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iOS 12

Smartphone displaying text about Apple and payment information.
Mar 9, 2024

Speech-to-text technology can be seen on your iPhone in various places, from the Dictation tool to Apple's new behind-the-scenes, auto-created transcripts for podcast episodes. Your iPhone also has so ...

Smartphones displaying various settings and applications on their screens.
Jul 6, 2023

You may know the traditional way to take a screenshot on your iPhone, but it may not be the best action for your needs. There are faster ways to capture an image of your iPhone's screen, methods for c ...

Device backups for WonderHowTo's iPhone displayed on screen.
Jun 5, 2023

If you want to try out one of Apple's beta programs on your iPhone — whether that's by becoming a developer, joining the public beta, or using an IPSW of an available beta update — there's always a po ...

Text conversation on a smartphone screen.
May 30, 2023

Emoji have taken over the world, so there's a good chance you regularly use (or overuse) emoji on your iPhone's keyboard just like everyone else. But before emoji were popular, there were emoticons, s ...

Mobile devices displaying various app icons on their screens.
May 6, 2023

Apple's Shortcuts app lets you make and use custom icons for any app on your iPhone, but it won't actually replace any icons. If your goal is to change the official icon for the app itself without any ...

Smartphone camera close-up showing dual lenses and flash.
Apr 8, 2023

Ringtones and text tones can be annoying, so my iPhone is almost always set to vibrate on silent mode. Unfortunately, that causes me to miss phone calls and text messages when the device isn't in my h ...

Smartphone keyboard on a textured surface.
Apr 6, 2023

Back in May 2017, Apple filed a patent application for a way to communicate with Siri by writing her questions and responses using iMessage. While that didn't make it into iOS, thankfully, something e ...

Blue abstract cosmic background displayed on a smartphone.
Feb 23, 2023

Apple has a secret iMessage effect so hidden that there's only one way to unlock it, and it's not by digging through the Messages app's settings, tools, effects, or interface. However, it's used the s ...

Smartphone call interface with call options and buttons displayed.
Feb 3, 2023

There are a surprising number of hidden features in your iPhone's Phone app, from secret dialer codes that provide info or perform actions to special characters that dial extensions automatically. How ...

Settings menu displaying subscription options on a mobile device.
Nov 19, 2022

There are many ways to open up the media account settings for your Apple ID on your iPhone, but they all require two or more steps. However, there is a hidden trick Apple hasn't told anybody about tha ...