Getting More from Your iPhone
Transform your iPhone from a reactive distraction into a fast, reliable personal tool. Learn the navigation gestures, notification controls, and hidden built-in utilities that make everyday use effortless.
Like Duolingo, but for Getting More from Your iPhone. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Speed and Attention and Daily Tools and Maintenance. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Getting More from Your iPhone
- Swiping down anywhere on an iPhone Home Screen brings up Spotlight search
- Spotlight calculates math equations and converts currencies or units directly in the results bar
- Spotlight searches web results and live data like flight status without opening Safari first
- Swiping left or right along the bottom home indicator flips instantly between active apps
- Horizontal bottom swiping bypasses the App Switcher card view entirely
- This gesture works across full-screen apps without needing to return to the Home Screen
- Pressing and holding the spacebar turns the entire iPhone keyboard blank and activates trackpad mode
- Dragging your finger while holding the spacebar glides the cursor smoothly to an exact letter without tapping clumsily between characters
- Swiping down from the top-right corner opens Control Center even while the iPhone is locked
- Adding utilities like Timer, Flashlight, or Notes in Settings > Control Center lets you access them with a single tap from anywhere
- Tapping the top status bar (near the clock or battery) triggers an instant scroll to the top across almost all iPhone apps
- The top-tap gesture works in Safari, Mail, Messages, and social media feeds without manual scrolling
- iPhone's Scheduled Summary collects alerts from chosen apps and holds them until set times of day
- Urgent messages and calls can still come through immediately while low-priority apps wait for the digest
- Scheduled Summary keeps your iPhone quiet during focused hours without turning off notifications permanently
- Focus modes filter which apps and people are allowed to alert you based on your current activity
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Getting More from Your iPhone the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
You need to split a dinner bill or convert 50 dollars to euros. Where can you type it for an instant answer?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Getting More from Your iPhone takes you
- 1
Speed and Attention
- Effortless Navigation and Shortcuts
- Taming Notifications and Visual Clutter
- 2
Daily Tools and Maintenance
- Everyday Camera and Visual Shortcuts
- Privacy, Storage, and Battery Longevity
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Getting More from Your iPhone is taught in the Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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