#1. Customize How The Home Button Feels
The new Home button isn’t actually a button. Similar to the Force Touch trackpad on the new Macs, the new Home “button” is capacitive. It doesn’t move itself, you get feedback on the operation thanks to the Taptic engine just behind the Home button.
This means that you can customize how “hard” the press/feedback feels like. There are 3 settings – basically low, medium and high. You would be asked about it during setup. But you can go into “Settings” -> “General” -> “Home” to change them anytime.
#2. Learn The New Way To Hard Reset
If your iPhone was acting weirdly, the first thing you’d do is hard reset. Just press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home button until the iPhone reboots. But because the Home button isn’t a real button now, the key combination for this action has changed. You now need to press and hold “Sleep/Wake” and “Volume Down” buttons.
#3. Switch to Portrait Mode
If you’re running iOS 10.1 and up on your iPhone 7 Plus, you should now see a new option for the Portrait mode. You can switch to it by swiping on the camera view, the same way you switch to Pano mode.
#4. Don’t Save Two Copies Of Portrait Mode Photo
When you click a Portrait shot, iOS saves a normal version of the photo, in case you don’t like the Portrait mode photo. But this means you’re using up double space. If you’re pretty confident about Portrait mode’s prowess, you can go into “Settings” -> “Photo & Camera” and disable “Keep Normal Photo” from under the Portrait Mode section.
#5. Use Optical Zoom on iPhone 7 Plus
You should know that on your iPhone 7 Plus, you actually have 2x optical zoom thanks to the secondary telephoto lens at the back. To activate it, all you have to do is tap on the “2x” button above the shutter key. You can also swipe around to go from 1x to 10x, for finer control. Anything above 2x is software zoom.
#6. Switch to 4K Recording
While it’s not turned on by default, you should know that your iPhone has the ability to shoot videos in 4K. If you’re shooting something at a party, in good light, try switching to 4K. It will take up a lot of memory but the footage will look amazing. From the Settings app, go to “Photo and Camera“. From “Record Video” option, switch to “4k at 30 fps“.
#7. Lock Camera Lens When Recording
Now that the iPhone 7 Plus has a zoom lens, there’s a new setting available to lock the lens when recording a video. This means the zoom won’t readjust itself every time there’s a flickering image or a light issue. You’ll find the “Lock Camera Lens” option in the same “Record Video” section.
#8. Turn off Raise to Wake
iOS 10 running on the iPhone 7 has a new feature where it automatically lights up the display when you pick up the phone. But if you keep doing this accidentally, there’s a way to turn the feature off from “Settings” -> “Display and Brightness“.
#9. Add Widgets To Lock screen
Widgets on iOS 10 are actually quite epic. Really useful. And you can add them directly to the Lock screen. The left page is dedicated to them. Swipe right on the Lock screen, swipe to the bottom and tap “Edit” to customize widgets. Check out our guide here.
#10. Use Your iPhone as a Magnifier
You can use iPhone’s epic camera as your personal magnifier, zooming way in to read things you can’t with your naked eye. To enable this feature, go into “Settings” -> “General” -> “Accessibility” -> “Magnifier” and turn it on. Next time you want to use this feature, triple click the Home button and it will show up.
#11. Charge The iPhone And Listen To Music
The iPhone has no headphone jack. So if you want to listen to music using the Lighting EarPods while your iPhone is being charged, you’ll need – a dongle. Belkin makes a dongle with 2 Lightning ports, called “Belkin Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar” and it sells for $40. You can also buy Bluetooth earphones. Or Apple’s AirPods, when they come out.
#12. Use 3D Touch
In iOS 10, 3D Touch is available a lot lot more places. And it is now essential if you want to reply to comments from the Lock screen, or send effects in Messages app. You should start using 3D Touch, and incorporate it in your day to day use. Check out our list on all the new places 3D Touch is available in iOS 10.
#13. Unlock iPhone Without Pressing The Home Button
iOS 10 requires you to “press” the Home button to unlock the iPhone. Even on iPhone 7, this means pressing the Home button till you get the Taptic feedback. But what if you want to unlock your iPhone as soon as you put your finger on the Home button. You can do that, as long as the screen is awake, using an Accessibility setting.
From the Settings app, go to “General” -> “Accessibility” -> “Home“. And turn on “Rest Finger to Unlock” option.
#14. Disable New System Haptics
The iPhone 7 has a really powerful Taptic engine. And in iOS 10, there’s haptic feedback almost everywhere. This is created to simulate real world. So when you’re spinning the date wheel, you’ll feel like it’s moving. This is also available in apps like Mail when deleting emails, for example.
But this might be annoying to some, so go into Settings and find the all new “Sounds & Haptics” section. From the bottom, turn off the “System Haptics” option.
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#15. Enable Two-Step Verification
You will use the Apple ID for everything to do with Apple such as shop on the iTunes Store, enable iCloud on all our devices, buy from Apple’s Online Store and lots more, so it is highly recommended that you enable two-step verification for your Apple ID to increase the security of your account, to prevent you account from getting hacked.
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