Don’t you love learning some useful hacks? Well, I’m pretty sure everybody does. And how about finding out, let’s say, some feature on your iPhone that makes your everyday life easier? Yep, I’m sure, everybody likes learning that. So let me tell you some examples that hopefully will make your everyday life easier as well! So, the iPhone has a feature that can take a photo of the laundry symbols and translate them to understandable language. Or, it turns out that toasters have a removable tray at the bottom that catches the crumbs and you can remove them.
One Reddit user recently started a thread online asking folks to share common products that have a feature which many people might not know about. The post caught a lot of attention and people online actively shared various things that most of us probably haven’t heard about. So scroll through and find out about these not-so-hidden but unknown features!
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#1
On the left side of a car’s steering wheel is a stick. Pushing the stick up or down will indicate to other drivers which direction you intend to turn!
You’re welcome!
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#2
The little pepper looking thing that hangs off of most pin cushions is filled with emery powder to help clean/sharpen your pins and needles.
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#3
Mobile phones have a low powered speaker just above the screen, so you can put the phone to your head and other people can’t hear your call
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#4
Barilla Pasta has a Spotify list. Each specific song has a duration to match the relevant pasta’s cook time
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#5
Lifetime warranties on consumer goods. Like Columbia jackets and Jansport backpacks. If your zipper fails or the material separates or is no longer repelling water, file a claim online and pay for shipping to the factories. They will either repair it or ship you a comparable new version. Companies like this use your returns to identify weak points in their products while retaining lifetime customers.
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#6
When you are writing in Microsoft word or Outlook and accidentally leave caps lock on, select the text and press Shift F3. It will change the text between upper and lower case, and there’s a third option to make the first letter of each word upper case too.
Always seems to blow peoples minds when I tell them.
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#7
The number of people on this site who don’t know to clear their lint trap after using the dryer is too high
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#8
Closed an important tab accidentally? Press CTRL+SHIFT+T to bring it right back.
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#9
Toasters have crumb trays in the bottom that you can and SHOULD remove and clean
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#10
Netflix has a Fitness or Exercise genre where you can watch and workout alongside videos.
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#11
A lot of people think that Febreze just covers up odors with perfume.
It’s actually an excellent odor *remover* and there’s an unscented version that works extremely well and leaves no smell behind. It’s just that when they first brought it to market, a lot of people didn’t like it because they associate “smelling clean” with perfumed products. They found that adding a perfume to it increased their sales. It’s hard to find in stores, but you can still order the unscented version on Amazon.
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#12
Swiss army knife, parcel hook. Most people don’t know what it’s for, but it lets you use the knife as a handle for carrying unwieldy c**p.
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#13
If your blinker is faster it means you have a bulb out
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#14
So one that kinda blows my mind and I use all the time now.
But you can program your phone to send texts at later times depending on the software.
You hold the send button and see if any prompts come up, it’s insanely handy for calling out sick on a job (if you your bosses # anyway) or checking in with somebody when you think of them but know right now is a bad time to text, etc.
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#15
Even though it’s only been a couple decades, I feel like people forget that you can just buy an HD antenna and watch local channels instead of needing cable/satellite.
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#16
Least and best used feature in a Microwave is actually low power and defrost settings.
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#17
A regular pair of binoculars pointed at Jupiter will reveal four of Jupiter’s moons! Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
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#18
Browsers let you use ctrl+f to search within a page. You can use this, for example, to check if 500 people have already made a joke about turn signals
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#19
The second button down on the left on a gas pump will often mute the audio coming from it.
Also, whoever decided to put videos on gas pumps should be sent to The Hague for trial.
Edit: lots of people are saying it’s the second button down on the right. Just try whichever and see if it works.
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#20
you can turn your brightness lower than the lowest brightness setting.
settings —> accessibility —> display & text size —> reduce white point
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#21
With Google Maps on your phone, when traveling to someone, you can let them know exactly where you are so they can track your progress.
Open maps, tap your account icon at the top right, tap location sharing, and you have the option to share your location for a set amount of time (like an hour). You can then tap to send this location sharing directly to a person or to send it through a text message. The other person can now know where you are along your journey. This way they can better prepare for your arrival.
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#22
I recently found out that if i press and hold my car key to unlock the car, all the windows open automatically.
Not so impressive but some people might try it out lol
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#23
If you want to move the cursor on the text you just typed on the phone, just slide your finger to the left or right of the spacebar. No more annoying “tap tap tap oh s**t I accidentally deleted it”
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#24
You can use the Notes app on your iPhone as a scanner. Start a note, hit the camera icon, and it will give you the option to scan a document. You can do single or batch, and if you share the note or email it to yourself, it will come through as a PDF.
