Hi guys, David and David here from Payette Forward, and in this video, we're going to
show you the correct way to hold your iPhone.
Right.
So I used to take a lot of piano lessons and everybody's style is a little bit different,
but there are things that you'll see every concert pianist has in common.
Those are fundamentals that make you more accurate.
It's less effort, and it's just the right way to do it.
They're these fundamentals.
So what we've discovered are the iPhone fundamentals that help you to type more efficiently, and
these are the things that you'll see every tech-savvy person do when they hold an iPhone
— and also every kid in middle school and high school who was born with an iPhone in
their hand.
Right.
So let's dive right in.
We'll have a little speed test here.
Right.
He's gonna do the correct way to hold your iPhone and I'm gonna do one of the more not-so-great
ways which like common.
Right.
It's a common way — very common — not the best way to type and that's with only
one hand and hunt and peck.
So we're gonna type like, this is the correct way to hold an iPhone.
Okay.
Let's do it.
Ready?
3, 2, 1, go.
I'm almost there.
I got a lot of typos though.
Wow.
Look at that talk about efficiency.
"This is the order T way to holds."
Yeah, and I actually made a typo myself and was able to correct it in that amount of time.
Wow.
So what we want to show you is the way to hold an iPhone that is the most efficient
like that right?
And so a lot of people have excuses for why they can't do this.
So they say like, you know, I'm not dextrous enough.
And with the exception of people who really do have disabilities, you have the dexterity
to do this.
There's a little bit of a learning curve though, but you got to remember — Rome wasn't built
in a day right?
Neither is the ability to hold your iPhone.
Correct?
That's for sure.
Your hands are not too big.
You got to try it.
Don't knock it before you try it.
So we're going to show you how we do it.
Please give it a try.
It'll make you a lot more efficient.
So what we do is we both create a stand with one of our hands and that's what we'll show
you how to do first.
So I use my non-dominant hand — David uses his dominant hand.
Both of us do this.
I'm just going to show you on the bottom of the iPhone what it looks like.
So I'm just going to put my fingers on the back of the iPhone and then I'm going to use
my pinky finger here as a stand on the bottom.
So what I'm doing is I'm putting my iPhone on my pinky finger and just letting it rest
on these other and the pinky finger really lines up with the charging port at the bottom.
Yep.
It's just like a it's like an easel.
Yeah, like it's just like a painting on an easel.
It's pretty good.
It's pretty good right there.
Good now with the other hand, I'll show you what it looks like.
We're just gonna interlock the fingers.
So we've got our easel here and I'm going to take my bottom three fingers and I'm just
going to stick them in there.
So it looks like this but it's pretty easy to do.
So, I've got my easel all set up sticking in my bottom three fingers and now I've got
this little basket.
I'm holding my iPhone in right I can do pretty much anything with it.
It's not like it's going to fall out anywhere and uh, both of my thumb's are freed up to
type.
Well, right so Is and easy wow a to type so people often ask, you know, they say like
wow, you're a really fast typer.
Well, it's not that I'm a fast typer — it's that you're a bad typer.
So you're holding your phone the wrong way.
Right.
I know how to hold my iPhone the right way.
So this is the right way to do it.
Now.
I think like David said it's gonna take some practice to take some practice for sure.
But once you get the hang of it, it really does change the way it's a game-changer, right?
Totally you're gonna love the way it feels now.
What if one of your hands is, you know, you're holding the coffee.
All right, but only the morning hole in your coffee, you got to send an email into work.
What are you gonna do?
How do we hold our hand or iPhone efficiently with one hand right pretty much the same way.
I can use this.
I can either use the easel approach and have these fingers on the back.
Just get the feel for that with one hand.
But what I usually end up doing is I sort of anchor it down here in my palm.
Now if you struggle to type with one hand, there's a great new feature iOS 11 that is
the one-handed keyboard.
You can access any app that uses the iPhone keyboard.
It's pretty simple.
Just press and hold the emoji icon in the lower left hand corner of the screen.
And you'll see those three keyboard icons down at the bottom there.
So I'm right-handed.
I'm just going to tap the keyboard on the right and you can see my keyboard is now scrunched
way over and I can reach all the Q and A and Z really easily.
Now, what if you're not typing what if you want to open the nap for the mail app the
camera app lot of people on their iPhones the mail app is way up there in the upper
left-hand corner, right?
There's also a great feature known as reach ability.
Would you can access by double tapping the Home button, you got to gently tap it don't
press it.
Right.
So if you double click the Home button, you get the app switcher where you and then close
that your apps, which is also a good idea.
But if you double tap the Home button all the icons come down come down.
You can easily reach mail, calendar, maps, camera.
So for people with small hands — no excuses!
I don't want to hear it.
Yeah, so that is how you hold your iPhone the correct way.
We know that this is a new thing and maybe you hold your iPhone a different way.
Please leave us a comment down below.
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