How to unlock iphone secret keyboard
Unlock iPhone Features with Secret Codes
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portion of this video so this is your
iphone
well not exactly yours but you know what
i mean one
like this and you use it every day you
think you know it
inside and out except
much like my favorite in and out
your iphone has a secret menu that can
unlock a bunch of
hidden power features and then ios 14
can unlock even more so let me show you
some of the best iphone secrets i don't
think you guys even knew
there's actually a follow-up video we
did a few years ago showing some iphone
secret codes and that was when ios 11
was out so we wanted to revisit those
codes and also
found a whole bunch more
have you ever found yourself wishing you
just had slightly better
cell service well there's a code for
that
it's called the efr mode it stands for
enhanced full rate
gonna give you better voice better data
so if you want to
use efr mode you just do star 3370
pound there are a couple caveats with
this mode out of the four
phones that we had in the studio to test
running various versions of ios
we only got it to work on one of those
four phones so give it a shot try it
your mileage might vary there's no harm
in trying doesn't work
you don't lose anything another caveat
here
is you might have a slight hit in
battery life
and there are times when you don't want
somebody to know that it's you
calling you know if you're in their
phone you don't want your name to show
up
you can actually hide your caller id and
it's just on a per
call basis it's not gonna do it forever
just for the next phone call that you
make
and this one's pretty easy it's star 31
pound and then the number
you are dialing and when the person on
the other end sees the phone ring
it's gonna show up as unknown use that
as you will that's a that's a powerful
one
so your phone's secret menu to get an
animal style
doesn't always require a code there's a
lot of other secret things your phone
can do
you just know where to go inside of
settings so this is a feature that a lot
of folks with disabilities use regularly
it lets you control your phone with your
voice so under accessibility which is
just under the settings menu
click voice control and then turn it on
then click customs command
now you can assign custom gestures to
certain apps on your phone
so for example you can assign like a
double chat gesture on instagram
you could call it like love it head over
to instagram and
let's say you want to go to my instagram
every time you say love it
your phone will heart a picture and to
prove that that works
i encourage you to try this try it on
your phone
go to instagram john rettinger and just
say love it like over and
and over again so what if you want to
like use your voice do some more stuff
like say take a picture on your phone uh
you can do that pretty easily this is
really just like an extended use of the
voice controls
so using the same method we did as the
love beloved voice hack
just assign a tap gesture to the bottom
of the screen where your shutter button
would be and you can assign a word to
the picture like
say cheese abracadabra or john's my
favorite youtuber
and it'll it'll work for you
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all right so you're gonna thank me for
this one
this silences spam colors which is
amazingly useful i don't know what list
i was on
but i was getting phone calls five six
times a day
a few months ago and this has been just
an absolute savior for that stuff
and it's also like the easiest one to do
go to settings
phone and then turn on silence unknown
callers
so again the caveat here if you've got
friends that call you under unknown you
won't get those phone calls it'll go
through to voicemail
but it will for the most part kill a lot
of spam
so your phone showing bars of service or
balls of service if you're still running
older versions of ios is nice but it's
not so accurate it's a representation
vaguely of what your cell service and
your data service
could be but there are times when you
want to know
really granularly how good your network
strength
really is so there's a mode for that
it's called field test mode
do star three zero zero one
pound or hashtag one two three four five
pound star so instead of the bars
you wanna actually see signal strength
and your cell service is actually going
to be shown it's gonna be shown in a
scale from either negative 40
to negative 140 from best to worst so
also you can get something else that's
rsrp
0. it's going to show you the strength
of your main cell tower
and then another one called rsrp1 can
show you the signal strength of the
tower
closest to you and with ios 14 right
around the corner
that version of ios enables even more
secret stuff
your phone can do so app library is a
big thing on ios 14
it's that screen at the end of your home
screen that lists
all of your apps for you and if you use
that often you might find yourself
not needing all the pages of apps you
have on your phone
apple gives you the option to actually
hide whole pages if you want
when you want to find those apps you
just search for them in app library so
if you want to do that
just long press on the screen go into
jiggly mode
tap the dots at the bottom and you can
just uncheck
any pages you want to hide and reverse
it if you want those pages to ever come
back
so this next one was long overdue
ios and imessage but with ios 14
you could reply to this particular
person inside of
a group thread and it's really easy to
do you just long press on their name
you get kind of an inline reply that
only that person will see
this next one i don't know why you'd
want to do it i'm just giving you the
power to do it
uh you can turn off call waiting this is
pretty simple
it's star pound four three pound
that lets you check your status and then
star for
three pound will enable or disable call
waiting
so next one i actually think is pretty
useful uh it's call forwarding if you
have a landline or you want your phone
calls to go somewhere else
if you want to always get dwight's calls
this is going to be a system that
you want to use so it's really easy to
set up you want to enable it or
disable it it's star 21 pound
and then star 21 and then pound the
mobile number you want to forward it to
so call forwarding is handy if you have
multiple phones you want them all to
ring through
on one device or maybe you don't get the
best cell service and you're at home
where you have a landline
get all your cell calls go through to
that landline
and if you're listening to these codes
thinking i could use
a new phone for myself i'll be sure to
subscribe to notifications on
we get to 1.7 million subscribers we're
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so there are a lot of times we have to
find out your imei if you wanted to sign
up for
apple's developer beta you had to give
them the imei
on your phone you want to list a phone
on swap or something you need access to
the imei and sometimes you don't always
have the box
you can find out your secret imei by
putting in some codes on your screen
so this is pretty easy it's star pound
zero
six pound that's gonna give you all your
device info including your
eid both your imeis and your me id
it's like it's not like a big secret
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so you might want to like write this one
down or bookmark the video but if there
are times when your touch screen
stops working maybe you drop your phone
and the screen shatters you can't use it
anymore
you can still kind of use your phone
so you say hey s word
turn on voice control then you tell her
open safari
you say show grid you say tap two
and then for me the apple store irvine
or whatever city you wanna go to
you say tap go then you say show grid
then you say tap 27 and i'll pull up the
customer service number for your local
apple store and help you get your phone
fixed
so there might be a time when you need
this and if years from now after
uploading this video you come back
and you've used this let us know in the
comments down below
so next is assistivetouch this is
actually one that i've been using really
regularly so go to accessibility
touch turn on assistivetouch and you can
now set custom action so
like a single tap a double tap or like a
long press
if you're in if your phone so has it 3d
touch at least for me i set a
double tap for screenshot and a long
press to mute those are some things that
sort of worked out
nicely for me but you can customize it
and find the best ones
that work out well for you so this next
one i use it
for never typing my email again
but you can use this for for that or for
anything that you're sort of replying
all the time with set a bunch of them if
you want it's really helpful to have
so go to settings general then keyboard
then text replacement then hit the plus
sign on the top right
and then type in your email under phrase
and then type in something that you'd
probably never use like at
in the shortcut and now anytime you type
your email just press
at automatically type it in you can
replace your email for whatever it is
that you want to have type in
all the time like unsubscribe me from
your list so this one's not
really secret it's just one that i found
really useful since i've been on ios 14.
it's pitting conversations inside of
imessage so i message my wife all the
time
if i just long press on her picture in
the threads i can pin it up to the top
and you can actually pin
up to nine conversations up there it's
really helpful for folks you message all
the time
so i had a really fun time researching
this and finding codes and tricks
kind of unlocked more power inside of my
phone
if there's one in particular you guys
are using let us know in the comments
down below or maybe there's another code
that we didn't mention also let us know
we can kind of keep the conversation
going
but i had fun unlocking and unleashing
power of my iphone
