I got an iPhone 13 2 days ago (upgrading from an xr), what are some cool tips and tricks? The crazier the tips, the better! )Yes i know the tips app exists but i don't like it, same generic tips that i think everyone knows. )

Im coming from using an android my whole life haha

I love little workflow improvements and “hidden” features/gestures. ((Like swiping down at the bottom for reachability))

And the jump in cameras is HUGE! Are there new interactions and features that I have to know?

I’ve been deep-diving into iOS lately and realized I’d been missing so many little gems. Some of these are buried so deep in Settings that even friends who consider themselves “power users” had no idea. Sharing my top 5:

Back Tap = Secret button on your iPhone Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap. I set double-tap to launch Notes instantly (for brain dumps) and triple-tap to toggle Do Not Disturb. It feels like having a hidden shortcut button.

Text Replacement = type faster without autocorrect stress Settings → General → Keyboard → Text Replacement. Example: type @@ → it expands to your full email address. I have add = my home address, ppn = my PayPal email. Saves me from typing the same things over and over.

Hidden level + measurement tool Open the Measure app → swipe to “Level.” Your iPhone is literally a digital spirit level. I used it last week to hang a picture frame perfectly straight.

Safari swipe = instant tab switching In Safari, just swipe left/right on the bottom bar to jump between open tabs. Way faster than reaching up for the tab view.

Custom vibration patterns for contacts Settings → Sounds & Haptics → Ringtone → Vibration → Create New Vibration. I made a unique tap pattern for my partner. Now I know it’s them calling without even looking.

None of these are new features but once you start using them, they change how smooth your iPhone feels.

I’m curious: what’s your favorite hidden iOS trick that you actually use day-to-day? I’d love to add more to my list.

I've just bought an iPhone mini in the new green colour. It should be with me by Sunday and I cannot wait to use it. Coming from OnePlus 6 and long range of Android phones, this will be my first device from iOs. Please share anything you feel it'll be important as an adopter to the an entirely new ecosystem.

So, absolutely lost here! Could you guys help me out with tips and must have apps? Mainly productivity, media consumption, note taking and study workflow, games... everything you would tell your younger self to use from the start!

Lov you guys! Tks a lot! Not only happy with the phone, but also to be part of this group!

**Just opened a new post with a compiled list of things I gathered from here and other posts in order to help newcomers and old ones too.

Hi guys just want to share my happiness. I got my first ever iphone. although its just the 13, Im happy that I afford this kind of device. So any tips and tricks for me? and what are the dos and donts?

collected from all the sources of internet

hello guys , i just compiled all the tips and tricks of ios and some of ipad os from all over the internet i use most of them and they are cool... there are few that i personally found but most are from others so thanks to all of them the draft is not that great as i just created them on the go quickly ... so hopefully you will understand

1. Tapping the clock/top bar on a page will take you quickly to the top.

2. Single tap on screen when phone is locked to wake it up

3. Swipe down from home screen to access spotlight

4. Drag your finger down from the white stripe at the bottom to use your iphone with 1 hand(reachability)

5. When downloading or updating an app, tap its icon on the Home screen to pause downloading or long-press it for Prioritize, Pause, and Cancel actions

6. Open your notes app > click on the + /camera button sign > scan documents.

7. @@ autofill replaces it with my email ( you will have to set this in text replacement)

8. You can lower your brightness further using the zoom function[easier way is this.. settings, accessibility, display & text size, reduce white point. I’ve also set this as my “accessibility shortcut” to reduce white point. Triple tapping the Siri button enables and disables it.]

