Got pictures of cute cats on your phone? Next time you look at your cat photos, you will notice a little information icon (a little “i” inside a circle). This neat little hack lets you, as the title implies, literally look up relevant information in your photographs – its a step up from the “get info” or “details” feature we’re already used to seeing on Apple devices. You can even create a custom focus mode to your liking and switch between these based on your location! There are lots of cool ways to use this feature and it’s definitely worth playing around with. You can use Focus Mode to create a customized home screen with specific apps, settings, permissions, notifications settings, and contacts of your choice to reach you when you’re at the office or at home – the idea is this will allow you to eliminate clutter and use your phone more intelligently when you’re in focus mode.įor example, you can set a “work focus mode” when you’re working and a “home” or leisure mode when you’re home – and set your phone to switch between the two automatically based on the time of day. (Above images courtesy of allthings.how and ) Focus Modeįocus Mode is an awesome new feature that will allow you to customize your iPhone home screen around what you’re using your phone for. Want to move it back to the bottom because you’re a weirdo?įollow the same steps, only this time, the option will say “Show Bottom Address Bar.” Simply touch the address bar, then click on the two letters “AA” on the left side of it, and select the option that says “Show Top Address Bar” and voila! (Image courtesy of 9to5 Mac) Change the position of the Address Bar in your Safari Browserįor whatever reason, Apple has decided to move the address bar in the Safari Browser to the bottom of the screen – quite annoying. If there’s an address listed, you can click on it and your Maps App will open showing it to you on a map for navigation. Tap this icon and your iPhone’s camera will automatically capture that text which you can then copy and paste or look up on the Internet.Īlternatively, if you took a photograph and you go back to it in your Photos app, you can directly copy the text from the image by long pressing on it and then selecting it.

Open your camera app and focus on any image containing text and as you are focusing on it, a little icon resembling text bars encased in a square with rounded edges will appearon the lower right side of your camera window.

You can then choose from Double-Tap or Triple-Tap and after that set your preferred tap to whatever task you need from the list of available options. To enable this feature, go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch, then select Back Tap – try it now! So, what Apple did to address this was to introduce a double tap on the home button (from the iPhone 6 lineup up to the iPhone 8) and the screen would literally come down halfway allowing you to access the upper parts of the screen easily! Tap the back of your iPhone for shortcutsīet you probably wouldn’t have guessed this one because it’s pretty cool and interesting and it’s not very obvious on an iPhone.īasically, you can set your iPhone to do a number of things by simply doing a double tap or a triple tap on the back of your iPhone, for example, launching the camera app or taking a screenshot.

With larger iPhones, this was not possible. (Left – Steps to enable Reachability on your iPhone, Right – The iPhone with Reachability Enabled)įun fact – Back when the original iPhone was released, the screen size was 3.5 inches, which at the time was quite huge as compared to the competition and Apple kept this screen size up to the iPhone 4s.Īpple’s reason for sticking to this screen size was that it was thumb-able meaning that you could reach the entire screen with just your thumb without having to adjust the position of your phone in your hand. If it doesn’t work at first, don’t worry, you just need to activate it as follows Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch, and then simply toggle the Reachability option to the On position. The iPhone 13 still has this feature and it’s even more awesome because you simply have to swipe down on the home bar at the bottom of your screen and your entire screen will drop down halfway allowing you to access the upper half of your screen.

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