15 ACTUAL iPhone Tricks You Didn't Know Existed!
Summary
TLDRThe video showcases 15 iPhone tricks most users are unaware of, spanning capabilities in Messages, Photos, Display, Contacts, Mail, Siri, Storage, Text Editing, Wallpapers, and more. Tricks include quickly accessing your camera roll in Messages, searching for sounds in Photos, customizing Always On Display, adding nicknames to contacts, auto hyperlinking text in Mail, asking Siri for locations/ETAs/health logs, freeing up storage space, moving cursor with two fingers, and setting up daily shuffling wallpapers. The goal is teaching at least one new trick to iPhone users so they can better utilize the device's functionality.
Takeaways
- 😲 You can quickly access your photos to send in Messages by holding down on the plus icon
- 😃 You can search for sounds like clapping or talking in the Photos app to find matching videos
- 🔔 The Always On Display on the iPhone 14 Pro turns off automatically in certain cases like when in your pocket
- 👥 You can change the ‘face thumbnail’ for people recognized in Photos by selecting a new key photo
- 😉 Add nicknames to contacts to make them easier to identify via Siri or search
- 🔗 Paste copied text when selected in Mail to auto-hyperlink it
- 📍 Ask Siri for someone's location via Find My or for your current elevation/ETA when navigating
- 🔋 Enable ProRes video to use the 'Free Up Resources' option to clear cache and reduce System Data
- 👐 Move cursor quickly by swiping with two fingers instead of using the spacebar trackpad
- 🖼 Set up Photo Shuffle with a Wallpapers album to get daily new lock screen wallpapers
Q & A
What is the trick to quickly access the camera roll from the Messages app?
-You can tap and hold on the plus icon next to the text box, then let go. This will automatically open up your latest photos.
How can you search for sounds in the Photos app?
-Go to the Search tab in the Photos app and type in a sound like "clapping". This will show videos that contain that sound.
When does the Always On display automatically turn off?
-The Always On display turns off when the phone is in your pocket, connected to CarPlay, sleep focus is on, face down, or continuity camera is being used.
How can you change the 'key photo' for a person in the Photos People & Pets album?
-Tap on the person, select 'Show Faces', choose a photo you prefer, tap share > 'Make Key Photo'.
What is the benefit of adding a nickname to a contact?
-Adding a nickname allows you to easily identify contacts with Siri or search, which is useful if you have multiple contacts with the same name.
What is the faster way to add links when writing emails?
-Instead of manually adding links, you can just tap and hold text to select it, then tap paste to auto-add the hyperlink.
How can you find someone's location using Siri?
-Ask Siri "Where's [person's name] located?" and it will show their location using Find My.
What iPhone model do you need to clear system data using ProRes?
-Only iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models support clearing system cache data using the 'Free Up Resources' button in ProRes video settings.
How does the new wallpaper shuffle feature work?
-Go to Wallpaper > Add New > Photo Shuffle. Select an album of wallpapers. You can choose shuffle frequency and there's no limit to photos.
What are some good sources for new wallpaper collections?
-The video creator has a new Opulent wallpaper pack with over 100 wallpapers available for download.
Outlines
😄 Showing 15 iPhone tricks in iOS
The first paragraph introduces the video, stating it will demonstrate 15 iPhone tricks the viewer likely does not know. It starts by showing how to quickly access photos to send from Messages, by holding down the plus icon. It then shows how you can search for sounds like clapping in videos using the Photos app search. Additional tricks covered include customizing Always On Display, changing the People album thumbnails, adding nicknames to contacts, auto hyperlinking text, using Siri to locate people and provide elevation and ETA information, logging health data via Siri, freeing up storage space, adjusting ProRAW focal lengths, moving cursor precisely with two fingers, and setting up daily wallpaper shuffle.
📱 Managing people album and contacts
The second paragraph focuses on the People album in Photos and contacts. It shows how you can select a different thumbnail image for a person in the People album via the "Show faces" option. It also covers adding nicknames to contacts to simplify voice interactions. Additional tricks include removing people from the People album, zooming on faces, and featuring or hiding faces.
🤳 More camera app and text tricks
The third paragraph shares various iPhone tricks related to the camera app and text editing. It demonstrates the adjustable focal lengths for the main lens on the iPhone 15 Pro. It then shows how you can precisely move the text cursor by swiping with two fingers. Finally, it provides closing thoughts, stating that most iPhone users likely did not know these tricks and encouraging viewers to apply them and share feedback.
