Apple's upcoming iOS 14 has been widely dissected by now,watch Lady Chatterley's Daughter (2011) but there's still a couple of hidden features that Apple didn't mention in its WWDC keynote.
One of the coolest we've seen is a new Back Tap feature, allowing you to perform system commands or launch custom shortcuts by tapping the back of your iPhone.
Discovered by Federico Viticci (via Engadget), the Back Tap is actually an Accessibility feature, but I see no reason why it couldn't be widely used (on a side note, Tap to Wake, one of my favorite iOS features, is also an Accessibility feature). Per Apple's description of the Back Tap feature in iOS 14: "Double or Triple tap on the back of your iPhone to perform actions quickly."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Viticci's example has App Switcher set as the action for the double tap, and Spotlight as the action for the Triple Tap, but it's not hard to imagine other uses — one commenter on Twitter suggested that this is an ideal way for launching that "I'm being pulled over by police" shortcut.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Even better, Viticci claims the feature works even when your iPhone is in a case.
SEE ALSO: Apple will let you change the default email and web browser app in iOS 14The iOS 14 is only available as developer beta at this point, and this feature could be changed or completely removed before the final version is out. As it is, though, I bet it'll be one of many users' favorite new features (along with the ability to change your default email app and browser).
Viticci noticed a couple more interesting features in iOS 14. For example, Sound Recognition (also located in Accessibility) lets your phone listen for specific sounds, like water running, baby crying, shouting, or a doorbell, and notify you. He also found out some neat Watch automation possibilities, including the ability to change a Watch face automatically, on schedule.
Topics Apple iPhone
The Beatles biopic casts all the internet's boyfriends in one movie
We’re More Ghosts Than People by Hanif Abdurraqib
Teetering Canaries by Judith Schalansky
Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group by Johannes Lichtman
NYT mini crossword answers for April 24, 2025
The Secrets of Beauty by Jean Cocteau
Too Enjoyable to Be Literature by Helen Garner
Beginning with Color: An Interview with Etel Adnan by Laure Adler
Apple iPhone 17 Pro leaks highlight major new design change
Postcards from Elizabeth Bishop by Langdon Hammer
Best robot vacuum deal: Get the Shark Matrix Plus 2
Ten Years without Gabriel García Márquez: An Oral History by Silvana Paternostro
In the Beginning by J. D. Daniels
A Fall Dispatch from the Review’s Poetry Editor by Srikanth Reddy
Amazon Spring Sale 2025: Best Apple AirPods 4 deal
An Illegible Quartet and Choreographic Research by The Paris Review
Postcards from Elizabeth Bishop by Langdon Hammer
My Strawberry Plants: On Marcottage by Kate Briggs
Best Amazon Fire TV Cube deal: Save $30 at Amazon
My Year of Finance Boys by Daniel Lefferts
Sartre and Borges on Welles by Dan PiepenbringThe TikTok controversy over collecting human bones, explainedSartre and Borges on Welles by Dan PiepenbringThe Morning News Roundup for August 6, 2014Bama rush TikToks are huge, but so are takedowns of sorority cultureTikTok to display ads alongside search resultsMeet TikTok's Spotify influencersThe Morning News Roundup for August 13, 2014The Morning News Roundup for August 5, 2014The Morning News Roundup for August 5, 2014What Words Do You Commonly Misspell?Antonio Basoli’s Alfabeto PittoricoBirthday Suit by Dan PiepenbringBirthday Suit by Dan PiepenbringWhat time 'Ahsoka' will be streaming on Disney+ this week'Quordle' today: See each 'Quordle' answer and hints for August 24, 2023Apple's iPhone 15 Pro Max may come a month later than expectedThe Morning News Roundup for August 6, 2014The Morning News Roundup for August 13, 2014Republican primary debate: How to fact Why NPC streamers are trending on TikTok Live What are tweets called now that Twitter is X? Users weigh in Two Memories of W. S. Merwin by The Paris Review ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ at Fifty Elon renames Twitter 'X' as the internet points and laughs This viral iPhone 12 wedding dress pic creeped out the internet Staff Picks: Peasants, Postpartum, and Palestine by The Paris Review NYT's The Mini crossword answers for December 3 The Genius of Terry Southern by David L. Ulin Best speaker deal: Get the JBL Partybox Encore Essential speaker for $179 Cincinnati Bengals vs. Jacksonville Jaguars 2023 livestream: Watch NFL for free Nudes by The Paris Review The World Association of Ugly People by Rebecca Brill When Mario Vargas Llosa Punched Gabriel García Márquez by Silvana Paternostro Whiting Awards 2019: Tyree Daye, Poetry Tolkien’s Watercolors by The Paris Review Cooking with Colette by Valerie Stivers 'GTA 6': The official trailer release date just dropped Whiting Awards 2019: Terese Marie Mailhot, Nonfiction Poetry Rx: There Are Enough Ballrooms in You by Sarah Kay
2.3179s , 10109.640625 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【watch Lady Chatterley's Daughter (2011)】,Unobstructed Information Network