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Your iPhone can be both a valuable tool and an embarrassing liability.
Head to tweaks > Mail to change your iPhones signature.
Alternatively, a blank signature is fine too.
Unfortunately, this means exposing your leave on read habits to all your closest contacts.
This feature serves little purpose other than to make you feel pressured to respond as soon as possible.
Its anxiety you dont need in your life.
Not being able to pause your listening history also affects what music suggestions you see.
Now tap on Contact Photo & Poster then use the Edit button to modify or create a new poster.
you’re free to make multiple posters and then switch between them as you like.
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This will hide the photo within your Photos library while keeping it available under the Hidden album.
It suggests to snoopers that you dont actually have any hidden photos on your equipment in the first place.
To do this, head to configs > Photos and suspend the Show Hidden Album toggle.
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This is especially true if your machine is old and has a few nicks, scratches, and dents.
But thats no excuse.
While youre at it,give your iPhones charging port a good clean out too.
Use a wooden toothpick and be careful not to damage the charging contacts.
If your screen protector is broken, its served its purpose well.
Retire it, replace it with another, and get that shiny new feeling back.
8A Messy Home Screen
A messy iPhone Home Screen is a lot like a messy desk.
Having too many icons or bits of paper everywhere makes it difficult to see what you really need.
Apps that you open multiple times a day (or at least a few times per week).
Theres a golden opportunity here to have some useful widgets too, like the weather or your activity rings.
Tap and hold an icon until everything starts wiggling to move, remove, and add items.
Having space on your Home Screen can be a good thing too.
You could split your widgets and icons between different home screens to make iOS feel a bit more zen.
The key to this is touse Spotlight to find and launch apps on your iPhone.
Pull down on any Home Screen and start typing the name of the app you want.
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Siri suggestions mean that the app will just be there much of the time.
you could also tell Siri to launch an app if you prefer using your voice.
Notification badges can also lose all meaning if you never dismiss the outstanding notifications.
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Focus modes are the answer.
You know what else could be embarrasing?
Throwing up because you were too busy looking at your phone in a moving vehicle.
Fortunately,iOS 18’s new vehicle motion cues accessibility settingcould help with that.
