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9 new iPhone tricks you probably didn’t know

Toggle your phone into submission.

Taylor Hatmaker

Updated on May 29 2021 9:40 pm CDT

Karlis Dambrans/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

If you’re already sick of your semi-annual role as family-function tech support, there is hope. As a longtime iPhone user and Apple fan, I’ll be damned if this video isn’t full of some pretty helpful stuff. For example: Did you know you could toggle off the default Apple apps, like iBooks Store and Podcasts?

Next time Uncle Whoever asks you to reset his iPhone 4 password (again) or wonders out loud what’s draining his battery, just pour him a tall mug of mulled wine, play this, and back out of the room very, very slowly.

H/T BuzzFeed | Photo via Karlis Dambrans/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Taylor Hatmaker

Taylor Hatmaker has reported on the tech industry for nearly a decade, covering privacy and government. Most recently, she was the Debug editor of the Daily Dot. Prior to that, she was a staff writer and deputy editor at ReadWrite, a tech and business reporter for Yahoo News, and the senior editor of Tecca. Her editorial interests include censorship, digital activism, LGBTQ issues, and futurist consumer tech.