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In Settings > General > Keyboard, there’s a switch to enable “. Of course, to type a simple period at the end of your sentences, you don’t even need that slide trick. The number/punctuation will be typed and the screen will snap right back to the letters view. Instead, slide it to the key you want to type, and then lift your finger off the screen. Instead, press the button with the numbers on it, but don’t pick your finger up off the screen. There’s really no reason to switch from the keyboard’s letters layout to its numbers layout if you only need to type one measly numeral or bit of punctuation. You’ll save typing time and your messaging buddy get to hear the joy, sadness, or utter ambivalence in your voice. But if you’re communicating with another iMessages user, you can tap and hold the gray cicular microphone button to the right to the iMessage text box to record a voice message that’s sent as audio. The rectangular white microphone button to the left of the space bar takes dictation as usual, translating your words into text. The white microphone next to the space bar lets you dictate a message that will be translated to text.Īs a bonus, the iOS 8 Messages app has two microphone buttons. Press and hold the gray microphone button to the right of the message box to record an audio message. Just tap the little microphone icon on the keyboard, to the left of the space bar. It’s easy to forget that both your iPhone and iPad will take dictation whenever you’re not in the mood to type. Unfortunately, you can’t reorder them, but the first tab keeps your most recently used emoji at your fingertips. Now whenever you’re using the keyboard, you can tap the key with the globe icon, and feast your eyes on all the gorgeous emoji ready to unleash. If it’s not, tap “Add New Keyboard” and find Emoji in the list. The world is not running out of emoji anytime soon.įirst you’ll need to enable the emoji keyboard: In Settings > General > Keyboard, tap Keyboard again, then check to see if “Emoji” is in the list of installed keyboards. Luckily, the iOS keyboards come with more What’s a text message without a smiley? Good question. For example, you’ll find “curly” quotes by tapping and holding the quote key. First tap the number key, and then the symbols key, then you can tap the underscore.)īonus tip: Try tapping and holding other symbol keys. (To, uh, underscore how convenient this is: If you don’t use this shortcut, the underscore is three more taps away. Tap and hold the dash key to reveal even more dashing buttons, including the em dash, a bullet key, and the indispensable underscore. Tapping and holding symbol keys will yield buried typing treasure.
