Now that you own a brand new iPhoneWhether it’s an iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, or earlier, it’s time to get it right. There are a myriad of small tweaks, plugins, and widgets that are worth your attention, and their usefulness is improving dramatically by the day. Whether you are a novice or an expert or just upgraded to the iPhone, read carefully because you will surely find some new tips for you.
Essential settings and utilities on your iPhone
With all the years he’s got the iPhone behind him, it’s easy to lose track of what he can do for us. There are a series of small tweaks and very useful apps that will help us in our day-to-day life. We have started.
Automate dark mode on your iPhone
IPhone’s dark mode hasn’t been around for that long. More than just a color change, what it does is adapt the entire interface so as not to tire our eyes too much. In addition, third-party applications such as WhatsApp or Google Maps have been adapted for a long time.
You can automate dark mode on your iPhone like this:
- Open Settings on your iPhone and go to Display & Brightness.
- In appearance, you can choose between light and dark.
But below you can choose automation for dark mode to light up with sunset and comes out with dawn. You can also personalize this calendar.
How to read QR codes without an app
The iOS camera has a built-in QR reader. In this way, you don’t need to download an app to do it, greatly simplifying the process. Just open the camera, point at the QR code, and you’ll see the URL you need to appear. Tap on it and you will go straight to that website.
Access a Wi-Fi network by scanning your router’s QR with iPhone
Now that we know how to scan QR codes with iPhone, we can connect to any Wi-Fi network that uses it. We take a router in our hands, we point the camera and it will automatically offer us to connect to the network with the iPhone.
Stop WhatsApp from flooding your photo and video library
There is a setting in WhatsApp that can cause your iPhone to fill up quickly. If this happens to you or if you do not recognize the photos and videos in your iPhone gallery, it is very likely that you have activated it. To avoid it:
- Open WhatsApp and go to Settings.
- In chats, make sure the Save in photos option is turned off.
Now nothing will be saved automatically in WhatsApp on iPhone.
Find out which WhatsApp conversations are taking up the most space on your iPhone
By continuing with WhatsApp, it is normal that over time we accumulate waste the digital space that occupies us on the iPhone. It does not need to be uploaded to our photo libraryWell we already have it in the messaging app itself. To do the housework from time to time, we have a built-in tool that will help us:
- In WhatsApp, go to Settings> Storage & Data.
- Enter Manage storage and you will see a detail of each of your groups and contacts, as well as the conversation occupancy.
Use Pocket to organize and store your favorite items
If you are an avid reader of the press, entertainment, or more serious publications, you have often wondered what to do with this article you just read and what you want to keep for reference. We tend to think that when we need it we will remember its title and just search for it in Google, but this is not always the case.
Pocket is a free and cross-platform application that allows us allows you to save and tag these items. To have them safely and on hand whenever we need them. Download them here.
Use the native iOS translator
iOS comes standard with a very good translator. If we go on a trip or we want to have a conversation with someone foreign whose language we do not know, it can help us understand each other. This app transcribes the original and translated text on the appropriate sides of the screen, followed by the translated audio. It works completely offline and conversations remain private.
Always have your driver’s license on your iPhone with MiDGT
MiDGT is the official app of General direction of movement. With him we can always take a copy of our driver’s license, as well as other things such as:
- The points of the map that we have.
- The vehicles we have in our name.
- The date of the last ITV we spent.
The truth is, it is a very useful app. With her, we can forget to bring our physical card and get rid of the wallet almost forever. Download them here.
Your COVID passport always with you
You already know that you can download the COVID Certificate from the Ministry of Health to save it on your iPhone. But you sure didn’t know that you could use Siri to show COVID passport. A little tip for those who want to use it frequently.
Turn on iPhone privacy report
The privacy report is a feature added to iOS 15.2 that lets us know what are the applications we have installed for. This is a function that we need to activate and that after some time you will have analyzed what our applications are doing. To do this, go to Settings> Privacy> Privacy report and turn it on.
As soon as you use iPhone a bit, you’ll see how websites that use trackers appear, how apps access sensors, which access your contacts, and more. A most illustrative report.
The best extensions for Safari on iPhone
Safari extensions for iPhone can be a great ally when it comes to surfing the net. You will need to allow them individually from Settings> Safari> Extensions to be able to use them. We recommend that you try some of the more popular ones to see their potential:
- Black: Convert all websites to dark mode whether they officially have it or not.
- Lazy Words: is an extension that allows you to choose a language you want to learn and substitute words in that language on the websites you visit. The idea is that you learn by osmosis.
- Amplitude: when you open a page in AMP format from Google, it automatically reloads you with the real version. Apolesion is a plugin that we recently thoroughly tested and 100% recommend.
- StartPage.ai: rearrange your tabs to show you the most recent automatically.
- Super Agent: complete all cookie forms without your intervention.
- Pretty Web: create a different home page to the one we have by default in Safari, with many customization options.
- 1Password – Safari’s built-in version of the popular password manager.
- Turn off the lights: made the videos of a website stand out as you see them, obscuring the rest of the page.
Utilities and personalization on your iPhone with widgets
Widgets can be very useful tools in our daily life. They are simple “posters” which offer us information and which we can place on the home of the iPhone. This way, we receive updates to the apps that matter most to us without having to open them (they also serve as shortcuts). Here we have selected the most important widgets for your iPhone:
- Countdown Widget: allows you to create a countdown for an event, including days, hours, minutes and seconds. It has a lot of customization options if we pay for the premium version.
- Widgestsmith: With this app, many users have lost their minds when it comes to personalizing their iPhone. Very useful for programming widgets automatically, although its possibilities bear great responsibility.
- Smart group: this is a widget that the iPhone has as standard and which learns from your use to place the most suitable at all times. We’ve got calendar locations, photo memories, battery indicator and your next date.
- Google Maps: the Google Maps application has a few widgets, one for learn more about our environment and another for quick searches.
- Home Widget: This is a widget for your HomeKit accessories and environments. Create a widget on your iPhone home and control them without having to enter the app.
- Launcher: it is an application that allows us to create shortcuts to our most used actions. Calling a family member directly by FaceTime or opening your favorite news website with one touch are some of the examples of what you can do.
- Weather: Another standard iPhone app, it tells us about the weather at our location.
- Smart Battery Widget: Although the iPhone already has a battery widget, with this we will see a graph of how we use it and in which activities we spend the most battery.
- Files: Another widget that comes standard on iPhone, it will help you have recent files from your iCloud Drive at the touch of a button.
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