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0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Holding your phone for selfies is awkward
1:15 - You've captured a video in the wrong orientation
2:13 - You can't locate a photo you just saved
3:29 - You can't scan directly into Messages
4:46 - Phonecalls keep interrupting you
7:59 - You miss the Home button
9:17 - The QR Scanner is awkward
10:11 - You're running out of storage space
13:54 - The Torch comes on too bright
15:04 - Camera Settings always reset
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[@ProperHonestTech]

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[@emilyrosenberg1185]

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[@RahulDebAru]

For the first issues, i.e. taking selfies, do not use the on screen shutter button at all. Instead, use the volume up/down button to take the photo. It is much easy to hold in that way. There will be no risk of dropping the phone.

[@ZotmundSzele]

They should invent gesture controls. On a Samsung (and I am not here to troll), you can hold your hand up or say "shoot" and the phone will take 3 or 5 selfies, so you could even move a bit around to have variations.

[@carolineb7149]

I’m a source of wonder to my iPhone friends, thanks to your useful tips. Your videos are very professional: you don’t gabble, but don’t waste time either; you keep things to the point; you always use good screenshots to show us what to do; you speak clearly, with good diction; you never use annoying KZbin interjections such as “so let’s go ahead and…”; you use the word “literally” correctly. Excellent work! Other KZbin presenters could learn a great deal from you. I wish they would. Keep your videos coming.

[@NickWilson10]

When using the camera you can use the volume buttons as a shutter button to. Either the up or down button works. This is easier than tapping the screen and you can normally do it 1 handed

[@simonknight2973]

Do you not find this is another issue as your finger or thumb on the other side always turns the screen off.

[@whatsupchicken]

Can you just say "shoot" like on Androids?

[@RobertIancu]

@@simonknight2973 maybe don't push it?

[@RagingBad]

@@whatsupchickenno, you can’t, with iOS you always have to be looking for alternative steps to do simple tasks

[@RagingBad]

@@RobertIancumaybe accidents happen frequently on non intuitive systems?

[@brooos]

My favorite new discovery is for adjusting screen brightness (which I do often) for day, night or different locations. I simply press Siri and say "brightness 25%". It's great for getting an exact setting.

[@LadyTracyOfTheDisk]

A good set of tips--thank you. I've been noticing that sometimes when I pick my phone up or put it down, that even though I'm not touching the screen, it goes into jiggle mode. This is highly annoying, so if you have a fix for this, Tom, my gratitude will be endless.

[@KimberlyLetsGo]

THIS is exactly why I love your channel!! These are all things that I really benefit from. Thanks for all the hard work you put into the channel.

[@Arsalan_2210]

Your videos are extremely useful Tom. Thank you for making such amazing content. The simplicity of your videos without any nonsense music or intros... just wow. getting straight to the point always! I make sure to watch your videos till the very end brother. Love from India.

[@n-rajesh]

While I am an iPhone/ MacOS user for several years, I still continue watching your videos in full knowing well that there will be at least one “Aaha” moment. Happy to say this one has many such moments! Thanks for the informative videos 👍🏽

[@bethdrsrdp626]

Here you are! The singlehandedly most frustrating thing with my iPhone, bar none, and you have helped me resolve it in less than two seconds.

[@lloydpbabu]

Good set of tips! Appreciate your work.

[@DailyDamage]

Excellent video on various aspects of iPhone usage! 😊

[@dineshshah1891]

What can I say ! As always your tips are amazing and I learnt a lot and keep learning on an ongoing basis. Thank you very much. Your videos are very easy to follow and you actually demonstrate and explain stepwise extremely well and so much easier to follow . Thank you

[@KarlBeeThree]

great job! These are some of the best suggestions I've run across yet. I've immediately used several of your tips. Thanks!

[@CosminRotaru]

Very good tips! Thank you!

[@MartinSchlender]

Nothing new in this one - but something I´d like to add. The torch in the Apple Watch is a feature I use much more in my kids room than the iPhones torch (exactly as you decribed it). There is a bonus feature: First enable cinema mode. If you then start the torch it´s red light which is not as disturbing as white light. You can get the same by swiping left twice after you started with the standard white light.

[@yourDecisi0n]

I don’t get why Apple did not just put the red torch in front of the white torch in any scenario. I mean, you can always swipe right for a brighter flashlight, but in very dark places, where you prefer the red flashlight, you would have it

[@MartinSchlender]

@@yourDecisi0n yeah but the white light starts with a very low setting so you can swipe quickly to avoid a too bright start 🤪

[@yourDecisi0n]

@@MartinSchlender Well, it still screws with your vision at night even if it’s just for a small period of time

[@MartinSchlender]

@@yourDecisi0n true

[@carolineb7149]

Great tip. I didn’t know that and will definitely use it.

