iPhone Life - Best Apps, Top Tips, Great Gear

Whether you’re stuck at home or just find yourself bored with your usual pastimes, you can effortlessly find a new hobby if you’ve got your iPhone nearby. From learning a second language to picking up better health habits, there’s an app for just about anything. Below you can find a list of some of the best apps for getting started with new pursuits and cultivating your talents.

What to Know

• Access your iPhone's fun (and often overlooked!) features.
• Use hidden shortcuts to accomplish your goal with fewer steps.

Our iPhones are capable of so much, yet many of us only scratch the surface with our daily use. Expanding your iPhone skills doesn’t mean you have to create feature-length movies or become a high-level app developer. You can simply learn hidden features that make your daily tasks easier. So, let’s take a look at the best hidden iPhone tricks to make your iOS use a little easier and a lot more fun.

One of the great things about iPads is their combination of portability and a large screen. This makes them perfect for reading e-books, digital comics, and magazines. It also makes them a potential replacement for a paper notebook, especially when paired with a good stylus like the Apple Pencil. Of course, to replace someone’s sketchbook, journal, or notepad, the iPad needs a good notetaking app. As someone who used to love brainstorming ideas and writing short stories by hand, I’ve long been curious if the iPad could help me recapture that feeling. So, I decided to look at some of the most popular notetaking apps available for the iPad, all of which offer their core functionality for free (and most of which have premium versions with more features if you decide you love them).

Much like the Control Centers on Apple's other devices, the Apple TV has its own Control Center menu that allows you easily access important and frequently used settings. On iPhones and iPads, the Control Center is usually found by swiping down from the top left corner. However, on the Apple TV it's slightly different. We'll show you how to access the Apple TV Control Center in just a few steps.

Are you wondering what you can do on an Apple Watch Ultra with the Action Button? This new customizable button offers a quick way for you to access your favorite watch features with the click of a button. No other Apple Watch model to date has an Action Button, and none of the existing buttons offer this level of personalization. I'll teach you all the different ways to use the Action Button, leaving the best for last, so make sure to read until the end!

In the latest version of iOS, Apple has added a way to enable haptic feedback for the keyboard. This cool feature gives a slight vibration with each keystroke, simulating the feeling of a physical keyboard and making it less likely that you'll miss that key you were aiming for.

The clipboard is something that is built into every phone and computer. It holds things that have been copied so that you can paste them elsewhere, whether it’s an address that you need to paste into Maps or a funny meme that you want to share with your friends. But how do you view the clipboard? While it’s not normally accessible, there are some roundabout methods of viewing what’s on your clipboard and, in some cases, editing it.