Got a new iPhone 14? Do these 7 things first - Macworld

So you conscionable got a marque caller iPhone 14, transferred everything from your aged phone, and present you’re acceptable to play with your shiny caller toy. What bash you bash first? Obviously, you’re going to cheque retired the apps you already person been utilizing connected your aged iPhone for truthful long, astir apt marveling astatine however accelerated they load and however creaseless and responsive everything is.

Then what? Here are our suggestions for the archetypal 7 things you should bash with your iPhone 14 oregon iPhone 14 Pro. And if your iPhone 14 is your archetypal acquisition with iOS 16, you should cognize determination are tons of excellent caller features to effort out there, too!

Update to iOS 16.2

If you person an iPhone 14-series handset it came with iOS 16. But it astir apt doesn’t person the latest version, which is iOS 16.2. It arrived successful mid-December and brought respective caller features, including Apple Music Sing, which turns your favourite songs into karaoke tracks, the Freeform app for collaborating crossed devices, and Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. Plus determination are galore bug fixes and information updates, truthful you should instal it ASAP. To get it, caput implicit to Settings, past pat General and Software Update.

Adjust the show settings

Your caller iPhone 14 Pro is the archetypal iPhone with an always-on display, truthful you should cheque that retired first. You tin alteration it successful Settings > Display & Brightness and enabling the Always On Display. Also cheque retired the settings that fto you fell the wallpaper and notifications.

Depending connected what erstwhile iPhone you whitethorn person had, you whitethorn not person recovered overmuch usage for immoderate of the show settings that could beryllium overmuch much utile connected an iPhone 14. Open Settings > Display & Brightness and experimentation with immoderate of the options there. Dark mode is easier connected the eyes successful acheronian airy and saves artillery beingness with your OLED display. If you don’t privation it connected each the time, deed the Automatic power and take betwixt “Light until Sunset” (which switches based connected the clip of day) oregon “Custom Schedule” (which lets you acceptable a personalized schedule).

Changing Auto Lock from its default 30 seconds tin besides prevention you a batch of frustration, and this is simply a bully clip to messiness with things similar substance size. Night Shift takes immoderate of the bluish hues retired of your surface precocious astatine night, but it’s a small strong–set it to your preferred clip (starting a mates of hours earlier you spell to bed) but set the slider a small toward the Less Warm broadside if you don’t privation to skew the show rather truthful much.

A batch of users ne'er interaction the default show settings, but you truly should. Especially that abbreviated auto-lock!

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Keep it safe

iPhones are expensive. And adjacent if you person the currency to bargain a caller one, you privation to support this 1 successful bully information to assistance its resale oregon trade-in value, oregon to marque it a amended hand-me-down successful a mates of years.

We suggest putting a case connected your iPhone 14. If you don’t similar cases, look for a ace bladed 1 from the likes of Totallee oregon see a tegument from Dbrand oregon Slickwraps. It won’t adhd overmuch driblet protection, but it volition support your iPhone escaped from scuffs and scratches without adding immoderate bulk oregon weight.

Also, see a bully solid surface protector. Even with Ceramic Shield, shattered screens are the fig 1 occupation with dropped phones, and adjacent with AppleCare+, they’re pricey to fix. A bully surface protector is astir invisible and volition spell a agelong mode to keeping your surface from cracking!

Check retired the caller camera modes

One of the iPhone 14’s coolest caller camera features is Action mode, which applies truly dense video stabilization to your hand-held shots. It’s conscionable the happening for taking videos portion running, connected a boat, oregon successful immoderate different concern wherever it’s hard to support your telephone steady. Open the camera app, power to Video mode, and pat the small “action” fastener to alteration it. Try moving astir with it connected and off.

Cinematic mode has been updated to 4K resolution, truthful you mightiness privation to springiness that a changeable arsenic well. If you upgraded from an iPhone 12 oregon earlier, you ne'er adjacent had this feature. It’s amusive to experimentation with, but Apple besides has a support article explaining however to usage it. Find immoderate determination with a taxable up adjacent and successful the inheritance (or signifier something) and effort it out! Play astir with tapping to absorption oregon double-tapping connected a taxable to alteration automatic focus-tracking connected it. Open the Photos app erstwhile you’re done and play astir with editing the video to alteration absorption from the mode it was primitively shot.

Another fantastic diagnostic is Macro mode, which lets you instrumentality incredibly elaborate close-up photos with the iPhone 14 Pro. It’ll enactment automatically retired of the container erstwhile you get adjacent capable to an object, but you tin besides get more power implicit it successful the settings.

You tin bash this connected immoderate iPhone, but galore radical haven’t yet and it could prevention your beingness 1 day. So mounting up a caller iPhone is the cleanable clip to open the Health app to participate important Medical ID info and acceptable up an exigency contact. Medical ID info tin show captious aesculapian info oregon allergies connected your fastener surface to a archetypal responder, and an exigency interaction is idiosyncratic who tin beryllium called successful an exigency by pressing and holding the broadside and measurement buttons.

1. First, unfastened the Health app. 
2. Then pat connected your profile picture in the precocious right.
3. Tap Medical ID.
4. Tap Edit in the precocious right.
5. Enter immoderate captious aesculapian info a archetypal responder would request to cognize if you’re successful an accident, and an exigency interaction you would privation to reach.

Set Photographic Styles

Photographic Styles were introduced with the iPhone 13, but since astir users don’t upgrade each year, they whitethorn beryllium caller to you. This diagnostic lets you customize the representation processing pipeline to springiness your photos a somewhat antithetic code that is much to your liking. Open the Camera app, power to Photo mode, and swipe upward to amusement the small camera power buttons. Select the 1 that looks similar 3 stacked layers to bring up the Photographic Styles selections.

Swipe near oregon close betwixt the antithetic styles: standard, affluent contrast, vibrant, warm, and cool. In each, you tin further set the Tone and Warmth of the image. Once you dial successful thing you like, it volition beryllium applied to each photograph you take, arsenic you instrumentality it. The differences tin sometimes beryllium subtle but important, truthful instrumentality your clip experimenting and taking trial shots! You tin besides prime your Photographic Style successful Settings > Camera > Photographic Styles.

Fine-tune the look of each representation you instrumentality with Photographic Styles.

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Take a travel to the Dynamic Island

The chill caller diagnostic connected the iPhone 14 Pro isn’t the camera—it’s the Dynamic Island. It’ll look similar a smaller notch erstwhile you crook connected your phone, but arsenic you commencement to usage your caller iPhone, it’ll bounce into action, bouncing and expanding with music, FaceTime calls, timers, and overmuch more. Check retired everything the Dynamic Island tin do and effort retired immoderate third-party Live Activities.

Read the manual

Did you cognize your iPhone really has a manual? No, it didn’t travel successful the box…it would ne'er acceptable successful there. Apple keeps it online. But it’s ace helpful, with a nicely organized, hyperlinked usher to your iPhone hardware and iOS 15 online astatine the iPhone User Guide. You’d beryllium amazed astatine however galore utile details are successful there, and however overmuch you’ll larn conscionable by speechmaking the instructions!

If you similar to work offline, oregon conscionable privation to support your manual useful for times erstwhile you mightiness not person net access, you tin download a escaped ebook successful the Book app.