The more you know, the better the phone is.
I’ve been using the iPhone X for a few months now, and the more I do, the more I love it.
Cost aside, it is the best iPhone Apple has ever made.
Much of that is due to the brilliant display and radical edge-to-edge redesign of the device.
That’s not to mention the incredibly accurate Face ID, which completely replaced the fingerprint reader and physical home button.
But because the iPhone X is such a departure from iPhones of old, it also means that there are a ton of new tricks to learn–many of which aren’t completely obvious just from holding the device in your hands.
Apple is completely changed the way you interact with the handset. From gestures to getting around menus, pretty much everything to do with the handset has changed.
And it’s worth learning too. Why? Because ALL iPhones will look and function like the iPhone X in the coming years, so you might as well get used to it now, as this design isn’t going anywhere.
Here’s eight of the top secret iPhone X tips and tricks I’ve discovered.
iPhone X Tips: Force Restart Your iPhone X
The lack of a home button means that many of past iPhone’s functions have been remapped to other hardware or software controls on the iPhone X.
The ability to force restart the iPhone X is among those.
To force restart your iPhone X now you need to press and quickly release the Volume Up button, press and quickly release the Volume Down button, and then press and hold the Side button.
iPhone X Tips: Trigger SOS
SOS is a mode on the iPhone that allows you to quickly call emergency services.
To trigger SOS hold the Side button and either Volume button for six seconds.
Alternately you can press the Side button five times in succession to trigger SOS.
iPhone X Tips: Control What Face ID Unlocks
Face ID replaces the way you unlock your iPhone.
Now you simply look at the device instead of placing your finger on the now-gone Home button.
But Face ID can also be used to make purchases in the App Store and in apps, authenticate Apple Pay payments, and autofill forms in Safari.
However, you don’t need to allow Face ID to do all of these things if you don’t want.
You can toggle each Face ID feature on or off by going to Settings > Face ID & Passcode.
iPhone X Tips: Always Show Notification Previews
A cool feature of the iPhone X is that notifications are automatically hidden and will only display their content if you are looking at the device.
This ability means other people who have access to your phone can’t see the details of the notifications you receive on your lock screen.
But you can disable this if you want to.
To do so, got to Settings > Notifications > Show Previews and choose Always, When Unlocked, or Never.
iPhone X Tips: Customize The Control Center
Control Center got a major overhaul in iOS 11.
Actions are now much easier to implement and have a better layout.
But you can also further customize Control Center on your iPhone X if you wish. To do so got to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls.
Here you can add, subtract or rearrange controls in Control Center.
For example, if you don’t use the Flashlight a lot, you can remove its button from Control center and replace it with an app you do use a lot–Notes, for example.
iPhone X Tips: Use A One-handed keyboard
The iPhone X has a seriously large screen, which sometimes makes one-handed use a bit hard if your hands are on the smaller size.
To combat this, Apple has built-in a one-handed software keyboard.
To access it, simply tap the emoji keyboard icon in any app that uses the keyboard and then select the left or right-handed keyboard icon to shift all the keyboard keys to one side.
iPhone X Tips: Bring Back The Home Button
Okay, you can’t obviously really bring back the physical Home button, but there is a way you can kinda of replicate it using software in iOS.
To do this go to General > Accessibility > Assistive Touch and toggle it on.
You'll now see a virtual Home button on your screen that you can customize to activate shortcuts.
iPhone X Tips: Force Quit Apps
With no Home button it might seem like you can’t force quit apps anymore–but you can.
To do so on the iPhone X you need to bring up the app switcher. Do this by swiping up on the home bar from the bottom of any screen.
Once the apps appear, swipe to the one you want to force quit and tap and hold on it.If you accidentally deleted or lost videos on iPhone, first please check on the Recently Deleted folder. Alternatively, you can use the professional tool Gihosoft iPhone Recovery to recover deleted iPhone videos from Camera Roll or some apps.
