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Apple’s mobile operating system has many hidden features and options that not all users know regarding. Such gestures speed up your work with your iPhone or iPad. Now we’ll tell you regarding 10 tricks when working with the iOS virtual keyboard. 1. Quickly selecting text If you need to quickly select a word or part of the text, you can not aim with your finger, but do everything with a regular tap. How it works: double-tapping on a word selects it, and triple-tapping selects an entire paragraph of text. 2. Entering text by swiping This option appeared in iOS 13, but only worked in the English keyboard. With the release of iOS 16.4, the feature started working on the Russian keyboard. How it works: Go to Settings – General – Keyboard and activate the Swipe to enter option. 3. Moving the cursor with a gesture When you need to move the cursor to another part of the text, you can tap your finger anywhere on the screen. But if you need to place the cursor exactly at a certain position, it is better to use a virtual trackpad. How it works: hold down the Space key with your finger and move your finger in any direction, the cursor in the text will also move. 4. Copy and paste with a pinch You can copy selected text or paste the contents of the clipboard through the context menu, but it’s faster to do it using a special gesture. How it works: select the desired part of the text and pinch with three fingers anywhere on the iPhone screen. If the gesture worked, you will see a hint at the top. The reverse three-finger spread gesture pastes the contents of the clipboard. 5. Cancel and redo actions using swipes If you accidentally deleted or moved something you needed, you can quickly undo the last action with the text. How it works: a side swipe to the left on the screen with three fingers cancels the last action, and the same swipe to the right repeats the last canceled action. 6. Quickly selecting text The same action can be performed by shaking the smartphone. In some situations, this is more convenient than making a gesture with your second hand. How it works: shake your iPhone until the menu appears; you can enable or disable the feature in Settings – Accessibility – Touch – Shake to cancel. 7. Special keyboard for one-handed input When working with a smartphone with one hand, reaching all the keys can be problematic. For this purpose, a convenient mode with compact buttons has been created. How it works: hold down the Globe button and choose which way you want to move the virtual keys – right or left. 8. Voice text input Fans of voice messages will appreciate the built-in feature that turns speech into text. The option works wherever you can open the standard iOS virtual keyboard. How it works: enable the option along the path Settings – General – Keyboard – Enable dictation. In the new Dictation languages section, add Russian. After that, press the button with the microphone to turn on the text dictation mode. Topic: How to properly record voice messages on iPhone. Text will be sent instead of audio 9. Convenient entry of dots A small but very useful option for adding dots allows you to save a lot of time. Instead of switching to the character keyboard, you can press the Space key twice. How it works: turn on the option along the path Settings – General – Keyboard – Shortcut key “.”, following which you can enter periods by double-entering the spacebar. 10. Quickly enter numbers and symbols When typing text you need to enter one number or symbol, you can do this with a convenient gesture. After this, you will not have to switch back to the alphabetic keyboard. How it works: hold down the “123” button with your finger, move your finger to the desired symbol or number and lower the screen. The character will be entered and the keyboard will switch back to letter input. Now you can quickly enter text on your iPhone, write letters and communicate on social networks. ???? Do you want more? Read more on Telegram ???? Looking for an answer to a question? Come to the iPhones.ru Forum The Apple mobile operating system has many hidden features and options that not all users know regarding. Such gestures speed up your work with your iPhone or iPad. Now we’ll tell you regarding 10 tricks when working with the iOS virtual keyboard. 1. Quickly selecting text If you need to quickly select a word or part of the text, you don’t have to aim your finger, but do everything… Artyom Surovtsev @artyomsurovtsev I love technology and everything connected with it. I believe that the greatest discoveries of humanity are yet to come! Before ← Review of the Yakut game The Day Before, which the whole world was waiting for. The bottom was broken several times After → 10 bright iPhone wallpapers with sunrises and sunsets
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