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iPhone Efficiency Hacks, a free technology course on Tomo

iPhone Efficiency Hacks

Like Duolingo, but for iPhone Efficiency Hacks. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

22 levels across 3 sections, about 44 minutes end to end, roughly 9 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Speed Up Your Daily Routine, Taming the Chaos, and Hidden Power Tools. It starts from scratch.

22 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Pip the Pixel, the guide who teaches the iPhone Efficiency Hacks course
iPhone Efficiency Hacks
with Pip the Pixel
22
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in iPhone Efficiency Hacks

  • Swiping down from the top-right corner opens the Control Center
  • Swiping down on the middle of the Home Screen activates Spotlight search
  • Control Center can be customized in Settings to include specific tools like Screen Recording or Flashlight
  • Spotlight searches across apps, files, and the web simultaneously
  • How to access and personalize the Control Center for quick utility access
  • Using Spotlight to bypass manual app and file searching
  • Back Tap is an Accessibility feature that detects physical taps on the back of the phone
  • Reachability is designed specifically for easier thumb access on large screens
  • Users can assign specific actions like 'Screenshot' or 'Mute' to a double or triple tap
  • Swiping down on the bottom edge of the screen shifts the entire display downward
  • Activating and using the Back Tap accessibility feature
  • Long-pressing (Haptic Touch) an app icon triggers a menu of shortcuts
  • Quick Actions allow you to jump into a specific part of an app without loading the home view first
  • Executing the Reachability gesture for one-handed navigation
  • Using Quick Actions to skip app navigation
  • Text Replacement is found in Keyboard settings
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives iPhone Efficiency Hacks 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.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Mastering the Quick Swipe

What happens when you swipe down from the middle of your Home Screen?

Get it right to open this lesson and 21 more in the app.

Course map

Where iPhone Efficiency Hacks takes you

Transform your iPhone from a distraction into a high-performance tool. Learn the hidden gestures, automation secrets, and organizational tricks that save you hours every week.

  1. 1

    Speed Up Your Daily Routine

    • The Fastest Ways to Get Around
    • Typing Without the Effort
  2. 2

    Taming the Chaos

    • Decluttering Your Digital Space
    • Silence the Noise
  3. 3

    Hidden Power Tools

    • Smarter Searching and Scanning
    • Automating Repetitive Tasks
    • Battery and Storage Health

3 sections · 7 units · 22 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

iPhone Efficiency Hacks is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. 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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