9. your phone searches for cell towers every once in a while. If you got bad reception, it might be because your phone is clinging onto a more distant/worse cell tower. By turning airplane mode on, then off, you can manually force the phone to look for cell towers, and if there's a one thats better than the old one if was clinging to, it'll obvs connect to that tower and you get better signal

10. Under accessibility turn on led flash for notifications.

11. Turn on Low power mode and airplane mode to charge faster

12. ⁠In Calculator, rotate to landscape to show the scientific calculator

13. In Notification Center, long-press the X button to show the Clear All Notifications action

14. On home screen press and hold to go to edit mode , there keep pressing and holding on one app icon and with other fingers tap other app icons and multiple apps will be selected ehich you can move to different pages on homescreen

15. Click and hold on the page indicator dots on home screen to open an overview of all pages at once , this can also be used to hide some of the pages

16. You can stop any audio playback (podcast, YouTube, Spotify...) after any length of time by setting a timer in the clock app and instead of a ringtone select :When timer ends - Stop playing

17. Double tap lock key to decline an incoming call

18. press lock button plus volume up quickly together for screenshot

19. On the lock screen , you can force press the torch/camera button to turn it on quickly( rather than clicking it for certain time)

20. In phone is unlocked and there is an incoming call swipe up to ignote it(it will still be thre on upper left corner, you can bring back the interface by tapiing it)

21. Without unlocking the phone , swipe the screen to left to quickly open camera , and swipe right to find widgets

22. You will have to tap and hold on torch button on screen to turn it on if phone is locked(on lockscreen)

23. In calculator or dialer, you can delete the last number you typed with a swipe to the right or to the left.

24. Text expander can be used from the keyboard settings

25. Double click the upper case arrow to set caps lock

26. While typing if you holh spacebar and move , you can move the cursor anywhere

27. Enable double tap on back in settings and use it anything(preferably control centre)

28. Long Press in Safari/Edge to select test

29. Double tap in other apple apps to select text

30. Tripple tap in other apple apps to select whole sentence

31. Three Finger Pinch in is Copy after selecting the test

32. Three finger Pinch in twice is cut on selected text

33. Double tap with three fingers to undo

34. Double tap with three fingers again ro redo the same text

35. 3 finger tap anywhere on the screen brings up Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste

36. Hold the ABC key and slide your finger to number row corrusponding text row letter and let go and the number will be inserted and keyborad will stay in text mode only(generally you will have to press ABC type number and again press ABC to come back to text mode)

37. Multifinger swipe up in app switcher will close multiple apps simultaniously

38. Use multiple fingers to swipe left in notification centre to cancel multiple notifications simultaneously

39. swipe left or right on the white bar at bottom of the screen to switch between apps

40. Some people find that swiping up and then right (in an arc) invokes multitasking faster

41. Swipe inwards from the left side of the screen as a universal back button.

42. In notes or in webpage -> click share -> Print -> Now in this print preview mode long press on the preview(then it will zoom little bit ) -> Then tap on it ..you will see that all pages are zoomed up and are fit to screen -> now again press share -> you will get always get PDF this way

43. Press and hold Volume up for burst photos in Camera app

44. In camera app while recording video , press and hold red button and slowly move it towards right to record specific time video[you have to hold the button in place to record for specific time....when you move that button to right ... you can latch it there and you don't have to hold it .... that can be used to add music to your video .... for example you can start a song on apple music and minimise it and then record a video using this method and your recorded video will have song at its back( without holding the button)]

45. In camera app Press down volume down key for specific time to shoot specific time video

46. Open any music app and minimise it and then open Camera app and strat recording the video by pressing and holding on red butten and moving it to right side slowly.

47. Be careful, actually there is no proofed solution to turn this off again! If you go into the phone app, and dial 3001#12345# and hit call, the "Field Test" application opens, which allows you to see the numerical value of your cellular reception, along with other information about the surrounding cell towers. In addition, if you hold down the power button until the "Slide to power down" slider comes up and then hold down the home button until the app exits, you can tap on the carrier name in the top left corner to change between the numerical value and the visual representation (in bars) without going into "Field Test" mode. [NOT TESTED]

48. Double click the upper case arrow to set caps lock

49. In Mail, holding the "New Email" button will display all your recent drafts.

50. In safari long pressing + will give recently closed tabs

51. In safari while switching between tabs interface , swipe down to opena mini search tab bar at top

52. In safari when in tab switching search bar , write any text and hold and press cancel button and then you can close all tabs matching with your text simultaneously

53. In Safari, tap with 2 fingers on a link to open it in background.

54. In safari , if you go to landscape mode and long press ona tab ...you can arrange tabs by websites and some other options

55. If you want to search for a word on a page with safari, enter it in the web search box on the top right and scroll all the way down, past the suggestions until it says 'on this page'.

