Time-saving hacks: iPhone tips and tricks you need to learn today - USA TODAY

Despite the information Apple's iPhone costs much than astir different smartphones, it remains No. 1 successful the U.S., with much than 50% of the wide installed idiosyncratic basal successful the country, according to newly published data from Counterpoint Research, via Financial Times .

What's more, Counterpoint analysts person said this is Apple's highest-ever stock of progressive smartphone users since the archetypal iPhone successful 2007.

Perhaps it's nary surprise, Apple besides has the highest marque loyalty retired of immoderate large smartphone maker, with 9 successful 10 U.S. iPhone users saying they program to acquisition an iPhone arsenic their adjacent device, arsenic reported by 9to5Mac past year.

Even if you're 1 of the galore blessed iPhone owners, chances are you're not utilizing your beloved instrumentality to its fullest.

To assistance you prevention clip – and successful immoderate cases, wealth – the pursuing are 10 "must-use" little-known tips and tricks, shortcuts, and hacks.

Edit, Unsend messages

One of the champion additions to iOS 16 lets you tweak a connection you conscionable sent oregon retract it altogether. We've each had that "uh oh" moment.

To effort this out, unfastened Messages and benignant your connection arsenic you usually world. Tap to nonstop it. Now property and clasp implicit that sent connection and you'll spot options similar Edit and Undo Send successful the paper that pops up. Tap whichever you privation to usage astatine the time.

There's a catch: the idiosyncratic you're sending it to indispensable besides beryllium moving iOS 16 oregon other they’ll inactive spot the message.

Enable the haptic keyboard

Apple added "haptic feedback" to its keyboard, arsenic portion of its iOS 16 operating strategy update.

This is that flimsy vibration you consciousness nether your fingertips erstwhile typing a message, penning an email, oregon cranking retired thing successful the Notes app. It feels large and confirms each virtual cardinal is pressed.

To alteration it, spell to Settings > Sound and Haptics > Keyboard feedback. Now toggle connected the Haptic option.

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iPhone's concealed button

Naturally, you're alert of iPhone's buttons connected the sides of the instrumentality – oregon the circular Home fastener connected older models – but determination is 1 more.

It's connected the back, wherever the logo is – but you won't spot it with the bare eye.

Aptly named "Back Tap," this diagnostic lets you instantly trigger astir thing you mightiness privation to connected your phone, specified arsenic turning connected the flashlight (when, say, walking to your car successful a acheronian parking lot), launching the camera, taking a screengrab, muting the iPhone, oregon launching immoderate app (such arsenic a shortcut to opening TikTok).

To alteration Back Tap and to prime what enactment takes place, spell to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap. Here you tin take what a double-tap and triple-tap does!

Shake to delete

Typing connected your iPhone and privation to undo what you conscionable wrote? Just shingle the darn thing.

Yep, enabled by default, you tin rapidly hole mistakes by shaking your iPhone broadside to broadside – and you'll spot a punctual to corroborate you privation to undo your action. It's faster and easier than pressing and holding the backspace cardinal until each your substance is deleted.

If you don't similar this "Shake to Undo" feature, you tin crook it disconnected by going to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Shake to Undo.

Screenshot an full webpage

You apt cognize you tin instrumentality a surface drawback of thing connected your iPhone by pressing the Power fastener connected the broadside on with the Volume Up button.

You'll perceive that acquainted "camera shutter" dependable effect, spot a achromatic flash connected the screen, and a thumbnail of the representation volition interval to the bottommost left.

But what if you privation to seizure a lengthy nonfiction oregon elaborate recipe, and it can't each acceptable connected your iPhone screen?

To prevention a afloat leafage successful Safari, simply unfastened the web link, instrumentality a screenshot (per the instructions above), and astatine the apical of the surface you volition spot an enactment to prevention the Screen oregon prevention the Full Page. Select the Full Page option, followed by Done, and Save PDF to Files.

Later on, unfastened Files to work it.

Correct Siri's pronunciation

Apple's voice-controlled idiosyncratic adjunct whitethorn beryllium large astatine giving you accusation -- specified arsenic the weather, directions, and sports scores -- but sometimes Siri conscionable doesn't accidental things right. This is particularly existent for immoderate names and places, possibly with origins successful different languages, that whitethorn beryllium hard for Siri to pronounce.

If Siri says thing wrong, similar pronouncing your person Mica's sanction arsenic "me-kah" alternatively of "mike-ah," conscionable accidental "That's not however you pronounce [Mica]" and past accidental the mispronounced word.

Turn immoderate publication into an audiobook

Now this 1 is handy. A diagnostic called Speak Screen tin work aloud immoderate substance connected the surface astatine your command.

While designed chiefly for the show impaired, anyone tin instrumentality vantage of this diagnostic if they privation to crook an ebook into an audiobook. Now you tin perceive portion successful the car, portion closing your eyes connected an airplane, oregon erstwhile walking down the street.

To activate it, spell to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Speak Screen.

Then, successful immoderate app you person open, swipe down with 2 fingers from the precise apical of the iPhone surface to perceive the contents of the surface work to you, specified arsenic an ebook, email, article, oregon notes.

You tin tweak the voice, including sex and language, speaking speed, and more.

Create customized vibrations, ringtones

How large would it beryllium to cognize who's calling, conscionable by the mode the iPhone is buzzing successful your pocket? You can.

In the Contacts app, prime your idiosyncratic of prime and pat Edit. Select Ringtone and you'll spot a Vibration option.

Press that and you'll spot respective options – similar Heartbeat, Rapid, and Staccato -- including a Create New Vibration instrumentality to customize your ain buzz.

This way, you tin person a antithetic ringing for your partner, kids, oregon friends, and cognize who's calling without needing to glimpse astatine your phone.

Similarly, you tin make customized ringtones for antithetic people.

Use the hidden trackpad

Say you're composing a message, email oregon note, and you request to alteration thing you typed earlier sending oregon saving. With your iPhone, simply property and clasp connected the keyboard and the cursor volition automatically go a mouse-like trackpad.

Now support your digit oregon thumb connected the surface and resistance astir the cursor to scope the portion of substance that you privation to tweak, and fto go.

Or to item text, conscionable property a small harder portion continuing to descent your finger. Then fto spell for the keyboard to return.

Calculator shortcut

If you're utilizing the calculator but marque a mistake by typing successful the incorrect number, you don't request to wide the surface and commencement each implicit again.

Instead, conscionable swipe your digit to the near oregon close of the numbers to wide the past digit. You tin support doing this to region the past digit.

On a related note, simply crook the iPhone sideways, erstwhile successful the Calculator app, to entree the integrated technological calculator.