iPhone 13 and 13 Pro tips and tricks: 15 iOS 15 features to try

(Pocket-lint) - With iOS 15 Apple whitethorn not person alteration up the visuals each that much, but there's inactive plentifulness successful determination that's worthy getting accustomed to and tinkering with. Whether you've got yourself a new iPhone 13 oregon you conscionable updated your existing iPhone. 

Most of the features highlighted are disposable for each iPhone models moving iOS 15, but determination are 1 oregon 2 that are constricted to the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 bid that won't beryllium applicable to older models. So, marque definite you're moving iOS 15 connected your iPhone - oregon get retired your iPhone 13/13 Pro - and enactment your mode done immoderate of our favourite, less-obvious features.

You tin ticker the video usher straight beneath oregon travel the written steps beneath that. Whichever you find astir convenient. 

1 - Stop apps from tracking you 

Lots of apps privation to way assorted patterns and usage information from you portion you usage their apps. In astir instances it's truthful they tin service you much applicable advertisements oregon get to cognize however radical usage their bundle to assistance them amended it. However, there's bully crushed to artifact each tracking, particularly if that institution has a estimation for not respecting your close to privacy.

If you privation to artifact apps from tracking conscionable unfastened Settings > Privacy and present pat "Tracking". Right astatine the apical there's a toggle that says "Allow apps to petition to track". If you don't privation immoderate apps to petition tracking information, conscionable toggle this off. Or, alternatively you tin manually toggle tracking connected oregon disconnected for apps individually successful the database below. 

2 - See which apps entree what data

On a akin note, this is conscionable a speedy tip: scroll down to the bottommost of the Settings > Privacy surface and pat "Record App Activity". Toggle it on, and present hold for a week oregon so. After a fewer days spell backmost to that paper enactment and you'll spot a breakdown of however assorted apps person been utilizing permissions connected your phone, and you tin spot if immoderate of them are accessing things similar your determination oregon different idiosyncratic accusation acold excessively regularly. You tin besides opt to prevention a study arsenic a blank binary record that you tin stock and save.

3 - Bring the aged Safari back 

In iOS 15 we got a caller Safari with a hunt barroom and tab switcher astatine the bottom. It's really rather convenient for one-handed usage and lets you easy swipe betwixt tabs. However, if you privation the aged layout backmost - with the URL barroom astatine the apical - you can power back. 

There are 2 ways to bash it. Either spell to Settings > Safari and scroll down until you spot the 2 tab icons. Now prime "Single tab". When you relaunch Safari it'll present person the barroom astatine the top. 

The different quicker mode to power is opening Safari itself, unfastened immoderate webpage and pat the "AA" icon successful the hunt bar. Now you'll get a pop-up paper appear. Tap the enactment that says "show apical code bar".

4 - Bundle non-important notifications

iOS 15 has a diagnostic called "Scheduled Summary" that lets you bundle each the little important notifications unneurotic and present them astatine the aforesaid time, alternatively than getting tons of random pings done the day.

To alteration it, spell to Settings > Notifications and pat "Scheduled Summary". Now toggle it connected and spell done the setup process. Now you take the apps you privation to see successful your summary and pat "Add Apps" astatine the bottom. 

On the adjacent surface - take the times you privation the archetypal and 2nd summaries to appear. You tin besides pat the "+" to adhd much predominant summaries done the day. So you could person 1 look astatine meal time, luncheon clip and 1 successful the evening if you want. When those are chosen conscionable deed the "Turn connected Notification Summary" enactment astatine the bottom. 

Now you'll lone beryllium notified by nonstop messages oregon apps not included successful your enactment done the day, until the clip you take to person the summary appear. 

5 - Announce notifications connected AirPods

If you person a brace of AirPods Pro you tin person Siri denote notifications done them whenever you person them successful your ears and connected to your iPhone. To power that on, spell to Settings > Siri and Search and present pat "Announce notifications" and past toggle the enactment connected astatine the apical of the page. And toggle connected the "Headphones" power connected arsenic well. 

6 - Switch disconnected HDR video

By default the newer iPhone 13 Pro models grounds video successful HDR oregon Dolby Vision which not lone takes up tons of space, but besides isn't compatible with a batch of different devices. To power it off, spell to Settings > Camera and pat "Record Video". Toggle disconnected the enactment that says "HDR Video". 

7 - Reachability

Back successful the time erstwhile iPhones had buttons, you could bring worldly down from the apical of the surface to marque them easier to scope by lightly treble tapping connected the location button. And you tin really bash it connected the caller phones without buttons too, but you person to activate it first. 

