There are notification lights in Android and Blackberry, but some users were disappointed by their absence in iOS. Do not worry. They are not absent. You can make your phone send notification alerts using the flashlight.
Simply follow the below steps to activate this feature.
Settings > General > Accessibility > LED Flash for Alerts and press the toggle button. If you enable Flash on Silent mode, you will receive a flash notification even when your phone is on silent mode.
You obviously know what emojis are. There are several apps available on the App Store to make your phone have emojis. But did you know that you don’t have to download them? Because you can access the built-in emojis on your phone.
Open Settings > General > Keyboard > Add New Keyboard. Then swipe through the list until you find Emoji.
You’ll now see the language keyboard you chose at the initial setup of your iPhone, as well as the emoji keyboard. Which means you’ve enabled emoji keyboard and are ready to use.
People don’t only type on their iPhones purely in English. There are several other languages which they use including ones which require accents, such as French and Spanish.
There is a hidden feature on iOS to allow you type in words with accents so easily. Normally you can’t see them on your onscreen keyboard but it does not mean that they are not there. You have to enable the option and press and hold special keys to add the accents. To know which keys to press, follow the link below.
You might have a couple of people in your life whose voice you don’t want to hear again and whose words you don’t want to see again. You might want to keep them out of your life for good. May it be a personal affairs problem or a spamming businessman, you can block them from phone, messages and even FaceTime now.
You can block them from the contacts app if you have saved the number. If not, just block them from the app which they contacted you. Simple as that.
Apple has its own digital personal assistant. It has a nice female voice with the ability to showcase certain emotions with her voice. There is a trick where you can make Siri a man. This works if you are using iOS 7 upwards.
Follow the steps given below to make Siri a man!
Settings > Siri > Search Siri Voice > Male
Just after these few steps, Siri’s manly voice will start to download and then be ready to use.
You don’t have to copy and paste the message every time you want to share a message with a person or a group of people. Just press and hold the message you want to share and a pop-up will appear with the feature to forward. From there, you can choose whom you want to share the message with.
iPhones are famous for their amazing camera quality. You can capture stunning portraits, food photos and many more with this superior quality camera and unique effects. But there have been several complaints about the quality of action photos taken with iPhone cameras. But now, from iPhone 5s upwards, there is a feature called Burst Shot which allows you to take a number of photos with a single tap. 10 photos per second, to be exact. Now you can be assured that in a couple of those many photos, there is the perfect moment captured.
With iOS 6, Apple introduced an AMBER alert system, which notifies you with emergency alerts issued in your area. If you find these notifications disturbing and unwanted, you can always disable them. But it is highly recommended that you keep them enabled.
However, here are the steps to disable them.
Settings > Notifications > AMBER alerts and toggle the button off.
Advertisers who use ad networks to track your website visits, make you see the same advertisement banner everywhere. This is disturbing much. So, you can block them from tracking you. It will not stop, but it will effectively reduce. If you are using iOS 6 upwards go to Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking.
iOS can track your frequent locations and build patterns of your daily routes. And they will start providing you with the weather condition, traffic alerts and other information on your route. This is called Significant Locations. It is turned on by default. You can turn this off or change data by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant/Frequent Locations.
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