The Fake Geek

Apple’s Photo booth software automatically flips your photos and videos. It does this in order to mimic what you see in the mirror. Here is how to stop it.

Because we’re so used to seeing ourselves in a mirror (which flips how we really look) Apple decided to make their photobooth program also flip the image. Otherwise we’d think our selfies looked “weird”.

But here’s how to turn flipping off:

1. Open Photo Booth
2. Click on Edit in the top bar
3. Then click on Auto Flip New Photos

That’s it! To turn flipping back on just do the same thing.

Here is a quick and easy way to put a folder inside of another folder on your iPhone using a glitch in the iPhone software. Using this method you’ll be able to make more room on your home screen!

Here’s How To Do It

First we need to turn off some of the iPhone animations (don’t worry we’ll turn them on later).

1. Go to Settings
2. Tap on General
3. Tap on Accessibility
4. Scroll Down to Reduce Motion
5. Turn Reduce Motion To On

Now go back to your home screen.

Create your two folders. Name one folder “Outer” and the other “Inner”. The Inner folder will go into the Outer folder.

Next follow these steps:

1. Put the outer folder into your dock
2. Hold down on the folder to enter “edit mode” (when all the icons vibrate)
3. Start opening and closing the outer folder by tapping on it a bunch of times, you’ll notice a bit of a delay between opening and closing
4. Just as the outer folder is closing (and before it begins to open again) hold down on the inner folder. If you timed it correctly you should now be able to place it in the outer folder!

To re-enable your iPhone’s fancy animations make sure to turn Reduce Motion off:

1. Go to Settings
2. Tap on General
3. Tap on Accessibility
4. Scroll Down to Reduce Motion
5. Turn Reduce Motion To Off

Here is a video describing this trick if you need a visual guide:

But be aware: because this takes advantage of an iPhone software flaw your folder will separate when you reboot your iPhone. To nest your folders again just repeat these steps.

“Hey Siri” is an amazing feature found on the iPhone that let’s you talk to Siri without having to even touch your phone. Officially it only works when your iPhone is plugged in and charging. Unofficially here is now to enable it to work anytime.

The process is very simple. First make sure that “Hey Siri” is turned on:

1. Tap on the Settings App
2. Tap on General
3. Tap on Siri
4. Turn on “Allow Hey Siri”

This will turn on Hey Siri and allow you to speak to your phone handsfree. However it will only work when the phone is plugged in. This is to prevent your phone from draining battery and losing power. To have your iPhone stay on all the time listening for “Hey Siri” would take a lot of power. So your iPhone will not allow you to use Hey Siri unless it detects that it is charging.

But now here comes a neat trick! Here’s how to enable “Hey Siri” without having to be plugged in: put your iPhone into a battery case. This will put your iPhone into a state of constant “charging” and “Hey Siri” will be active all the time, whether you are plugged in or not.

Here’s a cheap and well reviewed battery case for the iPhone.

Hope that helps!

If your iPhone 6, 6+, 6s, or 6s+ is working slow then try this simple tweak to speed it right up.

Simply follow the directions:

Step One:

Tap on Settings

Step Two:

Tap on General

Step Three:

Tap on Accessibilty

Step Four:

Tap on Increase Contrast

Step Five:

Turn on Reduce Transparency

And that’s it! Your iPhone should now be working much faster.

Are you getting a white blur when you unlock your iPhone or open and close some apps? I personally started to get this problem recently but it wasn’t difficult to find a fix. And it’s easy!

First here’s what it looks like:

That annoying white blur kept on appearing whenever I unlocked my iPhone and closed certain apps like the calculator app.

The Fix:

In my case all I had to do was move the Google Maps app from the second row of the home screen to the third row. And voila! The problem was gone.

I remembered that I had recently moved the Apple Maps app to my “Junk” folder (I don’t like Apple Maps yet) and I had placed the Google Maps app where the Apple one used to be: on the second row. Turns out the iPhone doesn’t like the Google Maps app being there for some reason.

When I moved the Google Maps app to the third row and second column on my iPhone the white blur stopped happening.

Why does this happen? I have no idea. But I’m glad that the fix is that simple.

Note: if you don’t have Google Maps then it may be another app/folder causing the problem. Move the apps you have on your second row somewhere else one by one. One of these should be the culprit.

Let me know in the comments below if this worked for you!

If you’ve downloaded an audiobook from somewhere other than the iTunes story and you’re trying to categorize it as an audiobook but iTunes is only showing you “Music” in the Media Kind settings here is the solution:

1. Delete the audiobook from iTunes (make sure you have a copy somewhere first!)
2. Next steps are time-sensitive. Do them as quickly as possible one after the other.
3. Re-import your audiobook into iTunes
4. IMMEDIATELY select all the tracks of your audiobook in iTunes and press Command-I
5. In the window that opens go to the Options Tab
6. In the Media Kind menu select Audiobook
7. Press Okay

Explanation: iTunes has a bug where it misidentifies some of your audiobooks as music. This is likely due to iCloud sync. The solution is to import the audiobook files and immediately change the file type to audiobook before iTunes can scan the files and categorize them incorrectly.