3 Tips and Tricks for Your iPhone Keyboard

New technology is released to the world nearly every day it seems. Every time that you have a new technology, you are required and responsible for learning how to use it correctly. However, sometimes this can become very confusing and frustrating, especially if there isn’t a whole lot of additional information out there. A prime example of this is would be Apple’s increasingly popular iPhone.

Upon purchasing your very first iPhone, you will probably spend at least a couple of hours by yourself getting familiar with the various technologies inside the amazing multi-use cell phone. However, there are some tips that cannot be learned just by you playing around with it and must be learned with guidance from another source. Fortunately, that source is right here in front of you.

One of the best tips concerns the keyboard, so let’s begin. With such a unique feature as the touch screen keyboard, there are a number of tips you should be aware of in order to keep your messages flowing. Following these tips will enable you to type faster with fewer errors, and you will find typing to be a breeze. The first tip involves typing the letters into your iPhone.

When you want to enter a letter, you tap on it; but the letter isn't placed onto the screen until you lift your finger off of it. What this means is that if you accidentally touch the wrong key, you just slide your finger to the correct letter. When you have found the right letter, lift your finger and it will be placed onto the screen. This tip helps fix most typing errors, and will hopefully save you a lot of time.

At the same time, there are many people that have found the auto-correction within the keyboard to be a great way to keep your text clear and easy. The downside is that it is very easy to accept a word that you didn't intend on typing. In order to stay free from this confusion, you must learn how to accept and reject suggested words. When you are ready to accept a word, you will tap either return, space or a punctuation mark. If you want to reject a suggested word, you need to finish typing the word and then tap it.

In addition, if you write out a full word two different times and tap on them both times, that word will automatically be entered into your iPhone’s dictionary. It could take a while to store all of your most used words into the dictionary, but it will be worth it because your iPhone will become blazing fast.

And lastly, here is a tip for capitalizing your words. To capitalize the first letter of a word, you simply tap the shift key and then tap the letter you want capitalized, but what about capitalizing the entire word? Go to settings, and then tap general, followed by keyboard. From here just tap the "Enable Caps Lock" setting. Now when you double tap the shift key it will turn blue, indicating that you will be typing in all caps.