The “scan text” feature below that one is great too; instead of creating a PDF, it’ll import printed (or some handwritten, depending on how tidy your writing is!) text into your note. You just hover over a doc and it’ll pop up as text.
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#25
The amazon bags are reusable. Turn them inside out, and turn the piece of plastic off to reveal the tape to reseal.
Very useful for making returns.
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#26
Turning your phone sideways in calculator mode gives you a full scientific calculator.
Holding letters down on your phones keyboard brings up a selection of ‘alternate forms’ șö ŷòų ċæņ ďo þħīß! ŴØÁĦ
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#27
Rearview mirrors have a tab that lets you flip it upward, effectively reducing the glare if the car behind you has its high beams on. I’ve been surprised by how many people haven’t been aware of this.
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#28
Mastercard and Visa both offer cell phone insurance on some of their credit cards if you pay your phone bill with their card. This can cover theft and damage to your cell phone.
Edit: about time i add this to the main, check your credit card benefits guide for details to see if it’s applicable. And yes it might be a pain in the a*s, but it’s still there for some cc’s
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#29
Nearly all staplers can make two kinds of staples: regular and temporary. You can spin the strike plate around by pushing it up from underneath and the resulting staples will go out instead of in, making them easier to remove.
I thought this was common knowledge, but my wife of 14 years was amazed when I showed our daughter how that worked.
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#30
I’ve met a weirdly high number of people that think you can’t charge an EV off a standard wall outlet.
You can, it just takes a while. My Model 3 takes about two days to go from 0% to 100%.
As opposed to 40 minutes at a fast charger
#31
Alumin[i]um boxes have two little tabs on the side you’re supposed to push in. Now you don’t have to struggle when pulling out a sheet.
That extra container you’ve never touched since installing your dishwasher? It’s for Rinse Aid. Now your plates won’t have streaks on them when you take them out.
#32
Windows Key + Shift + S is a shortcut to a snipping tool. It will freeze and darken your computer screen and then you can click and drag a square to grab a snapshot that you can then paste wherever.
If you double tap the lock button on an Android, it opens the camera.
You can take a phone screenshot on an Android by pressing the volume down and lock buttons at the same time.
#33
That most new phones (at least Samsung) has a panic button function that will work even if your phone is dead (this depends on the phone). You can put in your distress contacts and when activated, they will receive a text, call and a live map to your location.
#34
The nub on the edge of a tape dispenser (the red one for moving boxes) is meant to find the edge of the tape. Press it down and move the tape around and it’ll peel it up
Edit: copying a video tagged below to answer questions Edit 2: here to blow your mind again. There’s a regular cap under all OTC child safety caps. Put a butter knife in there and pry off the cap example
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#35
For a new Google doc, in the browser bar you can just type “doc.new”
Works for sheet.new and slide.new too
#36
On windows. Holding the shift key while you move your scroll wheel gives you horizontal scrolling.
#37
The little door for your gas pump should have a spot to rest the cap so gas doesn’t drip onto the handle
#38
E-readers and TTS is on everyone’s phone. I’m blind and yall have no clue how many times a day people ask me “how are you reading and talking online?”
#39
KwikSet locks can be easily rekeyed in about 30seconds.
Buying the rekey kit online comes with four new keys that are cheaper than duplicating a new key.
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#40
In the US, most electrical stuff uses a type of combination screw called ECX. It can be turned by a slotted, Phillips, or Square (Robertson) bit, or a special ECX unique bit.
If you use a Phillips with it (as most people do) it’s very prone to stripping out. If you use a square bit, it is like a thousand times easier. But most people don’t know about the feature and don’t have a square screwdriver.
#41
On a Windows computer WinKey + Tab brings up a virtual desktop switcher. At the top of the screen, hit the plus (+) icon to make a second desktop. You can then use Ctrl + WinKey + L/R arrow to switch back and forth quickly.
I keep all my browsers on one desktop, and Spotify/Discord/Reddit on the other and swap back and forth all day at work.
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#42
Apple camera comes pre installed with a feature that translates those laundry symbols
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#43
Most microwaves can be muted.
You can call an iPhone to stop its alarm
Edit: you can also turn off the your PS5’s power up beep
#44
If you press and hold the flashlight button on your iPhone, you can adjust the brightness of it
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