There are amazing time-saving shortcuts buried in your iPhone‘s interface via the screen’s multi-touch feature.
You may not often think about using two fingers at once to quickly and seamlessly type or select items while using your iPhone keyboard. So many of us have just gotten used to hunting and pecking with our fingers or our thumbs tapping the keypad.
But there are better ways to accomplish some of the consistent hassles of typing on an iPhone
Here’s five tricks that’ll boost your productivity and get just make your screen time easier.
TikTik user @bditech has presented five incredibly useful iPhone keypad shortcuts. His first: Many users know they can press down on the spacebar to then move the cursor around the screen, but the truly efficient move is to pressing two fingers onto the screen simultaneously
Press two fingers down at once to move the cursor anywhere on the screen
It can seem impossible getting the cursor right where it needs to be, to fix a typo or add a word.
Typically, users know they can press down on the spacebar to then move the cursor around the screen — but the truly efficient, lifesaving move is to move the cursor by pressing two fingers onto the screen simultaneously.
The best part is that this move can be done anywhere on the screen, guaranteeing that you can have total visibility on where you are trying to move the cursor.
Cut down on steps when typing numbers. Press and hold down the button that switches the keyboard while you type out your numbers. Once you’re done, release the button and the keyboard bounces right back to the alphabet automatically
Snap back from numbers to alphabet by holding the switch key down
Most of us know how tedious it is to change the keyboard to numbers and have it go back to the QWERTY keyboard alphabet, or to manually return it to the alphabet, adding an extra step.
The solution is to press and hold down the button that switches the keyboard while you type out your numbers.
Once you’re done, release the button and the keyboard bounces right back to the alphabet automatically.
In Safari, hold the period key down and a menu will pop up listing the most common top-level domains (TLDs). So, whether you are visiting a .com, a .org, a .edu, a .net, or a .us, you’ll get there faster and happier with this
Never type out .com, .org, or .edu yourself again
This should be a relief. As you’re typing out a domain address in Apple’s Safari browser on iOS, just hold the period key down and a menu will pop up listing the most common top-level domains (TLDs).
So, whether you are visiting a .com, a .org, a .edu, a .net, or a .us, you’ll get there faster and happier with this.
Double-tap a word and iPhone selects it automatically. Triple-tap any word in that paragraph, and in an instant that whole section is selected
Double- and triple-tap to select with ease
If you’re trying to select a single word or a full paragraph, there’s no need to laboriously drag your selection, surrounding it letter by letter, word by word.
Instead, if you only need to select one word, double-tap the word and the iPhone selects it automatically.
To select a whole paragraph, triple-tap any word in that paragraph, and in an instant that whole section is selected.
For very specific selections, press and hold the spacebar. Then, with another finger, tap the keypad. Now you can select or deselect your text, letter by letter, by sliding on the spacebar
Hold down the spacebar to select text faster and cleaner
What if you do need to make a more specific, or unusual selection? Just a phrase, half a misspelled word, or something like that.
There’s an easy hack for this too. First, press and hold down the spacebar. Then, with your other finger, tap the keypad.
Just like that, you can now select and deselect your text, letter by letter, just by slowly sliding your finger back and forth on the spacebar.
Go ahead and try it for yourself.