56. If you long press a link in safari , it will show preview of that page right there by opening a small popup view

57. To record screen with phone audio as well as microphone audio , click on Screen recording button firmly from control centre and you will see screen recording UI , and you will also see microphone off ther and click on it to turn it on and then click on strat recording so everything will be recorded (Screen + microphone) ,,you can also mute yourself in the middle of recording by going to control centre again and turning off the microphone

58. when in markup for any document or picture, if you want to draw perfect circle or any other shape just draw a circular shape and hold the screen after drawing it for 4seconds and it will perfect the circle

59. In the iPhone accessibility turn on voice control and enable it and go to customise command and put your voice keyword(create new command..run custom gesture )and using that you can unlock your iPhone

60. go to camera setting and if you into selfie's then turn mirror selfie camera to see the viewer showing exact feed as your photo will look after shooting(otherwise iPhone will show inverter image)

61. go to setting -> screen time settings -> app limit -> add anew limit for app you want -> set minimum value (1min) This way if we try to open it ..we can't do that ...so this is kind of a hack to lock apps in ios

62. Go to a single contact and tap on edit their phot and you can create custom animoji for your contact

63. while unlocking the phone just wipe up rather than waiting for the phone unlock animation to work..if you swipe up the phone will unlock and the animation will take care of itself ..this will unlock the phone faster

64. if you want to lock your your photos with faceID , copy the photo and paste it in notes and lock the note with faceID

65. on safari if you take screenshot , there is one more tab on top which says full page....click on it and when you save it ...it's the whole page in pdf

66. if there is some website that doesn't allow you to go back...long press the back arrow button in safari and that will open the previous sites list

67. Use the three dot menu in files app and from there you can scan a document just like you can do it from notes . the advantage of scanning it from files is that it will be automatically sync to i drive on the go and you don't have to manually send the document

68. Open a note you are interested in and you can see date created and if you tap on it you can switch between date created and date edited

69. While holding spacebar to move your curser at the time of writing text ...press on the keyboard at some other place with another finger and now move your original finger . you can select test like that without touching the text itself

70. If you go to files app and if you click on the name of a file , you can directly edit its name without long pressing any file and clicking rename

71. Long press on any photo in files app and save in pdf and you can convert any photo into pdf

72. while pulling down the notification centre from left side , when it is partially down we can use the torch shortcut

73. while using smart stack, a simple down gesture will change the widget in the stack, if we force and do a longer down gesture we can change 2 widgets in a single swipe

74. when in compose mail screen , in the keyboard if we press arrow on the right side of keyboard , it will show a menu where we can add attachments and. scan documents and add manual scribble note as well

75. while in notes app , if we press on search bar then we can select filters like 'notes with attachments' or ' notes with pictures' etc

76. while a file being uploaded in icloud and if you go in files app and see the file , you can see the amount of file actually uploaded in real time in the files app

77. while annotating the pdf , in lower right corner we can tap + and add multiple signatures , these signatures can be used on ipad aswell or ipad signatures can be used in iphone as well

78. we can add multiple signatures

79. while annotating the pdf , in lower right corner when we press + , we can also use the magnifier which can further be customised with its border colour size and magnification strength

80. when we select a text and long press it , in the menu click on arrow > to see more options where we will get highlight option

81. While editing the text ,tap and press space and the text can directly be selected using finger movements of both those fingers

82. Press and hold top of the apollo app to change theme form dark to light or vice versa. G

83. double tap of back action can be also triggered by double tap on side and we don't necessarily tap the centre of back

