iPhone Tips & Lessons
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Classes on the iPhone4 Lessons
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New in iOS 184 Lessons
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My Favorite New Features in iOS 179 Lessons
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New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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Unlock the Power of Shared Passwords on iOS 17 and your iPhone!
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New Notes App Features on the iPhone with iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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Interactive Widgets & Standby with iOS 17
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Easily Switch search engines in Safari on the iPhone - New in iOS 17!
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Simplify the iPhone and it’s apps with Assistive Access
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Simplify PDF Form Completion on the iPhone with Autofill - New in iOS 17
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New Messages App Features in iOS 17 - My 4 Favorites!
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Edit and customize your Contact Poster and Photo on iOS 17
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New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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New Features Introduced with iOS 16 Lessons23 Lessons
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Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's new in Contacts on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in Reminders with iOS 16 on the iPhone
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Track your Medications in the Health App with iOS 16
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View and Copy Wi-Fi Passwords and Delete Known Networks on your iPhone
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Show the Battery Percentage on an iPhone with iOS 16
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Translate Text with the Camera on the iPhone
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New Filters and a Streamlined Setup for Focus on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Lift the Subject from the Background in a Photo on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in Notes with iOS 16 on the iPhone
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Add Haptic Tap Feedback to the iPhone Keyboard
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Edit, Undo Sends, and Dictate in Messages with iOS 16
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Change Notification Styles on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Apple Introduces Smarter Dictation on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Emergency Reset and Manage Sharing & Access with Safety Check on the iPhone
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Prevent the Sleep/Wake button from Ending Calls on the iPhone
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Unsend, Schedule, and Set Reminders in Mail on the iPhone
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Pin, share, and create start pages for tab groups, and share settings with Safari
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Multi-stop Routing and Scheduled Times in the Maps app with iOS 16
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Detect Duplicates, Copy Edits, and Lock Folders in Photos on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in the Weather App on the iPhone
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My Favorite New Features in iOS 16 on the iPhone
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How to Create and Manage a Shared Library in Photos
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Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Getting Started on the iPhone18 Lessons
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Home Button Features
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iPhone Side Switch and Volume Controls
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Sleep/Wake On/Off Button Features
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Navigating the Home Screen
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Searching your iPhone
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Today View
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Notifications and the Notification Center
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How to find a lost app on your iPhone
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Accessing and Customizing the Control Center
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Taking Screenshots
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Emergency SOS and Medical ID
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Saving Usernames and Passwords
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Navigate between Home Screens
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Accessing and Searching the iPhone's Settings
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Backing Up your iPhone to iCloud
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Arranging Apps and Creating Folders for Apps
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Switching and Quitting Open Apps
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iPhone Text Replacement: The Ultimate Time-Saver
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Home Button Features
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iPhone with Face ID Lessons10 Lessons
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iPhone Basics43 Lessons
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Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
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Access App Features from the iPhone Home Screen
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Move the Cursor on the iPhone
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Transfer from an iCloud backup without having to purchase more space
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Using the Keyboard
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View and Manage Storage
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Using Cut, Copy, and Paste
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Sharing Files including using AirDrop
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Battery Management Options
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Viewing Screen Time and Adding Restrictions
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Scrolling with the New Scrollbar
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Optimized Battery Charging
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Gestures for Cursor, Cut, Copy, and Paste
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Using QuickPath or Slide-to-Type
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Privacy Options
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Dark Mode
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Tips for why you may be receiving Intermittent Phone Calls
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Wallet and Apple Pay
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Siri's New Compact Design
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Drawing with Shape Detection
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New Date and Time Picker
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Navigate App History Stack
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Quickly Switch Networks from the Control Center
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Enable Caps Lock
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Access AirDrop Settings through the Control Center
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Create Alarms from the iPhone's Homescreen
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Access App Store Updates from your Homescreen
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Name That Tune on the iPhone
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Wireless Charging Is Wildly Inefficient
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Mute Notifications for an Hour or for the Day
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Schedule Notifications to be delivered in a Notification Summary
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Keep those Lenses Clean
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iPhone’s Emergency SOS Auto Call Feature
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Correct How Siri Pronounces Names
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Master Your Sleep Routine with iPhone: A Guide to Setting Up Sleep Schedules
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iPhone File Management: Removing a Download vs Deleting - What's the Difference?
