9 INCREDIBLE iPhone Tricks You Should Be Using Right Now!

0:00 your iPhone has some insanely useful tricks that most people don't know about and once you see these you're going to wonder how you ever lived without them now we all know the trick where you can hold down your space bar to move the cursor around on your screen but a lot of people don't realize you can also go one step further and actually start selecting text so tap and hold on the spacebar until the keyboard turns into a trackpad and then with any other finger tap the keyboard once and you'll be able to start selecting so just drag with your finger in order to select the appropriate amount of text this makes cutting copying and editing so much faster than when you're tapping and dragging with a finger and it's particularly useful anytime you need to edit typos real quick before we jump in Saturday signals is my free newsletter

0:45 every Saturday I send out one rare Insight that shifts how you think decide and execute if you haven't already I'd urge you to check it out because I legitimately think it'll be the most useful thing you'll come across every single week and it's free have you ever wanted to be able to know who was calling or texting without having to look at your phone well you can set up exactly that with a custom vibration pattern to get this set up you'll open contacts select a contact and then tap edit in the top right corner scroll down to ringtone or text tone tap on hap dicks and then you'll see create new vibration tap out a quick Rhythm maybe it's a song tap save give it a name and you're done if you keep your phone on silent then this lets you know who's calling just by feel so whether it's an important call that you can't miss or somebody that you can completely ignore

1:31 you'll know just by the phone being in your pocket next we're going to look at a safari trick that saves clicks and speeds up browsing so open Safari and find any link and instead of long pressing in order to get the option to open in a new tab you can just tap the link with two fingers at the same time and it will do exactly that this is the fastest way to open something up in a new tab although I got to be honest the biggest upgrade for Safari people might be to switch over to Arc I'm just saying I love Arc it's my favorite it so there you go now in Apple Mail have you ever wanted to just forward a piece of a message instead of the whole thing well in Apple Mail open up an email select just the part that you'd like to forward onto somebody then tap reply then tap forward and you'll see that your forward is only going to include just that

2:18 selected text and this one's not even just for you don't you hate it when someone forwards you something it's just a wall of text this one might get you some thank yous actually for keeping things nice and concise on to the next tip which is sending a safari article as a highlighted PDF this one's really cool I'm positive you probably already knew you could share an article from Safari as a PDF but if you open Safari and load an article tap on share and scroll down to print you'll see the pages in the preview down below you can actually swipe out on those to blow them up to full screen which then lets you select some text and highlight it and if you tap that share button again you'll be able to send it as a clean distraction free pdf that's a tip that's good if you're a student if you're a professional if you're just needing to save some research and you want to cut

3:03 out all the unnecessary stuff while featuring just the important bits quick heads up if you want to learn how to make AI work for you instead of replacing you you know what I'm always saying when it comes to AI never Outsource your essence well the cheapest way to get my new AI course my AI Edge is actually by pre-ordering my latest course on creativity where I'll show you that creativity isn't just for artists it's for anyone who wants to think better solve problems faster and unlock new opportunities it's savings upon savings upon savings you'll even get my productivity course learning to be productive thrown in for free now lots of people are creating hidden email addresses using iCloud plus to make sure that they're not giving away their email which by the way is really important these days having just an email address is almost like having a key to all of your important stuff because somebody

3:49 can then craft a fishing email send it to you get access to all kinds of stuff so it's really important actually that you don't give out your email as much as you can but you can create these hide my email addresses on demand from your iPhone you don't have to wait until you're signing up for something to do it open up your settings scroll on down to iCloud tap on it and you're going to have to have iCloud plus wow how did I use two out of two terabytes of storage that's ridiculous scroll on down to the bottom and you'll see hide my email tap on it once you're inside tap create new address and you've got a random private email that forwards to your real email just label it for easy tracking and tab done I love this feature as you can see I've got 98 I'm sure some people out there have lots more than that but sell good for avoiding spam let's head back into Safari and let's say you

4:34 accidentally just closed something that was really interesting there's a really easy way to get that recently closed tab back in Safari tap on the tabs button on the bottom and then tap and press it's a long hold on that plus button and you'll see all of your recently closed tabs there even if they're not visually open from there you can just tap to reload it and this of course will save you from having to dig through your history to find whatever it was that you were after if you open up the new photos app you'll see that there's all kinds of ways that Apple tries to pre-sort things for you in nice clean categories whether that's media types like you're seeing here or even more interesting if you go down to utilities and swipe over you'll see that you can see your receipts that's because Apple Autos sorts images receipts for you making it really easy to find

5:21 without tagging or folders now I don't know how you do things but we have had a drawer in our house for a long time that's just crammed full of receipts all the seats we get get jammed into this drawer until it can't fit anything else and got to shred them or sort them out or whatever this is much easier take a photo you know you've got it for later you can even search for that text Apple makes that easy as well let's jump back into contacts because I want to make sure that you know you can record a call when I first realized that I could natively record customer support calls I was pretty thrilled especially because I can start the recording while I'm on hold or something it's all very simple make a call and in the top left corner you're going to see an icon that lets you start recording you're going to see there's there's an announcement to place for all parties involved letting people know that this call is going to be recorded and then it actually starts

6:07 recording now even if you knew that you recorded a call and you felt good about capturing something that was going to be really useful later then maybe you didn't know where to find that recording those actually get stored in notes so you're going to go to notes recordings and that's where that's going to be found this is one of the most useful features in iOS now it's perfect for meetings for interviews just any important call really so that you never forget what said because it does record and transcribe so those are some of my favorite tips that I've run into recently let me know in the comments which one is most useful to you what's the one that you found most mind-blowing again I encourage you to check out Saturday signals it is unlike anything you've ever encountered in your inbox before I don't say this lightly it's life-changing stuff and the second that you hit subscribe you're already going to get an amazing resource right off the

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