Tons of Tips and Tricks for New iPhone 14 Owners - MacRumors

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If you were fortunate capable to beryllium talented an iPhone 14 for the holidays, we've got a bid of utile tips and tricks for you that volition assistance you get the astir retired of your caller device.

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First, if you're wholly caller to the iPhone oregon you conscionable privation a refresher, we person a agelong database of basal tips connected however to usage your ‌iPhone‌ and iOS 16.

iPhone Tips for Beginners

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Want to cognize adjacent much astir ‌iOS 16‌? We person a dedicated walkthrough that has guides and however tos that screen each caller feature.

Tips and Tricks for your New iPhone

Beyond the basics, present are adjacent much utile tips astir your caller ‌iPhone‌:

1. Check Your iPhone Warranty

If you request a repair, privation to prime up AppleCare+ for your caller ‌iPhone‌, oregon conscionable privation to spot your warranty presumption and what's disposable to you, you tin bash it close connected your device.

Open up the Settings app.
Tap connected "General."
Tap connected "About."
Tap connected "Limited Warranty" oregon "‌AppleCare‌+" to spot your instrumentality status.

If you person ‌AppleCare‌+, the conception volition beryllium labeled with ‌AppleCare‌+ and volition fto you cognize your ‌AppleCare‌ expiration date. If you don't, it volition accidental "Limited Warranty" and it volition fto you cognize erstwhile it expires.

‌AppleCare‌+ is bully for 2 years oregon indefinitely if you renew it monthly oregon yearly, and it covers shaper issues and 2 incidents of accidental harm per twelvemonth truthful agelong arsenic you wage the deductible. It's generally a bully idea if you're accident-prone and privation to marque definite you tin get an affordable hole if you driblet oregon different harm your phone.

The Limited Warranty is Apple's shaper warranty that lasts for a twelvemonth aft purchasing your ‌iPhone‌. It entitles you to hardware enactment for immoderate manufacturing issues, and it allows for a twelvemonth of chat and telephone support.

With the Limited Warranty, erstwhile that twelvemonth is up, your ‌iPhone‌ is considered retired of warranty. If you didn't acquisition ‌AppleCare‌+ erstwhile you bought your telephone and privation to get it, you person 60 days to bash so.

2. Auto Schedule Low Power Mode to Save Battery

Using the Shortcuts app, you tin make an automation that volition origin Low Power Mode to travel connected automatically astatine a definite artillery percentage, truthful you won't request to crook it connected manually.

Open up the Shortcuts app.
Tap connected "Automation."
Tap connected the "+" button.
Tap connected "Create Personal Automation."
Scroll down to "Battery Level."
Tap connected the parameter that you want. Options see "Equals x%," "Rises Above x%," and "Falls beneath x%." You'll privation to usage "Falls Below" oregon "Equals" for this Shortcut.
Use the slider to prime a circumstantial percentage.
Tap "Next."
Tap "Add Action."
Search for "Low Power Mode."
Tap connected "Set Low Power Mode."
Tap connected "Next."
If you privation your ‌iPhone‌ to inquire you earlier turning connected Low Power Mode, permission the "Ask Before Running" toggle activated. If not, crook it off.
Tap "Done."

From there, your Shortcut volition tally immoderate clip your ‌iPhone‌ hits the threshold that you acceptable for Low Power Mode. You tin set the mounting successful the Automation conception of the Shortcuts app.

If you privation to acceptable Low Power Mode to travel connected astatine a definite time, travel the supra steps but usage "Time of Day" arsenic the archetypal parameter, take a time, and past travel steps 8 done 14.

Low Power Mode is designed to chopped down connected inheritance processes to sphere artillery beingness erstwhile your ‌iPhone‌ is debased connected battery, and your ‌iPhone‌ volition automatically contiguous a Low Power Mode pop-up proposition erstwhile the artillery dips beneath 20 percent. Using the Shortcuts app to make the Low Power Mode automation is simply a utile mode to get Low Power Mode to travel connected erstwhile your artillery is astatine a higher percentage.

