Improve Your iPhone Experience in 5 Minutes

We love our phones. Some of us love our phones a little tooooo much. Regardless of your love levels for your tech sidekick, they are a piece of technology we need in our lives. For the most part, our cellphones are easy to use and improve our life. However, there are those few occasions where we know there must be a better way. Here are 5 fantastic tips to improve your iPhone experience (sorry android users).

5 iPhone Features You Need to Know

1. Backspace on the calculator app

There’s nothing worse than typing in three equations on the calculator app only to be thrown off by a rogue digit on the screen (play on words intended). Luckily, there is a built in “backspace” on the calculator app. Swipe to the left with your finger and the most recent number will delete from the calculation.

2. Force Restart on iPhone

Gone are the days when you could take the back off your phone and pull out the battery to restart it. Since the iPhone hardware doesn’t have a removable back, restarting a frozen phone feels impossible, except it isn’t. Here's how:

1. Press and release the volume up button

2. Press and release the volume down button

3. Hold the power button until the Apple logo appears.

3. Identify a Song on a Social Media Post

Apple Inc. owns Shazam, which is a song identifying software you may have used at a bar to figure out what song is playing. Did you know you can use this feature for a song playing on your phone? A drawback of this feature is that you need to play the song out loud through the phone’s speakers in order for the program to work.

Play a video with a song, hold down Siri, and say “what song is this”. You’ll see the Shazam app open at the top of your phone. Once it’s open replay the video and increase the volume so the app can her the audio. As long as the song exist on Apple Music it will be identified.

4. Search Any Object or Action on Your Phone’s Camera App

Did you know you can search for objects in your own photo albums? Enter your photos app and go to the bottom right tab. Here you’ll be able to search items like “beach” or “ID” and all photos with that object in them will show up. It’s a great tool if you forgot what your license plate is or want to reminisce that trip to the mountains you took years ago.

5. Using Your Space Bar as a Trackpad

Whether your fingers are too big, or you can’t seem to click the exact piece of text you need to retype, the iPhone allows you to transform your spacebar into a trackpad. In order to use this feature, you need to first have a group of text you can edit. Click on the text you want to edit and then hold down your spacebar. After a second your keyboard will grey out and turn into a trackpad you can control the cursor like a computer mouse. Use this simple tool to make quick edits to texts or notes.

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