Speaker 1: Handy Tech Tips for your iPhone, pulled straight from the
Speaker 1: pages of my new book, What's going On? I'm Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech. Recently, I had a conversation
Speaker 1: with my pal, Jennifer jones Lee over at KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty on her show wake Up Call. If you
Speaker 1: guys listen to me regularly, you know him on KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty on Wednesday mornings. Talking with Jennifer. This
Speaker 1: week we talked about my brand new book, one hundred
Speaker 1: and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone. Thanks to
Speaker 1: everyone that's already expressed interest or purchased a copy. I
Speaker 1: know that you guys are learning some great tips for
Speaker 1: the iPhone. Here is the conversation I had with Jennifer
Speaker 1: Jones Lee on wake Up Call, which airs weekday mornings
Speaker 1: from five to six am on KFI AM six forty
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Enjoy.
Speaker 2: He's no longer just Katla's tech guru. No. Now he's
Speaker 2: author Rich Demiro, who joins us to talk about his
Speaker 2: new book. It's called one hundred and one Handy Tech
Speaker 2: Tips for the iPhone. Rich, good morning and congratulations.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning to Jennifer. Thanks so much and I'm
Speaker 3: glad to share this with you and you're listeners.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, anybody who has an iPhone, I think
Speaker 2: we all think that we know it pretty darn well.
Speaker 2: I think we all figured that our muscle memory on
Speaker 2: that thing is, you know, one hundred percent. But then
Speaker 2: I read through just a few of your tips and
Speaker 2: I went, oh, my gosh, I had no idea my
Speaker 2: iPhone could do any of that.
Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of what Apple's built here. And
Speaker 3: this is why I wrote the book, because when I
Speaker 3: see people using their phone, yeah, we know the basics.
Speaker 3: You know how to send a text message, you know
Speaker 3: how to take a picture, you know how to send
Speaker 3: that picture to someone. When it really comes to unlocking
Speaker 3: kind of all these little hidden features that Apple has
Speaker 3: built in, that's what the book is about. And because
Speaker 3: here's the deal. Apple wanted to make the iPhone as
Speaker 3: easy to use as possible, and they did an amazing
Speaker 3: job because there is no manual that comes inside the box. Right,
Speaker 3: you get this thing and you just press that start
Speaker 3: button and that's it. You're off and running. But if
Speaker 3: you want to take a little deeper dive and kind
Speaker 3: of make your phone work a little bit better for you.
Speaker 3: That's what my tips are all about. I've got so
Speaker 3: many of them in the book. You know, I've been
Speaker 3: using the iPhone for a decade. I was there at
Speaker 3: the original launch back in two thousand and seven in
Speaker 3: New York City, and you know, even I learned some stuff.
Speaker 3: I was I was kind of taking a deeper dive
Speaker 3: into this device.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like changing the settings that you never take the
Speaker 3: time to change, or looking at those little features that
Speaker 3: you really never kind of discover unless you need that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. When I was going over the list,
Speaker 2: I thought, I never even think I thought to wonder
Speaker 2: whether that could be changed on a few things. So
Speaker 2: let's start out with those notifications. There is a way.
Speaker 2: This is tip number two. I mean, we're starting right
Speaker 2: from the beginning here. How to clear out all your
Speaker 2: notifications all at once.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so most of us collect a bunch of notifications
Speaker 3: on our screen and they kind of become a graveyard
Speaker 3: of notifications. And you can clear them out one by
Speaker 3: one by swiping them and pressing clear, or you can
Speaker 3: trust that little X and clear out day by day.
Speaker 3: But if you press a little bit harder on that
Speaker 3: X above, some of your notifications. It'll come up with
Speaker 3: a new message that says clear all notifications, and then
Speaker 3: you tap that and it'll clear all your notifications at once,
Speaker 3: and you can get rid of them, clean up your
Speaker 3: home screen, and move on with your luck.
Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you a question. It's not like
Speaker 2: you have to download any new software anything. All of
Speaker 2: this is built.
