Are there certain phrases, addresses, or numbers that you find yourself consistently typing into your iPhone? How many times per week do you enter your email into a form field, or send someone your office address including the floor number and exact cross streets?
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could type a few letters and have those entire phrases magically appear in full? It turns out there’s an iPhone feature that allows it, it’s free and it’s already on your phone.
- Go under SETTINGS → GENERAL → KEYBOARD → SHORTCUTS → Hit the + in the top right corner.
- On the top line type in your full gmail account address. On the 2nd line type in just the part that comes before the @ sign. Do this for all of your frequently used email accounts.
- Create another shortcut where on the top line you include very specific directions to your home or office including floor, apartment number and cross streets. On the second line just type in the home number and first word of the street.
Now when you type any of these frequently used phrases that are tricky to type (think of that colleague’s email address that you’re constantly directing people to connect with), once you enter in those “Shortcut” triggers the full phrase will appear in a bubble and if you simply hit the spacebar the entire phrase will autopopulate. This can be used for commonly used URLs as well (I use “;;” as the shortcut for one commonly typed URL and “//” for another).
This simply function will save you tremendous time. Trust me, invest up front in creating great shortcuts and it’ll make your iPhone experience much more enjoyable.
Beth Galloway
As I created my shortcuts (thank you for the tip) I saw that you can enlarge your text, good feature for those if us with aging eyes!
Adam
Absolutely, there’s a ton of functionality to it.
Porsche
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Geetha
Hi Year Six, Who is that man keeping you all awake! I think this new web site looks great. I hope you all start to use it and will make your own cuborinotitns. Mr Hoban has made your opening page look great. I hope I can have a page of my own that looks so good. Take care and tell your family about our new web site. Mr Stott
Crystal Foth
Wow – that’s a really simple tip that I never really thought of. Thanks for sharing – I’m making a few of them now!! Thanks Adam!
Adam
My pleasure, it was a gamechanger when I discovered it.
Anusha
The same functionality exists for Android Nexus 7 tablets. Settings > language and input > Personal dictionary.