- David and David here,
let's talk about some awesome iPhone keyboard shortcuts.
- And we're gonna start in the settings app
with a really useful feature.
Let's go to settings and then general.
- [David 2] Scroll down, tap general.
- [David 1] And then keyboard.
- [David 2] Keyboard.
- [David 1] And then text replacement.
These are essentially little shortcuts
where you can actually make these really long.
You can type a couple of letters
and then it fills in a whole bunch of words.
So one of my favorites, and this is just something
that maybe you should set up on your phone
is @, @, so like two @ signs like an email @ sign,
you could have that replaced with your entire email address.
- Yeah, so I'll tap
the plus button upper right hand corner
of the screen.
So for my phrase, I'm gonna type my email address,
pleasesubscribe@to.us
- This isn't your real email address.
- And then come to the shortcut, and I'll do @, @
- [David 1] All right.
- [David 2] Tap save.
- You can have as many of these as you want
but this is a super useful one.
How many times do you have to type in your email
on different websites?
A lot, I do too.
- So I'm gonna go to the Notes app now,
close out of this, open Notes.
If I come in here and I just type in @, @.
- Yep.
And then it'll pop up there
or if you hit the space bar,
it'll also automatically fill in.
Great feature.
But now we're in the Notes app
we're actually going to talk about
iPhone keyboard shortcuts that you do with the keyboard.
- Yeah, one thing a lot of people struggle with
is tapping to the word they want to edit.
- And especially getting into the middle of a word.
- Yes.
So how do you avoid that?
Well, press and hold the space bar
and now you can move your cursor around
to anywhere you want.
I actually have a typo here, wrong there,
change that to that there.
- To that there.
- Well said.
- Well done.
What's next?
- Next, what do you do if you've got something,
you got your coffee in your left hand,
you want to send a text in the right hand,
but you can't reach the other side of the keyboard.
You can activate the one-handed keyboard.
Press and hold on the smiley face icon,
might be a globe icon for you.
- Could be globe if you have more than one keyboard.
- [David 2] Lower right hand,
lower left-hand corner of the screen, excuse me.
And you'll see left handed keyboard's here,
regular keyboard's here, right hand keyboard's here.
- Boom.
How do you get it back?
- How you get it back?
Same thing.
Just come back, there you go.
- [David 1] Or you just tap the arrow.
- Or you just tap the arrow on the left.
Also while we're here just point out real quick,
if you don't wanna go to Settings, General, Keyboard,
to get your Keyboard Settings,
right there, Keyboard Settings.
- [David 2] Keyboard Settings, it'll bring you right there.
- [David 1] Right there.
- Here we are.
- So, you are mad at somebody, you wanna yell at them.
- Right.
- But you don't wanna give them a call,
you just want to send it through texts.
[Both] Caps Lock.
You could tap the shift button every single time
and do it that way or double press that shift button.
- Yeah, double tap the shift button,
give somebody a piece of your mind.
- Oh boy, I'm all over the map here.
- Boo.
- But you're not booing us and if you're not booing us,
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Actually we're real Davids.
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- Yes.
So you're talking to your friend about the weather,
making small talk, how do you do the degree symbol?
You could type out degrees.
- Right.
- Lame.
- Weather it's one thing, but the band 98 degrees
has the symbol in the name.
- 98 degrees?
- You've never heard of 98 degrees.
- I've never heard of that, no.
- Unbelievable.
♪ Baby I do ♪
Unbelievable people.
- Well, press and hold on the zero,
there is a degree symbol.
You can actually see a lot of cool things
if you start pressing and holding on some of the stuff
on the keyboard here, like the exclamation point,
maybe you're talking to somebody in Spanish and you gotta.
- Or if you're using your iPhone upside down.
- Upside down.
- Right.
Another one M dash, N dash, hold that hyphen,
- [David 2] Hold that hyphen.
- [David 1] You got that,
and you got to like the fake little bullet point thing.
- There you go.
If you are doing a range of numbers, N dash.
- N dash.
- M dash if you wanna.
- You wanna sort of, you know.
- Break up your sentence a little bit.
- Yeah, exactly.
Same sort of similar to a semi-colon.
Also, if you're familiar with other languages
and you were wondering,
"Okay, how do I get the little thing to appear above the E?"
The little slashy thing, how do you do it David?"
Hold the E.
- Slashy thing with the accent.
- I don't know what it's called.
- Yeah, accent, yeah E.
Also works for, works for all the vowels,
works for your N's too.
- [David 1] Yup.
- [David 2] There you go.
- And that's pretty good. It's very intuitive.
It's more intuitive than PC keyboards are, that's for sure.
- Now let's go back to the boo.
I'm really angry and I can't just convey that
with an exclamation point and capital letters.
I wanna make the text bold.
What do you do?
How about you highlight that text,
tap the arrow here on the right.
- How come that's so small?
- I don't know why it's so small.
- That's iOS 15 beta for you.
- There's the BIU, bold, italics, underline, tap on that.
What do you want?
You want to bold it, italic it,
underline it, strike through.
I'm gonna make a bold. - I think it'S italicize.
- Whatever.
- Yep, there you go.
- There you go.
- Boo.
- [David 2] Now it is bold.
- Right.
Doesn't work in every single app.
So if you don't see this option for the BIU,
works in the notes app.
- It does.
- Works in mail, doesn't work other apps.
Let's go on a Safari.
- Yes.
Our next tip is going to be in Safari.
I'm gonna close the Notes app, open up Safari.
And what if I wanted to go to a website?
I'll just do ESPN.
- It's a terrible example because it's auto-filled.
- It's auto-filling, well, pretend it doesn't auto-fill.
- He doesn't know any other website,
- Press and hold on the period
and now you got your .com right there.
Your .net, .edu, .org, .us, any of those.
- Yup, there you go.
You don't have to type in the .com,
as David said the other day, like a chump.
- Like a chump.
- Boom, you're flying through these things.
- Save some time.
You're saving a lot of time.
You use all of these keyboard shortcuts together,
you'll actually save a lot of time.
- That's right.
We didn't even talk about swipe.
We're talking about swipe in this video David?
- I don't like it.
- I like swipe.
- Okay, we'll go back,
we'll go back, we'll go back.
We'll go back to the Notes app here.
Swipe.
- [David 1] Oh, you can swipe too.
- [David 2] Sunday, it just filled Sunday.
- Yeah.
Well, that's what happens if-
- You just do it randomly.
- Next we're going talk about skin tones in Emojis
which is a really cool feature.
It works pretty similar to the adding the "Es"
with the things above.
- Tap on the emoji icon
and what if I wanted to give a thumbs up?
There it is thumbs up.
I'm doing it white skin.
- You got to press and hold.
- Press and hold.
- Press and hold, they don't all have alternate appearances.
All the thumbs ones do.
They actually just recently added them
to the family ones to give more skin tones, more variations.
It's a very cool idea, but that's how you do it.
- Those are some great iPhone keyboard shortcuts.
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