Typing on your iPhone can be a seamless and efficient experience with the right tools and techniques. Apple’s iOS offers a variety of built-in features and customization options to help you type ...

Ever find yourself wrestling with your smartphone, desperately trying to type at the speed of thought? You’re not alone! Brace yourself for a tech revolution as we spill the beans on four secret ...

For someone like me who works on a mechanical keyboard all day, typing on a phone feels slow, messy, and sometimes downright frustrating. Every tap feels tiny and imprecise, autocorrect can turn your ...

Shortcuts, small external keyboards and even improved (and free) dictation software can make long sessions of text input much simpler. By J. D. Biersdorfer J. D. Biersdorfer is the Tech Tip columnist ...

Many are aware of the swift number-entry method: press and hold "123", slide to the desired number, and voila! But did you know an even smoother variation exists? This secret weapon involves ...

The iPhone has been around for 17 years now, but it still surprises me with little-known tricks. For example, this keyboard tweak I'm going to share with you makes typing numbers so much faster that ...

Chances are, you use keyboard shortcuts regularly on your laptop or desktop, but how often do you use them on your iPhone? While the iPhone's limited keyboard doesn't offer as many keyboard shortcuts ...

For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

I have owned an iPhone for almost half of my life. Still, I don't think I actually knew how to correctly type on my device before discovering how to take advantage of some hidden (and some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Were you taught to touch type or are you, like so many of ...