16 ways to apply your sometime iPhone later on you upgrade

Hither are 16 means to use your old iPhone now you take invested in a brand-new smartphone.

Here are 16 means to use your old iPhone now yous have invested in a brand new smartphone.

You could sell you old iPhone

Apple's iPhones hold their value really well. A 2-year sometime unlocked iPhone 6S with 64GB chapters still fetches $200-plus at some reputable stores and volition likely yield even more greenbacks if sold privately. Flipsy provides a useful online tool to assistance you lot figure out the value of your one-time device. Hither's what to do earlier you sell your old iPhone.

Or use your former iPhone as a music arrangement

You lot can yet use your iPhone if it doesn't have an active SIM card within it. When you practise, yous tin hook it upwards to your Wi-Fi network and your Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, or any other music service you might want to use, hook it upward to your system using Bluetooth or AirPlay, and utilize your old smartphone every bit a shared music and radio playback arrangement.

Or to assist you make your own music

Hook your iPhone upward to a MIDI interface, then install your favorite amp emulation app and your old smartphone tin get your very own guitar furnishings unit. The latest MIDI interfaces even hook up to the iPhone 7.

Peradventure it's a shared in-car calculator?

While near iPhone users are likely to use their current device to provide music and other playback in their car, some may want to exit their old device permanently hooked up inside their vehicle for audio playback. That way everyone who may drive the car will be able to share your precious Vanilla Water ice B-sides collection.

Or continue the kids entertained

Put your old device into a tough case and install some of the latest child's games on it, and yous'll have an instant way to keep children entertained that doesn't involve them borrowing (and after neat) the iPhone you employ yourself.

Use your erstwhile iPhone for movies or equally a remote control

If you employ an Apple TV, so you are probably a trivial frustrated at the continued lack of an Amazon Prime movie playback app on your favorite front end room device.

Worry no more than: Your old iPhone can become a vivid film playback device, equally y'all can stream Amazon movies (and TV series) direct from the handset to your Apple TV using AirPlay.

This should work for any video app. Alternatively, just download the relevant remote control app for your television and utilize your former iPhone to control the TV.

Or only u.s. it as an Apple TV remote

Alternatively, just keep your old iPhone around as a spare Apple TV remote control using Control Center.

Mayhap yous want to exist more secure?

Your erstwhile iOS devices can become part of a network of remote home security cameras. There are several bachelor apps that tin can do this, including Presence. It monitors your space and begins filming if motion is detected, notifying you at the same fourth dimension so yous can check to brand sure miscreants aren't raiding your den.

Check on your infant

Explore the App Store, and you'll find apps such as Deject Babe Monitor, which may let you use your old Apple smartphone as a baby monitor, checking live video of your charges while they sleep and when they wail.

Use your former iPhone in the kitchen

Do you lot like to melt? Why non get out your old iPhone mounted in your kitchen and use the device equally your recipe book and measurement calculator? That way you lot can make sure the device y'all utilise never gets greasy, wet or dropped to smashing smithereens on your hard kitchen floor. Activate "Hey Siri" on the device, and you won't even need to touch your iPhone to get the recipes you need. And Safari integration between your deivces ways you lot can notice recipes on your Mac or other iOS devices and then find the relevant page in Safari on your spare system.

Or use information technology equally a telephone

So long as information technology'southward on your WI-Fi network you can use your sometime iPhone every bit a spare telephone line around your domicile. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, FaceTime and other services all let you use your iPhone for vox and video calls, but I quite similar a lesser-known Skype characteristic that lets yous hire a phone number people can use to brand voice calls to your Skype account from any telephone. This costs money, but information technology is a proficient way to utilize your old iPhone every bit an office or abode telephone arrangement.

The camera that'south e'er with you

Have you e'er considered how piddling power your iPhone uses if it isn't using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or network coverage and isn't running any background apps? That's why an sometime iPhone makes such a good spare camera, for backup or for use by friends or other family unit members. You can fill your device upwards with photographic camera-related apps and back all those images up to the advisable Photos collection one time you become the device dorsum to Wi-Fi. (Yous can fifty-fifty claw it upwardly using the Hotspot characteristic on the iPhone you employ if you want to share those images fast.)

Your old iPhone tin become a traveler's aid

If yous are traveling, it may make sense to put a pay-as-you-go SIM for the state you are visiting inside your old iPhone. You'll relieve a little money when taking and making calls and exist able to utilize location services at lower toll. And yous can go out your electric current device safely in the hotel condom while you get to know your way effectually the place you are in. Some travelers may prefer keeping a spare device for utilise when traveling in social club to protect enterprise or personal data from prying eyes at immigration control when visiting some countries.

Apply your former iPhone on your wheel

Do you actually want to use your valuable iPhone 8 Plus every bit a cycle computer, running the risk of rain, mud, vibration or other forms of impairment? Probably not — but with apps like Runtastic Mountain Cycle or Strava installed on your quondam iPhone mounted on your handlebars and your current device safely in your pocket providing a Hotspot, you become all the advantages of a full cyclist's figurer while keeping your device safe.

Employ your former iPhone as a backup drive

You tin can also use your old iPhone as a backup device. Empty it of everything you don't need and install the gratuitous USB Wink Drive app, and yous take a Wi-Fi continued flash bulldoze to use as backup storage. It's kind of cool considering it also integrates with 3rd-party file storage services, including iCloud Bulldoze and Dropbox. You tin can also use it to play a wide number of different video formats.

One more thing...

You tin can sell your old device if you want to, just accept you considered donating it? You tin can gift information technology to friends and family, or visit sites such every bit American Cellphone Bulldoze or Medic Mobile to explore different ways your old smartphone could make a positive deviation.

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Jonny is a freelance author who has been writing (mainly about Apple and technology) since 1999.

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