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Text Replacement for IPhone and iPad

Writer: Fabrice RFabrice R

Tired of typing your long email address everywhere ? What about your home address ? Apple got you covered for that with one of the most useful accessibility feature no one is talking about .

You probably already use shortcuts like BRB or TTYL . Do you know you can set your own ? Read below.

  1. Go to Settings

  2. Tap on General then scroll to Keyboard

  3. Tap on Text Replacement.

  4. You will see a list of all preloaded shortcuts. Time to add yours.

  5. Click on the Add sign on the top right corner

  6. Enter shortcut first . For example BLSG.

  7. In the next field below enter what the shortcut stand for For our example : BliindSanityPodcast@gmail.com

  8. Don’t forget to save. you are done.

Now if you type the shortcut into any text field , your phone or tablet will replace it with the whole word or sentence. You can also do this for your home address if you tend to use it very often.

Share with us your favorite text replacement in our comments section below .

 
 
 

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