[@AimWithPurpose]

Great video!! One thing I would like to add regarding deleting apps such as Instagram.(I’m not sure if anyone else has said this). When deleting social media apps like IG, FB, X aka Twitter. Don’t worry about all of your information being lost. Your account information, feed, and timeline are all saved to those platforms. Deleting the app and reinstalling it will save you tons of storage space be you don’t lose anything. 😊

[@olderthantony9049]

Love the channel. My most annoying thing is the Music EQ which I constantly have to change depending on whether I am listening to music in my car, my ear buds, wireless speaker or my home stereo. I’d love to be able to set up EQ profiles which could be easily accessed from control center.

[@StephenEhrlichPhotos]

Thanks for these helpful tips.

[@javtimestwo]

I had no idea about the torch/flashlight option 👏🏽 So often I have wished I had more or less light and assumed it was a fixtured setting. UNREAL! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to additional videos

[@cheska9999]

Sometimes I wonder what I would do without you😅 this video is immensely beneficial, and later today and working with pdf on Patreon, I’m going to go over and implement about 90 percent of these. Thanks as always!

[@brianbrino4310]

Thank you for your excellent video with all those hints to handle the iPhone in a faster and more practical manner!

[@RT-tn4ry]

Thanks , helped a lot.

[@ThomasEJohnson]

Thanks for the tips.

[@janeybaby069]

Yet another informative & helpful video …. Thank you xx

[@SK-ki1te]

Thanks! You’re Awesome!

[@royturv]

After searching the Apple store for a decent QR scanner, I now see I had one all along in control centre, thanks!

[@alexiszee5770]

this has been an excellent video great work😀

[@Canadian_Living_in_Mexico]

The Anker products look useful. Do a quick follow up later (if allowed) on their durability and effectiveness.

[@lesterregis9415]

Always great videos, keep up the great work

[@Steve_Marsden]

My man! Single tap home button feature for assistive touch is huge for me. Now my mom can finally upgrade from her dying iPhone 8! Also, I really appreciate the chapter breakdown. Great videos!

[@yourDecisi0n]

I don’t understand why the Home Bar would be worse than the physical home button. I mean, swiping up for home isn’t that hard, plus you have more screen size available

[@Steve_Marsden]

Well, if you don’t understand why swiping up from home might be hard, then you’re probably not 73 with arthritis and a tremor. The fact that the feature is in the Accessibility settings should have been a clue.

[@KyleJamesFrazer]

Wow - that assistive touch button is insane. I’ve set one of them to reachability as the gesture never works for me! What a cool feature .

[@debbiehekel2871]

Great tips!

[@smittyone66]

loved the video thanks

[@bayoharoldsodipo]

How sad that I actually knew all these 'fixes'. I am 61 years of age 😂😂

[@llukem]

Agreed. These are all the more well known of the “issues” and things about iOS and the video sort of felt like 16 minutes of Captain Obvious, but unfortunately there are a lot of people who use tech everyday and really don’t bother to learn the basics of it, so videos like this can be really helpful when Googling something that’s bugged you for months just seems completely out of the question (which ironically, is not the first thing many people think to do).

[@RagingBad]

Good for you

[@EM-ru3eh]

Watching this video was a great use of my time!! I've been hanging on to my older 'home button' phone, because I can't imagine living without that button. You've given me a whole new reason for living, thank you!! 😆👍

[@paultrewin5871]

I too was a little unsure about losing the home button. I needn't have been. Now I have both an iPad Air and iPhone without a home button. It is so liberating not having to press it all the time. Now, my old iPad Mini, which has a home button, is a real pain. Go on dive in, make the change. Then, if you really can't live without it, you have Tom's fix. I would be prepared to wager you won't need it though.

[@EM-ru3eh]

Thank you for the kind words of encouragement! @@paultrewin5871

[@Valizan]

Dude! Did you just surreptitiously Rickroll us @10:06??! 😂

[@jeanwillis2646]

Polite question what does Rickroll mean please🤔

[@Valizan]

@@jeanwillis2646 Hi Jean! Rickrolling is when those present are treated to an unexpected appearance of Rick Astley’s 1987 video for his hit song, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling Rickrolling people has become a gentle trick to play on people. At my friend’s wedding, as she was walking up the aisle, the music changed to a classical music version of Never Gonna Give You Up, and we all laughed because the bride had rickrolled wedding attendees. Pulling a Rickroll off on people has become a fine art at this point. It appears in memes online, and the song will pop up in the last place you expect it. Our host pulled a Proper Honest Trick on us by having a shot of Never Gonna Give You Up on his phone screen at one point. :D

[@spotsandstripes2]

@@jeanwillis2646 google it.. it’s dropping Rick astley - ‘never gonna give you up’ on unsuspecting viewers ..