Speaker 3: Right in, right, Yes, And that's what I wanted to
Speaker 3: do with this book is make it so that you
Speaker 3: can unlock the hidden features of the iPhone, stuff that's
Speaker 3: already built in that I'm not telling you, Oh, by
Speaker 3: the way, you need to download this new app to
Speaker 3: accomplish this feature. No, no, this is all stuff that is
Speaker 3: built into Apple's operating system. Like how to turn your
Speaker 3: phone into a magnifying glass. This is tip number five.
Speaker 3: Now I shared this on TV. I think it was
Speaker 3: last year. We might have talked about it on the radio.
Speaker 3: This was a top tip and it's still getting a
Speaker 3: lot of traction. You go into Settings, you go into General,
Speaker 3: you go into accessibility, and there's a feature called magnifier.
Speaker 3: You've flipped that on and then you press your home
Speaker 3: button on your phone three times, or if you have
Speaker 3: an iPhone, ten. You press that side button three times,
Speaker 3: and immediately your phone becomes a magnifying glass. You can
Speaker 3: use it to look at menus, you can use it
Speaker 3: to you check out what's going on on the bill,
Speaker 3: see the secret writing on there. But it's just one
Speaker 3: of those features that's really simple and built into your phone.
Speaker 2: Everybody over forty it wants to hug you right now
Speaker 2: for telling them that when they forget their readers when
Speaker 2: they go to a restaurant. Okay, what about changing the
Speaker 2: brightness of the flashlight. This is one of those where
Speaker 2: I thought I never even thought to question whether or
Speaker 2: not you could do that.
Speaker 3: Neither did I until I started researching the book, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, wait a second, Apple is so sneaky. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we all know how to flick the flashlight on and off.
Speaker 3: You press that little flashlight button. Well, if you go
Speaker 3: into your control panel, which if you have a iPhone,
Speaker 3: a regular iPhone, you swipe up from the bottom, or
Speaker 3: if you have an iPhone ten, you swipe down from
Speaker 3: the right hand of the screen at the top. Well,
Speaker 3: if you hard press the flashlight instead of just tapping it,
Speaker 3: next thing you know, you get this a little slider
Speaker 3: and you can adjust the flashlight twenty five percent fifty
Speaker 3: seventy one hundred percent. Now, I will admit I did
Speaker 3: not even know this until I started researching the book,
Speaker 3: and I said, this is so brilliant. When you're in
Speaker 3: a restaurant looking at that menu, you don't have to
Speaker 3: put it at one hundred percent and blind everyone around you.
Speaker 2: That is fan. Everybody right now listening who sits around
Speaker 2: a forty five year old is thanking you for that
Speaker 2: little tip as well.
Speaker 3: Fifty seven is excellent for your audience. And like myself,
Speaker 3: who wakes up really early, if you use the iPhone
Speaker 3: alarm to wake up, it is so jarring. Yeah, just
Speaker 3: get you right up. Well, guess what if you use
Speaker 3: the feature on the iPhone called bedtime. This is next
Speaker 3: to the alarm, it's in the talk functionality. But if
Speaker 3: you set your alarm using that function, guess what. Your
Speaker 3: alarm wakes you up gradually, So your volume of your
Speaker 3: alarm kind of eases you into the day. And I
Speaker 3: find that much more gentle in trying to wake up
Speaker 3: than that blaring alarm.
Speaker 2: I'm going along with you as we do this on
Speaker 2: my iPhone, and everything you are saying is completely spot on.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you go pick this book up, because what
Speaker 2: he is saying right now is all stuff that you
Speaker 2: can do. And I am the least tech savvy person
Speaker 2: that I know, and rich that you are making this
Speaker 2: completely user friendly. Okay, now here's one I actually need
Speaker 2: to do this today. I got sent like a form
Speaker 2: last night that I need to go ahead and sign.
Speaker 2: How do I scan and sign a document on my iPhone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you've ever used docu sign, you know
Speaker 3: you've gotten that email where you click it and do that. Well,
Speaker 3: you can do that similar functionality right on your phone
Speaker 3: with any document. So let's say someone has a piece
Speaker 3: of paper. You go into notes, you can pose a
Speaker 3: new note and right in the keyboard, you'll notice there's
Speaker 3: a plus sign. You press that plus sign and you'll
Speaker 3: bring up an option that says scan document. Next thing,
Speaker 3: you know, your iPhone turns into like basically a document scanner.
