Why do I have 4 dots on my iPhone?

That's usually where the cellular signal strength is displayed. In your case you don't have signal.
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How do I get rid of the dots on my iPhone?

There are a few ways to get rid of the dot on your iPhone. One way is to restart your phone. Another way is to go to Settings > General > Accessibility and turn on Zoom. Then, triple-click the Home button to zoom in and the dot will disappear.
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What are the 4 dots at the bottom of my iPhone?

They represent the various pages that you have apps on, with the "current" page illuminated. They represent the various pages that you have apps on, with the "current" page illuminated.
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What are the three dots on top iPhone?

The top three-dot button
  • The first option: Center Window.
  • The second option: Split View.
  • The third option: Slide Over.
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What are the 3 dots on the bottom of my iPhone screen?

First, at the top of the screen, Apple added a new button with three dots. Tap the three dots to activate multitasking. Second, Apple added the new Shelf to the bottom of the screen, which appears when you launch an app to remind you of other windows associated with that same app.
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What are dots at bottom of iPhone 12?

Apple is bullish on lidar, a technology that's in the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro, and Apple's iPad Pro models since 2020. Look closely at the rear camera arrays on these devices and you'll see a little black dot near the camera lenses, about the same size as the flash.
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How do I turn off ellipsis on iPhone?

Option 2Enable Airplane Mode Temporarily

Once you start typing, you can go back to Control Center and disable Airplane Mode, then go back to the message and continue typing, and the ellipsis bubble will still not appear on the other end.
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What are the three dots called?

You see those dots? All three together constitute an ellipsis. The plural form of the word is ellipses, as in "a writer who uses a lot of ellipses." They also go by the following names: ellipsis points, points of ellipsis, suspension points. We're opting for ellipsis points here, just to make things crystal clear.
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What are the three dots on the back of my iPad Air 4?

Also on the back is Apple's smart connector — these three dots provide power and handle the connection for accessories like the Smart Keyboard.
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How do I get rid of the dots on my home screen?

Homescreen

Tap on Home Settings. You should now be in the Home settings menu. Select the Notification dots option at the top of the list. Lastly, turn off the toggle next to Allow notification dots.
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How do I disable dual SIM?

Dual SIM devices work with either one or two SIM cards inserted. To enable/ disable the SIM cards, go to [Settings] > [Dual SIM & Mobile Network], tap [SIM1]/ [SIM2] and toggle on/off [Enable]. * Pictures, settings, and paths might differ from those of your phone, but these won't affect the description in this article.
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How do I turn my 5G off on my iPhone?

Go to Settings > Cellular > Cellular Data Options. If you see this screen, your device has 5G activated. If you don't see this screen, contact your carrier to confirm that your plan supports 5G. Turn on Airplane Mode, then turn it off.
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What is the dot on my iPhone?

If you're an iPhone user, you may have noticed that an orange dot and a green dot now occasionally appear in the top corner of the screen. These dots are called indicator lights, and they alert users to when an app uses their camera or microphone.
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What does three dots mean in iMessage?

Screenshot/Tech Insider If you use Apple's iMessage, then you know about the "typing awareness indicator" — the three dots that appear on your screen to show you when someone on the other end of your text is typing.
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What are ellipses used for?

An ellipsis (...) is a set of three periods that indicates the omission of words from quoted material, hesitation, or trailing off in dialogue or train of thought. An ellipsis should have spaces before, between, and after the periods.
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What do 3 dots mean in a text?

The ellipsis ..., also known informally as dot dot dot, is a series of dots that indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning. The word (plural ellipses) originates from the Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis meaning 'leave out'.
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How do you stop an ellipsis?

Three is the magic number

Some style guides recommend writing an ellipsis as three full stops: … Some prefer three full stops with spaces between them: . . . And some tell you to use a special ellipsis character (PC shortcut: ALT+0133, Mac shortcut: ALT+semicolon): …
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What's the difference between iMessage and SMS?

iMessages are in blue and text messages are green. iMessages only work between iPhones (and other Apple devices such as iPads). If you are using an iPhone and you send a message to a friend on Android, it will be sent as a SMS message and will be green.
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How can you tell if someone is typing on iPhone?

In iOS 13 for example, you can see someone is typing when you're inside an active chat as three animated dots appear. But in iOS 14, typing indicators now show outside of the chat, allowing you to preview who's about to send you a message.
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How do I stop multitasking on my Iphone?

To find the controls go to Settings > General > Multitasking, where you should see a list of options. Allow Multiple Apps is the setting that enables both the Slide Over and Split View. Toggle this switch to disable the features.
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How do I turn off multitasking in iOS 15?

There is currently no option to completely disable the split-screen feature on iPads running iOS 15 and newer. Split View activates automatically when your iPad detects you're multitasking. To exit Split View, slide the split-screen bar all the way to the left or right, depending on which app you want to close.
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What are the 3 dots on the side of my iPad 9th generation?

Those three dots are the Smart Connector on the new 10.2-inch iPad. The previous gen of iPad already worked with the Apple Pencil, at least the original 1.0 version of it, and that continues here.
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What is 4G LTE vs 5G?

In theory, 5G is likely to reach speeds that are 20 times faster than 4G LTE1. 4G LTE has a peak speed of 1GB per second; 5G could theoretically achieve speeds of 20GB per second. These are of course what you might call 'peak speeds', we'll just have to see when 5G is rolled out what the real-world performance is like.
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