Once the minus sign in the red dot appears either tap the dot or simply swipe up on the app to force quit it.
iPhone X Tips: Activate Apple Pay
With the jettison of the Home button, many people are wondering how to bring up Apple Pay on the iPhone X. Apple has made this easy. Simply double-press the home button and the iPhone X will bring up your default card and authenticate you using Face ID. Now just hold your iPhone X by the NFC reader to pay.
iPhone X Tips: Open The App Switcher
How about bringing up the app switcher now that there’s no Home button? Again, it’s simple: swipe up on the Home bar at the bottom of any screen, but hold it in place once you get about an inch up the screen.
You’ll see other apps populate your iPhone’s display as if they were cards in the deck. This is the App Switcher and from here you can quickly jump to another app or force quit one.
iPhone X Tips: Take A Screenshot
Many people find it confusing how you take a screenshot on the iPhone X. It actually very simple. Just hold down the Side button and the Volume Up button at the same time. You’ll hear the familiar camera shutter sound and then see a thumbnail of the screenshot you just took in the corner of the display.
iPhone X Tips: Quickly Edit A Screenshot
Once you’ve followed the steps above, the screenshot will be saved to your Photos app (once the on-screen thumbnail disappears. But before that happens, you can tap the thumbnail to bring up screenshot edit mode.
In this mode, you’ll find tools that allow you to mark up the screenshot or crop it–and additional tools for sharing it. It’s a great feature that makes screenshots all the more useful.
iPhone X Tips: Force Reset Your iPhone X
If your iPhone X ever freezes, you can force reset it, which will force it to shut down and restart. To do this is easy: simply follow the next steps in order. First, press and release the volume up button. Second, press and release the volume down button. Third, hold down the Side button.
This will cause the iPhone X to restart. You’ll see the Apple logo show up again after it’s cycled down after pressing the button sequence above and restarted.
iPhone X Tips: Finish Rearranging Apps
We all know that you press and hold an app icon until it wiggles to enter your iPhone into app delete or rearrangement mode. But after you’ve made your changes how do you exit this wiggling mode now that the Home button is gone?
It's hard to miss the first time, but Apple has added a small “Done” button in the right-hand notch of the screen in wiggle mode. Tap it and all the app icons will stabilize and you’ll exit the app arrangement mode.
Alternately, simply swipe up on the Home bar at the bottom of the screen and you’ll exit wiggle mode. This can be done instead of tapping the Home button.
iPhone X Tips: Slide Between Recent Apps
I LOVE this feature. While you can use the app switcher (see above) to toggle through your apps, there’s a much quicker way to move from one app to the next. Simply swipe left or right on the Home bar at the bottom of the iPhone X’s screen and you’ll progress forwards or backward in the line of apps you’ve recently opened.
iPhone X Tips: Control Your Apple TV
The Control Center on the iPhone X has a cool trick: it allows you to control your Apple TV if you have one. As long as your iPhone X and Apple TV are on the same wireless network, it’ll work. Simply go into Control Center and then look for the Apple TV button that appears. Tap it and begin controlling your Apple TV.
iPhone X Tips: Quiet Alarms With Your Face
A really cool feature of the iPhone X is Face ID. It allows you to unlock your phone just by looking at it. Face ID also has some other cool features–like this one. When your iPhone X alarm goes off, you can quiet it simply by picking up your iPhone and looking at it. This tells your iPhone you know about the arm and it will quiet it.
iPhone X Tips: Send Animojis As Stickers
Animojis are the animated faces the iPhone X allows you to create thanks to the Face ID camera. They are really fun ways to send audio text messages. But you can also use Animojis as stickers in messages if you don’t want to send animated ones.
To do this, open up the Animojis app inside of messages and then make the face you want to. Instead of pressing the record button to record a short Animoji clip, simply tap the Animoji face itself and it will be inserted into the text box as a sticker in the text box.
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