Five Hidden features of iOS 12
Apple has released the
new version of iOS, iOS 12 as expected the OS brings lots of features and great
experience enhancement. Today in this article we are going to talk about the 5
hidden features of iOS 12.
iPhone
X gestures on the iPad
You can now use a few
iPhone X-style gestures on the iPad, no doubt designed to help ease the
transition to Apple slates that don’t have a Home button but do have Face ID. A
swipe up from the bottom of the screen (anywhere on the Dock) will now take you
back home.
You can also swipe down
from the top right-hand corner of iOS 12 on the iPad to open the Control
Center, as on the iPhone X. The older shortcuts and gestures still work, but
you might find the alternatives more convenient (they don’t work on older
iPhones though).
Warnings
about reusing passwords
If you’re using the same
password across multiple services—something you definitely should not do—iOS 12
will warn you about it, as long as the details are in its password log. From
Settings, go to Passwords & Accounts then Website & App Passwords to
check.
A little warning sign
appears if you’re reusing the same password, plus a prompt to change it. As an
added bonus, in iOS 12 you can get Siri to take you straight to these password
screens directly, with a voice command like “Hey Siri, what’s my Netflix
password?”
More
colors for screenshot edits
Perhaps not a
game-changer, exactly, but something that’s going to come in handy if you take
a lot of screenshots in iOS 12: The simple annotation tools that become
available right after you take a screenshot now feature a broader choice of pen
colors to work with.
As normal, you tap on the
thumbnail that shows up in the lower left-hand corner once you’ve taken a
screenshot. If you then tap the color swab to the right of the pen tools, the
last spot is taken up by a color picker, giving you access to many more colors
than before.
Two
faces for Face ID
If you want to let
someone else get access to your phone via Face ID, iOS 12 makes it possible
(well spotted, 9to5Mac). Like the gesture controls we mentioned above, this
seems like another feature setting the groundwork for Face ID arriving on the
iPad.
To get the feature
working, go to the Face ID & Passcode screen from Settings, and then tap
Set Up an Alternative Appearance to go through the face recognition process
again. Note that you can’t remove this second face without resetting both faces
at the same time.
QR
code scan shortcut
The iOS Camera app could
already automatically detect QR codes and scan them for you before version 12
showed up, but there’s now a QR code shortcut in Control Center anyway—add it
by choosing Control Center then Customize Controls from Settings.
The shortcut doesn’t do
anything except launch the Camera app (something that already has a Control
Center button), so we’re not sure exactly what Apple is thinking here. Perhaps
laying the foundations for a more enhanced QR scanning mode still to come?
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