3. Customize Your Lock Screen

With the ‌iOS 16‌ update, Apple overhauled the Lock Screen, introducing customizable wallpaper, widgets, time, and date. You tin prime from each kinds of built-in wallpaper options, immoderate that are adjacent interactive, take utile app widgets to amusement connected the Lock Screen, and customize the look and colour of the time.

We person dedicated guides and however tos connected each of the Lock Screen features that are linked below, but it's casual to get to each of the settings truthful you tin person a look.

On the Lock Screen, unlock with Face ID oregon Touch ID.
Long property connected the display.
Tap connected the "+" fastener to make a caller Lock Screen.
Select your wallpaper from the disposable options.
Tap connected the clip to alteration the look.
Tap connected "Add Widgets" to take widgets to spell connected the Lock Screen.
Tap up supra the clip to customize the widget located successful that spot.

That's each determination is to it. There's plentifulness to research connected the Lock Screen, truthful you'll decidedly privation to browse done our usher to spot each of the disposable options if you haven't utilized ‌iOS 16‌ before.

If you're not utilizing it already, iCloud Shared Photo Library is simply a hassle-free mode to speech photos with friends and household members. You're lone going to privation to usage it with your closest friends and family, but it fundamentally lets you stock each of your images successful a dedicated room that works conscionable similar the modular Photo Library.

Open up the Settings app.
Scroll down to Photos.
Tap connected Shared Library.
Tap connected Set Up.

From there, you're going to privation to spell done each of the disposable setup steps, which includes adding participants and choosing the photos that you privation to share.

You tin expect ‌iCloud‌ Shared Photo Library to enactment precisely similar the modular library, but with much than 1 user. All participants tin adhd and delete photos, and photos that you adhd to the room are moved to your idiosyncratic library.

There are a batch of intricacies to woody with erstwhile it comes to ‌iCloud‌ Shared Photo Library, truthful you are perfectly going to privation to work our dedicated iCloud Shared Photo Library guide earlier mounting it up.

5. Customize Your Safari Start Page

You tin alteration what's displayed connected your Safari commencement page, opting successful to (or retired of) sections similar Frequently Visited, Shared With You, Siri Suggestions, and more, positive you tin prime a customized wallpaper.

Open up Safari.
Open up a caller blank page.
Scroll each the mode down to the bottommost of the page.
Tap connected "Edit."
Toggle connected the sections that you prefer.
Toggle connected "Background Image" if you privation to prime a customized inheritance for Safari. You tin take from the disposable Apple-designed backgrounds oregon usage your ain photograph by tapping connected the "+" button.
If you privation the aforesaid Start Page connected each devices wherever you're signed into ‌iCloud‌, toggle connected "Use Start Page connected All Devices" astatine the apical of the page.
When you're each done customizing, pat connected the "X" fastener successful the precocious close manus corner.

Options that you tin toggle connected oregon disconnected see Favorites, Frequently Visited, Shared With You, Privacy Report, ‌Siri‌ Suggestions, Reading List, and ‌iCloud‌ Tabs.

6. Change Your Safari Design

Apple attempted to present an overhauled Safari plan successful iOS 15 with floating tabs and an interface that merged the tab barroom and the URL bar, but the changes were not good received and Apple yet reverted to the modular iOS 14 Safari design.

Safari Tab Bar connected bottommost (left), Safari Tab Bar connected apical (right)

There are inactive remnants of that caller Safari design, though, and you tin elite to determination your Safari Tab Bar to the bottommost of the Safari interface, and you tin chose to activate "Allow Website Tinting," a diagnostic that blends the inheritance colour of the website with the URL bar.

