Best Tips And Tricks For Your iPhone 12 And 12 Pro
Tags: Ios 14, Iphone12, Tips And Tricks, Apple

1. FaceTime calls at 1080p using 5G

The latest iPhones are the first iPhones with which you can make FaceTime video calls in 1080p HD. To do so, stick to the following steps: Settings> Cellular> Data Mode and then Allow More Data on 5G. After that, you will be able to FaceTime in HD over 5G. You always have an option to make HD calls over a Wi-Fi connection.

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Although 5G is not available in India, once the 5G is available in India this feature can come in handy enabling HD Facetime calls over mobile data.

2. Use AirPlay to stream HDR content on you Apple TV.

In case you either own a second-generation Apple TV or a smart TV with AirPlay capabilities, you can stream HDR content using your new iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Pro.

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3. Waking up SOS feature

Apple iPhones come with an Emergency SOS feature to call emergency services. If you press and hold the Side button + either volume button, a countdown will be with an alert sound. And if you continue pressing the buttons till the countdown is not over, your new iPhone will automatically try to reach your local emergency services.

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4. Voice Control your Smartphone using Siri

Siri is the voice assistant that Apple provides on its devices. This feature has risen in popularity in the last few years. And you should also take full advantage of this feature. With the iPhone 12, you can simply control your device by commanding Siri to do any actions for you.

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You just need to press and hold the Side button. Alternatively, you can also set up and say, “Hey Siri, turn on Voice Control.” With this, a special voice control mode will be enabled. You can then ask Siri to select any option displayed on the screen, in case you are not sure what’s on the screen you can ask Siri to “Show Numbers” or “Show Names” and this will show an overlay tags for each item on the screen.

To enable Voice Control you need to head over to Settings and select Accessibility. Now select Voice Control, then select Set up Voice Control. A download will begin in the background and once the download is complete you are ready to go.

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5. Sound Recognition

Another interesting accessibility feature on the iPhone 12 is the sound recognition features that can identify environmental sounds in the background. As soon as any recognized sound such as fire alarms, animals, household sounds, running water, door knock, and people is identified it throws a notification.

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This feature comes in handy to identify low heard alarms such as smoke alarm, or identifying a knock on the door when you are busy working out with your headphone on.

To enable this features:

Head on to Setting > Accessibility

> Swipe to the bottom and tap “ Sound Recognition”

Select the type of sounds that you would like to recognize

6. Creating Smart HomeScreen widget

The iPhone 12 comes preinstalled with iOS 14 and home screen widgets were something that was introduced along with iOS 14. We have widgets for a few apps such as stocks, Spotify, weather, and more. But one of the widgets is a smart stack that consists of multiple widgets and shows the most relevant one according to the user’s behavior.

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For example, as soon as you connect Bluetooth earphones, it shall show the widget to start listening to music on Spotify. And when you are travelling it shall start showing the Maps widget.

To create a Smart Stack widget: