I Bet You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do These 10 Things

Nikhil Vemu
Mac O’Clock
Published in
12 min readDec 30, 2023

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iPhone XR on its box on a white table
Photo by Todd Jiang on Unsplash

The iPhone isn’t as plain as it looks.

It’s got complex code built-in, multiple Easter eggs tucked in, and most importantly, it’s got lots of hidden features most people fail to know exist.

Here are 10 such things your iPhone actually does, but you probably failed to notice.

Note: These aren’t any hidden features, and you won’t find any significant difference in your life after reading this article. But everything mentioned here will +1 your respect for Apple’s UI/UX designers.

What’s in this article

1Live Activities on Always-On Display is lazy 2Second Face ID can happen without your consent
3Let Siri arrange apps on your Home Screen
4Your iPhones keeps count of your exhausted battery cycles
5Apple doesn’t care for dumb thieves
6Apple knows that people who can’t speak… can’t speak
7Update Apple Watch quicker
8Landscape Face ID
9Which photo pops up next after you delete one?
10Turn off Shortcuts notifications

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