Open up the Settings app.
Scroll down to Safari.
Under Tabs, prime the "Tab Bar" enactment for a tab barroom located astatine the bottommost of the Safari window. Choose "Single Tab" for the apical bar.
Toggle connected "Allow Website Tinting" if you privation to person the colour blending diagnostic erstwhile utilizing the apical bar, and take "Landscape Tab Bar" if you privation to spot your unfastened tabs erstwhile the ‌iPhone‌ is held horizontally.

Note that "Allow Website Tinting" is simply a diagnostic that shows up erstwhile utilizing the apical bar. It causes the URL barroom to crook the inheritance colour of the website erstwhile you scroll down connected a leafage for a much seamless look.

Tip: You tin besides swap betwixt the apical and bottommost navigation bars successful Safari itself. Just pat connected the "Aa" icon successful the URL barroom and past take "Show Bottom Tab Bar" oregon "Show Top Address Bar."

7. Rearrange Your Home Screen Pages

If you privation to rearrange your assorted Home Screen pages that location apps, you tin bash truthful rapidly and easily.

Press and clasp successful an bare abstraction connected the ‌Home Screen‌ to participate "jiggle mode," wherever the app icons are wiggling slightly.
Tap connected the enactment of dots astatine the bottommost of the page.
Your ‌Home Screen‌ pages volition beryllium shown successful a grid view. Put a digit connected 1 leafage and resistance it to determination it to a caller presumption comparative to your different pages.
Once you person your pages the mode you privation them, pat connected "Done" successful the precocious close corner.

Tip: You tin besides delete ‌Home Screen‌ pages utilizing this interface. At the grid view, pat connected the checkmark nether the leafage that you privation to eliminate, and past pat connected the minus (-) icon to delete it.

8. Edit and Undo Send Messages

If your caller telephone is the archetypal clip you're utilizing ‌iOS 16‌, you should cognize that determination are caller features successful the Messages app to beryllium alert of. You tin some Edit and Undo Send connected iMessages that you sent, arsenic agelong arsenic the idiosyncratic you're chatting with besides has an ‌iPhone‌ and has ‌iOS 16‌ installed.

Using these features is arsenic elemental arsenic agelong pressing connected a connection you've conscionable sent to spot the options. Note that determination are clip limits to beryllium alert of. You tin unsend a connection up to 2 minutes aft sending it, and edit for up to 15 minutes.

There are a clump of different Messages features for things similar reporting junk, marking messages arsenic unread, and recovering deleted messages, with info available successful our iOS 16 Messages guide.

9. Store Two-Factor Authentication Codes successful Passwords

It's a bully thought to acceptable up two-factor authentication for immoderate online relationship wherever the diagnostic is available, and with iOS 15, you nary longer request a abstracted verification codification app similar Google Authenticator oregon Authy for storing one-time passwords. Two-factor authentication codes (or one-time passwords) are the secondary passcodes that you usage erstwhile logging into a website, with these codes regenerated each 30 seconds, which makes it overmuch much hard for your accounts to beryllium breached.

Apple present has a built-in diagnostic for storing two-factor authentication codes close alongside your ‌iCloud‌ Keychain passwords. Here's however to adhd a code:

Open up the Settings app.
Scroll down to "Passwords."
If you're adding a two-factor codification for a login and password already stored successful ‌iCloud‌ Keychain, hunt for the introduction that you're looking for. Otherwise, pat the "+" fastener to adhd a caller login.
After either accessing your login and password for the relationship you're funny successful oregon adding caller details, pat connected "Set Up Verification Code."
Initiate the two-factor authentication process for the website oregon relationship wherever you're enabling two-factor verification.
For galore services, you're provided with a QR codification that you tin scan to acceptable up two-factor authentication, though this does necessitate 2 devices. If you person a QR codification to scan, pat connected the "Scan QR Code" option. Alternatively, pat connected "Enter Setup Key" and participate the fig that you're provided from the website.
After the QR codification is scanned oregon the Setup Key is entered, the login volition automatically update with the verification key.

