11 functions of the iPhone, which you might not know

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The iPhone, like any complex technology, has many hidden features, many of which are very useful. Here is a selection of lifehacks.

1. Unlock the phone with your nose

Using a smartphone in winter is not very convenient. Even if you have gloves that transmit touch to the screen, in order to turn on the phone, you must either enter the password each time or take off your gloves. But there is another way. In the TouchID system settings, select “add a fingerprint” and place your nose instead of your finger. In the cold, your nose sticks out anyway, so bringing the phone to your nose is easier than taking off your gloves.

2. Turn the phone over so it is behind you.

When you work, constantly lighting up the iPhone screen can be very distracting. Here retweet, there is news, here the channel has been updated. Even if alerts come without sound and vibration, your phone is constantly flashing somewhere in sight. If you turn it over, the phone will vibrate only with the most important alerts. And if you have iOS 9 installed (and above), the proximity sensor also tells the phone that the screen should not be turned on again. And so you can surprisingly significantly save battery power.

3. Faster sleep in the evening

Starting with iOS 9.3 firmware, the Night Shift feature has appeared in iPhones 5S and newer iPhones. This mode, which, depending on the time of day, changes the color of the screen. The darker on the street, the less cold colors and the more warm. If you sit with the phone in the evening in social networks, the bright light of the screen prevents you from falling asleep - it prevents the production of melatonin, the sleep hormone. When Night Shift is on, this effect is reduced. You can turn on the mode in the screen settings, and at sunset the screen will gradually change color.

4. Quickly turn on music or podcasts.

When you connect headphones to the phone or insert a USB cable that is connected to the machine, the last application icon that you actively used with headphones — music, podcasts, YouTube — appears on the lock screen in the lower left corner. Very handy for quick launch. The same will happen if you double-click the “home” button - the icon will be below, under the carousel of open applications.

5. Quickly close applications

If you like to close applications so that they do not drain the battery, we will disappoint you. This action is quite meaningless, alas. When the application runs as a background, it almost does not spend the charge. But then you can free up some RAM. Well, someone is just calmer when everything is closed. In any case, it can be done more efficiently. If you hold on the screen not with one finger, but with three fingers, then you can close applications three times faster, because the iPhone's screen can track more than one touch at a time.

6. Take pictures unnoticed

There are two ways to secretly take a photo. First, press any volume button on the phone, it works like a shutter. But still, if you turn the phone in your hands and press a button, somebody will notice. If you have headphones with volume buttons (it is important that they work, there are buttons on some headphones, but they do not change the volume on the iPhone), you can take a photo and pretend that you correct the headphones. We hope you will not use this knowledge for evil.

7. Calculate sines and cosines

If you open the calculator and turn the iPhone into landscape mode, that is, on its side, the usual calculator turns into a logarithmic one, and you can make more complex calculations.

8. Check if the picture is level.

Every iphone has a compass after 3GS. But beyond that, modern smartphones are crammed with other sensors. Including, there is an accelerometer and a gyroscope. These sensors allow you to use the iPhone as a level and check the evenness of any surface. Open the Compass app, swipe left and attach the phone to what you are checking for evenness.

9. Get a new phone instead of a dead one.

There are many ways to break iPhone. But if you give an iPhone in the first repair, the warranty flies. And most importantly, what are you depriving yourself when doing repairs at a non-certified specialist - the ability to replace your phone. If you yourself broke the phone, drowned it or burned it, you can request a paid replacement for a new one in a certified repair center. To do this, it is necessary that the phone be bought officially, less than two years have passed since the purchase, and that the phone is not opened with a screwdriver. Most likely it will be more expensive than repair, but you will have a completely new device.

10. Turn off the phone, even if you have a broken button

Do iPhones sometimes breaks the button "on-off". Especially this sin model 4 and 4S. Almost all iPhones of that generation do not have these buttons. But there is a trick. In the settings there is Assistive Touch mode - for people with disabilities. This button appears on the screen, and with its help almost all functions of the phone can be configured with one hand. Including, there is a button "lock the screen." This can save you from thousands of messages and calls dialed your ass because the button does not work.

11. Recover accidentally deleted text

If you have sealed, pasted the text in the wrong document, erased what you were going to copy, the iPhone has a way to undo the last action with the text. To do this, the phone must be shaken. A window will appear asking if you want to cancel this action or not. This function is rarely needed, but when it is needed, it is needed very urgently. Just remember, you made a mistake with the text - shake the phone.

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