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10 iPhone Hacks Every User Should Know

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Ten years into the iPhone’s life, most owners are still only using a fraction of what’s baked into iOS.

A video from TheThings Celebrity, titled “10 iPhone Hacks Every User Should Know,” runs through a set of built-in tricks that Apple never puts front and center in the Settings app. None of them require a jailbreak or a third-party app — just knowing where to tap, swipe, or hold. The rundown covers everything from charging speed to camera shortcuts that plenty of longtime iPhone users have never stumbled onto.

• Switching an iPhone into Airplane Mode cuts off background cellular and wireless activity, which speeds up battery charging.
• Text-replacement shortcuts, set up under Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement, turn frequently typed phrases and email addresses into a few keystrokes.
• Double-tapping the Home button on iPhone 6 and later triggers Reachability, dragging the top of the screen down for one-handed use.

Charging Faster Without a New Charger

The first hack targets one of the most common iPhone complaints: charging speed. Rather than buying a faster brick or cable, the video points to a setting already on every device. Flipping the phone into Airplane Mode shuts down the cellular radio, Wi-Fi searching, and Bluetooth scanning — the background processes that compete with the charging circuit for power — which lets the battery fill noticeably quicker when time is tight.

It’s a free fix that doesn’t touch hardware at all, and it works the same way whether someone is topping off a battery before a flight or trying to grab twenty extra minutes before heading out the door.

Navigating With Swipes Instead of Buttons

The video’s next tips are about cutting down on tapping. In Safari and Mail, edge swipes let a user move backward and forward through pages and messages instead of hunting for the small on-screen back arrow, a shortcut that saves real time for anyone who lives in their inbox or browser.

Text replacement gets its own dedicated segment. Under Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement, users can turn a short string of letters into a full phrase — an email address, a home address, a canned reply — so they don’t have to type it out every time. The video also flags a lesser-known keyboard move: holding down certain keys reveals hidden characters and punctuation that aren’t visible on the standard layout.

Reachability, Shake to Undo, and the Sleep Timer

For one-handed use, Apple’s Reachability feature gets a spotlight. Double-tapping the Home button on an iPhone 6 or later slides the entire interface down toward the bottom half of the screen, putting top-row icons within thumb’s reach without requiring a grip shift.

Shake the phone, and a mistyped sentence — or an accidentally deleted message — comes right back.

That’s the “Shake to Undo” gesture, a built-in safety net for typos and accidental deletions that most users discover by accident rather than on purpose. The video pairs it with another overlooked trick: setting the native Clock app’s timer to a “Stop Playing” trigger, which automatically shuts off audio or video after a set stretch — useful for anyone who falls asleep with a podcast or a movie running.

Camera Shortcuts Worth Knowing

The camera section covers three moves at once. The physical volume buttons double as a shutter release, which is steadier than tapping the on-screen button and works with either the up or down volume key. Tapping and holding on the viewfinder locks focus and exposure on a subject, useful for shots where the camera keeps trying to refocus on the wrong thing.

The calculator trick is the smallest of the ten but probably the one most iPhone owners have wanted for years — anyone who’s fat-thumbed a multi-digit number into the built-in Calculator app knows the urge to smash the C button and start over. A two-finger swipe left or right across the display clears one digit at a time, no reset required, which is about as close to a party trick as Apple’s number pad gets.