The iPhone 15 is rumored to arrive without physical buttons in favor of capacitive buttons, which on paper will allow for greater customization of its functions. But you won’t have to wait until after the September keynote to take advantage of this iPhone lock button trick hiding in iOS settings: enable this feature and get the most out of your current iPhone’s buttons.
Before activating this cheat, let’s quickly collect everything you can do with your iPhone’s lock button by default:
- With a touch when it is off, you can turn it on.
- With a touch when turned on, you can turn the screen on or off.
- Hold to summon Siri.
- Touching this button and the volume up button simultaneously will take a screenshot.
- If you long press this button and the volume up button, you can turn it off or access the SOS function.
- Give two taps in a row to access Apple Pay.
- Double tap in Apple Pay to pay.
Access tons of shortcuts in just three clicks
That said, there is a whole world of possibilities that you can configure to work with three presses of the lock buttonbut first you have to enable this option in ‘Settings‘ > ‘Accessibility‘ > ‘quick function‘ and now choose the features you want to enable to put it into action.
For example, I chose “Control nearby devices”, “Full keyboard access”, and “Zoom”. I only chose four, but as you can see the list is long.
SO, each time you press the button three times in a row, a list of things I can do will appear and I have to choose one. Of course, you can add, edit and modify as you wish.
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