5 clever iPhone tricks you might not know

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Publish Date: 2026-03-15 13:00:00

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If you’ve invested in an iPhone, what do you use it for most? Maybe it’s taking photos, or messaging friends and family, or just endlessly doomscrolling through whatever feeds you happen to have open.

Even with a device as ubiquitous as the iPhone though, there are features that not everyone is aware of. If you dig beneath the surface of the apps and menus that you use daily, there’s more and more functionality to explore.

We’ve rounded up five lesser-known iPhone features–and if you already knew about all of them, you have an impressively thorough knowledge of your device.

You can run a lot of different conversions on your iPhone. Screenshot: Apple

It’s likely that you’ve used the Calculator app that comes as part of iOS, but did you know the app has a conversion tool hidden away in it as well? It means you can convert between temperatures, weights, distances, currencies, and more without having to load up a separate app or website.

With the Calculator open on your iPhone, tap the small calculator icon (top right), then pick Convert. You can then tap the arrows next to the on-screen figures on the right to choose the units you’re converting from and to.

For example, tap the top pair of arrows and pick Currency, then choose the currency you’re converting from; tap the bottom pair of arrows and Currency again to select the currency you’re converting to. For this particular conversion, the latest exchange rates get pulled from the web.

It’s fair to say that the Measure tool doesn’t get quite the same attention as a lot of other native iOS apps—from Apple Maps to the Safari browser—but it can still prove useful whenever you need to measure something in the real world. If it’s somehow been removed from your iPhone, you can get it again from…

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