Translate in real time

22 Your phone can be a universal communicator, automatically translating your words into another language and someone else’s words into yours. There are apps that can do this from the likes of Google and Microsoft, but it’s worth checking out Apple’s own built-in Translate first.

The app can translate text, voice and even conversations in lots of different languages and if you’re going to be travelling, you can download the languages so the feature will work even when there’s no internet connection. Conversation Mode is particularly good; it shows each bit of the chat in both languages, and if you tap ‘…’ then Auto Translate, you don’t need to keep tapping the microphone icon.