3 iPhone Features People Don’t Use Enough

Apple’s flagship iPhone devices are packed with useful features and functionality that can make our lives easier. But not every iPhone feature gets the credit or use that it deserves. Here are three iPhone features that more users should take advantage of.

3. AirDrop

Before AirDrop, transferring files between devices was often a mess of cables, emails or data-heavy text messages that take forever to send. Since iOS 7, however, Apple has made the file transfer process much simpler and easier with AirDrop.

So what is AirDrop? AirDrop lets Apple users instantly share content between nearby Apple devices using a low-power Wi-Fi or Bluetooth network — making it easy to beam that photo or video to your friend’s phone. Not only that, the feature also makes it simple to transfer files between your own devices, and since iOS 10, AirDrop also lets users share apps.

1. To use AirDrop, simply open an app and find the content you want to share.
2. Tap the Share icon.
3. From here, just tap the name of a nearby Apple device or user.

To receive AirDrop files, just wait for the alert (which also shows a preview of the content), and tap Accept.

2. Mail Drop

Mail Drop is another handy iOS feature that makes transferring large files bit easier for Apple users. Mail Drop is especially handy for sending large, HD video files from your iPhone.

Rather than actually sending a large file as an attachment in an email, Mail Drop uploads the attachment to iCloud and sends the recipient a link to download the file. In that way, the feature is similar to third-party apps like DropBox, but it has one key advantage: it’s comes built-in with iOS 9.2 and later. Unlike AirDrop, however, there’s no compatibility issues: any operating system, like Android or Windows, will still be able to download the file.

Mail Drop should be triggered automatically by attempting to send a file over 20 megabytes from your iPhone — you’ll be given a “Use Mail Drop” option during sending. You can send files up to a whopping 5 gigabytes to your recipients, and the link to download the full file will remain active for 30 days after you send it.

1. Apple News

Like AirDrop and Mail Drop, Apple’s own News app is a similarly underrated feature — even if it serves an entirely different purpose. Put simply, it’s a well-made news aggregation app that pulls headlines from a curated list of publications that you can choose from.

But Cupertino wasn’t just going to make another run-of-the-mill aggregation app. Prior to its release, Apple partnered with other 50 publishers and publications to create featured stories in a proprietary “Apple News” format. Namely, this format includes large HD images, videos, slideshows, rich pop-up text, and other nifty features that you won’t find in other formats or news apps. Best of all, ads are pretty few and far between on the platform — giving you an uncluttered news experience.

Never used News before? Luckily, it’s extremely easy to get started. Just open the app, select some publications (or “channels”) that you’d like to follow, and tap Done. News will then generate a curated “magazine” from the publishers you chose under the ‘For You’ tab. You can search for, add and remove publications from this tab to your heart’s content, as well as Save or Favorite stories for later reading.

From:

https://www.idropnews.com/news/3-iphone-features-people-dont-use-enough/37421/