15 Things You Had No Idea Your ‘iPhone’ Could Do

8. Find out where you’ve been.

The iPhone does a good but creepy job of tracking your locations. Go to Settings, tap Privacy > Location Services > System Services. Near the bottom, select Frequent Locations and see your history.

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9. Provide emergency medical information without anyone having to unlock your phone.

It’s hard for first responders to call your emergency contact if they need to when your phone is locked. Setting this up can provide them with life-saving information, including a contact number, without them needing your passcode. Open the pre-installed Health app, tap the Medical ID tab in the lower right, and fill in the blanks.

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10. Search the Settings menu.

When using iOS 9, if the setting you’re looking for is buried under a gazillion sub-headings and you can’t figure out the path to follow, just type into the Settings search bar.

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11. Create a custom ringtone from any track in your iTunes library.

Maybe you want your phone to play Unchained Melody when that special someone calls, or maybe you want it to play the Imperial Death March when your mother-in-law calls. Good news, you can make it happen. You have to use iTunes and massage some files, but you can take your favorite song and turn it into a ringtone about 30 seconds long.

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12. Tap to the top.

If you’ve just been scrolling down your emails and want to go right back to the top without a time-wasting scroll, just tap the gray bar at the top of your iPhone’s screen. It doesn’t work for every app, but it does for most of them, including Safari.

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13. Identify an unknown caller.

In iOS 9, your iPhone will try to identify unknown callers. If you’ve emailed someone but you don’t have their number in your contacts, the phone will generate a guess about incoming calls based on those emails. Obviously it won’t have a guess for complete strangers, but it can be handy for co-workers, extended family, business contacts and the like.

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14. Search old photos by date or location.

Once again, no need to scroll through months and months of photos looking for that one hilarious vacation pic from three years ago you want to post on Facebook. In iOS 9, you can just ask Siri to do the search for you by asking something like, “Show me photos from 2013 taken in Cancun”.

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15. Make Siri read for you.

No need to use your eyes like a sucker, just get Siri to read it for you. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech and turn on Speak Screen and Speak Selection. When you swipe from the top of the screen, Siri will read whatever is on the screen.

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