You’re Typing Wrong on Your iPhone (and Apple Never Told You)

0:00 No fluff. I respect your time. Here are all the iPhone keyboard tricks nobody ever showed you. And the last one literally types for you. Let's go. You know the struggle. You typed pick up is at 5:30 and you want to change the five to a six. You tap on it, the cursor lands three letters too far, you tap again, it jumps somewhere else. Stop aiming. Press and hold the spacebar. The letters on the keyboard disappear and the whole keyboard turns into a trackpad just like on a laptop. Slide your finger and the cursor follows. You can even move up or down a line. Put it exactly where you want, let go, done. Now, let's say you want to select some text to copy it. Press and hold the spacebar with your thumb. The keyboard becomes the

0:45 trackpad. Without lifting your thumb, move the cursor to the start of the sentence you want. Then, still holding your thumb down, tap the keyboard once with another finger, like the index finger of your other hand. Just a quick tap, then lift it. From there, when you slide your thumb, the cursor doesn't just move anymore. It highlights the text in blue as you go. Go to the end of the sentence, lift your thumb, and your text is selected, ready to copy or delete. To go even faster, one tap places the cursor, a double tap selects a word, a triple tap selects the whole paragraph. And once your text is selected, you can move it. Keep your finger pressed on it, it lifts off the screen, and you can drop it somewhere else. It even works between apps. Wrote a birthday message in notes, grab the

1:30 text, swipe up to the home screen with your other hand, open messages and drop it right into the conversation. To type one capital letter, most people tap the arrow, then the letter. Two taps. Instead, put your finger on the arrow, slide to the letter, and let go. Chicago with a capital C in one move. Then there are all the characters hiding behind the keys. Press and hold a letter and you get accents, perfect for typing jalapeño or café the right way. But it goes way beyond letters. Hold the zero and you get the degree symbol. It's 98° in Phoenix. Hold the dollar sign and you get the euro, the pound, and the yen. Handy if you're planning a trip to London. Hold the hyphen and you get longer dashes and even the little round

2:15 bullet for a list. Hold the period and you get the three dots in a single character. Hold the slash and you get the backslash. To type in all caps, double-tap the arrow, it locks. And if you just want two or three capital letters, keep one finger on the arrow and type with your other hand, like on a real keyboard. At the end of a sentence, no need to hunt for the period. Tap the space bar twice and your iPhone adds the period and the space for you. If it doesn't work for you, go to settings, then general, then keyboard, scroll down a bit and turn on dot shortcut. To delete, keep your finger on the delete key. At first, it erases letter

3:01 by letter. Then, it speeds up and erases whole words. And when you type a website in Safari or an email address, press and hold the period. You get .com, .org, and .net right there. Almost nobody noticed this one. Copy anything. A tracking number in an email, a link in Safari, a photo. Then, open another app and tap a text field. Look right above the keyboard where your word suggestions usually are. A paste from button just showed up with the name of the app your content came from and a little preview. One tap and it's pasted. No more pressing and holding the field to find paste. And there's nothing to turn on. It's automatic as soon as you're on iOS 27. There are things you type 10 times a

3:47 week. Your email, your shipping address. You can turn them into shortcuts. Go to settings, tap general, scroll down and tap keyboard, then tap text replacement. Tap the plus at the top right. In phrase, type the full text like your email address. In shortcut, type a little code like two at signs. Save. Now, every time you type two at signs and a space, your full email address appears. Now, here's the trick almost nobody uses. Your best friend's name is Brin, and autocorrect keeps changing it to Brian. Create a new replacement, type Brin in phrase, and leave shortcut completely empty. Save. Autocorrect will

4:34 never touch that word again. It works for a street name, a brand, a nickname, anything your iPhone keeps fixing for no reason. And bonus, your shortcuts sync with your iPad and your Mac. Create them once, they work everywhere. If you've already learned at least one thing so far, imagine everything you're missing on the rest of your iPhone. I built a complete iPhone course, lesson by lesson, with a guide for every video, so you can master your iPhone from A to Z and stop struggling. One payment, no subscription, every new iOS update included for free, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. The link is in the description. All right, let's keep going. There are four of you at dinner, and the check is $87.60. No need to open the calculator app. In

5:20 Messages, type 87.60 / 4 =. As soon as you type the equal sign, the answer shows up above the keyboard. Tap it, and it goes right into your message. But here's what nobody tells you. It does conversions, too. A European recipe says to bake at 200° C, type 200 C = and your iPhone gives you the conversion. Same for distances and weights. If nothing shows up, go to settings, then general, scroll to keyboard, and make sure show math results and predictive text are both turned on. Type something like c u Tom. See the end of the word showing up in gray right in your text? That's your iPhone guessing what you're about to write. If it's

6:06 right, just tap the space bar and it's accepted. You save a few letters every single time. And if it bugs you more than it helps, you can turn it off without losing the suggestion bar. Go to settings, then general, then keyboard, and turn off show predictions inline. Go back to your message and the gray suggestion is gone. This next one is called slide to type. Make sure it's on in settings, then general, then keyboard, and look for slide to type. Then, instead of tapping every letter, put your finger on the first letter of the word and slide from letter to letter without lifting. For pizza, start on the P, go through the I, the Z, the A, and let go. The word

6:52 appears and the space is added automatically before the next word. If your iPhone guessed the wrong word, tap delete just once. It erases the whole word at once, not just the last letter. It feels weird for the first few days, but after a week of practice, you'll type way faster with one hand. Everybody has seen the microphone at the bottom of the keyboard, but most people use it wrong. First, you don't need to say comma or period after every sentence. Your iPhone adds the punctuation on its own. Next, you can keep using the keyboard while you dictate. You're dictating your grocery list for the road trip. You see it misheard a word, you fix it with your fingers, and you keep talking without stopping dictation. To start a new line, just say new line. And for an emoji, say its name followed by

7:39 the word emoji, like thumbs up emoji. With iOS 27, Apple also upgraded the dictation engine, and you can really feel it in the accuracy. If you have a big iPhone and often type with one hand, press and hold the emoji key or the globe at the bottom left. You get three little keyboards. Pick the left or right one and the whole keyboard shifts toward your thumb. If the keys feel too small, go to settings, scroll down, and tap display and brightness. Then tap more accessibility settings and choose larger text. Everything gets bigger, and most importantly, the keyboard gets noticeably larger. If you want to feel every key like on a real keyboard, go to settings, scroll down, and tap sounds and haptics. Scroll to

8:25 keyboard feedback, tap it, and turn on haptic. Your iPhone vibrates slightly with every letter. It uses a tiny bit more battery, but you make way fewer typos. And if you speak two languages, add the second keyboard in settings, tap general, scroll to keyboard, then keyboards, then add new keyboard. For example, Spanish on top of English. You can then type in both languages without switching keyboards, and the suggestions adapt to the language you're writing in. If your autocorrect has learned nonsense over the years and keeps suggesting ridiculous words, you can make it forget everything. Go to settings, then general, scroll all the way down to transfer or reset iPhone. Tap reset, then reset keyboard dictionary. Enter

9:11 your passcode, and your keyboard starts fresh. Your photos, apps, and settings stay exactly where they are. If Apple's keyboard really isn't for you, you can install another one from the App Store, like Gboard, SwiftKey, or Grammarly. But watch out for one detail. When you add it, your iPhone offers allow full access. That's the setting that lets the keyboard send what you type to the internet. Only turn it on for an app you truly trust. I told you I was saving the best for last. Your buddy left you his address, handwritten on a scrap of paper, and you need to send it to someone else. The number, the street, the apartment, the zip code. You copy it all by hand, get one digit wrong, and the person ends up on the wrong street. Stop copying. Open your conversation in

9:58 messages and tap the text field once to bring up the cursor. Tap a second time in the same spot. A little menu pops up. Choose autofill, then scan text. Your keyboard turns into a camera. Point it at the piece of paper, your iPhone reads the text live and shows you what it's about to type. When it looks good, tap insert. The address is in your message without a single mistake, and it works in almost every app where you can type. Tell me in the comments which one you didn't know. I'm curious to see which one wins. And subscribe because there are plenty more videos like this one on the way.