You need to find a toggle hiding away in Appleu2019s settings menu. You know it exists — youu2019ve seen it before. Nowu2026 where the hell was it?
At long last, you can find settings just by searching for them, thanks to a search box hiding away at the top of the settings screen. If you don’t see it by default when you open settings, just pull the screen down a bit.
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Stripped from iOS when Apple moved away from Google Maps back in 2012, public transit support finally returns to the default Maps app in iOS 9.u00a0
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When youu2019re trying to edit a big olu2019 wall of text, placing the cursor in just the right place can be a total pain — particularly for those whou2019ve spent years relying on the precision of a mouse or trackpad.
iOS 9 turns the keyboard into a trackpad, if you touch it just right. The trick? Place two fingers, side by side, on the keyboard and swipe around as if it were a trackpad; the keyboard will go blank, and youu2019ll gain a whole new method of input.
Alas, this only officially works on the iPad; while some of the iOS 9 betas had iPhone keyboardpad support, it hasnu2019t been announced whether or not itu2019ll make the cut in the final release.
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Ever been wanting to watch a video on your iPad while doing something else at the same time? You now can — and itu2019s relatively easy, assuming you have a newer iPad (iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 2u00a0or later)
Hereu2019s how: start watching a video in Safari. Tap the video with one finger to bring up the control interface — look for the icon that looks like a box within a box. Tap that, and bam — itu2019ll float into a new, independent box thatu2019ll stick around even as you switch around from app to app. You can drag the video to place it in any corner.
Third party developers are able to access this functionality in their video-enabled apps, so expect it to roll out to other apps soon.
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When your battery is hovering around 20%, iOS will ask you if you want to enable u201cLow Power Modeu201d. Once toggled, itu2019ll disable mail fetch, background app refresh, automatic downloads, and a few other things that might help you squeeze some extra time out of your battery.u00a0
Once you plug it back in and have charged it a bit, low power mode will disable itself.
You can also turn this setting on manually under Settings > Battery.
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Most people use the front facing camera pretty much exclusively for selfies — why not make them easier to find without sifting through all of your other shots? YOU HAVE VANITY THAT NEEDS TENDING!
In iOS 9, both front-facing camera images and screenshots get their own categories, allowing you to find them in next to no time. Open up Photos, tap the u201cAlbumsu201d button in the bottom right, and the new folders should be waiting for you.
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Sometimes Facebook shoves you into Messenger. Sometimes Safari shoves you into Twitter. Sometimes you just want to get back to what you were doing.
The status bar now has a one-tap arrow thatu2019ll dump you back into whatever you were doing last any time one app tosses you into another.
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Itu2019s long been on of iOSu2019 strangest quirks: itu2019s really tough to tell if the SHIFT key was hit or not. No matter its status, the letters on the keyboard were capitals.
With iOS 9, the letters will be upper or lower case depending on whether the shift key is active. If this bothers you, you can disable it.
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Need to jump into the Wallet app to pick which card youu2019re using with Apple Pay, but dont want to unlock your device and find the app? Just double tap the home button while your device is locked.u00a0Apple Pay should pop right up.
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Weu2019ve all been there: youu2019re using a site, and itu2019s …being weird. The problem seems to stem from the fact that you’re on a phone, and the developers did a bad job of building their mobile site. If only you could get it to load the desktop version of that page!
Thereu2019s a quick shortcut for just that in iOS 9: hold the refresh button in the URL bar. After a second or two, a prompt will allow you to request the desktop version of the current page.
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Iu2019ve been using iOS on and off for years now. I think Iu2019ve intentionally used shake to undou2026 maybe 5 times. Iu2019ve accidentally brought up the shake to undo prompt probably 45,000 times. In iOS 9, you can finally disable this gesture. Find the option under Settings> General > Accessibility.u00a0
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Sometimes the apps that eat your battery the most are the ones you actually see the least.
iOS has long been able to tell you how much battery each app was guilty of eating, but now it provides an extra bit of information: the amount of time you were actually looking at it, compared to how much time it spent just devouring juice in the background. To expose the new info, go to Settings > Battery, then tap the clock icon at the top of the app list.
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You can now attach any type of file (as opposed to just images). By default, itu2019ll pull files from the iCloud Drive app — but you can also hook it into things like Dropbox and other third party apps by tapping the u201cLocationsu201d button in the upper left.
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Want to point directly at something in image youu2019re attaching? Just doodle it right on the photo.
Attach the photo to the email (hold your finger in the body of the email for a second, release, hit the right arrow button, then tap u201cInsert Photo or Videou201d and pick your image). Once itu2019s in place, do another long tap on the image itself, then release. An option labeled u201cMarkupu201d should appear; tap that, and doodle away.
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Need to save a website to a PDF for some reason? You can!
Itu2019s a bit obfuscated, but thereu2019s a button for it in iOS 9u2019s build of Safari. Bring up the share sheet, then scroll the middle section over a bit until you see u201cSave PDF to iBooksu201d. Tap that, and voila! You can then share this PDF via email via the iBooks app.
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