Well, if it’s bedtime and you want to set a limit on all that love, your iPhone has a sleep timer you may not know about. Here’s how you can use your clock to set a timer to turn off anything you’re watching or listening to on your iPhone: Voilà! Sleep timer activated! Hold down the space bar and you’ll see the characters on the keycaps disappear. You’re now in trackpad mode and can move the cursor around the screen in the appropriate app with reckless abandon. Tap and hold the 123 key, drag to the character that you want to use, pause briefly, and the character you selected will be inserted. The only downside to this useful feature is that it only displays the most commonly used numbers and symbols. This doesn’t work with the extended range of symbols you get by selecting the 123 key’s menu itself. The iPhone Calculator app has had a backspace button this entire time, it’s just been hiding from all of us. Here’s how it works, and it’s so simple that it’s quite funny that we didn’t know it was there before. All you have to do is swipe to the left or the right at the top of the screen where the numbers are displayed. That swipe will delete the number you tapped last. Well, if you want to set your reminders in one-minute increments, simply double-tap the time in the calendar to change that to one-minute increments instead of five. Boom shakalaka! However, you can also just tap and hold, then use your other hand to swipe between screens, to place the app icon anywhere you want. Want to move multiple apps at one time? You can do that as well. Just tap them to the one you’re already holding down with your other hand, then move them all at once. Easy! In this setting area, you have the option to close your tabs after one day, week, month, or leave it on manual mode. By setting up a schedule, you can be assured you never have to go through the tedious task of manually closing them. One shortcut populates with my home address, and one with my work address. This feature saves me quite a bit of time. I also have one for my contact information. If this sounds useful to you, you can This works in action by typing the shortcut (trigger) first then hitting the spacebar. Once you hit that space bar, your replacement text will appear.