[@Steve21945]

@@jeanwillis2646 google “meaning rickroll”. It’s quite interesting.

[@Kaila999]

@@jeanwillis2646if you go to that timestamp, you’ll see a Rick Astley video

[@paultrewin5871]

Turning on the torch is always fiddly for me as I often don't have my reading glasses on when I need the torch. So I just say "Siri, torch on" and "Siri torch off" when I'm done. Unfortunately, Siri is not bright enough to dim the torch.

[@teknod16]

Great tips 👍🏼

[@nmundy100]

Very good tips. Thanks😂

[@hovelad]

As always there are one or two things in your video that I didn't know about or think of using! Selfies will be easier moving forward and torch on my Ultra 2 now assigned to action button!

[@richd70]

The scanning document and sending or copying is a game changer. I would like to see apple implement the scanning option in to the camera app in future updates

[@cynthiasymons]

This was an excellent video. Thanks so much. A question: This may seem silly to some, but I have a few conversations in Messages with close family or friends that I have saved for years. They include photos that were exchanged, etc. I have the photos, but deleting the message loses the context, too, of course, and I am very reluctant to just delete them…they form a sort of “timeline” that I frequently go back to, particularly with certain people. Is there any good way to archive them, so that you can keep and access them if you want to? Maybe I am alone in wanting such an alternative, but I’d sure like to be able to do it.

[@billiamnotbob]

Are you trolling Mr. Whosetheboss's bit there with Astly? Nice. I laughed a good one at that. Useful vid sir. My thanks!

[@Unknown1243]

Some of these issues are on every phone, not just iPhone, such as the camera shutter button. Missing home button isn't really a frustrating 'problem'. The torch is never really too bright because by default it's on the dimmest setting, and running out of storage space isn't an issue with the iPhone. It's inevitable for it to happen on any phone

[@richardsousa2625]

Is there a way to switch reminders based on focus? I like to have reminders on my personal and work home screens but it always has the first reminder on screen. So at work it has my shopping list, and my work stuff if sort of buried

[@pilotsharkshanger9182]

Good video, very informative, and easy to follow. I have just moved to Apple from Android. My one immense frustration with the Apple (13 Pro) is that it's the lock screen at the bottom. On the left side is the flashlight/torch, and on the right side is the camera. So when you pick up the phone, you sometimes (lots for me) turn on the flashlight/torch or camera. Can I turn them off? Smiling, I hope this makes sense, and thank you. CAVU

[@deetrvl4life875]

OMG thank you so much! I got 5 tips from your video that I had no idea about and I've been a user for years. (Apparently not a very THOROUGH user, haha) Great video as usual!

[@roger1818]

One thing that drives me crazy is since I don’t subscribe to Apple Music but store music on my phone, I have data turned off for the Apple Music app. The problem is, starting around iOS 16, when I use Siri to try and play a song in the car using CarPlay, it complains that there is no network connection and then proceeds to play the song or anyway, since a network connection is not needed.

[@cmdrbozo]

Phoe interruptions: if I'm not mistaken pressing any side button once silents a call, and two presses sends it to voicemail.

[@JeffPom]

For sending a scan, you could also scan to files and do the same.

[@lorianderson199]

Great video

[@LucSchots]

any way to put app icons or widgets where I decide to put them. e.g. only at the bottom line of the home screen?

[@remic2902]

Thank you. To me, the most annoying thing (and the most useless feature) is the concentration mode that you can select via the lock Screen. Each time I hold my phone in my hand without looking at it, it keeps wanting to change my home screen. So annoying. Can we disable this feature ? Thanks.

[@pedrocosta7521]

excellent video! What I'm going to ask doesn't have much to do with the topic but... how do you clean your mouse? I have a similar one and it gets quite dirty with use.

[@Ddiakova]

And here I am with an iPhone 12 mini 64 GB when you started talking about the 128 GB one :D I felt seen :D Funny thing though - the 64 GBs are absolutely enough for me. I have a very strict hygiene regimen and there's nothing unnecessary on my phone, including photos.

