Amazing iPhone tips and tricks for users

by Kamal Gaba Digital Marketing Executive

iOS is a pretty darn impressive Operating system. It is often claimed that the iPhones today have computing power even greater than the computers that took man to the moon. Not only the the power, these devices today have thousand times the memory compared to those room sized computers. It is hard to believe that even with so much power at disposal these devices often remain underutilized and most user don’t even know how to get most out of their device. We have listed a few tricks and tips, which if followed can get the most out of your device. And with mac software download easily available this has become the most preferable and trustworthy OS.

Location tricks

Enabling location services on your iOS device can be handy in difficult times or in circumstances of sudden changes in the venue. The location services use GPS satellites, nearby WiFi hotspots and cell phone towers to determine your exact location. How to enable location:

Settings- Privacy- Location Services

Sharing your location

Sharing location comes in handy in times of distress. Sharing location can be life saver in times of incidents to inform your loved ones about your whereabouts. Location can be shared easily using messenger. In the conversation thread, click on details, and on the top right hand corner choose send my location, to send your exact location. There is also option to share your location for a defined amount of time. This feature is helpful when you are lost or are in danger.

Photo Tricks

The iPhones and iPads come with so good quality cameras that they are widely being used as point and shoot cameras by many people. They shoot almost every moment using these and then end up mixing personal moments with the general ones. Sometimes it can be embarrassing if these private moments come up unexpectedly when browsing through all the pictures in front of a friend. Following tips might prove helpful at such times:

Hide pictures

Long press on an image renders it hidden as it straight away goes to hidden folder. These pictures remain hidden in collection, moments and years but re visible in Albums.

Self-destruct feature

When in iMessenger, long press the camera icon which will open the camera application. Any picture or video sent through this method will self-destruct in two minutes.

Battery charging

With our gadgets getting smarter and smarter day by day, their batteries hardly last for a day. So sooner or later we are left with a dead battery. Also the charging from zero to full almost tacked 4 hours. But did you know that an iPad charger can be used to charge the iPhone as well. Since the iPad charger is designed to support the larger iPad battery, it can charge your iPhone’s smaller battery in no time. So go give it a try.

What’s draining the battery?

If you find your device running out of battery even before the days end and that’s happening regularly, you seriously need to pay attention to whatever app that is causing this. To get a detailed list of all those apps eating out your charge just follow:

General- Usage- Battery Usage and find the app that’s responsible for it.

Concluding this, I would like to say that we sometime needs different software downloads, but in case of iOS to perform the above listed simple task there is no need of any mac software download. Just follow the steps and see how easy it is to do so.