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so you just updated your iPhone to the official iOS 7 software but you're still trying to find your way around I'm Taylor Martin this is pocket now and these are some Iowa 7 tips and tricks so iOS 7 is finally officially here the update was just released to the public into anyone who is using it for the very first time the interface will look and feel radically different from before it's the first major UI overhaul since iOS was first released in 2007 along with all the visual changes though there are several new helpful features that are immediately visible or a parent so we've created a short list of helpful tips and tricks for iOS 7 on both the lock screen and home screen if you tilt your phone around you will notice the wallpaper shifts below the icons this gives a home and lock screens a depth effect which Apple calls the parallax effect it's neat for a while but after some time it becomes something that fades into the background and you eventually forget about it fortunately you can disable this feature with minimal effort no jailbreak required open the settings application open the general submenu accessibility reduce motion and toggle the switch to the on position this will effectively kill the parallax animation until you want to show it off again have you ever had someone who simply would not stop calling or messaging you well if you do rest assured iOS has your back within both the phone and messaging settings submenus there is a setting called blocked within it you can add blocked contacts that you will no longer receive text messages I messages calls or FaceTime requests from to unblock simply slide the blocked contact to the left and hit the unlock button app updates can become a chore to keep up with if you have a ton of applications installed on your iOS device I usually forget to check often and end up having to update dozens of apps at a time in iOS 7 you can set music apps and updates to download automatically go to the iTunes and App Store sub menu and settings and toggle the ones you want to the on position if you find you're using too much data on app updates it may be wise to leave the use cellular data button beneath in the off position when Notification Center and banner notifications were added to iOS there was no ideal way to dismiss banners okay well there was but we're not even sure it was intentional flicking the banner to the sides what do anything but you could pull down on the notification and flick it back up to dismiss now you can simply flick notifications upwards to dismiss them it's quick and it works most of the time unfortunately it doesn't feel all that natural the greatest part of iOS 7 is the accessibility of certain aspects Notification Center and control center are accessible from virtually anywhere in iOS 7 even the lock screen while that's great if you're wanting to keep prying eyes out of your notifications and their fingers off your device controls you may want to adjust your control center and Notification Center access in their respective sub menus in the Settings app you can toggle which views are available for notification center today or notifications views or control center from the lock screen you can also disable control center access from within apps but we're not sure why you would want to do that task switching has never been a high point of iOS it's clunky and fairly useful in iOS 7 things are a little bit better at the very least it looks a lot better and you don't have to tap the miniature x buttons to close out of all of the open apps simply double press the home button to open the task switcher and flick up like in webos to dismiss and force close an open application looking for the time you sent or received a particular message you may notice the time stamp is no longer shown in the default view like it used to be an iMessage on iOS 6 but revealing that information is extremely simple pull any message bubble to the left and all the time stamps will be shown this keeps the message view a lot cleaner without making it too difficult to find out when a particular message was sent tired of the old Siri voice I found 15 sushi restaurants in Charlotte if so head over to the series settings within the general submenu in the Settings app from there you can change the gender of series standard female voice to male up to 75 degrees Fahrenheit both are still quite robotic though finally as of June this year there were over 900,000 applications and games available in Apple's App Store that's a ton of applications and it's not unrealistic to want more apps than you can afford in the latest version of the app store you can save apps to a wish list for purchasing later navigate to the application you want hit the share button that's the square with an arrow pointing through the top and hit save to wish list that's going to do it for this time but inevitably there going to be more hidden software features discovered in the future if you have your own tips and tricks be sure to share them in the comments below let us know you like the video by clicking the thumbs up button that is just below this video and subscribe to see more videos like this one in the future finest on all the usual places twitter google+ and facebook at pocket now i'm taylor martin and you can find me on twitter at casper tech and i will see you next time you