Are you getting the most from your iPhone? Let’s take a look at some great advanced tips and tricks
WHETHER YOU’RE NEW to iPhone, a recent upgrader or have owned an Apple smartphone for several years, this guide takes a deep dive into some must– try tips, tricks and secrets that take your iPhone– owning experience to another level — and also makes you the envy of all your Android–using friends!
Even if you’re an experienced iPhone user, there might be features offered by its apps and the iOS 17 operating system of which you’re not aware. That’s what we’re looking at here. Did you know, for example, that swiping an email left or right in the iPhone’s Mail app reveals additional options? Or that you can unsend messages
and emails after you’ve sent them? Or that you can identify features in photographs and automatically look up information on them? Or that you can add a link to a note in the Notes app, so you can tap it and be taken directly to another note? Or that in the Safari web browser, you can opt to listen to a page instead of reading it? With our help, you can do all these things and more.
Whether you use your iPhone as a work phone or purely for personal use, whether you’ve got it new for Christmas or have had one for years, and whether you use its full range of apps and features or just stick to a handful of regular handy tools, there’s something here for you.
Mail, Messages, Notes & FaceTime
Handy hints and features you might not know…
APPLE’S KEY COMMUNICATION and note–taking apps have some awesome features. In the iPhone’s email client, Mail, for example, you can swipe an email message right to access more options; tap the Unread icon to mark that email as unread, or tap Remind Me to set up a reminder about the email, so you can deal with it later. If you swipe that email left, different options present themselves. Tap the Trash icon to delete it, the Flag icon to mark it with a flag or More for an options window that lets you reply, forward, archive the message and more, without actually opening it.
The Hide My Email feature lets you send an email without giving the recipient your email address. Before you send it, tap the From field to open the CC and BCC fields. Tap the From field a second time and you can choose which email account you can send it from, or tap Hide My Email to create a random address that forwards to your mailbox. To schedule an email instead of sending it straight away, instead of tapping the Send icon, long– press it for a menu with sending options. Tap Send Later… and choose a date and time for it to be sent on. To format emails, when typing a message, tap the chevron on the top–left of the keyboard and then tap the “Aa” icon for t
