- Do you ever wonder if you're getting the most
out of your iPhone keyboard?
- In this video, we're gonna show you how
to access hidden emojis.
- Time saving tricks, like how to type numbers
without leaving the keyboard.
- And I'll tell you about my new favorite iOS 16 feature
that makes typing so much more enjoyable.
- But first, let's talk about the symbols and characters
hidden beneath the iPhone keyboard.
- [Man 1] Let's open the notes app and create a new note.
- You can find hidden characters by pressing
and holding on certain keys.
- The one I use most often is the en-dash and the em-dash.
I've gotten to the point in my life where if I use
the wrong dash, I get really frustrated.
- Maybe we'll do a grammar lesson at the end of the video,
but for now, pressing and holding on the dollar sign
gets you other currency symbols, pressing and holding
on the zero gets you the degree symbol.
- You can also press and hold on letters to type accents.
We can see them when we press and hold on vowels
or consonants, like C or Z.
- But there's an even faster way to type numbers.
- [Man 1] Tapping the 1-2-3 button to switch between letters
and numbers is a pain.
- Just press and hold on the 1-2-3,
type the symbols or numbers you want and let go.
You'll snap right back to the main ABC keyboard.
- There's also a faster way to get to websites.
Let's open Safari, when you're typing in a web address,
you can press and hold on the period to access dot com,
dot net and other top level domains.
- There's another key that's doing double duty.
- [Man 1] Let's go to the notes app.
You can double tap the shift key to turn on caps lock.
- Losing an argument and want to yell your way into victory?
This is how. - And would you believe it?
There's actually a hidden keyboard too.
In the lower left-hand corner of the screen,
you'll see a smiley face or a globe icon.
It's a smiley face when you only have the emoji keyboard
turned on and a globe when you have other keyboards
installed on your iPhone.
- If you delete the emoji keyboard by mistake,
you won't see any icon down there, but don't worry,
you can always get it back in settings, general, keyboards.
- [Man 1] When you press and hold this button,
you'll see three keyboard icons appear
at the bottom of the menu.
- [Man 2] The one on the left is called
the left-handed keyboard, the one on the right
is the right-hand keyboard and the one in the center
is the default keyboard.
- That's the sort of high-level insight you'll find
on this channel, the one-handed keyboard is a tip
that gets recommended a lot on tech YouTube
and I've never really seen anyone actually use it.
- Me neither and maybe you don't want to type at all.
Apple made some huge improvements to dictation in iOS 16.
- IOS 16 added auto-punctuation, emoji dictation,
and a seamless experience when dictating and typing
at the same time. - Here's how it works.
- [Man 1] Can't talk right now, I'm recording
a YouTube video, video camera emoji.
- Dictation used to be clunky because you tap the mic
to talk, but then as soon as you went to type anything,
the microphone would turn right off.
- Now the microphone stays on so you can talk,
type and edit all at the same time.
- Auto-punctuation works best when you talk to your iPhone
like a four-year-old. - Let's make you
a dictation expert in 10 seconds.
- [Man 2] One, there's no limit to how long you can dictate
on your iPhone, two, you can stop it by tapping
the microphone or it will stop itself
if you don't say anything for 30 seconds, and three,
all the processing happens on your iPhone,
so you don't need an internet connection,
and that's good for your privacy too.
- If auto-punctuation isn't working for you,
open up the settings app, scroll down and tap general,
then tap keyboard and scroll down and make sure
the switch next to auto-punctuation is on.
- If this switch is on and it still isn't working for you,
it's because it stinks. - But we think it's going
to get better. - Unlike me, dictation
still makes mistakes, fortunately, there's an easy way
to move the cursor to fix a typo or add a word.
- [Man 1] Press and hold on the space bar
to move the cursor precisely where you want it.
- [Man 2] When you press and hold, the entire keyboard turns
into a virtual track pad, so your finger has plenty
of room to slide around, if you're more of a tapper,
there are a few things you should know.
- [Man 1] Tapping once moves the cursor where you tapped.
- [Man 2] If you're lucky. - [Man 1] Tapping twice
selects the nearest word and tapping three times selects
the nearest line. - And while we have
some text highlighted, let's talk about
a very underrated feature.
- [Man 1] Tap the right arrow until you see look up.
When you tap on that, your iPhone displays
a lot of helpful information. - If you don't find
what you're looking for right away,
just go to the bottom and tap search web.
