Last week’s column covered the new iOS 26 operating system for iPhone, which comes with some nifty new features. But even before this version came out, iOS had some very handy features that a lot of people may not know about.

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Most of what I’ll cover in this column applies to iPhone X from 2017 or later when Apple dropped the physical Home button. If you have an earlier phone, check Apple’s website or do some research on Google or generative AI sites such as ChatGPT to see if your older iPhone offers similar features. And if you’re an Android user, don’t despair. It, too, has some little-known helpful features that I’ll cover in a subsequent column.

That black notch is not dead space

You probably noticed an oval shaped black notch at the top of the phone that hides the

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