IPad Keyboard Tips And Smart Keyboard Shortcuts

Save time navigating YouTube on a computer with keyboard shortcuts. If you don't like the built-in QuickType keyboard, you can get others like SwiftKey from the App Store. Still annoyed that they didn't use the key switches from Smart Keyboard for the iPad Pro because they so desperately wanted it to be just a smidge thinner.

Hold your fingertip down anywhere in the text until the magnified circle appears. You can change this by going to Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button > and then toggling "Rest Finger to Open". You can also turn on short-press keyboard shortcuts by going to the BlackBerry Launcher settings and tapping Typing action > Use a short-press keyboard.

Just press and hold the shift key and slide to the desired letter. At some point it will ask you to go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards and add the third-party keyboard. On a 3D Touch iPhone, you can press firmly again to switch between moving and selecting.

Seeing as Google has made no mention of whether or not this update will be heading towards the Android version of Gboard , it appears that these features will be iOS-only for now. It's quick and easy to reposition or split the iPad keyboard by using the control key in the lower right of the touchscreen keyboard.

Hold down the E key for a few seconds and you can enter an é. If you are typing an e-mail address in the TO field of an e-mail, you can hold down the period IOS for two seconds to see a pop up menu that lets you quickly addcom,org,net,edu, etc. Apple finally built a one-finger (a thumb, really) keyboard option into the built-in QuickType keyboard.

Press the spacebar to avoid the hover time here, too. Just tap and hold the period key (oh yeah, there's a freakin' period key!), then slide to pick your punctuation mark or character. Depending on which version of iOS you're running, you either swipe upward on the phone icon that appears next to the unlock slider and choose Respond With Text, or tap the button labelled Message above the Slide To Answer slider.