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💡iPhone tricks
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💡wallpaper
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💡contacts
Highlights
You can quickly access your camera roll from Messages by holding down on the photo icon
You can search for sounds like clapping or talking in the Photos app to find matching videos
The always-on display turns off automatically in certain cases like when your phone is in your pocket
You can disable always-on display for specific Focus modes if you find it distracting
You can change the auto-generated photos for people in Photos by selecting a new key photo
Adding nicknames for contacts makes it easier to identify them via Siri or search
You can auto-hyperlink text in Mail by pasting text while a section is selected
You can ask Siri for someone's location or your own current elevation
You can now log health data like weight via Siri voice commands
Freeing pro res resources can help eliminate large iOS/system data taking up space
You can adjust the 1x focal length on iPhone 15 Pro models
You can quickly move cursor by swiping with two fingers instead of trackpad
You can set wallpaper to shuffle automatically from a specific album daily
Over 100 aesthetically pleasing wallpapers available for download
Goal is to teach at least one new iPhone trick per video
Transcripts
what's up guys my name is Brandon and
today I'm going to be showing you 15
more actual iPhone tricks that you
probably did not know existed this is
episode 6 in the series and as usual if
you learn at least one new trick be sure
to give this video a thumbs up let's
start in the messages application and if
somebody sends you a message that says
something like send pics or send
pictures you will notice that the word
pics is underlined and if you tap on
that that allows you to quickly and
easily go into your photo album and and
choose a photo or video to send but if
somebody does not send you that message
and you want to quickly and easily get
into your camera roll to send a photo in
messages there's another quick and easy
way to do that and that is tapping and
holding on the plus icon to the left of
iMessage and then let go and you will
see that it automatically pulls up your
latest photos right here speaking of
photos if you go into the photos
application and go to search did you
know that you can search for sounds so
if you search for something like
clapping for example you you will see
that this result has a wave form which
means that it's searching all of your
videos for clapping so if you tap on
that it's going to take you to these
different you know videos that you've
recorded where clapping occurs like if I
open this one up right here it's going
to pick up that there is clapping in
this video and this was at the F1 race
so there was clapping so that's pretty
cool and you can do this for other
sounds as well so if I did it for
something like talking so if I type in
talking you'll notice once again that we
have those waveforms right there and if
I tap on that it's going to search for
talking and it's going to show me every
video where somebody is talking and of
course you can narrow that down even
more by selecting a location by
selecting you know different text that
is found fall like the time of year that
it is you can really narrow down your
search quite a bit when you search this
way in the photos application and really
find anything that you're looking for
now here's a tip that I was really
surprised a lot of people did not know
about and this has to do with the always
on display so when you lock your device
you you know if you have an iPhone 15
Pro or Pro Max you will have this always
on display here that shows up when your
device is turned off now did you know
that always on display turns off
automatically when your phone is in your
pocket when it's connected to carplay
when your sleep focus is active when
it's set face down like on your desk and
also when continuity camera is in use
which is when you use your phone as a
webcam for your Mac so in all of those
instances the always on display is
turned off even though you can't see
your display it is turned off so this is
only actually active when it's face up
and you're actually you know around your
device also did you know that you can
disable the always on display when in a
specific Focus mode so if you don't want
the always on display to show up when
you're in like a focus mode where maybe
you're working you don't want to see any
type of distraction or anything about
the time you can do that so if you go
into your settings here and then go to
focus and we'll just say recording a
video for example it's going to to be
where we don't want to see anything on
our phone so if you go down here and
then you go to add filter and then go
down to system filters you will notice
that we have always on display and you
can select that so you can turn on or
off the always on display when you enter
that Focus mode so we're going to go
ahead and add that and then go back into
here and this is where you can turn it
on or off and it's going to be based on
that specific Focus mode now let's head
back into the photos application because
you guys probably know about the people
and pets section where picks up on who
different people are in your camera role
it kind of recognizes them and you can
name them but sometimes it does not give
you the most flattering photo like that
photo of me is not the best so I
probably want to change that and you can
so if you go into the albums section and
then go to the people and pets right
here and tap on that this is going to
show all of the faces of the people that
your phone recognizes and it's going to
show all of their faces right there and
some of these pictures are very outdated
or just not flattering and I want to
change that so we're going to use myself
for this example so we're going to tap
on my face right there and you can see
