Unlock iPhone Features with Secret Codes

thanks to monday.com for sponsoring a portion of this video so this is your iphone well not exactly yours but you know what i mean one like this and you use it every day you think you know it inside and out except much like my favorite in and out your iphone has a secret menu that can unlock a bunch of hidden power features and then ios 14 can unlock even more so let me show you some of the best iphone secrets i don't think you guys even knew there's actually a follow-up video we did a few years ago showing some iphone secret codes and that was when ios 11 was out so we wanted to revisit those codes and also found a whole bunch more have you ever found yourself wishing you just had slightly better cell service well there's a code for that it's called the efr mode it stands for enhanced full rate gonna give you better voice better data so if you want to use efr mode you just do star 3370 pound there are a couple caveats with this mode out of the four phones that we had in the studio to test running various versions of ios we only got it to work on one of those four phones so give it a shot try it your mileage might vary there's no harm in trying doesn't work you don't lose anything another caveat here is you might have a slight hit in battery life and there are times when you don't want somebody to know that it's you calling you know if you're in their phone you don't want your name to show up you can actually hide your caller id and it's just on a per call basis it's not gonna do it forever just for the next phone call that you make and this one's pretty easy it's star 31 pound and then the number you are dialing and when the person on the other end sees the phone ring it's gonna show up as unknown use that as you will that's a that's a powerful one so your phone's secret menu to get an animal style doesn't always require a code there's a lot of other secret things your phone can do you just know where to go inside of settings so this is a feature that a lot of folks with disabilities use regularly it lets you control your phone with your voice so under accessibility which is just under the settings menu click voice control and then turn it on then click customs command now you can assign custom gestures to certain apps on your phone so for example you can assign like a double chat gesture on instagram you could call it like love it head over to instagram and let's say you want to go to my instagram every time you say love it your phone will heart a picture and to prove that that works i encourage you to try this try it on your phone go to instagram john rettinger and just say love it like over and and over again so what if you want to like use your voice do some more stuff like say take a picture on your phone uh you can do that pretty easily this is really just like an extended use of the voice controls so using the same method we did as the love beloved voice hack just assign a tap gesture to the bottom of the screen where your shutter button would be and you can assign a word to the picture like say cheese abracadabra or john's my favorite youtuber and it'll it'll work for you [Music] all right so you're gonna thank me for this one this silences spam colors which is amazingly useful i don't know what list i was on but i was getting phone calls five six times a day a few months ago and this has been just an absolute savior for that stuff and it's also like the easiest one to do go to settings phone and then turn on silence unknown callers so again the caveat here if you've got friends that call you under unknown you won't get those phone calls it'll go through to voicemail but it will for the most part kill a lot of spam so your phone showing bars of service or balls of service if you're still running older versions of ios is nice but it's not so accurate it's a representation vaguely of what your cell service and your data service could be but there are times when you want to know really granularly how good your network strength really is so there's a mode for that it's called field test mode do star three zero zero one pound or hashtag one two three four five pound star so instead of the bars you wanna actually see signal strength and your cell service is actually going to be shown it's gonna be shown in a scale from either negative 40 to negative 140 from best to worst so also you can get something else that's rsrp 0. it's going to show you the strength of your main cell tower and then another one called rsrp1 can show you the signal strength of the tower closest to you and with ios 14 right around the corner that version of ios enables even more secret stuff your phone can do so app library is a big thing on ios 14 it's that screen at the end of your home screen that lists all of your apps for you and if you use that often you might find yourself not needing all the pages of apps you have on your phone apple gives you the option to actually hide whole pages if you want when you want to find those apps you just search for them in app library so if you want to do that just long press on the screen go into jiggly mode tap the dots at the bottom and you can just uncheck any pages you want to hide and reverse it if you want those pages to ever come back so this next one was long overdue ios and imessage but with ios 14 you could reply to this particular person inside of a group thread and it's really easy to do you just long press on their name you get kind of an inline reply that only that person will see this next one i don't know why you'd want to do it i'm just giving you the power to do it uh you can turn off call waiting this is pretty simple it's star pound four three pound that lets you check your status and then star for three pound will enable or disable call waiting so next one i actually think is pretty useful uh it's call forwarding if you have a landline or you want your phone calls to go somewhere else if you want to always get dwight's calls this is going to be a system that you want to use so it's really easy to set up you want to enable it or disable it it's star 21 pound and then star 21 and then pound the mobile number you want to forward it to so call forwarding is handy if you have multiple phones you want them all to ring through on one device or maybe you don't get the best cell service and you're at home where you have a landline get all your cell calls go through to that landline and if you're listening to these codes thinking i could use a new phone for myself i'll be sure to subscribe to notifications on we get to 1.7 million subscribers we're going to be doing a dream phone giveaway so there are a lot of times we have to find out your imei if you wanted to sign up for apple's developer beta you had to give them the imei on your phone you want to list a phone on swap or something you need access to the imei and sometimes you don't always have the box you can find out your secret imei by putting in some codes on your screen so this is pretty easy it's star pound zero six pound that's gonna give you all your device info including your eid both your imeis and your me id it's like it's not like a big secret 2020 has been an absolute dumpster fire of a year uh it's changed the way i work it's probably changed the way you work and i don't think the workplace in general is ever going to be the same and one piece of software that i've been using that has helped me manage through this whole process is monday.com so it's adaptable to whatever industry you're in it's not just video production like it's been for me and it's let me manage projects manage videos and ideas from conception to completion and you can control how it looks and acts you can add or remove columns you can just see like what's important to you you can invite your entire team or company or just certain people to the service and collaborate you know with them software that i've been using for a while i actually reached out to monday.com to be like hey we 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pull up the customer service number for your local apple store and help you get your phone fixed so there might be a time when you need this and if years from now after uploading this video you come back and you've used this let us know in the comments down below so next is assistivetouch this is actually one that i've been using really regularly so go to accessibility touch turn on assistivetouch and you can now set custom action so like a single tap a double tap or like a long press if you're in if your phone so has it 3d touch at least for me i set a double tap for screenshot and a long press to mute those are some things that sort of worked out nicely for me but you can customize it and find the best ones that work out well for you so this next one i use it for never typing my email again but you can use this for for that or for anything that you're sort of replying all the time with set a bunch of them if you want it's really helpful to have so go to settings general then keyboard then text replacement then hit the plus sign on the top right and then type in your email under phrase and then type in something that you'd probably never use like at in the shortcut and now anytime you type your email just press at automatically type it in you can replace your email for whatever it is that you want to have type in all the time like unsubscribe me from your list so this one's not really secret it's just one that i found really useful since i've been on ios 14. it's pitting conversations inside of imessage so i message my wife all the time if i just long press on her picture in the threads i can pin it up to the top and you can actually pin up to nine conversations up there it's really helpful for folks you message all the time so i had a really fun time researching this and finding codes and tricks kind of unlocked more power inside of my phone if there's one in particular you guys are using let us know in the comments down below or maybe there's another code that we didn't mention also let us know we can kind of keep the conversation going but i had fun unlocking and unleashing power of my iphone

Channel: Jon Rettinger

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 14 2020