The strongest protection you can apply to your device, an alphanumeric passcode is essential. (Add cold and damp versions for even better accuracy.) Alphanumeric passcode Improve Touch ID finger recognition by registering the same fingerprint two or more times in Settings>Touch ID & Passcode. Enable this in Settings>Battery>Low Power Mode.

You lose some background features but gain much better battery life.

Maximize battery life by manually switching to Low Power Mode. Stop Siri and Notifications from distracting you while you are in a meeting by turning your iOS device display-side down on the table. You can silence keyboard clicks without shutting off sound entirely. Sort it out: Settings>Sounds>Keyboard Clicks, toggle to off. You may not mind, but someone else might. Make your iPhone’s torch flash when a call or notification comes through in Settings>General>Accessibility, toggle LED Flash for Alerts to on. Your iPhone recharges much faster in Airplane Mode. To access them all tap and hold the Compose icon to see them in list view. You can have multiple messages in draft status. Tap on it again to open it and finish the mail. To save an email you are working on as a draft to finish later, just tap the message subject line at the top of the window and swipe your finger down until the subject appears at the bottom of the screen. Enable those you want to use by ticking the circle beside their name tap Done and they will appear. There are numerous Mailbox views you can set up in Mail that make it easier to find what you need. Just tap the flag icon and choose “Notify Me.” in the options that appear. You can ask Mail in iOS to tell you when a new message comes through in a key conversation. Just tap the small “ unsubscribe” instruction at the top of an unwanted email. Mail lets you unsubscribe from newsletters in a couple of taps - no need to visit websites and remember your details. Don’t forget that you activate caps lock when you double-tap shift. When typing, force touch any character to see alternate characters mapped to that keyboard item, do this to the period key to find a trove of. You can use this cursor to select text by word ( press deeply once), sentence ( twice), or paragraph ( three times). Hard press the keyboard when writing and the keyboard becomes a touch-sensitive cursor you can use like a mouse. The numeric keyboard shows the dollar ($) symbol by default, but when you need to type another currency symbol just press and hold that key to find alternative currency symbols. Identify frequent callers by their unique ringtones. Tap it and you can assign any of your available tones to them.

Open their contact details, tap Edit and look for the Ringtone option. You can assign unique ringtones to specific contacts so you know when it’s them calling. When someone calls, you can find out which number they used by opening their page in Contacts and looking for the word “ Recent.” Call wranglingĬall coming in and you can’t deal with it? Don’t ignore it, just tap the Remind Me or Message icons that appear on the dialing screen to get back to people with an automatic response or to set a reminder to call them back. Traveling to an event? When adding the trip to your schedule, toggle “Travel Time” to on and Calendar will figure out your journey time based on where you are on the day. This is what those haptic taps you feel when you are using Maps directions mean: 3D Touch a search and a popup will let you place a pin, remove a marker, get directions or share that location.ģD Touch the Maps icon on your Home screen for shortcuts to directions and tools to Mark My Location, Send My Location and Search Nearby. Tap the Search field in Maps to get more information about where on the map you are, and see your recent searches. Touch and hold the Weather icon (23℃ and sunny) and you’ll see the weather for the next few hours in Lisbon. Touch and hold the icon more firmly to open the Weather app. Touch and hold that icon and you’ll see the weather for the next few hours at that location. How many of us have noticed the Weather icon when staring at a location in Maps? You’ll find it just above the Search bar at the bottom right of the display, denoted by a weather icon (sun, clouds, whatever) and temperature. Some tips for Maps Take the Weather with you From quick and dirty ways to silence your iPhone during a meeting to little-known tips for Safari on iPad, you’ll find a few things you didn’t know you could do within this extensive collection of tips for iOS 10 - which is now up to version 10.3.2.

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