11 Phone Tricks to Help With Everyday Tasks

Posted: February 04, 2014

[caption id="attachment_11761" align="alignright" width="580"] phonereminders primary Image from techhive.com[/caption]Today's cell phones allow users to accomplish many tasks. Taking pictures, downloading apps, and handling emails only scratch the surface. Learn 11 tricks that you can use your phone for in order to help with everyday tasks.

Nick Mediati, Associate Editor at TechHive, shares easy tricks to help you use your phone to your advantage.

Never forget anything ever again with these 11 phone tricks

I’ll be the first to admit: “Use your smartphone to remind yourself of things” seems like a story that doesn’t need to be written. Of course you can use it to keep track of grocery lists, to-dos, reminders, and calendar entries. But I bet you didn’t know that there are gobs of other tricks for keeping track of things with your phone. Most of them don’t even require any apps—you can use your phone’s built-in features. Here are a few of our favorite ways to augment your forgetful biological brain with the synthetic brain in your pocket.

Use it as an alarm clock

You might have already known that you can use your phone as an alarm clock, but did you know you can set multiple alarms from it? Go to the Clock app on either your iPhone or Android phone, go to the alarms section, and add all the alarms you want.

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