Top Best Hidden Features of iOS 14.2

November 03, 2024 TOTOODO
iOS 14 may not the best to say as and when it released came up with more bugs than fixes it had in iOS 13. But, as they came up with fixed the bugs and released the new versions there are something new interesting features available when compared with the older versions. 

Top Hidden Features of iOS 14.2:

Customize your home screen:

Now, you will be able customize your home screen from the Settings application. you've got the choice to feature new apps to the App Library or keep them on the house screen. Besides, there's also an choice to show notification badges within the App Library. Though it’s not full-on customization, it'd be the beginning of something big to return.

Pin your favorite imessagers:

If you are about the work or interact to a person more frequently and if you wish you cannot go the iMessage and serch for the person you want to chat. Here is the coolest option that enables you pin your facorite iMessagers on top so that you can easily pick the and chat with them. This options allows to pin upto 9 iMessages. To do this.  This works with groups that include Android/SMS messages during a group.
  • Click the three dots on top of iMessage,
  • Select Edit Pins.
  • Click on yellow pin icon next to the person or group you would like to access the foremost

Add captions to photos:

You can now add captions to photos saved within the Photos app. To enable it
  • Goto Photos
  • Open any picture
  • Swipe up
  • You can see a caption field where you can now add a custom caption

Here the another interesting feature is that you can search for the captions that you have set and that which suggests once you use the search feature within the Photos app with the keywords that you simply used, you'll find those photos because they were captioned that way.


Back tap feature:

iOS 14 introduced shortcuts that permit you tap the rear of the iPhone twice or thrice to execute certain actions. You can configure the double tap Action for instance a screenshot, and the other one is triple tap to access center and a bunch of other things. To enable this feature
  • Got Settings
  • Select Accessibility
  • Click on Touch Option
  • Then goto Back Tap Option
  • Click Double Tap or Triple Tap
  • Then you can assign the task that you want to perform for
  • Select and the click OK

Shortcuts for Camera Application:

When you open the camera app and hold down the volume up or volume down buttons, it triggers a quick take video, which ends the moment you release those buttons. For instance, you can use your volume down button for quick take for videos even you can change volume up to add burst mode photos.
  • Goto Settings
  • Click on Camera Option
  • Select Enable Use Volume Up for Burst
  • Now Configure this to your liking.