How to set default apps on an iPhone - XDA Developers

While determination are constricted options successful presumption of which default apps you tin alteration connected the iPhone, determination are a fewer cardinal ones you mightiness privation to swap.

Every iPhone, including the champion iPhones, comes retired of the container already loaded with tons of apps, similar the Safari browser, Mail, Apple Music, Freeform, FaceTime, and others. But sometimes, you privation to override Apple’s defaults successful favour of your ain favorites.

The default apps motorboat automatically erstwhile you effort to bash things similar unfastened a nexus from a webpage oregon e-mail, click connected an email code to nonstop a message, oregon an code to get turn-by-turn directions. Unfortunately, changing the default apps for things similar maps isn’t imaginable connected an iPhone (though determination are hacks and workarounds if you’re feeling adventurous). But it’s really rather elemental to alteration the default apps for web browsing and message with immoderate instrumentality moving iOS 14 and later, including some caller phones similar the iPhone 14 and older iPhones that enactment that OS (and higher). Doing truthful volition destruct the annoying copy/paste process you mightiness person been doing instead, should you similar a browser similar Chrome implicit Safari and a message app similar Gmail implicit Mail.

Here's however to bash it.

1. To update the default Web browser, spell to Settings and scroll down to the app you privation to marque default. (If you haven’t already downloaded the preferred app, bash truthful from the App Store).

2. Select the app nether the main Settings paper (e.g. Chrome) that you privation to usage arsenic a caller default browser.

3. Select Default Browser App (it should accidental Safari) and power it to Chrome (the bluish checkmark volition look beside it to corroborate the change.)

4. To update the default message app, spell to Settings and scroll down to the app you privation to go your superior message app, similar Gmail.

5. Scroll down to Default Mail App and alteration it to Gmail by tapping connected it (the bluish cheque people volition present look beside Gmail instead.)

It's besides worthy noting that if you person aggregate email accounts loaded successful Mail and privation to simply alteration the default message app that connection replies are sent from erstwhile you respond from the phone, you tin bash this, too. You mightiness privation to bash this if you person some a idiosyncratic and enactment email code loaded to Mail and privation to marque definite each replies travel from your enactment address.

Select the Mail app nether Settings and scroll down to Composing. Under Default Account, alteration it to the 1 you desire. Once this is set, nary substance which accounts an email was sent to, immoderate clip you deed “reply,” your effect volition travel from the default account. You tin manually alteration the sending relationship earlier hitting “send” if you request to.

Keep successful caput that not each browser and message apps tin beryllium acceptable arsenic default connected an iPhone. If the app developer hasn’t updated the app with the feature, it won’t work. But you tin acceptable the astir fashionable ones for web browsing, similar Chrome and Firefox, and the astir fashionable ones for mail, similar Gmail and Outlook. It’s a tiny power but could marque a immense quality successful productivity and convenience.

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