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Without a doubt, there are never enough tips and tricks to help you use your Apple smartphone even better and more efficiently. If you've owned an iPhone for a long time, you might be familiar with some of the tips we're bringing you today. However, it is also possible that you will discover one today that you did not know before.

Blocking mobile data for specific applications

If you are one of those users who keep a close eye on their mobile data consumption, you will certainly welcome the opportunity to have as much control as possible over their consumption for individual applications. Mobile data will certainly come in handy when using maps or the weather, but you may not need it so much for Pinterest, Instagram or even YouTube. On your iPhone, run Settings -> Mobile data, and in bottom of the display simply disable apps that don't want to consume mobile data.

Shortcuts for emoji

Can't do without using emojis in a conversation, but you don't want to search for individual emoticons on the respective keyboard, and you don't like the option of searching for them by keywords? You can define a keyboard shortcut for individual emoticons. For example, if you want to quickly enter an emoticon with sunglasses, just type the text of your choice (for example, "sunglasses") and the emoticon will appear where it belongs. Run on your iPhone to set the text Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Text Replacement, in Pupper right corner click on "+" and enter everything necessary.

Searching for a word on the web

Need to find a specific word on a web page in Safari? While on the Mac the keyboard shortcut Cmd + F serves this purpose, in Safari on the iPhone it is necessary to first enter the keyword in the address bar. Instead of confirming, tap on results page – in hers lower part you will find the section on this page, where you can find all occurrences of that word on the current web page.

Save content in PDF format

If you are interested in an article on the website and would like to return to it undisturbed later, you have the option to save it in PDF format, and then, for example, upload it to cloud storage or open it for reading in native Books. Click to save the page in PDF format share icon, select Print and long press Tblink in the upper right corner. The page is automatically converted to PDF format and you can handle it however you like.

Timed music shutdown

Do you like to fall asleep to the sound of music, but don't want your favorite songs playing until the morning? Whether you're listening on a music streaming service or through YouTube, you can set the playback to stop after a period of time of your choice. Activate on your iPhone Control Center and tap on timer icon. Select the desired time and in the section After ending select the beep instead option Stop playback. After that, just tap Start.

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