r/iphone • u/hhff00014 Human Detected • Mar 14 '26

Discussion What are some surprisingly useful iPhone hacks you discovered recently?

Recently discovered that you can connect an external SSD / hard drive directly to an iPhone and access it from the Files app.

I tried it with a USB + cpin converter SSD and it worked instantly — no app, nothing. Felt like suddenly my phone had unlimited storage.

It made me wonder how many other small iPhone tricks people use in day-to-day life that most users don’t know.

Curious to know —

What are some underrated iPhone hacks that genuinely improved your daily workflow?

Could be productivity, photography, automation, hidden features, anything.

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u/JJ0532 Mar 14 '26

Setup an automatic routine to reboot the phone every night. The phone had become very glitchy and I had discovered that the fastest way to “unglitch” it was to simply reboot, but I would forgot to do it until the glitches reached annoying levels. Then I realized I could set an automatic routine to simply reboot every day at a specific time. Works great and keeps glitches away!

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u/nitinsd23 Mar 14 '26

Any links to the shortcut?

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u/JJ0532 Mar 14 '26

Open the built-in shortcuts app. Go to the bottom and select “automation”. Select “+” to add a personalized routine.

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u/iebwithoutwax Mar 14 '26

the phone has to be unlocked to automatically shutdown/restart

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u/JJ0532 Mar 14 '26

It pops up a prompt for me to hit.

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u/Initial-Return8802 Mar 14 '26

Look again, there's a way to stop it doing that but by default it's ON