this is the photo that it CHS and that
is not the best and the most flattering
photo so I'm going to go to select up
here in the top right and down here in
the bottom middle we now have an option
that says show faces I'm going to tap on
Show faces and this is going to pull up
all of the faces of me so it's going to
zoom in on every photo that my phone
detects my face in and it's going to
basically crop it automatically for me
and this is where I can choose what I
want that new thumbnail to look like so
here's a funny one of me wearing these
AR glasses we'll just use that for this
example so we're going to select that
we're going to select that one photo and
then we're going to tap on the share
icon in the bottom left hand corner and
from here you'll see an option that says
make key photo we're going to tap on
that and now that is going to be the key
photo so now if we go back to the
section you can see that the thumbnail
for myself under the people and pets
album is now that new key image that I
just selected and you can do that for
everybody in your camera roll now also
something to note here is that you can
add or change their name by tapping
right there but more importantly you can
also go to these three dots and you will
get some additional options right here
as well so you can name this pet you can
also zoom in on the face and also right
here some really important ones you can
feature that person or pet less and you
could also remove a person or a pet from
this album so if you don't want anybody
showing up in your people and pets album
this is how you can remove them okay so
now let's move on to a more practical
tip and this one has to do with adding
nicknames to a contact to make it easier
to interact via Siri or search so let me
show you what I mean so if I go into a
contact for example I'll go right here
and then go to info and you can do this
for any contact if you go into here and
then you go to edits we're going to edit
this contact right here and we're going
to go down to the very bottom where it
says add field so we're going to add
field right here and we're going to do
nickname and now you'll see that we have
a nickname section right here and this
is where you can add in a nickname for a
person so if you have maybe like five
different brandons in your phone you can
add a nickname to somebody that way you
know you know Siri will know who you're
talking about when you say call so and
so so if I want to give this person a
nickname let's say somebody's name is
Brandon for example but I call them uh I
don't know we'll just say B squared so
now B squ is the nickname so I'm going
to tap onone and you can see it says b
squ right there right now and I'll say
text B squ hello and you can see it
pulls up that contact right there and it
sends that text message so this is super
useful again if you have multiple people
with the same name or if you just want
to make it easier like if somebody's
name is really long but you call them
something else in real life you can add
that nickname in to the contact field
that way every single time that you go
to ask Siri to do something or you
search in you know the photos
application or you search anywhere it
will come up with their nickname and
it's going to know who you're talking
about now if you're like me and you
always add links to things inside of the
mail application so if you're sending an
email and you want to hyperlink
something you know usually you have to
go to website for example so we'll
select that and then you tap on ADD link
and then you put in the link that you
want to share but that is the long way
so if you did that you can see I will go
ahead we'll just copy let's just say
this for example so we're going to copy
the Apple den.com we're going to paste
that in there then we hit return and
there you go now it's hyperlink but
there's a much easier way to do that so
we're going to hyperlink sent from my
iPhone for example so instead of going
to add link now all you need to do is
once you have something copied to your
clipboard just simply tap on paste when
you have that text selected and it will
auto hyperlink it as you see there did
you know that you can find somebody's
location by simply asking Siri or even
asking a homod so where's Brandon
located currently and you can see it's
going to pull up find my and it's going
to show my exact location right there
just from asking Siri and again this
also works if you ask your homod and
speaking of Siri you can also ask Siri
for your current elevation or or your
current ETA if you're navigating
somewhere in maps so for instance what
is my current elevation and it shows I
am 28 ft above sea level and then for
the ETA what's my ETA and it shows that
I will arrive in an hour and 43 minutes
when I am navigating with the maps app
and then the last trick I'll mention
about Siri is that you can now log your
health data via Siri with your voice so
for instance if I wanted to log my
weight if I wanted to log my blood sugar
levels whatever is in the health
application you can now log that with
your voice log my weight is 166 lb and
to do this you do need to go into your
settings and go to health and then under
data go to data access and devices and
then go to Siri and then from here you
want to make sure that Access Health
Data is turned on so have you ever gone
into your iPhone storage section and
noticed that the bars right here are
really large for iOS or system data
sometimes those take up like 50
sometimes even 100 GB I've seen which is
insane and that is mainly just just
cache files cach files that you can't
actually delete now there's been a lot
of theories on how to delete these
system data and things like that but
there's never been a real concrete way
however I just found something that
really helps eliminate the iOS and the
system data especially the system data
here in your storage now unfortunately
this does require an iPhone 15 Pro or
Pro Max because it relies on the pro res
video feature so to enable this just go
