iPhone Tricks Apple Doesn't Want You To Know

0:00 Your iPhone is packed with hidden features you probably never use. Not because they're complicated, but simply because nobody ever told you they existed. And the worst part, most people download paid apps full of ads to do things your iPhone already does for free. In this video, I'm showing you all the features almost everyone overlooks already built right into your phone. Stick around until the end because the last ones are my favorites. Let's get into it. Let's start with those moments when you need to scan an important document. A lot of people download a third-party app and pay for it when your iPhone already has a built-in scanner. Open the Files app, the one from Apple. Press and hold and you'll see the Scan Documents option appear. Tap on it, line

0:45 up your document, and the iPhone scans it automatically. The result is so clean, it looks like it came from a real printer. You can crop it, adjust the filters, switch to grayscale or black and white to remove the color. And if you have several pages, just tap the back arrow and stack them one after another, even for a long list of papers. Then you confirm with the check mark, and you choose to save it to iCloud or directly to your phone's storage. Turning off or restarting your iPhone is often a pain. You waste time hunting for the button in the control center, but you can create a one-tap shutdown button right on your home screen. Open the Shortcuts app, tap the plus in the top right. In the search bar, type shutdown and select shutdown. Quick side note, if you tap the word in blue, you'll see

1:30 that restart is also available. You can follow these same steps for it later. Let's stick with shutdown. Tap the name at the top, choose an icon, search for the power symbol, grab the universal icon, and make it red. Then tap the name again and select Add to Home Screen. You confirm, head back to your home screen, and there you go. You've got a dedicated button to shut down your iPhone instantly. >> A super simple one that a lot of people still don't know about. You can show the battery percentage right inside the battery icon. By default, it's turned off. You just have the icon and it's hard to see the exact level. Go to settings, then battery, and turn on

2:17 battery percentage. Now you can see the exact number at all times at the top of your screen. When you send someone a message, instead of using the regular keyboard, you can write your message by hand. To do this, you need to switch your phone to landscape mode. So, turn it on its side. A new icon appears. If you're comfortable with handwriting, you can literally write your message by hand and the iPhone saves a few of them for next time. You confirm and you've just sent a real personal message written in your own hand. Perfect for wishing a happy birthday to someone special. If you like falling asleep with headphones or earbuds, and even if they're not AirPods, you have access to built-in ambient sounds. Open the control center, tap the plus, then add a control. Search

3:04 for ambient and you'll find an ambient music section. It's built into your iPhone. You don't even need an Apple Music subscription. You've got sounds for sleeping, for relaxing, for focusing, kind of like lo-fi. You add one and it immediately starts playing soothing music. And to really make the most of it at bedtime, the ideal thing is a comfortable pair of headphones you can keep on without them bothering you. I put one I really like in the description. Go check it out. Here's a trick that impresses every single time. On any photo, you can cut out the subject in 1 second without any editing app. Open a photo with a person, an animal, or a nice sharp object. Press and hold for a moment directly on the subject. You'll see a little glowing outline appear around it. It's just

3:51 lifted itself off the background. From there, you can copy it to paste it somewhere else in a note or a document, or tap share to send it as a sticker, transparent background included. Perfect for creating personal stickers or cleanly isolating an object. Spotlight search on the iPhone is way more powerful than you'd think. You can ask it questions directly, even general or medical questions, and it gives you the answer right there on the screen without even opening a browser. And you can copy the answer to paste it somewhere else. A real time-saver for quick searches. The calculator also has a tool that few people know about. When you're done with the calculation, you'll see a little clock icon. You tap on it and you get the history of all your previous

4:37 calculations. And when you tap on one of them, you can pick up right where you left off. Super handy when you're doing several calculations in a row. If you listen to podcasts, you've noticed that the iPhone now creates chapters thanks to artificial intelligence. But imagine you want to share just a specific passage with a friend without making them listen to the whole episode. You tap on the part you're interested in, then share, and you choose exactly what point you want them to start from. That way, they only listen to the part you care about and not all the rest. This one almost nobody knows about. You can trigger an action just by tapping the back of your iPhone. Go to settings, accessibility, then touch, and scroll all the way down to back tap. You have two options, double tap or triple tap.

