If you are not connected to all the details of your iPhone, you may not be aware of a very cool feature. Thanks to the good nerds at TikTok, many are discovering that there is a tool hidden in plain sight: the Apple logo on the back of the phone. Yes, it is a tool / sensor / button.
This ‘tok’, from Brit Brown, was posted in October 2020 and shows users how to program their apple to perform functions such as taking a screenshot, opening a particular app or locking your screen. It makes sense for the spot to be touch sensitive (Apple products are getting more and more glassy and touch-based), but seriously, how didn’t we notice this before? We are literally on our phones all day long.
Check out the TikTok in full below. Did you already know this?
Remember it’s a double tap, so if your tech-averse parent is having trouble making this hack work, that might be why.
Brown seems to be demonstrating her tutorial on the iPhone 11, so it’s safe to say this feature will work if you have that version of an iPhone or higher. When Apple launched the iPhone 7, we revealed nine hidden features in the device, so hopefully everyone can learn something new today. And if you have the latest iOS, why not personalize your home screen? (Remember when everyone did that a few months ago? Time doesn’t exist in pandemic times.)
Unfortunately, none of the hacks here or on TikTok fixes the obvious problem of adding a feature to the Apple logo: most people keep their phones in a case. And usually that case covers the logo. Now if the company could make a product that didn’t fall into a million pieces when it fell, Which could really be a feature we could use.