Other What is the most underrated feature of the iPhone?

[Hieveryone]

I love my iPhone 14 Pro. I enjoy the latest and greatest features including the extremely unbelievably good camera and extremely useful Dynamic Island.

I rarely used my camera but after getting iPhone 14 Pro I enjoy taking pictures because they're so beautiful.

Dynamic Island is like a "status update" for you iPhone. It lets you know where you are and gives you an easy way to control and get back to it (if that makes sense).

BUT

The most UNDERRATED feature is wireless charging IMO. I used to enjoy it very much with previous iPhones but lost my wireless charger and never cared to buy a new one. Well I found it not too long ago and I'm really enjoying this feature. Wireless charger is literally amazing. You keep it on your desk while you do other things and like magic it's charged.

 

[Fat_Guy]

Software support and critical updates, especially for older iPhones.

 

[roirulz]

Automatically fill in SMS passcodes

 

[Andeddu]

Software support which is extremely consumer friendly. I am still shocked that such an “anti-consumer” firm as Apple has dragged the 6S and SE from 2015/16 to 2022 when phones are supposed to be throwaway objects that are constantly replaced.

When I first really started using the MacRumors forums, I saw people still using these ancient devices and thinking they were crazy because I religiously updated once every 2 years. So I was there with my 12 Mini scoffing at people still using the 6S, SE and 7 not realising that those phones were completely useable as smartphones in 2022. That inspired me to pick up a brand new old stock SE1 and use it as my daily driver. Now I have no desire to update to the “latest and greatest” because I know that the older phones can still do 99% of what the newer phones can do.

 

[MisterSavage]

I would pick AirDrop. Blew my mind that you could share large files with another person when you don't have cellular or WiFi connectivity.

 

[Torty]

To be able to make phone calls.

 

[srbNYC]

Back tap. I use it for magnifier. None of my friends ever know what I'm doing -- and they're happily amazed when I show them. (And I feel super-tech-savvy, if just for a self-aggrandizing moment.)

 

[MisterSavage]

Back tap. I use it for magnifier. None of my friends ever know what I'm doing -- and they're happily amazed when I show them. (And I feel super-tech-savvy, if just for a self-aggrandizing moment.)

I really need to remember that that gesture is available.

 

[shelkonnery]

Scanning documents into a PDF with Notes. So useful.

Not sure why so few seem to know about this, most people just take photos of documents and receipts instead.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Device integration across other ecosystem devices. I think a lot of people take the feature for granted when it is very complex.

 

[mittencuh]

Long, long software support. I’m not exactly wealthy, so it’s super awesome that my 12 Pro Max will get updates for years to come. My iPad is a 12.9” iPad Pro from 2015 and still runs iPadOS 16, which is amazing.

 

[now i see it]

The Off button

 

[janeauburn]

The most UNDERRATED feature is wireless charging IMO.

The most underrated feature is Apple's enhanced pick-a-yo-pocket. With each new phone, there is an increasing number of ways that Apple engineers have figured out how to monetize you far beyond the purchase price of the phone.

 

[now i see it]

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Apple engineers Marketing Dept

 

[Reggaenald]

Auto brightness. The people that use it mostly never think about it, yet it’s always been on every iPhone.

 

[Pro_the_legend]

The most underrated feature imo is that when you receive a phone call and pick look at the phone & it detects that you're looking at it and reduces the ring tone volume

 

[Reggaenald]

Software support which is extremely consumer friendly. I am still shocked that such an “anti-consumer” firm as Apple has dragged the 6S and SE from 2015/16 to 2022 when phones are supposed to be throwaway objects that are constantly replaced.

When I first really started using the MacRumors forums, I saw people still using these ancient devices and thinking they were crazy because I religiously updated once every 2 years. So I was there with my 12 Mini scoffing at people still using the 6S, SE and 7 not realising that those phones were completely useable as smartphones in 2022. That inspired me to pick up a brand new old stock SE1 and use it as my daily driver. Now I have no desire to update to the “latest and greatest” because I know that the older phones can still do 99% of what the newer phones can do.

Where did you get that from?

 

[Andeddu]

Where did you get that from?

I got it on eBay UK around 8 months ago. It was an online retailer that had purchased a stack of 16 new old stock SE’s from a mainline carrier shop for cheap and were selling them for £100. I was lucky I got the last one because they are so expensive to get new now.

 

[1rottenapple]

The Off button

Silent switch button!

 

[PeteBurgh]

The Photos app is very good and a little taken-for-granted in my view. I've synced a large library will all sorts of different photo formats across many different devices/OSes over the years, and it's always been rock solid and reliable. The editing tools are great and the different ways of browsing photos are attractively presented and useful. The ML auto-curation and object/person recognition is behind Google Photos, but it's got progressively better over the years.

Honourable mention - being able to copy and paste text between my phone and laptop.

 

[cardfan]

I’d say find my iPhone for see who’s where in family, finding a lost device in house, etc.

 

[TheDailyApple]

The app suggestions in spotlight. I only keep a few apps on my Home Screen, but when I need an app that’s not, it’s almost always suggested in spotlight without my having to type a single character.

 

[fatTribble]

I’m still very fond of Live Photos. It makes every picture I take like one of the paintings on the wall in Harry Potter.

Personally I’ve never been a fan of wireless charging. I just don’t see the point. I’d rather actually plug a charger in and put the phone where I like. My battery lasts all day without charging so wireless charging would make no sense for me. Glad you like it though!

 

[now i see it]

I’ve never been a fan of wireless charging

You will be if the lightning port goes south

 

[fatTribble]

You will be if the lightning port goes south

That might force me to use it but it won’t make me like it 🤪