Speaker 3: It takes a great picture of the document, it puts
Speaker 3: it in PDF form. Then you add there's another little
Speaker 3: plus sign that pops up. You press that and you
Speaker 3: can add your signature, and if you want, your iPhone
Speaker 3: will actually store your signature. So if you have a
Speaker 3: lot of contracts that you sign over and over. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of paperwork. Your iPhone can just insert your
Speaker 3: signature and then you can send it off as a PDF.
Speaker 3: This is one of the handiest tips ever. And I
Speaker 3: tested this one with my wife when I was writing
Speaker 3: this book. She asked me, I said, you said, hey,
Speaker 3: I have to sign this document. I said, hold on,
Speaker 3: let me send you the section of my book that
Speaker 3: I just wrote, and I'll see if you can follow
Speaker 3: the directions. And she is not a tech wizard, she's
Speaker 3: tech average, which most people are. And she followed the instruction,
Speaker 3: She signed the document, sent it off, and she said, oh,
Speaker 3: my gosh, that was so awesome. And I said, yes,
Speaker 3: I'm excited for you because I sus this book is
Speaker 3: going to work.
Speaker 2: Okay, This next one is one that I think all
Speaker 2: of us have gotten on a plane and thought, Okay,
Speaker 2: you know how you're packing beforehand, and you're making sure
Speaker 2: that you have everything that you need for your trip
Speaker 2: or your flight or whatever it happens to be. But
Speaker 2: how many times have you gotten on the plane and thought, oh, shoot,
Speaker 2: I forgot to download a movie, or right, I forgot
Speaker 2: to download a game or whatever. Turns out there's already
Speaker 2: stuff on our phones.
Speaker 3: Yes, And this has happened to me so many times.
Speaker 3: And I'm you know, like I said, I'm a tech tech,
Speaker 3: a little bit above average when it comes to the tech.
Speaker 2: You're a wizard.
Speaker 3: And even though I've gotten on a plane and said,
Speaker 3: oh no, I forgot to download anything, Well, here's an
Speaker 3: easy way to check to see, you know, if you
Speaker 3: have some movies that you think are on your phone.
Speaker 3: Because when you look at your movies or TV section
Speaker 3: of your phone, Apple is doing it's pulling everything out
Speaker 3: of iCloud, so it's showing that those are available, and
Speaker 3: you can press play if you have Wi Fi and
Speaker 3: they'll start playing. But as soon as you get on
Speaker 3: the airplane where there's no Wi Fi, next thing you
Speaker 3: know you have nothing downloaded. What I say is flip
Speaker 3: your plane into airplane mode while you're at home and
Speaker 3: while you're looking at your iTunes library on your phone,
Speaker 3: and that will reveal exactly which movies are actually downloaded
Speaker 3: to your phone. Most often you'll find that there's nothing there.
Speaker 3: And so now you can go back in and say, okay,
Speaker 3: let me download a movie, and you press that little
Speaker 3: cloud download button next to a movie that you've purchased,
Speaker 3: and it will actually download your phone. And that's a
Speaker 3: good one because that's saved me a couple times.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, and probably save some money along the way too,
Speaker 2: so you don't have to log into the plane's Wi Fi,
Speaker 2: which is like eight or ten bucks every time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, what about that canceling a subscription? You can do
Speaker 2: that too. You've got a tip for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, Jen, this one's really easy to find. This
Speaker 3: is tip number sixty six. I should say easy to
Speaker 3: find in my book. But here's how you find it.
Speaker 3: On your phone. You go into iTunes, you go into
Speaker 3: show Apple ID, you go are you scroll down to
Speaker 3: see your Apple ID. Then you go to view Apple ID.
