I’ve only just got an iPhone, I’m a bit late to the party, and was a bit confused by the keyboard.
I did some searching around and found some hints and tips for improving productivity.
1.) Let it correct your typos, when you hit space (or punctuation) it will substitute the word displayed. If you don’t want it, hit the x, or correct the word for what you really wanted.
2.) Allow it to apostrophise for you. Just type Id and it will make it I’d.
3.) Allow it to uppercase I for you, it will just make it uppercase if it’s on it’s own.
4.) Double tap spacebar for fullstop and a space.
5.) The best tip, to use punctuation, hit the 123 button, but KEEP YOUR FINGER ON IT, now slide to the number or punctuation and then release. This saves a whole tap, and after using it a while becomes a lot more intuitive.
Those tips are basically saying just type and get it wrong, and don’t worry about it, and a lot of the time it’ll sort it out. And yes, it learns what words you use often too.
Just bang away on the keyboard and see what happens.
Is this useful? Do you know any other iPhone keyboard tips not included here?
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Very nice. And on the theme of holding down. If you hold down on any letter you get the extended ones of those (as you showed with the question mark). So type “blasé” by holding down on the “e” key and select the accented letters. This also works with the “.com” button to get “.edu”, “.co.uk” etc.
Finally, if you’re noticing that you’re about to type something really wrong, you can slide your finger to the right key. Say I wanted to start a word with “r” but my stupid motor skills put my finger at “s”, I can simply slide the finger to the “r” without lifting and thus correct it.
Finally you can get Japanese emoticons if you activate the Japanese keyboard (I’ve not done this so I might recall this wrongly).