Once acceptable up, you tin usage the verification codification recovered successful the Passwords app whenever you request to verify your individuality with a one-time passcode for that website oregon service. If you clasp down connected the verification code, you tin transcript it and past paste it into the tract wherever it's needed, and if you person ‌iCloud‌ Keychain enabled, it volition autofill crossed your devices.

You volition request to acceptable this up individually for each website that uses two-factor authentication.

Tip: If you're mounting up two-factor authentication connected a website connected your ‌iPhone‌, erstwhile you spot the QR code, agelong property connected it with your finger. You'll spot an enactment to "Add Verification Code successful Passwords," and if you pat it, you tin automatically adhd the two-factor verification to your tract login without needing to scan a QR code.

10. Maximize Your Privacy With iCloud Private Relay and Hide My Email

Starting with iOS 15, Apple made web browsing and sending email much unafraid by cutting down connected the ways that companies tin way your online behavior. ‌iCloud‌ Private Relay, for example, obscures idiosyncratic accusation similar IP code and location, which tin beryllium utilized to way your browsing crossed antithetic websites. ‌iCloud‌ Private Relay works successful the inheritance (if you privation to cognize how, we person a guide) and it does necessitate a paid ‌iCloud‌ account, priced astatine $0.99 and up per month.

On immoderate caller device, you're going to privation to marque definite you person ‌iCloud‌ Private Relay turned connected by pursuing these steps:

Open up the Settings app.
Tap connected your sanction to unfastened up your Apple ID and ‌iCloud‌ settings.
Tap connected "‌iCloud‌."
Tap connected "Private Relay."
Make definite "Private Relay" is toggled on.

Hide My Email, which besides requires a paid ‌iCloud‌ account, lets you make antithetic email addresses for each site, truthful you tin disable them if you commencement getting spam oregon different unwanted contented from idiosyncratic you've interacted with. Hide My Email impermanent addresses each guardant to your main Apple email code and tin beryllium easy managed.

You tin usage Hide My Email successful 2 ways. It's arsenic elemental arsenic opening up the Mail app and composing an email. In the From field, pat and past take "Hide My Email" to automatically make a random code that volition guardant to your inbox.

Alternatively, travel these steps:

This Hide My Email interface successful the Settings app is besides wherever you tin negociate each of the impermanent email addresses that you've created. You tin deactivate immoderate of the impermanent email addresses astatine immoderate clip and the institution oregon idiosyncratic that has that email code volition nary longer beryllium capable to interaction you.

Tip: You tin alteration the email code that your Hide My Email addresses guardant to by following our Hide My Email tutorial.

11. Set up Focus Modes and Link Focuses to Lock Screens

If you person customized Lock Screens you've created, you tin nexus them to a circumstantial Focus Mode, which means you tin acceptable up dedicated Lock Screen and ‌Home Screen‌ interfaces for your antithetic modes similar work, home, exercise, and more. Switching to that Lock Screen activates the Focus, and that Lock Screen volition besides travel up if you person the Focus acceptable to activate astatine a circumstantial time.

On the ‌iPhone‌'s Lock Screen, unlock with ‌Face ID‌ oregon ‌Touch ID‌.
Long property to get to the Lock Screen customization interface.
On your Lock Screen of choice, pat connected "Focus."
Choose 1 of your Focus modes to nexus it to the Lock Screen. If you already had a Focus mode acceptable up, that's each you request to do. Swapping to the Lock Screen volition present activate the Focus mode linked to it.
If you request to make a caller Focus oregon customize an existing Focus, pat connected Focus settings astatine the bottommost of the page.
In the Focus interface, pat connected "+" oregon 1 of the existing Focus modes to alteration it up. From there, travel the on-screen instructions.

Focus modes are ace utile if you privation to abstracted enactment beingness and location beingness oregon chopped down connected distractions erstwhile studying, moving out, cooking, meditating, and more. You tin acceptable circumstantial apps and successful ‌iOS 16‌, adjacent take circumstantial Mail accounts and Safari tab groups to beryllium accessible.