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Save Documents Anywhere with Print Dialog on the iPhone
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Save a Document as a PDF from Your iPhone with Ease
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Combine and Compress Files on the iPhone
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Too Many iPhone Notifications? Reduce Distractions with Focus Profiles!
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Trackpad on the iPhone? Find out how in under 2 minutes!
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Enable Display Zoom for larger Icons & Bigger Text on your iPhone
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Unlocking Your iPhone's Potential: 11 Tips and Tricks Revealed!
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Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
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Home Screen Basics on the iPhone10 Lessons
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Accessing and Editing the Today View
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Add Widgets to your Home Screen
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Hide Home Screens
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Edit Widgets
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Creating and Editing Widget Stacks
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Using Smart Rotate with Widget Stacks
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Creating and Editing Smart Stacks
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Looking for More Widgets? Be Sure to Launch Seldom-Used Apps
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Add and Organize Websites Like Native Apps on iPhone
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iPhone Standby Mode
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Accessing and Editing the Today View
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Working with Apps on the iPhone26 Lessons
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Deleting Apps
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App Store: Updates and Interactions
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Find My App: Find my Friends and Find my iPhone
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Using Apple Pay and Apple Cash
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Long-Pressing on App icons
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Delete and re-add Apple Apps
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Offloading Apps
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Moving Multiple Apps
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App Library
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Set where to download your Apps
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App Clips
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Tips to Quickly Open the Camera
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View Expired Passes in the Wallet App
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Find App Updates and Delete Apps through the App Store
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Lock PDF's by adding a Password
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Set Where New Apps download to on the iPhone
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Prevent In-App Rating & Review Notifications
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Manage App Subscriptions from the iPhone
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Discover New Features in your Apps on the iPhone
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Access Your Mac's Files on Your iPhone
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Search for text within web pages in Safari on the iPhone
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Find your Lost iPhone Apps!
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3 Tips on How to Block Annoying Texts on iPhone
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Are Your iPhone’s Photos a mess? Organize them with CleanMyPhone!
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9 Tips for Working with Apps on the iPhone
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Discover How to Free Up Your iPhone Storage Space
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Deleting Apps
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iPhone Settings24 Lessons
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Automatic iOS Software Updates
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Wifi Networks and Wifi Settings
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Settings to Help make the iPhone Easier to Read
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Reset Options for the iPhone
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Do Not Disturb Options
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Privacy Settings
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Adding Parental Controls
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Changing Notification Sounds
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Save Battery life with Low Power Mode
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Manage App Store Subscriptions
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Change Notification Banner Style
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Delete iOS System Updates
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Set your Default Browser
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Set your Default Mail App
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Private Wi-Fi Addresses
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Low Data Mode
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After Upgrading to iOS 15, Check Do Not Disturb in Focus Settings
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View your Battery Usage by App
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Display Incoming Calls as a Banner or in Full Screen
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Save Space on Your iPhone with These Photo Storage Tips
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Ensure your memories persist after you pass away with a Legacy Contact
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The App Privacy Report on the iPhone: Discover what Data is being accessed by your apps
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Passwords App for the iPhone? Yes! Learn how in 5 mins!
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Automatically Set Do Not Disturb based on your Location
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Automatic iOS Software Updates
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Accessibility Options on the iPhone11 Lessons
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Back Tap Accessibility
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Sound Recognition
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Using the iPhone as a Magnifier
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Zoom Control in Accessibility
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See what has changed in apps that have been automatically updated
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Play Background Sounds
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Add Button Shapes to Buttons
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View all the Display & Text Size Options available
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Change Display & Text Size with Per-App Settings
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Use your iPhone to control your iPad effortlessly from anywhere in the Room
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iPhone Background Sounds (iOS17)
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Back Tap Accessibility
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Lessons for Older Versions of iOS3 Lessons
Creating and Editing Smart Stacks
Learn how to have the iPhone create a Smart Stack for you, and then edit that Smart Stack.
