Sure, Angry Birds is fun. We all know this. But there’s a lot more you can do with your iPhone than just pass the time. There are real-world, practical uses of your iPhone that you might never have thought of… and, no, practical doesn’t mean boring. Actually, these options are kind of mind-blowing. Here are 5 things you never even imagined you could do with your iPhone.

You can change your thermostat from an airplane.

You’re off on a business trip that’s taking you to the other side of the country, when in the middle of your flight at 36,000 feet you realize you left the heat blasting… and you’re not going to be home for 5 more days. What to do? Adjust the temperature right from your airplane seat. That’s a true story.

You can lock your front door on your way to work.

Ever been on your way to work and had a mild panic attack that you left the front door unlocked? Sure, it’s happened to all of us. Usually, you’d have to loop back to check and end up being late for work. Not anymore. Just load up your BeHome247 app on your iPhone… and click, your door is locked.

You can check security footage of your home… from Cancun.

Nothing can ruin a vacation faster than worrying about how things are going back home. You can rely on housesitters, neighbors, a faceless voice on the end of a phone at a security company… or you can make sure everything’s okay for yourself. Just pull out your iPhone and in a matter of seconds you can access your home monitoring system and guarantee that everything at home is above board. Now go enjoy the sun.

You can save as much as you spent on your iPhone.

No, really. By using your iPhone to manage your home’s energy efficiency, you can save hundreds of dollars by year’s end. A light turned off here, a few degrees on the thermostat there… it all piles up. Using your iPhone can practically pay for itself.

You can call your kid’s bluff

Yes, I’m doing my homework… yes, I’m in bed… we’ve all heard it before. It doesn’t quite ring true, right? But until now, you couldn’t prove it. Well, now you can. With your BeHome247 iPhone app you can see in just one tap whether the kids are actually doing their homework or if they’re planted on the couch watching Pirates of the Caribbean for the 100th time. It’s like the old “eyes in the back of the head” routine upgraded for the 21st century. Parenting magic.