This is really useful if you're writing an email
and want to sound smarter, or should I say,
more perspicacious. - As they say,
work more perspicacious, not more assiduously.
This next tip will help you type smarter, not harder.
- QuickPath, totally not ripped off from Google,
allows you to swipe your finger around the keyboard
instead of tapping individual keys.
- Let's say we wanna spell the word keyboard.
- We wanna spell the word keyboard.
- Start on K and then drag your finger to E,
Y, B, O, A, R, D, spaces get inserted automatically,
so we wanted to put tips next, I could just go T, I, P, S.
- There's a learning curve to this and it feels clunky
at first, but QuickPath can really speed up your typing
and it's a must-use if you use the one-handed keyboard.
- While QuickPath is cool, I still prefer traditional typing
and Apple introduced a new iOS 16 feature
that makes the whole experience much more enjoyable.
- It's called haptic feedback and it provides
a physical response whenever you type on the keyboard.
- Open settings and then tap sounds and haptics.
Scroll down and tap keyboard feedback
and turn on the switch next to haptic.
I love this setting, but Apple has definitely toned it down
with subsequent iOS 16 updates.
- [Man 2] And Apple recently admitted in really tiny text
that leaving this on will drain your battery.
- And if you wanna make your text as small as some
of Apple's disclaimers, in an app like mail,
you can tap the Aa icon to get to different styles.
So for instance, I could make this text larger
by tapping the large A, I could also make it bold
by tapping the bold B.
- The options you have for formatting text vary
from app to app, you could do a lot in Mail,
less in notes and nothing in the messages app.
- But there are hidden emojis in the iPhone keyboard
and you can use them in any app.
- There are several different skin tones
for hand and face emojis, the default yellow probably isn't
an accurate representation of your skin tone
unless you're a Simpson's character.
- [Man 1] Let's open the emoji keyboard and press and hold
the thumbs up emoji, and when you do,
you'll see several different skin tones.
- If you're not sure whether an emoji
has alternate appearances, just press and hold on it
to find out. - You might already know
about this next tip if you ever dropped your phone
while texting. - It's called drop to undo.
- It's actually called the shake to undo.
This technically isn't a keyboard tip,
but it does come in handy when you're using your iPhone,
just shake your iPhone to undo a mistake, easy.
- This next tip is designed to save you time
when you type on your iPhone.
- [Man 1] Open settings, scroll down and tap general,
then tap keyboard, then tap text replacement.
We think it makes more sense to start
with the shortcut field, so I'll tap in there
and then type @@.
- [Man 2] Next, David is going to type in
what is definitely his very real email address.
- [Man 1] Then tap save in the upper right hand corner
of the screen. - Now if you open
the notes app and type in @@ and the space bar,
boom, text replacement.
- I've created another shortcut, PJOC.
- [Man 2] What the heck does that mean, David?
- Please join our channel, TYVM.
- Bonus, you can use a Bluetooth keyboard
to do more with your iPhone.
- Maybe you're on a plane and you need to type some emails.
I don't think your neighbors are gonna be happy
if you're dictating. - Guy next to me
is taking up the whole damn armrest.
Have you ever tried to use your laptop
on a tray table in economy?
Here's your drinks, sir. (ice clinking)
- I hardly fit into those economy seats,
so using my laptop is really outta the question.
- Here's your answer right here,
it's my old Apple Bluetooth keyboard.
I can use the brightness buttons to adjust
the phone's brightness, open the app switcher,
change the volume and a whole lot more.
- You can also use keyboard shortcuts just like you can
on a Mac, command, space opens Spotlight.
You can copy and paste with command C and command V.
I think you get the idea. - We talked about a lot
of hidden iPhone keyboard features in this video.
- And if you wanna learn about even more
hidden iPhone features, check out our new iOS 16 video
that's appearing on the screen now.
- Grammar lesson, em-dash? - As wide as an M.
- Same as a semicolon. Good for joining sentences together.
En-dash? - As wide as an N.
- Good for ranges. - Ranges, yeah. Like 29-30.
- Hyphen? - That's for words.
- For words. - Door hinge.
- No, it's not hyphenated. A feel-good door hinge.
- Sure. - If it feels good,
but there wouldn't be a hyphen if you said,
"The door hinge makes me feel good."
- Yeah, the problem with people too, is they just tap
that default hyphen and the the keyboard and use it
for all the hyphens and it's- - Totally wrong.
It's not right. - Totally wrong.