15 ACTUAL iPhone Tricks You Didn't Know Existed!

Summary

The 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

00:00

😄 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.

05:01

📱 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.

10:03

🤳 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.

Keywords

💡iPhone tricks

The main theme of the video is to share iPhone tips, tricks, and hidden features that most users are not aware of. These are functionalities that already exist on iPhones but that are not commonly known. An example from the script is using two fingers to quickly scroll through text rather than the space bar.

💡messages

The messages app on iPhones allows users to exchange texts, photos, videos and more. The video demonstrates tricks related to messages, like quickly accessing photos to send and searching messages for specific words.

💡photos

The photos app stores all photos and videos taken on an iPhone. The video shares several tricks for the photos app, like searching for videos based on the sounds in them and changing the main thumbnail image for people recognized in your photos.

💡Siri

Siri is Apple's virtual voice-controlled assistant. The video illustrates using Siri for several helpful tasks like logging health data, getting your current elevation, and locating someone's iPhone.

💡storage

iPhone storage refers to the amount of space available to save apps, photos, videos and other data. The video offers a trick to clear cached data and free up storage space on iPhone 15 Pro models.

💡camera

The standard camera app on iPhones that is used to take photos and videos. The video teaches camera tricks like changing the default focal length on iPhone 15 Pro and quickly accessing ProRes video settings.

💡text editing

Techniques for selecting, copying, pasting and formatting blocks of text on an iPhone. The video demonstrates using two fingers to quickly scroll through and edit text.

💡wallpaper

The background image shown on the iPhone home and lock screens. The video explains how to set up automatic daily wallpaper changes using photo shuffle.

💡focus

Focus modes allow users to customize iPhone settings for certain activities like working, exercising or sleeping. The video shows turning off always-on display in specific focus modes.

💡contacts

The contacts app stores phone numbers, emails and other info about people you communicate with. The video illustrates adding nicknames to contacts to simplify interacting with Siri.

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