8 iPhone Functions That Will Change Your Work-Life Balance

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The sun has finally come out to play and we all want to be spending more time outside with friends and family and enjoying the weather. But there’s a catch… How are you going to get those one or two ‘can’t be missed’ work items done without your laptop?

Have a read through the below need-to-know iPhone tools and functions, and make your way to striking a better work-life balance this Summer.

1. Scan Documents To Your Notes
   Have a receipt, invoice, property plan or other important document you need to keep or share? Open a new or existing note, choose the camera option shown at the bottom of the note, select ‘Scan Documents’. 
   
2. Screen Recording
   Looking to show someone how to find something on their phone, on the internet or want to record a meeting or video call? Add the Screen Record tool to your Control Centre (the options you get when you swipe down from the top right-hand side of your phone). Go to Settings, Control Centre, scroll down to find the Screen Recording option and press the green plus sign next to it.
   Why not have a play around with the rest of your Control Centre options whilst you’re there?
   
3. Voice Memos
   Log some thoughts, record a conversation (with permission!) or capture a sound that you can later send to yourself (or anyone else) via email, message or WhatsApp.
   Use your phones search function if you’re not sure where it is within your Apps. You can access the search by swiping along to the farthest left-hand screen.
   
4. Add New Words To Your Dictionary
   Do you have a company name that always gets auto-corrected? Or any other words that you use frequently that frustratingly always get changed when you’re typing messages? Go to your Settings, choose General, Keyboards, and the select the Text Replacement option. Add as many new words or phrases as you’d like your phone’s dictionary to recognise.
   
5. Create Your Own Wifi
   It’s not always easy to get a good WiFi connection when you’re out and about with your laptop. Use your phones Hotspot function to create a WiFi connection that uses your phone’s data. Go to Settings, Personal Hotspot, and then create a password and switch it ‘on’.
   
6. Sign Documents
   Don’t wait in and miss spending time with friends or family. If your email is set up on the iPhone Mail App, when you view an attachment, you can select the ‘markup’ option on the top right-hand side. From the options that then display at the bottom of your screen, hit the plus (+) sign. Choose ‘Signature’ and away you go!
   
7. Secret Back Space Feature On Your Calculator
   Do you ever perform a long calculation on your iPhone and then get a digit wrong and have to start all over again? Avoid the frustration with this useful function: Next to the numbers you have typed in the calculator panel swipe left or right to delete the last digit.
   
8. Control What Face ID Unlocks
   If you need to be extra security conscious, you can customise what the Face ID function allows to be unlocked. Go to your Settings, choose Face ID & Passcode (it will ask you to enter your passcode for security) and then you can decide what you want to access using that feature.

Do you know any other great hidden functions? Maybe you have an Android phone and can reveal similar ideas? Share them with us via our socials (@mbsmih) and we’ll keep this blog updated with your suggestions!

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