When Apple launched the iPhone 14 andiPhone 14 Pro in 2022, the phones were loadedwith iOS 16– but have since been upgradedto iOS 17– the latest in a long line of software updates that delivered plenty of new features. While there are lots of big new features, it’s often the hidden iPhone features – the ones that fly under the radar – that pique our interest.
If you’ve got one of the iPhone 14 models, there are plenty of built-in tricks worth checking out. We’ve picked a few of the features that we think are most useful – or just handy – to know.
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1Turn off the always-on display (iPhone 14 Pro only)
You may not need this feature
The iPhone 14 Pro includes an always-on display feature that dims the wallpaper and highlights the clock. It’s enabled by default, but you may find it’s not useful or drains your battery. So, if you want to turn it off, you can.
Open Settings, tap ‘Display and Brightness’, and now toggle off the ‘Always On’ option. Simple.
If you don’t want it off all the time and want it on during the day, you can set it up to switch off at nighttime as part of sleep mode. Go to Settings > Focus > Sleep. Here, you can schedule a sleep focus to activate at a set time each night under the ‘Schedule’ tab. When it activates, your always-on display will no longer show at night.
2Enable the iPhone 14’s haptic keyboard
Haptic feedback can be a nice touch
As part of iOS 17, Apple brought haptic feedback to its own stock keyboard. This means you can feel subtle taps or vibrations under the display when you type. To turn it on:
- Go toSettings
- SelectSound and Haptics
3. ChooseKeyboard feedback.
4. Toggle on theHapticoption.
3Turn on the iPhone 14’s battery percentage indicator
This new indicator is useful
As we previously mentioned in ouriOS 17 video, there’s a battery percentage indicator that you can enable to show the actual percentage in the battery icon in your status bar. To activate it, just go to Settings and then Battery and toggle on the ‘battery percentage’ option.
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4Change your iPhone 14 notification style
Get notifications how you want
By default in iOS 17, it now shows a number – or “count” – of notifications at the bottom of your Lock Screen to let you know how many notifications you have waiting. But you’re able to change this to be a list of actual notifications or a stack of notification windows.
Just open Settings then go to Notifications and choose one of the other two options at the top of the screen under Display As.
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5Lock a private note behind the iPhone 14’s Face ID
Security and safe are key
In Notes, you’re able to now lock a specific note behind aFaceID authentication. You’re no longer limited to just locking it behind your phone’s passcode. To enable this feature:
- Go to Notes, find thePasswordoption and tap that.
- Select theUse Device Passcodeoption on the next screen and then toggle ‘Use FaceID’.
Now, you don’t have to use a specific password to unlock notes. To lock a specific note, just long press on the note you want to lock within the app and then hitlock noteon the pop-up menu that appears. Next time you try to open it, it’ll use FaceID to check it’s you trying to access it.
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6Edit or unsend iMessages with the iPhone 14
Take away the oopsies
Sometimes, when you message, you’ll likely either a) regret it immediately and want to unsend or b) produce an embarrassing typo. Perhaps even both. Thankfully, in iOS 17, there’s a solution to those problems. you may unsend or editiMessagesnow.
Open Messages, type your message as normal and - once you’ve sent it - long press that message. You’ll see both ‘Edit’ and ‘Undo send’ as options in the drop-down menu. Choose whichever you want to use at the time. But be warned, if the person you’re sending it to doesn’t have iOS 17, it won’t appear as unsent for them; they’ll still see the message.
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7Delete Duplicate Photos with the iPhone 14
You only need one copy
Apple’s latest Photos app lets you quickly and easily delete duplicate photos to help you save iPhone andiCloud storage.
Just open Photos and tap on Albums. Scroll all the way down until you see ‘Duplicates’ in the list near the bottom of the page. Now you may either hit ‘merge’ near each match or hit ‘select’ at the top, manually choose each image you want to delete, and hit the delete trash can icon at the bottom.
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8Drag foreground subjects away from backgrounds into new documents with the iPhone 14
Editing photos on the fly
One of the cool new iOS features is the ability to remove subjects from their photo backgrounds and then share them in any app as a cutout. With the right technique, you may quickly drag and drop it into another document or onto an image you might be working on inPhotoshop, Pages or something similar.
Just tap and hold the subject as normal to remove it from the background; now, keep hold of it with that same finger and use your other hand to swipe out of the app and open the app you want to drop it into.
For instance, if it’s Pages, just open that, create a new document - or open an existing one - and then just drop the image. If you want to share them another way, you’re able to just tap and hold the subject, wait for that white line to appear around it, and then tap ‘share’ and choose where you want to share it to or ‘copy’ and then open the app manually and paste it in.
9Shoot 48-megapixel photos (iPhone 14 Pro only)
High-quality photos are here
This is another feature that’s only available on the iPhone 14 Pro for now, and it’s shooting at 48-megapixels, using the full number of pixels available on the main camera’s sensor.
Go to Settings and then Camera and select Formats at the top of the list. Toggle on the ‘Apple ProRAW’ option, and underneath that, select the resolution and ensure that 48 megapixels is chosen. When you open the camera app, you’ll see a ‘RAW’ toggle at the top of the screen. Just tap it to enable the full 48-megapixel RAW shot.
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10Manually switch macro mode on or off with the iPhone 14
Autoswitching can be annoying
Another useful one is the manual macro mode switch because, for the past couple of phone generations, the auto-switching between 1x and macro can be a bit jarring. Open Settings > Camera again, and now just toggle on the ‘Macro Control’ switch.
Open the camera app and move your camera close to an object; you should see the macro logo appear in yellow on the screen. It’s enabled by default, but if you want to disable it, just tap the logo when it appears.
