979 – More phone tips to help you: Tom talks Phone Tips

SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

In this episode, host Tom Antion shares practical tips and tricks for optimizing your use of cell phones, particularly iPhones, to save time and reduce frustration. Here's a summary of the key takeaways:
1. Unsend Messages and Emails:
o iPhone users on iOS 16 or later can unsend text messages by holding the message and selecting "Undo Send." However, this only works for iMessages (blue bubbles), not SMS messages (green bubbles).
o Similarly, emails can be unsent in the Mail app.
2. Check-In Feature:
o A feature allows users to notify friends when they’ve arrived safely at a destination. Tom mentions including a link in the show notes for detailed instructions.
3. Filter Unknown Senders:
o This feature organizes texts from unknown senders into a separate folder, preventing unsolicited messages from bothering you. Users can access and review these texts at their convenience.
o To enable: Go to Settings > Messages > Filter Unknown Senders.
4. Call Forwarding:
o For Verizon users, dial *72 followed by the forwarding number to forward calls, and *73 to cancel it.
o On other providers, go to Settings > Phone > Call Forwarding to set up forwarding.
5. Additional Tips and Resources:
o Tom encourages listeners to visit screwthecommute.com/training for over 100 tutorials on using phones more efficiently.
Closing Notes:
Tom promotes his licensed internet marketing school (IMTCVA.org) and highlights its benefits as a cost-effective way to gain valuable digital marketing skills without accruing significant debt.
Listeners are encouraged to learn a few new phone tricks daily for greater productivity.

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Episode 979 – 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 979 of Screw the Commute podcast. Today is another phone tip episode, and we have tons of phone tip episodes that make you lightning fast using your cell phones and tablets. So if you want to look them up, you can go to screwthecommute.com/training and just do a search on the page for iPhone or phone. Just use phone because a lot of these tips will work on Androids. You just have to figure out how to do it on an Android. Because I have an iPhone, I don't really know how to do it on Androids. All right, hope you didn't miss episode 978. That was wise credit card usage. You can really use them to your advantage or use them to hurt yourself. So don't do that. All right? Pick up a copy of our automation book. It's free. Check out my mentor program at GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com and my school at IMTCVA.org.

[00:01:23] All right. First tip. Now this is not 100% tip, but this is unsending a message. You ever send a message, a text and like, oh, I shouldn't have sent that. Well, if you're on, uh, iOS 16 or later and the other person is on iOS 16 or later, you can tap and hold the message, and then there's a little drop down and you say undo send.

[00:01:51] And this also works in unsending email from the mail app in, uh, on iPhones. Now, here's the thing. It doesn't work 100%. And and here's another little tidbit that you might want to keep in mind. An iMessage has got a blue bubble around it. An SMS message has got a green bubble, and if it's a green bubble, you can't unsend it. That's using your provider's network. And once it's gone, it's gone. So it's not 100%, but you can you can give it a shot. If you send something that you wish you hadn't. All right. All right. Now, this next one, I'm going to put a link in the show notes because it's got so many features. It's called check in with friends. And so you can hit a button once you get home or where you're supposed to go. And it'll tell your friends that you got there safely. But you know, it gives you time. You know how long it should have taken you to get there and all kinds of different things. So I'm going to put a link in the show notes on that particular feature. So you see how to do it. Okay. Here's one. Oh, I love this one. This one is just peachy. All right. This is filtering unknown senders through your text.

[00:03:12] You know, your for your text messages now. It does not block them. You don't put in the numbers separately for each bad one you get. But what it does is it throws them into a different place and doesn't bother you. So you can go check them when you feel like it. But you're not getting all these unsolicited texts bothering you and you don't know if they're good or bad. So the if the people are in your senders list, then it'll show up and is normal. But if it's unknown, it's going to go into a little separate folder. So the way you set this up is you go to settings and then apps and then messages, and then you scroll down and you toggle filter Unknown Senders, and it's going to throw them into a different bucket. And then once you finish that operation, when you go to your messages app at the top left, there's going to be a thing that says filters. So you can filter and it says, okay, here's all your known messages, here's your unknown messages, here's your unlooked at messages. And you can pick the whichever one you want to look at then. But the known ones in your contact list are still going to come in normally, so. But the other ones aren't going to bother you.

[00:04:31] And I love that. That just saves. There's just so darn many robo texts and fake all this and that. They don't have to bother me from what I'm doing. I can go look at them every once in a while to see if there's anything important actually in there. Okay, that's a good one. Next one is a forwarding calls. Now, if you happen to be on Verizon, you just hit star seven two. And then the number you want to forward your calls to. And then it's not your phone is not going to ring your your mobile phone is not going to ring. It's going to whatever number you told it to go to and then to end it on Verizon, you hit star seven three. I've been using that one for years and years on all kinds of my phones. But but otherwise you can check this. If it's not available, you got to check with your provider. But in general you go to settings and then phone and then call forwarding, and then you'll get a forward two box where you put the number you want to forward to call to. And then of course, you toggle it off whenever you don't want it to forward anymore. So that's call forwarding. So then you can, if you spend a little bit of time learning these things on your cell phone.

[00:05:47] And like I said, if you go to screwthecommute.com/training I've picked out, oh, probably by now a hundred different things that your phone will do that you may not even know about. And it's just so awesome to be able to do stuff lightning fast rather than fight with it like crazy. If you just take a little bit of time, learn a couple of these new tricks a day. Oh, boy. You'll thank me forever. All right, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Check out my school. It's the only licensed, dedicated internet and digital marketing school in the country. Probably the world. At IMTCVA.org, it's one of the best gifts you could give yourself or any young people in your in your life. And it's certified to operate by Schev, the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia. But it's distance learning, so you don't have to to live in Virginia. So check it out and you won't be in debt and off the job market for four years and spending hundreds of thousands of bucks and then working at Starbucks when you when you graduate. All right. It's a highly in-demand skill. All right. We'll catch you on the next episode. See you later.