If your iPhone supports Touch ID, how many fingerprints have you stored? If you have more than one Apple device, have you copied content from one to another? If you link to a lot of websites, how do you keep your tabs under control?

Add More Fingerprints

Does your iPhone or iPad have a Home Button with fingerprint sensor? Did you know that Touch ID supports up to five fingerprints?

You’re not limited to the one fingerprint you might have set up when you turned on your device for the first time. This is useful because you might hold your device in various positions or place it on surfaces where using that same finger is inconvenient.

In Settings > Touch ID & Passcode, you can Add a Fingerprint. Follow this process patiently, first resting and lifting one finger on the Home Button repeatedly. The idea is that you won’t place your finger the same way twice so do cover the button completely but don’t try to maintain the same position.

Second, when prompted, capture the edges of your print. Now, you can place any other part of your finger on the pad. Make sure to rotate your finger thoroughly to capture each side of the print. When done, tap the new entry and rename it so you can differentiate it from other fingerprints.

Copy & Paste Across Devices

Do you have more than one Apple device signed into the same iCloud account? Handoff is a feature that “lets you start something on one device and instantly pick it up on other devices,” according to Apple’s description in Settings > General > Handoff.

Among the functions of Handoff, supported by devices from 2012 or later, is Universal Clipboard. As long as two devices also have Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Handoff enabled, copy anything on one device and you can immediately paste it on the other.

If you’re not sure how to copy something in the first place, that’s a great opportunity for us to work together and demonstrate the various ways to do so. First, check out Mac Mondays: XCV Shortcuts.

Auto-Close Your Tabs

Did you know that every time you link to a webpage from another app, like from an email or text message, Safari creates a new tab? Tap the bottom-right button in Safari (two overlapping squares) to reveal your tabs, which might number in the dozens or even hundreds.

In iOS 13 [and later], Safari can automatically clean up your tabs, closing the ones you haven’t touched in a while. The app might have even offered to do so.

To set this manually, go to Settings > Safari > Close Tabs and choose how long Safari should wait for you to view a tab before closing it. Or, you can quickly close all tabs: just touch and hold on the tab button and choose the desired option.

How much time and frustration are you saving by investing in these new practices? What other fun tips have you discovered? Feel free to reach out when you’re ready to discover something new that just might blow your mind!