15 practical features for your iPhone that you might not know





Here is a series of little-known tips and tricks for iPhone, whose activation could save you time and driveability.

You think you know your iPhone by heart? Perhaps, too. And maybe you're right, and that by manipulating the machine, it has no more secrets for you. This is for experts, super-geeks.

But for others, surely more? I see around me that most iPhone owners do not know certain features and are thrilled when they discover them. Of course, this list it would be surprising that you discover all of what is stated, but it could be, however, that two or three of them are totally foreign to you.

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1. To read your emails vocally by SIRI

You're driving, or you caught a nasty purulent conjunctivitis: SIRI is there to do the job. Launch the application and said articulating well "Read my emails." And the list of your latest emails displayed on the screen, while SIRI reads aloud. Attention, it does not state that the headers, the content of emails.





2. Corresponding Block

If you no longer wish to receive calls sucks harassing you regularly, either by phone or text message, you can block it. To do this, go to Settings> Phone> No blocked, and select the people you want to block. If the person becomes less and sucks you decide to unlock and return to the list N) blocked and slide your finger from right to left above.





3. Shake your iPhone to undo a previous action

You want to delete the text you just entered or cancel changes to a photo? Nothing more simple, shake your device and you're done.





4. Putting format text in an email

It is well hidden. When you're writing an email, did you know that you could apply three formatting changes? To do this, select the piece of text you want to edit, and in the black bar that appears, click the right arrow. Then a small menu appears with three icon that lets you choose among Bold, Italic or Underline. We will finally read your emails.





Your 5. Notes automatically synchronized in Gmail

This is certainly one of the most misunderstood of the iPhone features. When you enter some-thing in the application note, a new note, but also when you edit an existing text, and provided that you have a Google / Gmail and you're connected account, it will go to register and store it in a Gmail label "Notes" which is created automatically. So if you start writing a long or you take some notes on your iPhone document, once arrived at the office you can open the note and retrieve Gmail for example paste it into another document. Bonus: it allows you to synchronize your notes with all terminals connected to your Google, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry included account. You can not, however, edit a note from Gmail.





6. To read all the content written for your iPhone voice

Another little known feature, the ability to ask your iPhone to read what is written on the screen. To enable this option, go to Settings> Accessibility> State the selection. You can also adjust the reading speed and voice. Then it's magic: you select any text, email, notes, web page, in the black bar that appears, click the right arrow, and then click "Speak", and the voice you read the text . Convenient if you are driving, among others.





Use 7. IPhone as level

You hang a picture on the wall and you want to be sure it is not flawed? No need to go to Casto Draw your iPhone, launch the Compass app, drag on the second screen and presto, you access the Application level.





8. Use the volume buttons to take a picture

You do not want to leave your gloves or you have dirty fingers? Do not worry, you can still take pictures. For this it will still launch the camera application, but then to shoot simply press either one of the two volume buttons (More or Less) and the snapshot is done.





9. Doing focus brightness / exposure

So it is not only one of my favorite, but it is just great, and I do not find on other smartphones, even more advanced (Galaxy Lumia ...). Yet it is certainly the function, well used, can really make great pictures with the iPhone, setting the small hair brightness and exposure (and thus avoiding too strong against days). And while it seems obvious to me I see around me that very few people know it or use it. To activate it, nothing more simple, launch the Camera app, compose a subject, then move your finger on the screen until the target image shows the optimal exposure. For more brightness, drag your finger on a dark part of the picture, to get less exposure and avoid burned or too white skies, slide your finger on a clear part. Once focus is achieved, then shoot!




10. Locking the focus

During a photo shoot, while you aim a scene, your frame does not stop to yoyo between too bright and too dark, or fuzzy and net? Keep your finger on the screen for 2 seconds then release your finger. A yellow label "AE / AF lock" appears at the bottom of the screen. Your focus is locked, you can take the picture.




11. Taking pictures in burst mode

Did you know? Your iPhone can be almost as swift a good old reflex when it comes to take a burst of photos, to make a kind of stop-motion movie for example. To do this, point and shoot, leaving your finger on the shutter button finger photo. It scrap to the speed of light. Attention still stop after a while or you may quickly saturate the precious memory of your iPhone.




12. See timestamp texting

The stupid and evil thing: the list of text messages in a conversation, the messages are only ordered by date. The time of each message does not appear by default. To bring up the time of each text message, slide your finger from right to left. And yes, time is stashed right. Just know, but nobody told us anything.




13 more detail. Having a calendar view

You are in Month view on the iPhone calendar, so you only see a small dot on the days where there is a recorded event. To see details of events without having to click on each rock just fashion portrait to landscape mode, and you see the details appear.





14. Creating shortcuts for common phrases

You frequently use a series of phrases that regularly appear in your text messages, emails, or notes? You can create shortcuts in the form of letters or acronyms for each of these expressions. To do this, go to Settings> General> Keyboard> Shortcuts> Add new shortcut. Then type in the first line the entire expression, and in the second the abbreviation you want.




15. Switch to Airplane mode to load twice as fast


It seems pretty obvious and common sense, but I rarely see someone do if you do not need to be in network for a while and you want to charge your iPhone, switch it to Airplane mode. So you cut all consuming battery communications, including 3G/4G, and it will charge twice as fast. Tip valid for all mobiles and tablets, but it seems to me that the difference is more obvious on the iPhone.
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