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What iPhone feature/functionality do you think more people need to know about or use? (alien.top)
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I find a lot of people don’t even know all the great things you can do with your iPhone. So based on your experience and knowledge, what do you think the rest of us should be using or learning more about?

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[–] Thagrous@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

  1. Swiping to the camera slightly, turns off your flashlight. Easier than fiddling for the flashlight button.

  2. The contacts widget shows any Find My Friends locations. You can nickname locations so it’ll say ‘Wife, home’ or ‘Wife, work’, etc, at a glance.

  3. Shortcut to always return to my maps in driving mode after 10 seconds (say if someone rings you or if you’ve checked Spotify).

  4. Shortcut to put on DND until I leave the current location so I never forget to turn it off. Assigned this to a triple lock key press.

  5. Siri can skip your morning/next alarm, but the day after it’ll be normal.

[–] horlorh@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Number 5. How does that work?

[–] Thagrous@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Ask Siri to ‘skip my morning alarm’, or ‘skip my next alarm’. And it’ll be turned off but then turned back on after. In the clock app it’ll say ‘Skipped, tomorrow only’

[–] AxelrodAsaf@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Number 3? That would be so helpful to me 🙏🏼

[–] Thagrous@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1dd258a746a34c3b9315503884b16b42

This is the shortcut which automatically opens Waze after 10 seconds, if in driving mode.

Create an automation and set this to trigger when ‘Waze’ is closed.

Change waze to any map app you’d like (change it both in the automation/trigger and in the shortcut actions)