iPhone Tips & Lessons
-
Classes on the iPhone4 Lessons
-
New in iOS 184 Lessons
-
My Favorite New Features in iOS 179 Lessons
-
New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
-
Unlock the Power of Shared Passwords on iOS 17 and your iPhone!
-
New Notes App Features on the iPhone with iOS 17 - My Favorites!
-
Interactive Widgets & Standby with iOS 17
-
Easily Switch search engines in Safari on the iPhone - New in iOS 17!
-
Simplify the iPhone and it’s apps with Assistive Access
-
Simplify PDF Form Completion on the iPhone with Autofill - New in iOS 17
-
New Messages App Features in iOS 17 - My 4 Favorites!
-
Edit and customize your Contact Poster and Photo on iOS 17
-
New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
-
New Features Introduced with iOS 16 Lessons23 Lessons
-
Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
What's new in Contacts on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
What's New in Reminders with iOS 16 on the iPhone
-
Track your Medications in the Health App with iOS 16
-
View and Copy Wi-Fi Passwords and Delete Known Networks on your iPhone
-
Show the Battery Percentage on an iPhone with iOS 16
-
Translate Text with the Camera on the iPhone
-
New Filters and a Streamlined Setup for Focus on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
Lift the Subject from the Background in a Photo on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
What's New in Notes with iOS 16 on the iPhone
-
Add Haptic Tap Feedback to the iPhone Keyboard
-
Edit, Undo Sends, and Dictate in Messages with iOS 16
-
Change Notification Styles on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
Apple Introduces Smarter Dictation on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
Emergency Reset and Manage Sharing & Access with Safety Check on the iPhone
-
Prevent the Sleep/Wake button from Ending Calls on the iPhone
-
Unsend, Schedule, and Set Reminders in Mail on the iPhone
-
Pin, share, and create start pages for tab groups, and share settings with Safari
-
Multi-stop Routing and Scheduled Times in the Maps app with iOS 16
-
Detect Duplicates, Copy Edits, and Lock Folders in Photos on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
What's New in the Weather App on the iPhone
-
My Favorite New Features in iOS 16 on the iPhone
-
How to Create and Manage a Shared Library in Photos
-
Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
-
Getting Started on the iPhone18 Lessons
-
Home Button Features
-
iPhone Side Switch and Volume Controls
-
Sleep/Wake On/Off Button Features
-
Navigating the Home Screen
-
Searching your iPhone
-
Today View
-
Notifications and the Notification Center
-
How to find a lost app on your iPhone
-
Accessing and Customizing the Control Center
-
Taking Screenshots
-
Emergency SOS and Medical ID
-
Saving Usernames and Passwords
-
Navigate between Home Screens
-
Accessing and Searching the iPhone's Settings
-
Backing Up your iPhone to iCloud
-
Arranging Apps and Creating Folders for Apps
-
Switching and Quitting Open Apps
-
iPhone Text Replacement: The Ultimate Time-Saver
-
Home Button Features
-
iPhone with Face ID Lessons10 Lessons
-
iPhone Basics43 Lessons
-
Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
-
Access App Features from the iPhone Home Screen
-
Move the Cursor on the iPhone
-
Transfer from an iCloud backup without having to purchase more space
-
Using the Keyboard
-
View and Manage Storage
-
Using Cut, Copy, and Paste
-
Sharing Files including using AirDrop
-
Battery Management Options
-
Viewing Screen Time and Adding Restrictions
-
Scrolling with the New Scrollbar
-
Optimized Battery Charging
-
Gestures for Cursor, Cut, Copy, and Paste
-
Using QuickPath or Slide-to-Type
-
Privacy Options
-
Dark Mode
-
Tips for why you may be receiving Intermittent Phone Calls
-
Wallet and Apple Pay
-
Siri's New Compact Design
-
Drawing with Shape Detection
-
New Date and Time Picker
-
Navigate App History Stack
-
Quickly Switch Networks from the Control Center
-
Enable Caps Lock
-
Access AirDrop Settings through the Control Center
-
Create Alarms from the iPhone's Homescreen
-
Access App Store Updates from your Homescreen
-
Name That Tune on the iPhone
-
Wireless Charging Is Wildly Inefficient
-
Mute Notifications for an Hour or for the Day
-
Schedule Notifications to be delivered in a Notification Summary
-
Keep those Lenses Clean
-
iPhone’s Emergency SOS Auto Call Feature
-
Correct How Siri Pronounces Names
-
Master Your Sleep Routine with iPhone: A Guide to Setting Up Sleep Schedules
-
iPhone File Management: Removing a Download vs Deleting - What's the Difference?