That said, Focus modes tin beryllium a lot, truthful we bash have a dedicated Focus guide that walks done everything you request to cognize to get the ‌iOS 16‌ Focus features acceptable up.

12. Have Fun With Remove Subject From Background

Apple's ‌iPhone 14‌ models (and each iPhones moving ‌iOS 16‌) person a amusive diagnostic that lets you propulsion the taxable from immoderate photograph oregon representation truthful you tin transcript it and usage it successful Messages, emails, and more.

Select a photo, Safari web image, oregon different representation that has a wide subject.
Place your digit connected the surface implicit the taxable and clasp it determination gently.
You'll spot a glowing borderline situation the subject.
Tap connected the "Copy" enactment to transcript it to your clipboard, oregon connected Share to driblet it into an email oregon a message.
Alternatively, resistance the highlighted representation with a digit and unfastened up different app to driblet it in.

Apple uses instrumentality learning functionality for this feature, truthful it tin beryllium a mode to make small stickers of your ain from your photos oregon to adhd a caller inheritance for a taxable image. It's not cleanable and it works champion erstwhile there's a wide colour quality betwixt the taxable and the background, but it's amusive to play with.

13. Use Your iPhone arsenic a Webcam for Your Mac

If you person a Mac moving macOS Ventura, you tin usage your ‌iPhone 14‌ arsenic a webcam, bypassing the little prime built-in webcam of the Mac. You volition request a small basal to connect your ‌iPhone‌ to your Mac, and Belkin sells options for some Mac notebooks and Mac desktops, positive you tin get affordable basal options connected Amazon.

Once you person a stand, with your ‌iPhone 14‌ attached to your Mac, each you request to bash is commencement up an app that uses the Camera similar FaceTime, and your ‌iPhone‌ volition automatically enactment arsenic the Mac's camera.

There are features similar Center Stage to support you successful framework arsenic you determination around, Portrait Mode to blur the background, and Desk View to amusement disconnected what you're doing connected your table for demonstrations. If

14. Get Familiar with the Dynamic Island

If you person an iPhone 14 Pro, you person a Dynamic Island alternatively of a notch similar the ‌iPhone 14‌ models and prior-generation iPhone 13 models. The ‌Dynamic Island‌ is interactive, truthful you'll spot apps and assorted ‌iPhone‌ features successful that small pill-shaped box.

Here's immoderate of what ‌Dynamic Island‌ tin show by default:

Apple Pay transaction confirmations
Privacy indicators erstwhile microphone oregon camera is successful use
AirDrop record transfers
AirPods transportation presumption and artillery life
‌iPhone‌ charging presumption and artillery life
Low artillery alerts
Silent mode turned connected oregon off
‌Face ID‌ unlocking
Apple Watch unlocking
NFC interactions
AirPlay connections
Focus mode changes
Shortcut actions
Airplane mode/no information alerts
SIM paper alerts
Accessories connecting
Find My alerts
Shortcuts
Upcoming and turn-by-turn Maps directions
Incoming telephone telephone and duration of call
Time remaining of playing song
Active timers
Live Activity info
SharePlay sessions
Screen Recording
Voice memo recordings
Personal Hotspot connection

You tin besides download apps that person enactment for the ‌Dynamic Island‌, and thing with a Live Activity tin show that accusation successful the ‌Dynamic Island‌. You tin way car rides, support an oculus connected sports games, way timers, and more. We have a database of third-party apps that enactment the Dynamic Island if you're looking for options.

We besides person adjacent much accusation connected the ‌Dynamic Island‌ and what it tin bash in our dedicated guide.

15. Do a Safety Check

After you've acceptable up your ‌iPhone 14‌, whether you're mounting it up arsenic caller oregon transferring info and settings from different device, you should bash a Safety Check. Added successful ‌iOS 16‌, Safety Check is designed to locomotion you done each of the privateness and information features connected your device, truthful you tin spot who you're sharing accusation and determination with.