5:23 For each one, you choose the action you want. Take a screenshot, open the control center, lock the screen, launch an app, turn down the volume, whatever you want. Once it's set up, all you have to do is tap the back of your phone, even through the case, to trigger the action. A real secret shortcut. The Passwords app is really underrated. Open it, go to the Wi-Fi category, select your network, and you have the option to generate a QR code. So, if a friend is on Android, they just scan the QR code and they're instantly connected to your Wi-Fi without you having to give them your long complicated password. Really handy. It makes life easier. If you regularly visit a specific website, a news site, or a recipe blog, for example, you don't need to open Safari and type it in every time. Open Safari,

6:10 go to the site, or even the exact article you want. At the bottom, press and hold on the address. Tap share, scroll down, and select add to home screen. You can rename it if you want, then confirm in the top right. And now you've got an icon on your home screen that looks like an app, but takes you straight to your favorite site. As you keep adding apps, your home screens quickly become a mess. Most people waste time deleting apps one by one, but you can hide entire pages in a few seconds without deleting anything. Press and hold on an empty space until the apps start to jiggle. At the bottom, right above the dock, tap the little row of dots that represents your pages. Your phone zooms out and shows you all your pages at once. Just uncheck the pages you want to hide, then confirm. The

6:55 pages disappear, but they're not deleted. You recheck them whenever you want to bring them back. And if you want to reorganize your apps, stop moving them one by one. There's a hidden gesture to grab several at once. Press and hold on an app until you can move it. And whatever you do, don't let go. With another finger, tap all the other apps you want to move. They stack up under your finger. Then you drag them all together into a folder or switch pages with another finger. You let go and they arrange themselves perfectly. It turns a painful chore into an express cleanup. We've all wanted to circle something important on a screenshot and we end up with a horrible scribble, but your iPhone automatically corrects your shapes. Open a screenshot or a photo, tap edit, then the markup tool, the

7:40 little pen. Choose a pen or a marker and draw a shape, a circle, an arrow, a square, or even a star. At the end of your stroke, hold your finger down for a second, and your scribble instantly turns into a perfect shape, nice and straight and clean. Stay in this markup menu because there's another hidden tool. If you want to highlight a small detail on a photo, the loop is perfect. Tap the little plus in the bottom right, then add loop. A magnifying circle appears. Move it over the detail you want to show. You'll see two little dots on the edge. The blue dot makes the loop bigger or smaller. The green dot adjusts the zoom level inside it. Ideal for pointing out small text in a document or an object in the background. The result looks really clean and professional. To quickly find your photos or videos,

8:25 there's a built-in filter in your photo library. Open the Photos app, and in the top right of your grid, you'll see a little icon with three horizontal lines, right next to the select button. Tap on it, then on filter. You can choose exactly what to show. Only photos to hide the videos or only videos if you're looking for a specific clip. It makes things so much easier when you've got a camera roll packed with thousands of files. We all have images we don't want to show when we lend out our phone, an embarrassing selfie, a weird photo, or a surprise we bought. Open the photo in question, tap the three dots in the top right, and select hide. You confirm, and the image immediately disappears from your main library. To find it again, go to collections at the bottom, scroll down to the other section and open

9:11 hidden. This folder is protected by Face ID or your passcode. No one can access it without your permission. It's the best way to protect your personal stuff. If you listen to music or a video to fall asleep, you know the problem. It keeps playing all night long. There's a hidden timer that stops the playback automatically. Open the Clock app, go to timer, set the duration you want, 30 minutes for example. Right below, tap when timer ends, and instead of choosing a ringtone, scroll all the way down and select stop playing. You confirm, you start the timer, and when it's done, your music or video shuts off on its own. Ideal for falling asleep without draining your battery. And to finish, a tip that can literally save a life. We all put our phone on silent or on do not

9:57 disturb to get some peace. But what happens in a real family emergency? There's a setting that forces your iPhone to ignore all those restrictions. Open the contacts app, select the person in question, your partner or your best friend, for example. Scroll down a bit, tap ringtone, and right at the top you'll see the emergency bypass option. Turn it on and confirm with the check mark in the top right. Now, even if your phone is completely on silent or in a focus mode, calls from that person will always ring at full volume. The peace of mind of always being reachable for the people who really matter. If you enjoyed this video, drop a like and subscribe. And if you want more tips like these, I'll leave another video right here for you. Thanks for watching and see you very soon.