[@thatKaran]

What’s your process on deleting redundant photos from an event (ex: a birthday party or a day trip). I get frustrated choosing which ones to keep and end up keeping all, which eats up too much space. 🤕

[@euphoriclycanthroat]

@@thatKaran I transfer all my photos to pc to specific albums then use iTunes to sync those albums to my phone. It still takes up the same storage on the phone but that way I can have albums on my phone with next to no photos in the ‘recents’. I know you could make albums on the phone but the same photos have to be in ‘recents’ and having 2 of the same photo in different places drove me mad.

[@Kluivertnr1]

There is a big frustration about the iphone, also about the ipad > in Photo app you can not move a photo to an album or folder. Always a copy will made. It’s impossible to organise the photos.

[@yewwiaskanwit.v1074]

You won a new subscriber ❤️

[@TimpossibleOne]

2:45 you don't have to tap the time to fast scroll to the top of the page. You can tap any part of the top of the screen and it'll take you there. This works anywhere you can scroll.

[@paulwaite2219]

I have just found your excellant channel. I have learnt so much already. QUESTION help please with ios17 I can no longer get Airdrop to work iPhone 13 to iPad Pro. or reverse. I have tried many suggestions.

[@ChrisMustermann]

As you are talking about the storage-problem: Is there any workaround to stop Instagram from trashing your phone? I mean some other workaround than deleting and reinstalling the app?

[@mickyd2673]

Hi I have a problem with my I14 when using car play with lightning cable on Apple Maps it overheats and shuts down with a thermostat red on desktop frustrating when you are trying to to go somewhere any suggestions?

[@sammayet9002]

Excellent ❤❤❤

[@alianjohnson6035]

great tips. i dont have the small task bar above my email keypad, how do i add that. cheers

[@weircottage]

Brilliant, thanks…

[@quibblegaze]

0:22: 💡 Tips to improve selfie angles on iPhone for better comfort and ease. 2:08: 📷 Troubleshooting missing photos in iPhone library due to date sorting. 4:50: 📱 Optimize iPhone call settings for uninterrupted use and avoid unknown callers. 7:12: 🔋 Portable Wireless Power Bank for iPhones 9:40: 📱 Efficiently scan QR codes on iPhone and prevent link disappearance for quick access. 12:06: 📱 Managing iPhone storage by offloading apps and sorting by date last used. 14:14: 🔦 Optimize brightness levels on iPhone torch for various scenarios and use Apple Watch as a flashlight. Timestamps by Tammy AI

[@petermclennan6781]

My previous Android phone would screw up the video orientation if I hit the record button while the camera was facing down. Common, right? You're looking down at the screen, you roll camera and then raise the camera to the shooting position, but the camera took the ambiguous down-pointing start of the shot as if you were intentionally shooting in portrait mode. I haven't tested this with my brand new iPhone, but that might be the cause of this annoying error.

[@honda_maniac]

coming from android first time ios user but gallery it’s weird without a camera folder I don’t want to move my pics by myself into a folder the os should do this

[@DonLekei]

The most annoying thing on the iphone is the light and camera buttons at the bottom of the screen that turn on the flashlight by accident when you're putting your phone in your phone case or pocket so the next time you reach for the phone the battery is dead because the flashlight's been on for 4 hours or because you had accidentally opened the camera app and killed the battery. I have yet to find a setting adjustment or any way to prevent this other than trading my iphone in for an Android phone.

[@Inkling777]

You might want to do a video on how Assistance feature can benefit anyone.

[@misaelmuniz7418]

What iPhone 📲 you using

[@sobyasachimukhopadhyay5903]

How can i use Trucaller App in iPhone as I used to use in Android

[@varkowsky]

Another frustration: Haptic Touch by default is too long, but can be shortened in the accessibility part.

[@MrMitchPope]

With the QR code scanner, once you open the link, if you go to any other app, the temporary safari page the link was on disappears. Is there any way to get it back? It's especially annoying when you are filling out a survey and have to start over.

[@lsignorelli]

Tap the safari logo in the lower right and it will kick over to a proper safari tab. Until I figured that out, it was also very annoying!

[@FiresideCoffee]

Is there any way to make my iPhone 13 screen so not every single mm is touch sensitive? When watching a KZbin video, if I pick up my phone for just a second, I am constantly switching videos. It’s so annoying. That is one of the main things I regret about upgrading from my iPhone 7.

[@dplj4428]

0:55 selfie made more comfortable.

[@sagarmore4200]

How do we turn off the "screen lights up when any notification arrives" on the iPhone. CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP?

