Set Up Your Default Apps

If this is your first iPhone, you may already have some favorite apps from outside the Apple ecosystem. 

Whether it’s Google Chrome or Gmail, you may want to keep using these on your iPhone. While Apple already offers great alternative first-party apps you can use by default, it also lets you customize your default apps on your iPhone so that Siri and other apps open your preferred apps instead of Apple’s.

Here’s how to customize your default apps:

1. Openb the Settings app.
2. Scroll down to the bottom and go to Apps.
3. Tap on Default Apps.
4. From there, choose the category you want and set the app you’d like as default.

Note that apps will only show up in this section if their developers have included the necessary features to let them be set as defaults. While the ability to set default Browser and Mail apps has been available since iOS 14, other categories like Messaging and Calling are brand new, so developers are still catching up.