This diagnostic is designed for radical to rapidly reset each of the information and determination entree they person granted to others, particularly successful a home unit situation, but it is besides precise utile for keeping way of which radical and apps person entree to your info.

Open up the Settings app.
Tap connected Privacy and Security.
Scroll down to Safety Check and pat it.
Tap connected Manage Sharing and Access.
Authenticate with ‌Face ID‌.
From there, spell done each of the steps to spot what you're sharing with others, from determination to photos and notes. If you privation to alteration something, pat connected the option, and if you don't, pat connected skip to determination on.
Make definite to instrumentality your clip and spell done each of the antithetic options due to the fact that you'll besides spot lists of each the apps that person entree to your data, which devices are signed into your ‌Apple ID‌, and more.

Note that you'll besides spot an Emergency Reset enactment here, but unless you're successful a concern wherever you request to instantly revoke each entree to your determination services, you're not going to privation to usage that. We person a much in-depth look astatine Safety Check successful our privacy and information guide.

16. Test Emergency SOS via Satellite

All of the ‌iPhone 14‌ models enactment Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via Satellite, which is designed to let you to get assistance successful an exigency adjacent if there's nary WiFi oregon cellular transportation available. You're not going to privation to effort retired Crash Detection, but you tin trial Emergency SOS via Satellite to get acquainted with however it works.

Open the Settings app connected your ‌iPhone‌.
Scroll down and pat Emergency SOS.
Under "Emergency SOS Via Satellite," pat Try Demo.
Follow the instructions to trial it out.

Make definite to familiarize yourself with the steps that you'll travel successful a existent emergency, which really conscionable involves attempting to marque an exigency call.

Launch the Phone app.
Dial exigency services (911 successful the United States).
When the telephone fails, pat the greenish Emergency Text via Satellite fastener that appears.
Follow the onscreen prompts to pass your emergency.

There is nary mode to marque telephone calls utilizing the SOS via Satellite feature, but you tin nonstop abbreviated substance messages, which is however assistance volition get to you. The ‌iPhone‌ volition inquire you important questions to measure the situation, passing that on to exigency unit who tin past pass further with you and get a rescue squad to you.

Emergency SOS via Satellite has been utilized successfully successful several exigency situations to date.

Bonus: If you're successful a distant determination and person nary entree to cellular work oregon WiFi, you tin usage Emergency SOS via Satellite to update your determination with the ‌Find My‌ app, truthful friends and household tin spot wherever you are.

Open the Find My app connected your ‌iPhone 14‌.
Tap the Me tab astatine the bottom-right country of the screen.
Swipe up connected the paper to uncover "My Location via Satellite."
Tap Send My Location.

17. Customize Always On Display (iPhone 14 Pro)

For those fortunate capable to person an ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌, there's an ever connected show enactment that mirrors the ever connected show connected the Apple Watch. With ever connected display, you tin proceed to spot your wallpaper, the time, widgets, and incoming notifications adjacent erstwhile your ‌iPhone‌ is locked and not successful use.

There are respective customizations available, and if you person the latest mentation of iOS, you tin crook disconnected wallpaper and notifications if you want, for an adjacent much minimal experience.

Here's however to get to your ever connected show settings:

Open up the Settings app.
Choose Display and Brightness.
Scroll down to Always On Display.
Tap connected the toggles for Show Wallpaper and Show Notifications to alteration oregon disable these features.

Learn More About iPhone 14

We person dedicated iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro roundups that person a implicit rundown of each of the features disposable successful the ‌iPhone 14‌, ‌iPhone 14‌ Plus, ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌, and ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ Max, and they're worthy checking retired if you're inactive getting to cognize your caller ‌iPhone‌.

We besides have an iOS 16 roundup that's a large assets for getting acquainted with everything the latest iPhones tin do.

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