In this lesson for the iPhone, I look at Smart Stacks. With Smart Stacks, the iPhone itself creates the widget stack for you. It adds the widgets to the stack. Once you add a Smart Stack, you can then edit it by rearranging the widgets, deleting specific widgets, and adding your own widgets to the stack. See how Smart Stacks work in this lesson on the iPhone.
Video Transcript (video also has closed captions):
Now, in addition to having your stacks of widgets you smart rotate, which means that they’re going to show you the widget based on Siri knowledge or machine learning, the iPhone also has a smart widget. With a smart widget. Not only will it rotate through the different widgets in that stack, but it creates that stack of widgets on its own. You do not add the widgets to that stack. Again, it uses machine learning or Siri knowledge to create the stack. Let’s take a look at smart stacks on the iPhone. Let’s go to my iPhone.
So if we look at my widgets here on my home screen, you’re going to see that this is a stack of widgets. I created the stack. I added the stocks widget. I added the photos widget. I added the calendar widget. Well, as I mentioned in the introduction, we can also add a smart stack. With a smart stack, the iPhone itself will add the widgets to that stack. Once we add that smart stack, what we’re then able to do is modify it. We can remove widgets from that stack and add other ones to it.
How do we do that? Well, the first thing we need to do is we need to add that smart stack. Now, I tap and hold on any one of the app icons or any one of the widgets. I’m going to tap and hold on my calendar widget here. We get into our jiggly mode, and then we go up to +. From here, we have our library of widgets. And when I swipe up, you’re going to see smart stack. We do have different sizes. So I tap on this, and now I swipe to view the different sizes. And again, when I add this, I am not going to be adding any of the widgets myself. It’s going to be creating the stack on its own; the iPhone will.
So now, let’s go and add this. I’m going to go with this one here. Now I tap and hold, and then I drag it up, and let’s go to my second screen here. So now, this is a smart stack. We can see when we go over to the right; we have a number of widgets in it. As you saw, I did not add those widgets. I’m going to tap on done, and now to go through these different widgets, I swipe.
It’s just another stack at this point. It does turn on smart rotate by default, which means it will show me the most relevant widget based on Siri knowledge. So if I check my weather in the morning and the weather widget is in the smart stack, it will show me the weather widget. When I first wake up.
To edit this widget, we tap and hold on it; we get a little menu, and you’re going to see at it stack. From here, I’m able to turn on and off smart rotate. You’re going to see; we have our slider to the right. I can rearrange these, and then I can also delete them. Let’s say I no longer want to have Duck Duck Go in here. I swipe this over to the left, and you’re going to see delete. I can also keep to the left to delete it.
What about adding widgets? Maybe you want to add your widget here that the iPhone did not add when you created this widget. The first thing we need to do is when he took close this. So I’m going to tap on the X, and now we need to go into our jiggling mode where we can modify our home screen as well as our widgets. So I tap and hold on any one of the app icons or any one of the widgets. I wait until they are jiggling. I go up to the + in the upper left-hand corner to access all of my different widgets. From here, I find the widget I want to add and drag it on top of that smart widget. Let’s go and add the weather widget here. I tap on it. I do have to choose the same size, so I have to choose the size here, and now I drag it up and place it on top of that other widget, my smart widget. You’re going to see, we have our thick border here, which means I’m adding this widget to that stack. I let go. And now I’ve added the weather widget to that smart stack.
So now if the first thing I do when I get up in the morning is go to this weather widget. The iPhone will know this through Siri knowledge, and then it’ll start showing this widget first thing in the morning.
So that’s a smart stack on the iPhone. With smart stacks, we do not create the stack. The iPhone will create the stack for us. Once it creates the stack. It does turn on smart rotate, which means it’s going to show us the most relevant widget based on Siri knowledge. We can add it, that smart stack. We can reorder how those widgets are in that stack. We can remove widgets, and then we can also add new widgets to that smart stack. And of course, you can also use a smart stack in the today view.
So that’s the smart stack on the iPhone.