Your iPhone Has These 9 Secret Superpowers (And It’s Time to Use Them)

Stop hunting through menus — these shortcuts will change how you use your phone

By Sergio Velasquez

10 Min Read Published: Mar 17th, 2026

A focused professional woman in a grey blazer stands at a wooden office desk, holding a modern smartphone in her right hand while pointing with her left index finger at a printed document on the desk. An open laptop displaying a spreadsheet rests nearby. In the background, other colleagues collaborate, and a large window provides a view of the Toronto city skyline, including the CN Tower.

If you’ve owned an iPhone for years, it’s easy to assume you already know everything that it can do. You can text, take photos, use apps, and get on with your day. But Apple has a funny way of hiding its best stuff, as if it’s your job to look for it. The company keeps adding genuinely useful features that don’t scream for attention, so unless you go looking, you might never notice them.

And the irony of it all is that the iPhone features that make the biggest day-to-day difference in our lives are usually the ones that don’t look all that relevant at first. They’re the tools that save you time, keep you safer, cut down annoying interruptions, and make your phone feel more personal — all without downloading a single extra app.

It might not be your job to look for hidden features, but it is ours. Read on for the 9 most helpful iPhone features that many of us miss — and how to make the most of them.