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Here are five secret tricks and gestures
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that'll help you use your iPhone faster. Number one, the new app menu in Messages
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is a much better design, but it's annoying how many taps it takes to send a picture
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You have to tap the plus, tap photos, tap a picture, and then send it
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Well, there's actually a secret shortcut. Just tap and hold on the plus
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and it'll jump straight into your photo library. It's so much faster. Number two, if you open up a big text conversation
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or a long article, you don't have to swipe up and up and up or down and down and down to get to where you want
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Instead, you can just tap and hold on the gray scroll bar
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You'll feel a little haptic click, and then you can just jump all the way down
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to the very bottom of the article with one quick gesture. Number three, if you wanna do the reverse
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you can just tap on the status bar, and it'll jump you all the way straight to the top
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instantly with one tap. Now, if you have a phone with a dynamic island
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you wanna tap on the edge of the screen, by the clock or by the battery icon
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Number four, if you wanna type a special character like an accented letter or an upside-down question mark
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or an em dash or any other kind of symbol, just tap and hold on a similar one
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and you'll see all of these different character variations. Just swipe over to the one you want and let go
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You can do this with certain emoji too for skin tone variations
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Number five, if you need to tap something on the upper half of your phone, but you're holding it one-handed
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especially if you have a bigger phone like the Pro Max or the Plus, it might be a bit of a stretch for your thumb
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So instead, you can swipe down on the home bar. The whole screen will slide down
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so you can tap whatever you need to and just tap the empty slot for it to slide back up again
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Now, odds are you've probably triggered this accidentally without realizing it in the past
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If you find it more annoying than you find it useful, you can always turn it off in settings
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accessibility, touch, reachability. Just uncheck it. So those are my five tips and tricks for iPhone
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You can find another video here with three more. If you learned something from this video
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remember to like and subscribe. I'm Diego from Jones with Cult of Mac