[@PrasadRaut]

There is one more feature I miss after moving from Android to iOS is vibration/feedback by phone app once the call is attended by another person.

[@jsjwalker]

Is there a way to pull contact info to send to someone thru text messages? I often want to send an address or number to people but I don’t want to share the contact.

[@bunchesnbarrels]

I always use the volume button to take pics from far away on my iPhone.

[@booohooooo]

you can also press "volume up" to take photos.

[@driver8703]

I am having a issue with focus, I have certain contacts saved as part of it. But every 24-36 hours it removes my mom’s contact randomly. She is on a iPhone that is updated and I’ve tried entering the contact info in different times including sending it to me directly from her phone, yet it still does this. All my other contacts in the focus are iPhones as well or a couple of landlines, but hers is the only one that keeps getting removed. Does anyone else have this issue?

[@repla2992]

Although these are known solutions it is a useful wrap up for the beginners 😉.

[@samanthawinfield689]

Hi Tom - I love your videos and newsletter. This comment relates to your newsletter of Friday 8th March in which you mentioned the phone update that is available to iOS 17.4. In the tip of the week you said there could be issues with the screen not being responsive following the update - I have not tried it yet - but this seems to be very poor practice by Apple if that is the case. ? Can you comment a bit more please. I am almost afraid to to do the update now as the solution seemed a bit too complicated for me to want to tackle ! Many thanks - was not sure how to contact you other than through comments on KZbin.

[@ProperHonestTech]

No need to be concerned. I perhaps didn't make it clear enough in the newsletter, but the fact that I experienced an issue when upgrading does not mean there's a wider issue, it was just that I got unlucky. If there was, it would be all over the news. Yes, there's a chance that you could also have an issue when updating, this is the case every time, but the chance is slim. And if you do face an issue, Apple Customer Support will likely be able to assist you.

[@ManuelGarcia-ck2he]

There is a line at the bottom of my iPhone ____ that keeps closing my apps as I am using them. At work, or play. I would love to know how to disable it. As I am using the iPhone it closed the app mid stream at work and as I was playing my game. I love a big iPhone always have. But if I did not need it for work, I would have stop the car and brake it. I am old and just use it for work.

[@yourDecisi0n]

The line you describe is for gesture control. It is your Home Bar and therefore cannot really be removed. I have good news for you, though. Whenever you accidentally swipe up on this line, you will go to the home screen as you might already have noticed. However, when you now swipe right on the line, you will reopen the app you just closed. Do it once more and you will see the second last app you have opened. You can then swipe left to open the last app you opened. So, swiping left and right controls which recent app you will see. For a more visual approach, you can also drag the line upwards and hold it for about a second, then you see all your recent apps

[@alelu69ya]

Хорошо!!!

[@stephenfaure]

The wallpaper changing so easily is annoying. Is there a way to lock it?

[@AuXXKeyz]

Two other things that just come up and interrupt you 1. The battery is low @ 20% notification 2. When you on airplane mode or 5G is disconnected and changing networks and you get “cellular data is turned off”

[@carltonbirds]

Very lovely.

[@arielspalter7425]

Holy crap, this virtual button is amazing.

[@EugeneKee]

Once you scanned a qr code and accidentally swiped up to home. The content cannot be found even in browser. This is one of a frustrating process that needs to be solved

[@Kai_Sau]

0:48 or just use one of the volume Buttons to take a selfie.

[@ProperHonestTech]

Even worse imo. Volume buttons are on the left. My thumb is on the right when holding in my right hand.

[@milt7348]

Stay safe and we'll see you next time.

[@karinhart489]

Good to know I could creat a “Home” button if I get one of the newer phones.

[@michaelcrist51]

How can i share a contact directly from messages app?

[@ThunderThighs69]

Volume down/up for single picture hold volume down for video, hold volume up for burst photos.

[@josephw9690]

Great video. The most annoying thing ever on iPhone is that the WhatsApp audio gets muted when silent mode is on

[@user-hy5mb6pk6g]

My worst frustration is when clearing sentences it will go fast first and thereafter slow.

[@Jack908r]

The Silence Unknown Number is just ok. I mean if I call around for quotes on plumbing, or something. And I'm waiting for a call back, I'm not going to put 5 contractors into my contacts. This is where IOS really fails compared to Android. Google's spam calling / texting filters are really fantastic. And do a great job of filtering out the scammers. Great iphone tips though. Thanks for the video.

[@TheToobNube]

Alright. Now how can we make it smaller?