-
Save Documents Anywhere with Print Dialog on the iPhone
-
Save a Document as a PDF from Your iPhone with Ease
-
Combine and Compress Files on the iPhone
-
Too Many iPhone Notifications? Reduce Distractions with Focus Profiles!
-
Trackpad on the iPhone? Find out how in under 2 minutes!
-
Enable Display Zoom for larger Icons & Bigger Text on your iPhone
-
Unlocking Your iPhone's Potential: 11 Tips and Tricks Revealed!
-
Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
-
Home Screen Basics on the iPhone10 Lessons
-
Accessing and Editing the Today View
-
Add Widgets to your Home Screen
-
Hide Home Screens
-
Edit Widgets
-
Creating and Editing Widget Stacks
-
Using Smart Rotate with Widget Stacks
-
Creating and Editing Smart Stacks
-
Looking for More Widgets? Be Sure to Launch Seldom-Used Apps
-
Add and Organize Websites Like Native Apps on iPhone
-
iPhone Standby Mode
-
Accessing and Editing the Today View
-
Working with Apps on the iPhone26 Lessons
-
Deleting Apps
-
App Store: Updates and Interactions
-
Find My App: Find my Friends and Find my iPhone
-
Using Apple Pay and Apple Cash
-
Long-Pressing on App icons
-
Delete and re-add Apple Apps
-
Offloading Apps
-
Moving Multiple Apps
-
App Library
-
Set where to download your Apps
-
App Clips
-
Tips to Quickly Open the Camera
-
View Expired Passes in the Wallet App
-
Find App Updates and Delete Apps through the App Store
-
Lock PDF's by adding a Password
-
Set Where New Apps download to on the iPhone
-
Prevent In-App Rating & Review Notifications
-
Manage App Subscriptions from the iPhone
-
Discover New Features in your Apps on the iPhone
-
Access Your Mac's Files on Your iPhone
-
Search for text within web pages in Safari on the iPhone
-
Find your Lost iPhone Apps!
-
3 Tips on How to Block Annoying Texts on iPhone
-
Are Your iPhone’s Photos a mess? Organize them with CleanMyPhone!
-
9 Tips for Working with Apps on the iPhone
-
Discover How to Free Up Your iPhone Storage Space
-
Deleting Apps
-
iPhone Settings24 Lessons
-
Automatic iOS Software Updates
-
Wifi Networks and Wifi Settings
-
Settings to Help make the iPhone Easier to Read
-
Reset Options for the iPhone
-
Do Not Disturb Options
-
Privacy Settings
-
Adding Parental Controls
-
Changing Notification Sounds
-
Save Battery life with Low Power Mode
-
Manage App Store Subscriptions
-
Change Notification Banner Style
-
Delete iOS System Updates
-
Set your Default Browser
-
Set your Default Mail App
-
Private Wi-Fi Addresses
-
Low Data Mode
-
After Upgrading to iOS 15, Check Do Not Disturb in Focus Settings
-
View your Battery Usage by App
-
Display Incoming Calls as a Banner or in Full Screen
-
Save Space on Your iPhone with These Photo Storage Tips
-
Ensure your memories persist after you pass away with a Legacy Contact
-
The App Privacy Report on the iPhone: Discover what Data is being accessed by your apps
-
Passwords App for the iPhone? Yes! Learn how in 5 mins!
-
Automatically Set Do Not Disturb based on your Location
-
Automatic iOS Software Updates
-
Accessibility Options on the iPhone11 Lessons
-
Back Tap Accessibility
-
Sound Recognition
-
Using the iPhone as a Magnifier
-
Zoom Control in Accessibility
-
See what has changed in apps that have been automatically updated
-
Play Background Sounds
-
Add Button Shapes to Buttons
-
View all the Display & Text Size Options available
-
Change Display & Text Size with Per-App Settings
-
Use your iPhone to control your iPad effortlessly from anywhere in the Room
-
iPhone Background Sounds (iOS17)
-
Back Tap Accessibility
-
Lessons for Older Versions of iOS3 Lessons
Using the iPhone as a Magnifier
Learn how to use your iPhone as a magnifier, including adding the Magnifier to your Home Screen.
With the iPhone, you could always use it as a magnifier. You take temporary photos of something you want to magnify, like a menu, and then you can apply filters to make it easier to read. With iOS 14, Apple added the option to take multiple photos, as well as add the Magnifier to our Home Screen. See how to use the Magnifier in this video for the iPhone.
