1101 – Lightning fast on your phone: Tom talks Phone Tips

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🎧 Episode 1101 – Phone Tips (Summary)
🔑 Core Idea
Your smartphone is a powerful business tool—learning a few key features can save time, boost productivity, and help you act faster in daily situations.
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📱 Key Phone Tips
1. Magnifier Tool (Highly Recommended)
• Turns your phone into a zoom lens + flashlight.
• Can:
o Zoom in on small text
o Adjust brightness
o Identify objects (“detect” feature)
o Capture/freeze images
o Use front camera as a mirror (great for quick checks)
• Practical use: reading labels, inspecting items, quick visual checks.
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2. Slide-to-Type (Gesture Typing)
• Drag your finger across letters instead of tapping.
• Faster once you get used to it.
• Enable via: Settings → General → Keyboard
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3. iPhone Search (“Find”)
• Works like Ctrl+F / Command+F for your entire phone.
• Quickly locate:
o Apps
o Files
o Content
• Huge time-saver vs. scrolling through screens.
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4. Instant Video Recording
• From camera mode:
o Hold shutter button → starts video instantly
o Swipe right → locks recording
• Eliminates delays when capturing spontaneous moments.
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5. Photo Editing Comparison Trick
• While editing:
o Tap photo → toggle between original and edited
• Helps decide if edits improve the image.
• You can always:
o Cancel → discard changes
o Revert later → restore original even after saving
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💡 Takeaways for Entrepreneurs
• Small phone efficiencies compound into major time savings.
• Faster access, faster capture, and better usability = more productivity.
• Many powerful features are underused simply because people don’t explore them.
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🧠 Bottom Line
Mastering just a few hidden phone features can significantly improve your efficiency, responsiveness, and daily workflow—especially when you're constantly on the move.

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Episode 1101 – Phone Tips
[00:00:08] Welcome to Screw the Commute. The entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money, with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multimillionaire, Tom Antion.
[00:00:24] Hey everybody, it's Tom here with episode 1101. All right, 1101 today. I haven't done this for a while. My phone tips, but we have tons of phone tip episodes if you go to screwthecommute.com/training. And then just hit control F for find or command, F for fine on a Mac and just put in the word iPhone or phone and you'll get tons of episodes. And I got to tell you, you got your phone with you all the time. You need to really learn how to use it. So there's all kinds of things. I mean, it'll do a million things, but I tried to pick the ones that are really good for us entrepreneurs. Okay. I hope you didn't miss episode 1100. That was a little bit different in that I did my life in bullets because so many people ask me, you know, how I made it and how I came up and what my life was like. So I thought 1100 would be a good episode to do it on. So that was my life in bullets. Anytime you want to get to a back episode, you go to screwthecommute.com, slash, then the episode number. That was 1100. All right, pick up a copy of my automation book at screwthecommute.com/automatefree. Check out my mentor program at greatinternetmarketingtraining.com. And if you're in my mentor program, you get a scholarship to my school, IMTCVA.org, certified to operate by SCHEV. That's our governing body for this type of school. And it's quality distance learning. And you'll have an an in-demand skill when as little as six months. And we've had people making money long before they graduated. So check all that out.
[00:02:11] All right, so let's get into some phone tips here. Now you Android people, I don't have an Android, but usually the tip that I give you is doable sometime some way on an android. So I just want you to know about it and then just, you know, hit YouTube or something to figure out how to do it on an android. All right, so the first one is your magnifier. You should get to know your magnifier. It's very, very handy. I use it all the time. And from the iPhone you swipe from the top right to the bottom left to get into that kind of control panel. And if it's not there, then you got to go install it. And there's, there's easy ways to install it, but if it's there, you just hit on it. It's like a circle with a handle on it with a plus inside it, it's a magnifier. So when you open it up, there's a yellow slider. There's two yellow sliders. One is how much you're going to zoom with the magnifier, and the other one is to turn on your flashlight to give you extra light on whatever you're trying to look at.