84. in email or messages or notes ..touch an object with 2 fingers and move those fingers without lifting which will select multiple objects quickly

85. while multiple objects are selected don't , lift one finger and top on upper right corner of screen and from current position to the topmost position all the items will be selected

86. when apps are in folder and there is notification to one of the apps from the folder ...so to access that notification without tapping on folder , long press on that folder which will give the name of the app with notification and tap on that to directly address that notification

87. while on lock screen if we long press on the torch it will turn on , to turn it off quickly swipe from left and leave , the camera should be triggered and the torch will turn off quickly without long pressing the torch bitten

88. You can take screenshot and quickly open iMessage and drag that preview of the screenshot to specific person and send it , same with the videos

89. In the notes app , long press and select text from camera and you can point the camera towards any text and it will do auto OCR

90. Now we can mention #name like tags in the notes and these notes with similar tags can be sorted together

91. The tag based notes can be added to something called as Smart Folders in the notes app( which is visible while creating new folders)

92. Double tap control button to activate dictation quickly

93. calculator in landscape mode automatically turns into scientific calculator

94. you can write a flight name in notes app and click on it to see flight route EL215 ***

95. On iOS 15 when we drag our finger from lower left corner we get to have a quick note and we can type and use Apple Pencil to write anything in it

96. If we swipe from lower left and give that quick note a direction it will go in different direction

97. In iOS 15 , when in any application if we swipe down on the multitasking three dot menu it automatically take current app in right side and now you can open another one

98. Globe key + a will open Dock , Globe + H will take you home , Globe + C will take control centre down

99. Globe + right / left arrow will cycle through currently running apps , Globe + up will open Xpose , Globe + Q will open quick note

100. Swipe down from App Library to get an alphabetical app list view

101. Now when an quick note is open and another app is open for example Apple Music or some browser window then we can quickly add those to the quick note so it is really useful for collecting different websites into a note for research purpose.

102. if we opens pdf and swipe from left side we will see all pages there and we can ping press and move the pages around

103. the left side swipe menu of the pdf can also be used to add new pages , delete pages .. scan pages on the go .. or add pages from different file using files application

What are some essential camera tips/tricks on the Iphone 13 for beginners that make a lot of difference in photo/video shots?

Hi, upgraded from iphone X and Im already shocked with how light this iphone 13 feels. Do you have any tips on how to take care of this iphone that you wished you had done the first time you had it? Thanks

hey i just got a brand new iPhone 13 and i wanna now if you know some tips that could make my experience even better.

TLDR - Give me one tip for a total iPhone noob concerned they'll regret their new 13 pro!

(EDIT) Thanks for all the great info everyone, killed an hour reading over breakfast and lots to consider. Definitely reassured and excited to get going with it.

I have been long term anti-Apple with deeply rooted animosity going back 30 odd years and based on very little except a couple of early bad experiences with and Macintosh's and Quicktime.

But after many Android devices from early HTC to Sony, to Xiaomi, to Samsung to Pixel, I have become increasingly disenchanted with that experience from general incoherence, to meh hardware, to having to wait months for updates as all the vendors prioritise differently.

With it "seeming" that Apple may be more privacy focussed these days and perhaps a little less insidious than google (naïve I know), having what looks like great hardware, and acknowledging my bigotry as a character flaw I need to get over, I have opened my mind, taken the plunge and ordered an iPhone 13 pro for delivery in a couple of weeks.

It's been great to read all the android switcher reviews on here and they've gone a long way to helping my decision but I'd appreciate some tips to get me started on the right foot. I'll be staying gsuite and have google home devices to control, spotify probably my most used app. Browse a bit, check the news, take quite a few photos (have a "proper" camera I'd like to get out less) and have a WearOS watch.

Nothing is too trivial, apps to install/uninstall, apps to avoid, tweaks and tricks, accessory pointers, cases, chargers, anything at all.

Thank you!

I feel as I know everything there is to know about my iPhone, but I bet somebody, somewhere knows something I don't. Share your tricks here and educate everyone on r/iphone