speaker).

It would be nice to have something similar on the Watch

 

[Cazualchatter]

WOW, so is the screenshots folder included in the final release??? This is HUGE for me!
Now I'm wondering... does the folder recognize older (pre-iOS 9) screenshots after the update, or will only house screenshots taken after the upgrade to iOS 9?

Yup it's there all right and nice to see all the old useless screenshots lying on my tab... Now where is the delete button...

 

[Cazualchatter]

Another hidden new feature is a small PDF editor. If you click on an attached PDF in Mail you can edit and save it. Haven't found another way to edit PDFs.

I could not edit my documents.. Can you special fly how you did it?

 

[GaryMumford]

Another hidden feature is the News app. Hidden so well I can't find it! Oh wait... It's because i'm in the UK. WTF? If I set my region to US the News app appears and works fine. It even loads UK specific content. So WHY is this disabled for us brits?

 

[chabig]

I am still waiting for the "Close all Apps" button. I hate swiping up all the running apps.

Do you mean the recently used app list?

 

[GaryMumford]

I was excited about the icloud drive app feature but just like all the third party apps, it doesn't show any of the files or folders in my icloud drive other than "Pages" which is empty. I contacted Apple about this in April of 2015 and even through a couple of techs, they just completely stopped responding to me entirely. I basically can't access ANY files on iCloud drive via any device using iOS which makes the service completely worthless in my opinion. I'll post the contact I had at apple regarding the issue if someone else is having it because he surely stopped responding to me entirely.

Your Advisor: Nicholas
877 203 0418 extension- 1127378
nrethemeyer@apple.com

Cloud drive working fine for me. I can access "everything" thats on the drive.. A very useful feature

 

[dfgddikf]

I could not edit my documents.. Can you special fly how you did it?

It works on an iPad (Air) don't know about iPhone. In Mail you tap on an attached PDF. Then the PDF opens full screen. Then tap on that full screen PDF and in the upper right corner a toolbox appears. Tap that toolbox and you are in the edit screen. You can add text to the PDF, sign and fingerpaint in it. Unfortunately this seems to be the only way to open that editor.

 

[GaryMumford]

It works on an iPad (Air) don't know about iPhone. In Mail you tap on an attached PDF. Then the PDF opens full screen. Then tap on that full screen PDF and in the upper right corner a toolbox appears. Tap that toolbox and you are in the edit screen. You can add text to the PDF, sign and fingerpaint in it. Unfortunately this seems to be the only way to open that editor.

Works on iPhone too. Happy days!!

 

[SnowDX]

Seems like that's gone now.

Check settings -> notifications. You can enable Group by App there. The apps can be ordered by the ones with the most recent notifications or turn off recent and then manually put the apps into the order desired (which I believe is how it was in iOS 8).

 

[BJMRamage]

Last night I updated and wow, I guess I take a lot of selfies ... 2,428

https://imgur.com/gallery/K8GORdH/

Funny, I checked mine last night. I had 21. about half were simply photos of my kids shot so they could see themselves smile.

 

[C DM]

Check settings -> notifications. You can enable Group by App there. The apps can be ordered by the ones with the most recent notifications or turn off recent and then manually put the apps into the order desired (which I believe is how it was in iOS 8).

Sure, but the part about limiting the number of notifications of an app to the last 10 or 5 or 1, that's seems to be gone.

 

[SnowDX]

Sure, but the part about limiting the number of notifications of an app to the last 10 or 5 or 1, that's seems to be gone.

Oh I see. I misunderstood. Yes that is lame.

 

[Someyoungguy]

So nice to hear the guy in the video pronounce "helvetica neue" correctly! Pet peeve of mine.

The News app will come in handy when I am waiting for something to happen at work and don't have anything to do to fill the time.

One of my biggest peeves with Siri is when he gives me a list of say, restaurants and I chose one to get more information, there's no easy way to get back to the list without asking Siri all over again. I just tried by asking for fast food restaurants. I got a list and Siri gave the info about the first one on the list, asked if I liked it, I said no and Siri brought up the info on the next one. Etc. If I said Yes, he asked if I wanted to call or do something else. That's cool. But if I clicked a link in the info and left Siri, I couldn't get back to the list. Oh well.

Same here! I often ask for local stores and then want to ask for navigation. I could have sworn the original Siri kept track of context better, but I can't seem to figure out how to ask to navigate to, say, the second option on the list as a continuation of the original query. I just tried "navigate to the result of my last question" and it seemed to work for a single result, but is there a better approach?

 

[rudychidiac]

How the hell do we access home sharing in the iOS 9 music app?

 

[southernpaws]

View attachment 582006

Yes it does as there are screenshots from my iPhone 3G in there.

Nice screenshot inception

 

[The Game 161]

I have to say, the battery widget is probably the most useless thing I've ever seen. If you're curious what your battery is at, look slightly higher past the widget to the top right of your iPhone's screen.

More useful if you have the apple watch when it's charging or something