[00:03:16] You can vary the intensity of the light, so that's really cool. Then there's some buttons below. One is detect. That's really crazy. It'll tell you what you're looking at if you don't know. Like if you hold it at your keyboard, it'll say, oh, that's a keyboard. Or if you hold it at your mouse, it'll be a mouse. But if it's something you don't know what it is, it'll give you its best educated guess of what it is. That's kind of cool. And then if you hit capture, then it freeze frames the thing that you're looking at. And so you can show it to somebody else or, you know, look at yourself and so forth. You can also capture it as a picture. And then the other cool thing is if you hit the settings button. If this isn't available on your phone or if you don't see it. You know the selfie button on your camera if it's not visible in the magnifier. You hit settings and go down and tell it to turn on the front camera. And you could imagine you could put on makeup lipstick with it. Like it's, it's like a mirror. And so very handy thing to get to know and just play with it a little bit and you'll find yourself using it all the time.
[00:04:36] All right, that's the magnifier. Now the next thing is kind of a productivity tip on typing. And it's called slide to type. And to make sure it's turned on, you go to Settings General Keyboard and then toggle on the slide to type. Or it might say just say slide. And in this case, you can put your finger on the first letter of what you're typing, and then just slide to the next letter, to the next letter, to the next letter, and then it'll type out the word for you. Now, I use this sometimes. I haven't used it enough to get really, really good at it, but it is very handy. So that's called slide to type. Okay, now a lot of people ask. I just mentioned it earlier on using Control-f as a finder or a command-f on a Mac, and that searches your whole whatever you're looking at, it'll search it for you. And they say, well, is there something like that on the iPhone? Well, yeah, if you look on your home screen below the, the main apps that you have, there's a little tiny thing that says find. If you click on it, it gives you a search box and it'll search your whole iPhone and bring up a whole list of things based on your search. So that's a very, very handy.
[00:06:02] I use that all the time because I can never find stuff, even if it's a, you know, I got a million apps on there, some I haven't used for a long time, but there's just tons of them. And instead of searching through screen to screen, I just type in the name of it and boom, it comes right up. And then I can click on it and I don't have to go search through all my screens of apps to, to get it, but it'll search the whole thing for whatever you're searching for. So that's a handy one. And it's similar to a control F or command F on a on a computer. Okay, so here's a really handy tip here. This is when you want to take a video of something. Let's say, I mean, this happens to me all the time when I'm out playing with the dogs. Oh, I got to want to take a video in a hurry. But then I got to open my camera app and then click over to video and, and so forth. So in this case, I'm in my camera app and I'm ready, but I don't want to just take a picture. So I hold down the shutter button and it instantly starts taking videos Now, if you let up on the shutter button, it'll stop. But if you if you swipe to the right, you hold down the shutter button to get the video started.
[00:07:20] Swipe to the right. It'll keep the video app rolling. And then you just tap again when you want to stop the video. So that's very handy to get video going way faster than a bunch of clicks. Okay, so that's a cool tip. Then there's another thing with photos. Now, I didn't know this until today. All right. Because I was searching for, you know, lots of tips for you. So I'm going to be using this one. This is very easy. So let's say you want to edit a photo. So you edit it but you start thinking is the edit that I made better than the original. And you might, you know, let's say you're doing the contrast or the color saturation or the cropping, whatever it is. So I just found out today. All you have to do is make some changes and then tap the photo and it goes back to the original. Tap it again, it goes to the changes and you can go back and forth just by tapping the photo to see the changes in whether you like the, the best ones, the new ones or not. And if you don't like them, you can just hit cancel and it'll go back to the original. But if you're happy with it, you hit done.
[00:08:40] Now here's the thing. Maybe you have second thoughts later. Oh man, should I have done those changes? Well, you can actually hit revert and it'll go back to the original. All right. So those are very handy tips, especially the video when I'll use use. I use that all the time. And of course Control-f. I mean the the find thing I use all the time, the magnifier use all the time. I don't use the slide to type, but you might like that. So you can experiment with that. And then I just learned about this photo editing thing. So. So a lot of good tips today. All right. So that's my story. I'm sticking to it. Check out my mentor program. Greatinternetmarketingtraining.com and my school at IMTCVA.org. Save yourself a couple hundred thousand bucks from putting your kids or yourself into a four year indoctrination camp, and they come out and looking for jobs and competing for jobs at Starbucks because nobody wants them. People. These companies want people with skills and a lot of them Google, IBM, lots of them have stopped. Facebook stopped the college degree requirement to work there because they want people that have skills, not just have some worthless degree. All right, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. We'll catch you on the next episode. See you later.