These two tips will save you time when typing texts or emails on iPhone

Who could forget Microsoft CEO (now owner of the LA Clippers), Steve Ballmer, laughing after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in January 2007. First, he laughed at the price, then said he wouldn't would not attract professional users since it was not. I don't have a keyboard. As we now know, Ballmer, along with the two co-CEOs of Research In Motion (Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis) underestimated the impact of the iPhone, which cost their companies and their businesses a lot of money. shareholders.

Speaking of virtual QWERTY, almost everyone has become somewhat proficient at typing on the iPhone QWERTY keyboard and some Reddit Users (via CNET) have found some tricks to make typing faster and easier on the device. A little advice comes from Reddit User Cryptic which gives us a handy hack for those who type numbers and letters and would prefer the keyboard to revert to letters after typing a number. Currently, if you press the 123 button and press a number or one of the special symbols on the keyboard, you must press the 123 button again to return to letters.

But next time, try this. Hold down the 123 key with one finger and use another finger to type the number or special symbol you want. Once you release the 123 key, the QWERTY will revert to letters. · This works great and could save you some time.

Another time saver for virtual QWERTY on iPhone, also visible on Reddit (via The American sun) is called text replacement. With this feature, you can replace a phrase, address, phone number, or anything else you type often with a quick shortcut. “Set up a text replacement that you can use to enter a word or phrase by typing just a few characters,” Apple explains.

For example, once you have this setup, you can type @@ every time you want to enter your email. On the keyboard, you'll type @@, but on your email or text message, you'll see your email address instead. To set this up, on your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text replacement. You'll see that Apple preloads your iPhone with a text replacement, because typing omw will show up in your text or email as On the Way! To add your own text replacements, tap the “+” key at the top right of the screen.

You are taken to a new page with two fields at the top of the screen. In the Phrase field, enter the word, numbers, or phrase you want to create a shortcut for. At the bottom, enter the shortcut you want to use. For example, I set my iPhone to type PhoneArena every time I type PA in a message or email.