Go to Settings > Accessibility and pat "Touch". Toggle connected the Reachability option. Now erstwhile you swipe down connected the bottommost of the screen, it drops the worldly from the apical of the surface further down, making it easier to reach. 

8 - Double pat the backmost to screenshot

With the close accessibility relation enabled you tin elemental pat doubly connected the backmost of your telephone to instrumentality a screenshot. Rather than fiddling with the fastener combination.

Just spell to Settings > Accessibility > Touch and present prime "back tap". Choose the double-tap enactment and find Screenshot successful the list. Now erstwhile you double-tap your phone's back, it'll instrumentality a screenshot. You tin - of people - take different functions similar dropping down notifications oregon power centre, which tin beryllium hard to reach. 

9 - Use Live Text

One chill caller diagnostic is Live Text, and it allows you to usage your camera to work and show substance successful real-time. You could - for lawsuit - usage it to instantly nonstop a condemnation from an nonfiction oregon papers successful a message. 

Open a messaging app. Double-tap connected the substance tract and past pat the small icon that looks similar substance successful a box. It volition present unfastened up a camera presumption and commencement scanning substance and volition past show it successful the tract arsenic you amusement it to the camera.

To beryllium much precise, conscionable pat the small seizure icon successful the country to instrumentality a speedy inactive of the substance you want. You tin present item the circumstantial artifact of substance you privation to see by conscionable dragging your digit crossed the substance you want. 

Another mode you tin bash it is conscionable opening the camera app and making definite you're successful Photo mode. Now constituent astatine the substance you want, oregon pat to absorption connected the substance manually, and pat the unrecorded substance icon successful the corner. It volition instrumentality a scan of the text, and you tin present item substance wrong popup representation to stock with someone. Copy and paste to wherever you privation it. 

10 - Live substance successful a surface shot 

There is different mode to usage Live Text. With a screenshot. Take a screenshot and pat connected it to unfastened up the exertion view. Tap connected the markup/pen icon successful the apical and present pat the unrecorded substance icon successful the bottommost corner. NOw you tin resistance to item the substance you privation to transcript and paste it to immoderate app you like. 

11 - Focus mode 

Focus mode could easy beryllium its successful extent diagnostic and video. However, briefly, if you caput to Settings > Focus you tin make dedicated scenarios wherever lone circumstantial apps and radical tin interrupt you astatine circumstantial times oregon locations.

You tin acceptable up 1 script for Personal mode and different for Work mode. Going done the process mightiness instrumentality a spot of time, but fundamentally conscionable involves adding dedicated radical who tin interaction you and choosing which apps to allow. It's truly straightforward.

Once that’s acceptable up you tin docket erstwhile you privation it to travel on. Whether it’s clip and day based oregon determination based. You tin adjacent customise the location screens that look during each absorption time. 

12 - Limit the surface framework rate 

By default the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max person their screens acceptable to spell to a maximum of 120Hz refresh rates. If - for immoderate crushed - you would similar to bounds that you really can, but you won't find it successful the Display settings. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion. Now toggle connected the "Limit Frame Rate" option, and it won't spell implicit 60fps. 

13 - Create your ain Photographic Style

One different camera diagnostic connected the caller iPhone models is thing called Photographic Styles. Unlike a elemental filter, this adjusts things similar warmth, brightness and opposition to make an aesthetic that volition beryllium applied to each of your photos erstwhile you drawback them. Open Settings > Camera, and scroll to "Photographic Styles". Swipe done the options until you find a look that you like. Once you've recovered one, deed the bluish pat astatine the bottom. 

14 - Change the euphony connected your Photos Memories

In the caller Photos app, Apple automatically sticks a backing way connected the photograph and video memories it creates for you successful the "For You" tab. But you tin alteration that. Open up Photos and pat "For You" and take 1 of the Memories astatine the top. 

Once open, pat connected it again and pat the small euphony icon successful the corner. Now you tin swipe crossed and it changes the filter and the euphony arsenic you do. Or you tin pat the philharmonic enactment icon successful the bottommost close to spot a larger enactment of options, including a hunt fastener which - erstwhile pressed - lets you spell done your full room for a circumstantial song. 

15 - Trackpad keyboard

Last but not least. This is an old, aged favourite, but it's a must. If you privation to precisely determination your cursor erstwhile typing, you tin crook your keyboard into a trackpad by conscionable long-pressing the abstraction barroom and past swiping your thumb around. Now spot the cursor connected surface successful the nonstop spot you privation it to go. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 27 September 2021.