Comments on: 8 Typing Tips for iPad and iPhone That Everyone Should Know and Use

By: Erik Waluska

Erik Waluska — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:52:02 +0000

By: Alicia Garbelman

Alicia Garbelman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:53:43 +0000

How do I add bold, underlines, and italics?

By: Ann Blatz

Ann Blatz — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:11:42 +0000

The degree sign is on the number keyboard by pressing down on the number zero. I just found it myself.

By: Dico Krommenhoek

Dico Krommenhoek — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:22:46 +0000

I have been looking a long time to find out how easily type the degree sign on an iPad. It is hidden under the o in the French keyboard.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 09:01:37 +0000

Does apple actually issue a list of all these brilliant hidden features? If so where can it be found? If not it seems strange to design them in and have people just discover and share them as is happening here. Or maybe it’s just a subtle ploy to keep apple users entertained and stop them from getting bored?

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:47:58 +0000

My biggest issue is that my right thumb on the iphone keyboard always hits return when I want an “m” or a space. Its so frustrating. short of retraining myself where to tap for an “m” and where to tap for a space (and retraining I am trying to do!), does anyone have this issue and if so, any tips to cure it?

By: Jorian85

Jorian85 — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:06:40 +0000

Spread your thumbs on the iPad spacebar up and toward the edges of the screen to split the keyboard.

By: lws

lws — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:05:53 +0000

You can also use a gesture like the zoom gesture, with two fingers, to split the keyboard and snap it back together

By: DD

DD — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:10:46 +0000

The tap and hold for special characters also works on my MacBook Pro. comes in handy when typing my name:

Desiré

By: Tijarmin

Tijarmin — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:12:30 +0000

About quick apostrophes on the iPad, you don’t even have to hold the ,! key. Just tap and wipe upward to make it appear in your text. Same thing for the double apostrophe and all the special characters assigned to a key. For example, in French, I can type an ‘é’ wiping the ‘e’ upward, but slanting to the left. And I can also type an ‘è’ if my wipe slant slightly to the right. Very smart and usefull. I wonder how many guys have worked on the development of these features. This is so intuitive.

By: Ploth

Ploth — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:20:24 +0000

10? Just a guess…

By: Joel Mearig

Joel Mearig — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:55:25 +0000

Tap the space bar with three fingers gives three spaces, four fingers gives four spaces, five five, six six. I don’t know the limit.

By: Orchis

Orchis — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:33:05 +0000

I didn’t know a few of these, great tips keep them coming!

By: Bartek

Bartek — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:18:16 +0000

Another great yet not mentioned tip is with the special characters being entered with the angled finger hit instead of vertical ( it works on Polish keyboard layout and maybe other international doesn’t work when I switch into EN US keybaord layout).
In my case it works with the diacritical characters in Polish. If my finger hits the character that has a diacritic symbol vertically down the iPad keyboard enters regular character as marked on the keystroke but if my finger hits the letter at a 45 deg angle with a smal slide on the keystroke the the keyboard enters the most common diacritic symbol available normally after holding the finger as described in the tip 1 of the article. This method is much faster for diacritic characters on international keyboards.