Speaker 3: Then you sign in, Then you go to account settings,
Speaker 3: and then you go to subscriptions. Now you think you'd
Speaker 3: ever find that on your own, No, probably not. And
Speaker 3: this is the thing. You sign up for a little
Speaker 3: subscription on your iPhone and you don't cancel it for
Speaker 3: at least two to three cycles after you actually want
Speaker 3: to cancel it. Because it's so tough to find that
Speaker 3: cancel subscription. So people ask me this all the time.
Speaker 3: I put it out in the book so you can
Speaker 3: find those subscriptions. You can go through and say, okay,
Speaker 3: let me clean up my subscriptions once and for all
Speaker 3: and save some money, because yeah, I get it, it's
Speaker 3: nine nine cents two ninety nine a month. Whatever. But
Speaker 3: the reality is, why have something that you are paying
Speaker 3: for that you're not using and that adds.
Speaker 2: Up ninety nine cents here and there and whatever turns
Speaker 2: into you've got ten twenty of those. That's an extra
Speaker 2: twenty bucks a month you're not even thinking about.
Speaker 3: That's my book paid for. Right.
Speaker 2: There is one more last tip before you go. You
Speaker 2: have a way to set up an emergency ID. This
Speaker 2: one sounds really.
Speaker 3: Important, yeah, and a lot of people don't take the
Speaker 3: time to do this. Now here's the thing. If someone
Speaker 3: fins you in an accident or whatever, no, they're not
Speaker 3: going to look at your iPhone first thing to find
Speaker 3: your emergency contact information, right, But if you're in the
Speaker 3: hospital you find yourself in a situation where someone needs
Speaker 3: to get in touch with someone that loves you or
Speaker 3: knows you, this will come in handy and I show
Speaker 3: you how to do it. You go into the health
Speaker 3: app and you set up your emergency contacts and once
Speaker 3: you do that if you ever dial nine one one
Speaker 3: on your phone using the Emergency SOS feature, these contacts
Speaker 3: will actually get a text message with your location constantly
Speaker 3: updated until you turn it off.
Speaker 2: No kidding. That is brilliant.
Speaker 3: Plus, someone can look at your homes or your lock
Speaker 3: screen and find this contact information. They can't unlock your phone,
Speaker 3: but they can see what blood type you have, if
Speaker 3: you have any allergies, what type of medications you might
Speaker 3: be allertic to, any special medical instructions. And again, first
Speaker 3: responders may not look at this information, but I did
Speaker 3: look at some websites where people were discussing this, and
Speaker 3: they said that in hospitals this does come in handy
Speaker 3: sometimes where they will look at this section of the
Speaker 3: iPhone to see, hey, who can we call for this
Speaker 3: person to get in contact with a loved one or
Speaker 3: a family member.
Speaker 2: That sounds crucial to have. Rich Your book is called
Speaker 2: one hundred one handy tech Tips for the iPhone. Congratulations
Speaker 2: again on this accomplishment. And if you have an iPhone
Speaker 2: and you haven't gotten Rich's book, I don't know what
Speaker 2: you're waiting for because you just heard you know ten
Speaker 2: things or so that I know you didn't know about
Speaker 2: your iPhone this morning, So where can they find it?
Speaker 3: You can go to Amazon and search one hundred and
Speaker 3: one handy tech tips. Or you can go to my
Speaker 3: website rich on tech dot tv and just look for
Speaker 3: it there. It's right at the top of the page.
Speaker 3: You can get it for like I said, the kindle,
Speaker 3: you can get it for iBooks. You can print it
Speaker 3: out as a PDF if you want to do that.
Speaker 3: I've made it really easy to get it in every
Speaker 3: format possible to make it and just enjoy it. You know,
Speaker 3: I've been getting a lot of feedback from yesterday. All
Speaker 3: the people have purchased it, and you know, it's all
Speaker 3: been positive, so that's a good thing. I think people
Speaker 3: are really finding some great stuff in here, and I'm
Speaker 3: happy to get these tips out there.
Speaker 2: Congratulations Rich all right, we'll talk to you again next week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jennifer, see you later.
Speaker 2: That's KTLA's rich Tomiro Find his book rich on tech
Speaker 2: a TV.