"How to Share Your Location on iPhone With Find MyFind My is a powerful app that is included with the iPhone, and you can share your location easily. You can add other devices to your Find My, such as the location of your keys.
How to Lock Your iPhone to One App With Guided AccessThere are times when you want to set your iPhone to just run a single app, like a game for a kid and not want the kid exploring the rest of your apps or surfing the Internet.
How to Turn On Find My iPhone (Before You Need It)Find My is a useful service, and if you lose your phone, you can locate it and lock it. If you think someone may have stolen it, you can erase it remotely.
How to Make Your iPhone Read Text Out Loud With Speak ScreenLong emails, articles you’ll never get round to, text that’s just too small. Sometimes it’s easier to listen.
Speak Screen reads everything on your screen out loud, and keeps going as it scrolls down the page.
How to Share Contact Details by Holding Two iPhones Together (NameDrop)Reading out your phone number, spelling your email, then waiting while they type it wrong. Swapping details is clumsy.
With NameDrop, you hold the top of your iPhone near someone else’s and choose what to share. That’s it.
How to Block Spam Calls and Texts on iPhoneMissed-delivery texts, ‘Hi Mum’ scams, cold callers about an accident you never had. Spam is relentless.
Your iPhone can block individual numbers, filter texts from unknown senders, and send unknown callers straight to voicemail.
How to Set a Sleep Timer on iPhone to Stop Music or PodcastsYou drift off to a podcast and wake up at 3am to a completely different episode, and a flat battery.
Tucked away in the Clock app’s timer is an option called Stop Playing. It works as a sleep timer for almost any app.
How to Use Dictation on iPhone to Type With Your VoiceLong messages on a tiny keyboard are slow, and typos creep in everywhere.
Dictation lets you speak instead. Your iPhone types what you say, adds punctuation, and even inserts emoji by name.
How to Customise Control Centre on iPhoneControl Centre is the panel you get when you swipe down from the top-right corner. Out of the box, half of it is things you never use.
You can change that. Add the torch, a QR scanner, screen recording, Shazam and more, and get rid of the rest.
How to Customise Your iPhone Lock ScreenYou look at your Lock Screen dozens of times a day. It might as well show you something useful, and something you like.
You can change the wallpaper, restyle the clock, add widgets like the weather or your next appointment, and keep several Lock Screens to switch between.
How to Add Widgets to Your iPhone Home ScreenOpening one app for the weather, another for your calendar and another for your to-do list adds up.
Widgets put that information on your Home Screen, so one glance tells you what’s coming.
How to Record Your iPhone Screen (With Sound)Explaining to a relative where a setting is over the phone can take twenty minutes. Showing them takes twenty seconds.
Your iPhone can record a video of its own screen, with your voice explaining as you go.
How to Create a Shared Album on iPhone for Family PhotosAfter a wedding, a holiday or a birthday, everyone has different photos, and they end up scattered across three group chats.
A Shared Album puts them all in one place. Everyone you invite can see the photos, add their own, and like and comment.
How to Sign a PDF on iPhone Without Printing ItSomeone emails you a form to sign. The old way: print it, sign it, scan it, email it back. If you even have a printer.
Your iPhone can do the whole thing in under a minute with Markup, and it saves your signature for next time.
How to Turn On the Camera Grid and Level on iPhone for Better PhotosWonky horizons and awkward framing are the two things that most often spoil an otherwise good photo.
Two small Camera settings fix both: the grid helps you compose, and the level tells you when the phone is straight.
How to Turn Your Photos Into Stickers on iPhoneEmoji are fine, but nothing beats replying with a sticker of your own dog looking unimpressed.
Your iPhone can lift the subject out of almost any photo and turn it into a sticker, ready to use in Messages and other apps.
How to Copy and Paste Photo Edits on iPhoneYou took forty photos at the same dull, grey event, and every one needs brightening.
Edit one photo until it looks right, copy those edits, and paste them onto all the others in one go.
How to Use Check In on iPhone to Let Someone Know You Got Home Safe‘Text me when you get home’ is a lovely thing to say. It’s also very easy to forget when you finally get through the door.
Check In does it for you. It tells your chosen person when you arrive, and alerts them if you don’t.
How to Share Passwords With Family Safely on iPhoneThe streaming password, the Wi-Fi, the supermarket account, the energy bill login. Families share lots of passwords, usually by text.
A shared password group keeps them in one secure place. Everyone in the group can use them, and when one changes, it changes for everyone.
How to Use Your iPhone as an Authenticator App for Two-Factor CodesTwo-factor authentication is one of the best ways to protect an account. Fishing for a six-digit code in another app every time is the annoying bit.
Your iPhone has an authenticator built in. It stores the codes alongside your passwords and fills them in for you.
How to Use AssistiveTouch on iPhone When a Button Is BrokenA sticky side button or dead volume buttons can make an otherwise fine iPhone a real pain to use.
AssistiveTouch adds a floating button to your screen that can lock the phone, change the volume, take screenshots and more.
How to Find and Cancel Subscriptions on iPhoneA free trial you forgot to cancel, an app you used once, a game your child signed up for. Small monthly charges add up quietly.
Your iPhone lists every subscription billed through Apple in one place, with the price and next payment date.
iPhone Frozen? How to Force Restart an iPhone That Won't RespondThe screen’s frozen. Nothing responds to touch, and holding the side button does nothing. Panic sets in.
A force restart makes your iPhone switch off and on again, even when it’s completely stuck. It doesn’t delete any of your data.
How to Update Your iPhone and Turn On Automatic Updates‘Remind Me Later’ is the most tapped button on any iPhone. But many updates fix security problems that criminals are already using.
Turn on automatic updates and your iPhone installs them overnight while it’s charging, so you never have to think about it.
How to Add a Recovery Contact on iPhone So You're Never Locked OutBeing locked out of your Apple Account means being locked out of your photos, messages, backups and purchases. Recovery can take days.
A Recovery Contact is someone you trust who can give you a code to get back in quickly. They never get access to your account.
How to Transfer Everything to a New iPhone With Quick StartA new iPhone is exciting until you remember everything that lives on the old one: photos, messages, apps, logins, that one note with the alarm code.
Quick Start moves the lot. Hold the two iPhones together and your new one sets itself up as a copy of the old one.
How to Change Your Default Browser and Email App on iPhoneYou use Chrome, but every link opens in Safari. You use Gmail, but tapping an email address opens Apple Mail.
Your iPhone lets you pick your own default apps, all from one screen.
How to Set Up Driving Focus on iPhone to Stop Texts While You DriveA phone lighting up on the passenger seat is a temptation nobody needs at 60mph.
Driving Focus silences texts and notifications while you drive, and sends an automatic reply so people know you’re on the road.
How to Wipe Your iPhone Before Selling or Giving It AwayYour old iPhone holds your photos, messages, saved passwords and banking apps. Deleting a few things by hand doesn’t come close to clearing it.
Erase All Content and Settings wipes everything and removes the lock that ties the phone to you, so the next owner can set it up as new.
