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iOS 8: Secret tips and Tricks

  • Sep 14, 2025
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In this practical tip we will reveal secret tips, and Tricks in iOS 8! The new operating system holds a few Surprises for you.

Tip 1: battery consumption of individual Apps

Save battery with the following secret Information:
  1. You go to the "settings" to "General".
  2. Tap on "use" and then "battery usage".
  3. You will appear after a short loading duration, all the Apps and their battery usage on your iPhone. So you have your battery always in control.
  4. You are at this point, with Apps you almost never use - turn on the but just or delete them from your device.
Battery consumption in iOS 8

Tip 2: Different vibrations for notifications

You can set different vibrations for specific notifications.
  1. Go to the "settings" and then to "sounds".
  2. There you can in the area of the "sounds and vibration patterns" to each message type, assign a different vibration pattern.
  3. To do this, you type in something like "New E-Mail" and set in "Vibration" with a specific pattern.
  4. Incidentally, you can create under "create New Vibration" is also a pattern of your own.
iOS 8: vibration pattern

Tip 3: Siri launching by voice command

Did you know that you can start Siri since iOS 8 via command?
  1. To do this, you must tap the "settings" under "General" to "Siri".
  2. Put to allow the Slider in the "Hey Siri" on the right.
  3. In the case of external power supply, you can call up Siri by voice command induce. Just speak "Hey Siri" and she will report.
Hey Siri to activate

Tip 4: Finally, a camera with self-timer

In iOS 8 there is finally a built-in self-timer in the camera App.
  1. Tap the "camera"App and press the top right of the clock Icon.
  2. Now select "3s" or "10s" as a self-timer time.
  3. Now tap on the timer button and a Countdown count begins to shut down.
  4. You put your iPhone in a suitable place and pose for a snapshot.
iOS 8: self-timer

Tip 5: iOS 8 in Black-and-White

You can run iOS 8 also available in Black-and-White.
  1. You go into the "settings"App on the "General" and then "accessibility".
  2. There you activate the Option "grayscale".
  3. Your iOS 8 interface is now grey. This not only looks stylish, but also saves battery.
iOS in Black-and-White
In our next tip we tell you facts about the funniest Siri Eastereggs.

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