Sunday, April 21, 2013

3 Tricks: Hack Your iPhone.


If you're like me, I love learning new tricks about my iPhone. I stumbled upon these three tricks the other day from the Hack College website; they are aren't well known but they are pretty amazing! 

1. Make a passcode on your iPhone with as many numbers as you want. 

2. Put your iPhone on airplane mode when waiting for it to charge. It will charge twice as fast. 

3. Set custom vibration patterns on your phone.

They go into more details about these tricks on their YouTube video and on their website; you can view the video on their YouTube channel here, and/or on their website, here

What's your favorite trick out of the three? Mine is definitely # 2 -- I am always playing around with my iPhone, so I can blast through the battery life pretty quickly in a few hours. I am also too cheap/lazy to go buy a second charger for my vehicle or at work, so I always have to rely on charging my phone when I get home. Sometimes I am not home for very long before going out again, so this trick will be a HUGE help for me!

16 comments:

  1. The exact same thing happens to me-- I don't realize that my battery is so low until I'm pretty much on my way back out the door. That's a good trick to know!

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    1. I wish I had know it some time ago, but better late than never! :)

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  2. My favorite? Inverting your iphone's colors! It's a fun way to freak friends out. Go to Settings>General>Accessibility and scroll all the way to the bottom. At the 'triple click home' setting change it to invert colors.

    Try it!

    Triple click the home button and enjoy your now creepy iPhone. :)

    Amanda | Living in Another Language

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    1. Ooooh thanks for sharing, I will have to give that a try!

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  3. Awesome! Number 2 is definitely my favourite too!

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    1. I think #2 will change my life forever, ha ha!

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  4. Those are all really neat tricks! I love finding out new things about my iPhone :D

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  5. Whoa, I like the passcode trick.

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    1. Yah, its pretty sweet. I don't currently have one on my phone though -- I did for awhile but took it off because it was too annoying.

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  6. if only i had am iphone ;) ... just wanted to say that i love your new header with the lotus flower!!

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    1. I only recently got mine, I can never go back! And thank you - it took me forever to come up with something I am happy with!!! :)

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  7. This is awesome!!! Thank you so much for sharing. I didn't know about #2 but like you, I am always playing with my phone and it's always dying, so a quick charge hack is perfect!

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    1. You're welcome! It was too good of a trick not to share! :)

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