4 tips that always come in handy

Your iPhone is full of hidden features that are actually all too useful to stay hidden for long. That’s why . has iPhoned once again looked up the best hacks for your iPhone and iPad. These handy tips will certainly come in handy!

The best hacks for iPhone: 4 tips

There are plenty of tricks hidden in iOS on your iPhone that are hardly described anywhere. Sometimes you run into this by accident, but often you don’t. In these iPhone hacks, we’ll show you some of these tips. You should definitely try these handy tricks!

1. Create your own voice commands (with a gesture)

Siri can do a lot, but not everything. The voice assistant is very useful, did you know that you can also create your own gestures (gestures) voice commands on your iPhone and iPad? This allows you to use your phone completely hands-free. Useful to browse a recipe while cooking or skip to the next TikTok video while washing dishes. You do this in the following way.

During step 7, you make the swipe that your iPhone should perform when you give the voice command. You can use it for any app, but each app has its own gestures. So you have to decide in advance which swipe you want to enter.

For example, if you want to browse through a recipe, you make a short swipe from bottom to top. Now when you yell “next,” your iPhone will do the swipe and scroll through the recipe. Incidentally, there is no support for Dutch voice commands yet. Maybe that will come in the future.

2. Lockscreen: Disable Control Center and Message Center

On your lockscreen, open the control panel from the top right corner with a swipe down. With a swipe up, the message center will appear. All this while your iPhone is actually still ‘locked’.

Do you ever let your iPhone swing and don’t want others to see this control panel or the message center? Then simply disable these options with this tip from our iPhone hacks. You do this in the following way:

• Tap Settings > Face ID & Passcode;
• Enter your passcode and scroll all the way down;
• Turn off the options at ‘Notification center’ and ‘Control panel’;

3. Quick copy and paste

If you normally want to copy and paste a text, you must first select a sentence. Then tap ‘Copy’ in the black bar. Then press and hold your finger where you want to paste the text and choose ‘Paste’. This is quite cumbersome and all too often the black toolbar disappears too quickly and you have to tap again.

There is an easier way to copy and paste. Select the desired text and pinch with three fingers. The text ‘copy’ appears briefly at the top of the screen. This shows that the swipe has worked. Then tap where you want to paste the text and make a spread movement with three fingers. The text will then appear in the chosen position.

4. Take photos while shooting a video

Sometimes you want to take a photo while making a video. You can then temporarily pause the video, but that is cumbersome. This last tip from our hacks will get around this problem and simply snap a photo on your iPhone while shooting the video!

• Open the ‘Camera’ app and swipe to ‘video’;
• Drag the red button to the right (in the white circle that just appeared);
• You are now making a video, but every time you press the white button, a photo is also taken;
• Tap the stop button to stop the video;
• The video and photos are in the ‘Photos’ app.

More Hacks and Tips for iPhone

These were our four iPhone (and iPad) hacks. Want more helpful tips? Then check out 4 handy iPhone tips that everyone should know and the functions that are (secretly) turned on in iOS 15 and that you should turn off immediately. We also have some random iPhone tips for you (which are secretly quite fun).

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