into your settings and go to camera and
then go to formats and then go down to
the very bottom and you'll see an apple
Pro res toggle make sure that is turned
on and then you want to go back into the
video section in your camera and make
sure that proor is not crossed out make
sure it is turned on and then right
underneath of the max time you will see
a button that says free resources it is
yellow and when you tap on that that
will free up some of the resources the
cach files in the background that are
eating away at your storage now mine
goes really quickly and it doesn't
really free up anything thing because
I've already done this a million times
but if you've not done this before that
is a way to potentially get rid of some
of that you know iOS or system data
that's taking up a lot of space in your
storage and while we're in the camera
application I might as well show you
another little trick here that's not
really a super hidden trick it's
something that you should know if you
have an iPhone 15 Pro but if you do have
an iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max and you're
on the 1X section you can actually have
different lenses for that 1X different
focal lengths so if I tap on 1X you can
see it zooms in to 28 mm
which is 1.2x or I can tap again to get
35 mm which is 1.5x or I can tap again
to get 24 mm and you can actually set
what the default focal length is as well
so if you go into your settings and go
into the camera section and then go down
to main camera and from here you can
select which lens you want to be the
default and then you can also turn these
off if you don't like that option even
being there in the first place so it's
not really a super hidden trick but it
is something that a lot of iPhone 15 Pro
users still do not know they can do now
here's a trick that comes in handy when
you're trying to move around a big block
of text so whether that's in the Notes
application whether that's in a message
Safari whatever the case may be most
everybody by now knows that if you tap
and hold on the space bar that turns
into a trackpad and you can go up down
all around everywhere throughout that
text that is nothing new I've shared
that here on the channel many years ago
but what a lot of people don't know is
that you can actually move the cursor
around by swiping with two fingers in
anywhere so if I tap right here with two
fingers you can see that now I'm moving
that cursor you probably can't even see
it because it's moving so fast but I can
move it anywhere around the screen and
it moves much faster than it does if you
tap and hold on the space bar so I think
the tapping and holding on the space bar
and using that as a trackpad is really
outdated because now you can do that
quicker and easier by just simply using
two fingers holding down and now you can
go around anywhere you would like and
you can be pretty precise with this as
well just know that it does move a
little bit faster than if you were to do
the space bar far here and then the
final trick is related to wallpaper so
if you're like me and you like having a
new wallpaper on a daily basis or like a
weekly basis before you used to have to
use shortcuts and there was all type of
different workarounds to get that to
change and it was never really super
easy to do but now in iOS 17 it's much
easier because you can now go into
create a new wallpaper so we're going to
go to our lock screen here we're going
to go to add a new wallpaper we're going
to go to photo Shuffle and now on the
photo Shuffle page we're going to
deselect everything except for album so
we're going to choose an album and from
here you can see that now we can choose
a specific album so we're going to go to
albums and the trick here is to make
sure that you make a wallpapers album so
you can see right here I have an album
of 200 11 wallpapers so if you select
that now it's going to only shuffle
through the photos in the wallpapers
application and the key here is that
there is no limit so before there used
to be like a I believe it was a 50 photo
limit but there is no limit with this
and you can change the shuffle frequency
to ontap unlock hourly or daily so if
you want to wake up every day with a new
wallpaper this is how you do it you
could also select photos manually if you
don't want to use the entire album you
can do that and also if you're looking
for wallpapers like if you want to get a
lot of wallpapers for your device I did
just release my most recent wallpaper
collection which is called opulent where
there's over a 100 wallpaper so if you
really want to spice this up you know
make sure to buy that opulent wallpaper
collection because I mean you're going
to have a lot of new wallpapers in there
and you're going to see a new wallpaper
every day for at least 100 days so there
you have it those are some iPhone tricks
that
98.5% of iPhone users do not know and
yes I just made that number up off the
top of my head but if you did know every
one of these tricks give yourself a pad
on the back I'm proud of you for knowing
all of these but if you learned at least
one new thing that's my goal with these
tricks videos like obviously some people
are going to know one of these or two of
these but my goal is to teach you just
at least one new thing that you did not
know before before clicking on this
video so if I did that if you enjoyed
this video I would appreciate if you
gave it a thumbs up also be sure to
subscribe I do make videos like this at
least once a year it's kind of hard to
find tricks that are actually tricks and
aren't just everywhere on YouTube and
that's why mine takes so long in between
each tips and tricks video but I hope
you guys do appreciate these I will
probably have another one by the end of
this year if not in 2025 because again
there's just a lot out there that is
already regurgitated 100 times so
anyways hope you enjoyed this video guys
and I will see you very soon
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