Video Transcript (video also has closed captions):
In this video, we’re going to be taking a look at the magnifier tool on the iPhone, including the new features that Apple added to it in iOS 14. With the magnifier tool, what we do is we take a photo of something that we need to read, and from there, we can make it larger, we can enlarge it, or even apply filters to it to make it easier to read. Let’s take a look at this magnifier tool on the iPhone. Let’s go to my iPhone.
Now, the first thing we need to do is we need to open up our Settings app. We need to turn the magnifier tool on. So I’m just going to swipe over the left and then open up my Settings app. From here, we need to go to Accessibility. So I swipe up until I find Accessibility. Now what we need to do is we need to go to Magnifier. You’re going to see that mine is turned off. So let’s go and turn this on. Tap on it, and then we tap on the slider. So now that I have it on, what does the Magnifier do? How do I access it? Well, let’s first talk about how we access it. In past versions of iOS, I’m going to go back here; in past versions of iOS, the way that we accessed the magnifier tool was we had to add an Accessibility Shortcut. An Accessibility Shortcut is where you can set what happens when you press in on the sleep-wake button three times. Mine is set to open up the Magnifier. So if I were to press in on the sleep-wake button three times, I’d get my Magnifier.
But now there’s an easier way to access the Magnifier, or I think it’s an easier way. We can now add it as an app icon. This is new and iOS 14. This is one of the new features they’ve added. The first thing we need to do is we need to access it in the library, the App Library. So I’m going to swipe up from the bottom here. And now I need to go to my App Library. This is where it is located by default, once we add it. So now I just go up to App Library here, and I type in Magnifier. You’re going to see we have my Magnifier here. So this is one way of accessing it, by going to the app library, but also what I can do now, if I need to access it a lot, what I can do is I can tap and hold on this and then just drag it to my home screen. So let’s go ahead and drag this to my first home screen here. We’re just going to put it at the top. I tap on done. And now, if I want to open up the Magnifier, I just tap on Magnifier here. So that’s one new feature they added with iOS 14. We can now access it like any other app.
So now, let’s see how this works. I’m going to open this up. I have a box here, Wireless Go. These are wireless microphones, and what I would like to do is I would like to read this. I can’t read this. The printer is too small. Now, what I could do is I could just take a photo of it and then zoom in on the photo. But with the Photos app, what it’ll do is it’ll also save that in the Photos app. I just need a temporary picture of it. Also, we have a few more tools that are easily accessible with the Magnifier app; we can apply filters; we can change the brightness. If I want to zoom in on it, I can easily take the slider and slide it over to the right to zoom in. I can also zoom in on it after I take the photo. I can pinch to zoom in, I’m just pinching with my fingers, and then I can also apply a filter. To make it black and white, I just tap on this icon here, and now it just makes it black and white. Again, making it easier to read.
Let’s say I wanted to take two pictures. I need to take a picture of this column, and I need to take a picture of this column. All I have to do is just go down to these two squares here; this is new and iOS 14; I tap on it. Now we can see it as set for multi-shot. I just take my first photo, and now I go over to the right to take my second photo. And when I want to read them, I tap on view, and we can see that I can easily view my first column. And then, if I swipe over the left, I can see my second column. Swipe back over to the right, and I’m looking at my first column here. Once I take the photo, I can go and zoom in again. I can also apply filters to it. So we can still apply our filters and zoom in even after we take our photo.
When I am done, I just go up to End here, and now it is ready to take another photo. It did not save that photo. So I’m not going to find that photo in my Photos app. To take another photo, I’m just going to take one of the whole thing here; I just frame it right, and then I go down to shutter here, and I take my photo.
We can rearrange the tools here. I go down to the gear here, and I have more options. I have secondary controls that I can add and remove. I can adjust the brightness, the contrast, the filters, as well as use a flashlight. And then I also have my filters. Again, when I’m done, I tap on done here. It brings me back to my camera, and when I am done using the Magnifier, I just swipe up or press in on the home button, and we’re back at my home screen. And again, it did not save those photos to my Photos app. Now where I’ve used this is with menus at a restaurant, especially large menus. Now with the new multi-shot here, what I can do is I can take several photos of the menu, and then I can just swipe around on my iPhone to read that menu. I can zoom in and out. I can make it black and white to take all the color away, thereby making it easier to read.
So that’s the new magnifier tool, or what is new in the magnifier tool with iOS 14. With the magnifier tool, what we’re able to do is take a photo or multiple photos, since iOS 14, of anything that we may need to read. We can zoom in on it. We can apply filters to it. It does not save any of the photos that we take to our Photos library. Since iOS 14, we’re also able to add the Magnifier to our home screen.
So that’s the magnifier tool, and what’s new with iOS 14 with the magnifier tool on the iPhone.