Five must-have iPhone hacks you need to learn – including tricks to type FASTER

APPLE continuously improves the iPhone with positive and negative changes.

Thankfully, there’s been a whole plethora of options over the years to help you get the most out of your phone.

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Here are five must-have tricks that are now easy to set up.

Type faster with the trackpad keyboard

Sliding your finger back over words to fix mistakes is a bit awkward, to say the least.

But there is a much easier and faster way.

If you hold down the spacebar, it turns into a giant trackpad, allowing you to slide left and right with greater freedom and place the cursor in the right spot.

Save unimportant notifications for later

With so many apps notifications can get quite overwhelming and the most important ones can get lost in the crowd.

Luckily, there’s a feature called Scheduled Summary to the rescue.

It bundles the notifications you care less about and instead sends them all at the same time.

To set it up, go to settingsfollowed by notificationsthen Planned summary.

Turn it on and select the less important apps with a tap Add apps.

On the screen that follows, you can decide when you want the first and second bundles to appear.

Reattach the Safari bar to the top

Not all changes on iPhone go down well — but thankfully, you can undo some of them.

The latest version of safari Moved the search bar and tab switcher down.

If you preferred how it was before above, you can change it back.

In settingsFind safari and scroll down to tabs Section.

Tick Single tab and it will bring them back up.

time to focus

Whether it’s important work or studies, the Focus settings help you stay focused.

By default, you have Do Not Disturb, Sleep, Personal, and Work.

go to settings followed by focus and you can set each one up however you like – and even create your own for specific situations.

For example, the setup process lets you restrict who can and cannot contact you and which apps can send notifications.

You can also set a time for each mode to turn on automatically if you want.

Get notifications about your AirPods

Did you know you can stream your notifications through your headphones while you’re on the go?

In settingsgo to Siri & Search.

Beat announce notifications and change headphones At.

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