Then, once you need to communicate with someone, open the app, tap the Microphone button, and have them speak. It's useful for travelers who put their iPhones in Airplane Mode or disable cellular data to avoid roaming charges.īefore you travel, you can download the language you'll need over Wi-Fi: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Portugese, Russian or Spanish. Check out the new App Library – and hide useless home screensĪpple’s Translate app is a handy new addition that offers on-device (aka offline) translation for eleven different languages. And we love how Photos and Google Photos show automatic slideshows of old photos.

If you use Apple Shortcuts, you can trigger your favorites here without having to use Siri or the app. The wider Batteries widget is excellent for people with synced accessories like the Apple Watch 6 or AirPods, because it shows their battery levels too. You know what specific widgets apply to your daily life, but here are a few specific recommendations. Otherwise, Apple will auto-insert it and overflow your app icons onto another page to make room, causing a cascade effect. If you're someone who painstakingly organizes their apps, swipe right to an empty home screen before adding a widget. You can quickly get reminders or process information, and it takes up a fraction of the space these widgets would separately. It lets you swipe up and down between widget screens for different apps like Weather, Calendar, News, Gmail and Music.

Our first tip is to try adding the Smart Stack widget.

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