However there are many people who enjoy swiping to text or other features offered in third-party keyboards. These are all tips for the stock iOS 8 QuickType keyboard. On the numerical keyboard, or using the speedy trick from number 8, hold the hyphen key to bring up the option for en dash, em dash, and bullet point.
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Hyphen vs em dashĮven if you are confused on the proper use of the em dash and hyphen, you might as well know how to place in your text. Saves you a couple of seconds, which really do add up eventually. Once you have made your selection release the key and it will automatically return to the standard keyboard. Instead, hold down the “123” key and select the number or punctuation on the numerical keyboard. When you need to enter just one number or punctuation mark, you don’t have to switch to the other keyboard.
This way you can type abbreviations like CIA or FBI without unnecessary extra taps. Instead of tapping the shift key for each letter you want to capitalize, just double-tap the shift key to lock it on Caps mode. Yelling through text is made possible with all caps. Most common letters with accents are vowels A, E, I, O, and U. To add an accent tap and hold the letter in question. But for certain phrases or words, adding an accent might be necessary regardless of fluency. While I did take three years of Spanish in high school, I’m still not fluent enough to add the Spanish keyboard to my iPhone. If for some reason this is not enabled by default, go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard and ensure that the “.” Shortcut is enabled. Whenever you type a sentence, double tap the spacebar and period and space will be added allowing you to being a new sentence more quickly. It has a handy feature that automatically adds a period and space after each sentence. You iOS 8 keyboard knows that most humans speak in complete sentences.
You can also tap and hold, the exclamation mark, period, comma, and more to bring up other symbols and options. Instead, tap and hold the $ sign to bring up different currencies. Well you find it just by looking at your iOS keyboard. Perhaps you are traveling in Europe or find that you need the cents symbol for this really important text. To input a smart quote, hold the quotation key to reveal the option in the hovering menu. The default quotes on your iPhone, also known as dumb quotes, are straight not as sexy - IMO. I once had a job that forbid the use of “smart quotes” or the curved variation of the standard quotation marks. Apple should probably look to add that in iOS 9. If you use Google Chrome this option is built into their auto suggestion. Since Apple’s predictive text is disabled in Safari and other applications, it can’t offer the same. Instead, tap and hold the period key and box of possible domains will appear. If you are using Safari on your iDevice you can skip typing the. This saves time and makes sure that you actually enter what you meant. Type “ well l” and it will automatically jump to we’ll. Instead of hoping auto-correct knows you meant he’ll instead of hell, you can actually type hell l and auto-correct will add the apostrophe for you. But when you are typing a contraction on your iPhone it can take longer than just typing he will if you miss the apostrophe. Speedy ContractionsĬontractions are created to combine two words and make it shorter. RELATED : Top 9 Ways to Fix Mail App Not Showing Emails on iPhone 2.
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