You'll see a green circle with a plus sign in it show up on the thumbnail indicating that you can lift your finger and the photo will be placed in the text field, ready for you to send. Without lifting your finger when the thumbnail starts to float over the rest of the photos, switch back to the Messages app. Don't tap on a picture to open it full-screen instead place a finger on the photo and start to drag your finger across the screen. To test out the new feature, open the Photos app and view your recent photos. If you're going back and forth between Messages and Photos to share pictures from a recent night out with friends, for example, you can now drag them from the Photos app to the Messages app. The iPad has long let you drag-and-drop documents, text or pictures between apps. You'll also receive another alert when the rain is almost finished.ĭrag-and-drop between apps comes to the iPhone The next time rain or snow is getting close to you, your iPhone will alert you a few minutes before it's going to start. If you have more cities added to the Weather app, you can turn on alerts for each one. Slide the switch next to My Location to the On position and then tap Done. Next, tap the circle icon with the three dots in the top right corner of the screen followed by Notifications. Once you're running iOS 15, you can turn on the new precipitation alerts by opening the Weather app, then tapping the three-line icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. Those alerts are making their debut in iOS 15, often arriving a few minutes before Dark Sky's alerts - which is A-OK with me. When Apple bought the popular weather app Dark Sky, I immediately hoped that the official iPhone weather app would gain the real-time rain and snow alerts I had come to rely on to keep me dry. Get real-time precipitation alerts from the iPhone's weather app At the top of the menu that shows up you'll see a new option labeled Show Top Address Bar. When using Safari on your iPhone, tap the Aa button on the address bar (don't long-press, just a tap is fine). Weather alerts for the exact minute it'll start raining or snowing? Go on, I'm listening.
And Apple is giving you a choice in the matter by allowing you to move the address bar back to the top of the screen. The idea is that by moving the address bar to the bottom it's easier to get around Safari and browse the web because all of the buttons are closer to your thumb, but the change won't be ideal for everyone.
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One of the major changes you'll notice after installing the update on your iPhone is that the address bar with all of its included functionality has been moved to the bottom of the screen. Move Safari's address bar back to the top of your screenĪpple has made a lot of changes to Safari for the iPhone and iPad. You don't have to live with the address bar on the bottom of the screen in Safari. This is a neat and easy way to quickly scan an email address off a business card, a phone number on a sign or, as you can see in the screenshots above, scan the back of a book and insert it as one giant block of text. For instance, if you're moving the camera too fast, you'll see a "Slow Down" message flash on the screen.Īs you're lining up the camera and text just right, you'll see a live preview of the text your iPhone is identifying and ready to place in your document. Point your camera at whatever you want to scan, and then follow the prompts on the screen. Tap the button, which will replace your keyboard with your iPhone camera's viewfinder. You may also see a button that uses just the scan icon, which looks like a piece of paper with brackets around it.Īpple added a text scanner to the iPhone, no matter what app you're using. To use the iPhone's new "scan text" tool, long-press inside a text field as if you're going to use the copy-and-paste prompt. Have you ever wished you could point your iPhone's camera at a sign or piece of paper and have it automatically identify and then copy the text into an email or a document? With iOS 15, it's possible and incredibly cool. Use your iPhone's camera to scan any text