9 Tips to Type Faster on iPhone and iPad

9 Tips for Typing Faster on iPhone and iPad 522s5x

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With the right keyboard settings and a few tricks, here's how to type faster on iPhone and iPad and be more productive

You should spend some time out of your day using your smartphone, often texting, doing research, and other things that require keyboard usage. And if you can type faster in iPhone and iPad, wouldn't it be interesting? O showmetech made a roundup of tips, among settings and tricks hidden on the iPhone keyboard – like shortcuts, which we don't even have in computer programs – so you can type faster and with less effort, check it out! 4z54v

Check keyboard settings 4r1z1e

Keyboard settings have some options that help to type faster on iPhone. To enable these settings, go to Settings > General > Keyboard. in the section All Keyboards, select all available options.

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Create quick shortcuts to frequently used phrases 5p5811

The iPhone keyboard offers a Text Replacement, where you type the abbreviation of a phrase and it automatically replaces it with the full phrase. To use this feature, go to Settings> General> Keyboard> Text Replacement. In the window that opens, you will see all the ed replacements.

Text replacements on iOS. Image: Showmetech

To a new text replacement, tap the “+” at the top of the screen. In the next window that opens, choose the phrase you would like to and the shortcut for this phrase. tap on Save, and the phrase is ed.

text replacements for faster typing on iPhone. Image: Showmetech

Change keyboard size 4x3t30

With the increase in screens, it is often difficult to type with just one hand on the iPhone keyboard, which takes up the entire width of the screen. To work around this issue, you can reduce the keyboard size of the iPhone, being able to position it to the left or right of the screen, to serve left- and right-handed s.

  1. To enable the reduced keyboard, hold down the emoji key until the keyboard options appear. In the options, select whether you want the keyboard on the left or right of the screen;
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  1. There, the reduced keyboard is positioned. Note that it will make a bigger difference on models with larger screens - such as the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
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Format the typed text 4m5d2q

For some iPhone apps, you can include text formatting, such as bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough. Of course, it's not a tip for typing faster in iPhone e iPad, but it brings a new possibility when typing.

  1. Write your text as normal, and select the words you want to format. From the contextual menu, select the option BIU;
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  1. In the menu that opens, select which of the text formatting options you want to apply to the text, and that's it.
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Use the spacebar as a cursor 28493f

When we need to change some part of the typed text, we are not always able to place the keyboard cursor at the point where we want. To help the , Apple has turned the space bar into a path directional pad for you to move the cursor. Its use is quite simple: hold the spacebar until the keyboard letters disappear, and then move your finger on the spacebar to where you want to place the cursor. Simple, no?

Keep the spacebar pressed until the characters on the keys disappear, and place the cursor where you want. Image: Showmetech

Shake to undo typing 1e125x

Present since iOS 3, the feature of shake the iPhone to undo an action is not a keyboard feature, but a system feature – and of course, it can be used to type faster on the iPhone. How it works is simple: to undo the typing done on the keyboard, shake the iPhone and a pop-up message will appear asking if you want to undo the typing.

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Double-spaced score 1f1o22

The iPhone keyboard does not display punctuation along with the alphabetic keys, so you have to switch to the numeric keys to access it. To type faster on iPhone, here's a simple tip: to insert a period (.), just double tap the spacebar. That's it.

Quick access to internet domain extensions 1en37

When entering a website or email address, it will always be necessary to include some domain extension - such as .com, . Edu e .org. To make it a little easier, hold down the period (.) key and select one of the extensions that are suggested. It is worth ing that this function is enabled only in email address fields and websites.

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Swipe to enter numbers 5s6d5l

While other keyboards — such as the SwiftKey — have a row of number keys next to the alphabetic keyboard, the iPhone keyboard does not have this configuration. That is, to enter numbers it is necessary to activate the numeric keypad. But there's a way to not have to switch between keyboards: just hold the key 123 (which activates the numeric keypad) and slide to the number to be entered. The number will be entered, without having to switch between keypads.

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