8 iPhone Tricks You Should Know

Updated Jul 06,2016 | by Shannon

iPhone is impressive with its smart features. However, there are many features you probably haven't heard about. Here, we picked some iPhone tricks you should know that will help you enjoy the best user experience of your iPhone.

1. Take Photos Using Headphone

 It is essential to know that regardless of the advanced features that came with your iPhone, there are  chances that your captured photos may get shaky/blurred. However, a way to lower the possibility of having blurred photos is to take photos by making use of your headphones as the shutter button. Hold the iPhone steady, open the camera app, and press the Volume Up or Down of the headphones to capture a photo.

2. Fast scrolling to the top

When scrolling through a long website page or reading a text and you reach almost at the bottom of the page, the most challenging part is returning back to the top. It is time-consuming and involves lots of thumb movement. Why do you have to go through the stress when you can conveniently scroll to the top with a single tap? First, locate the top of the tab bar (where you will see the time, battery life, and signal strength. Thereafter, simply click on that area.

3. Typing text or email

When typing an ordinary text or an email, you will find the magnifying glass to be of good help. Should you tap a time and hold, you will see that a magnifying glass will pop up which will enable you to see a magnified view of the cursor and all the words you have written.

4. Respond to text messages while you are in an application

Perhaps you are using an application and need to read messages, you can just swipe down from the top, access the notification drawer and answer any text message similar to how you would on the lock screen.

5. Shake your iPhone to undo typing error

Have you typed some errors into a text or email? All you need to do is to shake the iPhone to display the “undo your last action” option. This gesture functions in mail, iMessage and other default applications, but developers can as well apply the feature, so put it to tell in all sorts of applications.

6. Recharge your battery faster by simply switching to airplane mode

Switching your iPhone to airplane mode turns off the battery-draining cellular and wireless access, making it possible for your phone to recharge two times faster.

7. Activate Read Receipts

Perhaps you want to get a message from a friend and do not want to reply for a while, but you want him or her to know you have read it, read receipts is the right feature for you. This iMessage function permits other iPhone users to know the exact time you read their messages, just like how BBM on BlackBerry worked. To activate this feature go to Settings, scroll down to Messages and select “Send Read Receipts.

8. Stop Music using Clock

It is possible to stop the music playback after a while. This is particularly useful should you love to sleep to music, nevertheless not wake up to it. Go to the Clock options, then Timer, and put duration. Choose the option “Stop Playing" once the timer End.

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