My Favorite Hidden iPhone Shortcut To Turn On The Flashlight (And More) - CNET

My iPhone's flashlight isn't conscionable a instrumentality I casually occurrence up if thing accidentally rolls nether the couch, it's a diagnostic I usage regular to airy up the mode to the bath successful the mediate of the night, scan my backyard erstwhile animals marque weird sounds and... OK, yeah, find thing I've mislaid nether my couch. And since I usage the iPhone flashlight truthful often, I've turned connected a instrumentality heavy successful the iOS settings paper that makes it faster to airy up the torch -- nary much fumbling with the fastener surface for the flashlight icon oregon unlocking the telephone first. 

I don't exaggerate erstwhile I accidental this hidden iPhone diagnostic has changed the flashlight for me.

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Back Tap for the iPhone is an accessibility diagnostic that Apple introduced with iOS 14,. It lets you rapidly execute definite actions -- say, taking a screenshot oregon launching your camera -- by simply tapping the backmost of your phone. Essentially, it turns the full backmost of your iPhone into a button. 

This is an important payment for each kinds of people, and for me, enabling Back Tap has fto maine crook it into a customizable fastener to rapidly trigger the iPhone flashlight. I'll archer you precisely however to acceptable it up for yourself, and you tin of people customize Back Tap to trigger different actions.

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How to acceptable up Back Tap connected iPhone

Whether you privation to nexus Back Tap with your flashlight, camera oregon motorboat a antithetic iPhone app, the way done your iPhone settings begins the aforesaid way.

On your compatible iPhone (iPhone 8 oregon later), motorboat the Settings exertion and spell to Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap. Now you person the enactment to motorboat your enactment (in this case, your flashlight) with either two or 3 taps. Although 2 taps is evidently faster, I would suggest 3 taps due to the fact that if you fidget with your phone, it's casual to accidentally trigger the accessibility feature. 

Once you take a pat option, prime the Flashlight enactment -- oregon a antithetic enactment if you prefer. You'll spot implicit 30 options to take from, including strategy options similar Siri oregon taking a screenshot, to accessibility-specific functions similar opening a magnifier oregon turning connected real-time unrecorded captions. You tin besides acceptable up Back Tap to unfastened the Control Center, spell backmost home, mute your audio, crook the measurement up and down and tally immoderate shortcuts you've downloaded oregon created.

You tin take betwixt Double Tap and Triple Tap.

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You'll cognize you've successfully selected your prime erstwhile a bluish checkmark appears to the close of the action. You could really acceptable up 2 shortcuts this mode -- 1 that's triggered by 2 taps and 1 that's triggered by 3 taps to the iPhone's backmost cover.

Once you exit the Settings application, you tin effort retired the recently enabled Back Tap diagnostic by tapping the backmost of your iPhone -- successful my case, to crook connected the flashlight. To crook disconnected the flashlight, you tin pat connected the backmost of your iPhone arsenic well, but you tin besides conscionable crook it disconnected from your fastener surface if that's easier.

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